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In an incoherent speech last night, Trump prepared the US public for him stealing the midterm elections in November, which his Republican party would normally lose.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k9wvv5wyo

Trump alleges 'shocking vulnerabilities' in US election security ahead of midterms
The president accuses China of meddling in the 2020 election, directly contradicting past findings from US intelligence.

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How io_uring and eBPF will revolutionize programming in Linux.
https://www.scylladb.com/2020/05/05/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-will-revolutionize-programming-in-linux/
saved 2020-11-26

How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
ScyllaDB's Glauber Costa explains how two new APIs, io_uring and eBPF, are changing the fundamental nature of Linux programming.

The BBC reports license fee payers fell 539K YoY to 23.3M in 2025-26, the biggest fall since 2020-21; license fee income rose £36M to £3.9B after the fee uplift (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/bbc-licence-fee-payers-plummet-c…

BBC License Fee Payers Plummet By Half A Million
The number of BBC licence fee payers fell by 539,000 last year as charter renewal negotiations enter a new stage, according to the annual report.

Welcome to the mid-2020's. Yet again, parody news site describes current events more accurately than mainstream media.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/09/tech-oligarchs-agree-calling-ai-too-dangerous-way-…

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The rise and fall of commercial Smalltalk.
http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914
saved 2020-06-03 https://dotat.at/:/…

The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
Relics Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that: ...today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers.  Whenever two or more Smalltalkers gather over d

Er is een opvangcrisis, geen asiel/migratiecrisis,
Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020 - #opvangcrisis

Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020
Het aantal eerste asielaanvragen daalde vorig met een kwart ten opzichte van 2024.

1990's: Say NO to drugs
2020's: Say NO to slop

I've been waiting for more powerful const generics in #RustLang for since 2020 (blog post at <https://christian.amsuess.com/blog/website/2020-09-24_rust_2021/>). Se…

The FBI has explored using
artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures
on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia,
-- the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote.
The effort, according to internal communications reviewed by ProPublica and an agency tech specialist familiar with the work,
focuses on comparing signatures on ballot envelopes with signatures on…

FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots
As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fulton County, Georgia, ProPublica has learned.

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Zig programming language 0.6.0 release notes.
https://ziglang.org/download/0.6.0/release-notes.html
saved 2020-04-14 https://…

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

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Microsoft Pluton: a security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs.
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-microsoft-pluton-processor-the-secur…

Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs | Microsoft Security Blog
In collaboration with leading silicon partners AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., we are announcing the Microsoft Pluton security processor. This chip-to-cloud security technology, pioneered in Xbox and Azure Sphere, will bring even more security advancements to future Windows PCs and signals the beginning of a journey with ecosystem and OEM partners.

The US Senate voted to confirm Jay Clayton as the director of national intelligence on Tuesday,
giving Trump another key ally directing the nation’s intelligence apparatus.
The tally, 51-47, fell along party lines, with all Republicans supporting his nomination and all Democrats opposing it.
Clayton, currently the US attorney for the southern district of New York, will replace Bill Pulte,
a staunch Trump loyalist who had been temporarily serving in the role since June…

Senate confirms Trump ally Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence
At confirmation hearing, Clayton sidestepped questions about 2020 election and declined to say Trump lost

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

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Verona: a research programming language for concurrent ownership.
https://github.com/microsoft/verona
saved 2020-10-28 https://do…

GitHub - microsoft/verona: Research programming language for concurrent ownership
Research programming language for concurrent ownership - microsoft/verona

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Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing.
https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
saved 2020-12-27 https://

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Three architectures for a responsive IDE.
https://rust-analyzer.github.io//blog/2020/07/20/three-architectures-for-responsive-ide.html
saved 2020-07-20

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Query-based compiler architectures.
https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.html
saved 2020-06-25 ht…

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How NAT traversal works.
https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
saved 2020-08-21 https://dot…

How NAT traversal works
Learn how NAT traversal works, how Tailscale can get through and securely connect your devices directly to each other.

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chibicc: a small C compiler.
https://github.com/rui314/chibicc
saved 2020-10-04 https://dotat.at/:/HB8B4.html

GitHub - rui314/chibicc: A small C compiler
A small C compiler. Contribute to rui314/chibicc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Percy Ludgate: an early computer designer from Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Ludgate
saved 2020-03-29 https://

Percy Ludgate - Wikipedia