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from my link log —
Correct register allocation in Cranelift by fuzzing with a symbolic checker.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/03/15/cranelift-isel-3/
saved 2021-03-16

German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/3icwf2pbx

Munich Re to acquire Israeli startup At-Bay for $575 million
The German insurance giant is buying the cyber insurtech at less than half its 2021 valuation, as insurers increasingly seek to combine coverage with technology that can prevent cyber losses.

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.

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Post Office Trial: Marshall spells it out in a speech to University of Law.
https://www.postofficetrial.com/2021/06/marshall-spells-it-out-speech-to.html
saved 2021-06-04

Marshall spells it out: speech to University of Law
Reporting the High Court class action against the UK Post Office

from my link log —
Configuring Emacs for Rust development.
https://robert.kra.hn/posts/2021-02-07_rust-with-emacs/
saved 2021-02-09 https://…

The BBC is seeking to subpoena Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.,
his daughter Ivanka Trump
and son-in-law Jared Kushner
in connection with a $10 billion defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the U.K. broadcaster.
Lawyers for the BBC say the Trump family members “without question have personal knowledge” about Trump’s intentions in delivering the speech at the heart of the case:
his Jan. 6, 2021, address to supporters at the Ellipse as the Capit…

from my link log —
Optimizations enabled by -ffast-math.
https://kristerw.github.io/2021/10/19/fast-math/
saved 2021-10-19 https://

from my link log —
GhostCell: separating permissions from data in Rust.
http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ghostcell/
saved 2021-05-23 https://

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

"Im Jahr 2021 erlangte die @… durch einen Bericht […], dass der #NDB im Rahmen seiner Tätigkeit Software zur biometrischen #Gesichtserkennung einsetzt.&quot…

Amazon adds a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against it, after removing a similar clause in 2021 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

In a change that could obscure the full human cost of the Trump administration’s mass detention policies,
🔥Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from its custody
The move rescinds a 2021 policy implemented by the Biden administration that required ICE to report to Congress and investigate deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release.
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE cou…

ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees after release from custody
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report the deaths of detainees who have been released from custody, in a change that could obscure the human cost of the Trump administration's mass detention policies. The move rescinds a 2021 policy that required ICE to publicly report and investigate deaths of detainees within 30 days of their release. This was to ensure that ICE doesn't avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody. Health experts who have in…

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

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The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society.
https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/the-demise-of-the-once-mighty-cambridge-and-district-co-operative-socie…

The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society
Battered from pillar to post in the late 20th Century, this hugely influential civic society with 83,000 members in 1990 merged itself out of existence as it folded into the national CRS Co-op afte…

RE: https://spam.tamagothi.de/2021/11/17/die-cdu-spd-fpd-gruenen-spam/
Hey Wahlkämpfer, der du mir überall in allen wehrlosen Farben über den Weg läufst und völlig unglaubwürdig »Dialog« simulierst: Du bist eklig. Ich verachte dich.
U…

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021) - Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers! - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-2.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021)
Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers!

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021
-- after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
Trump alleges that Capital One illegally closed his accounts for political reasons, following …

Trump accounts at Capital One were closed in 2021 over money laundering concerns
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering. The bank disclosed this in a court filing over the weekend. Trump has sued Capital One, alleging the closures were politically motivated following the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks. Capital One seeks to dismiss the lawsuit, stating the closures followed months of analysis by its anti-money laundering team. Trump has also sued JPMorgan Chase, claiming similar political m…

Capital One has never accused the Trump Organization of money laundering.
But the bank's recent disclosure argues that “documents and Plaintiffs’ own ‌allegations make clear that Capital One closed ‌Plaintiffs’ accounts for anti-money laundering (‘AML’) reasons.
“The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review by ‌Capital One’s AML team in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guidance.”
Capital One gave notice of its plans to close more …

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump

from my link log —
New Ansible data validation module(s).
https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/03/ansible-validation.html
saved 2021-03-05 https://

New Ansible Data Validation Module(s) « ipSpace.net blog
A few months ago I described how you could use JSON Schema to validate your automation data models, host/group variable files, or even Ansible inventory file. I had to use a weird toolchain to get it done – either ansible-inventory to build a complete data model from various inventory sources, or yq to convert YAML to JSON… and just for the giggles jsonschema CLI command requires the JSON input to reside in a file, so you have to use a temporary file to get the job done.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

The AI frenzy has divided the VC market, as the gap between top and bottom performers has more than doubled for 2024 funds compared to funds from 2017 to 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/big…

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Mutable statics in Rust have scary superpowers! Do not use them!
https://blog.kodewerx.org/2021/07/mutable-statics-have-scary-superpowers.html
saved 2021-08-20

Mutable statics have scary superpowers! Do not use them
Video game development, hacking, and debugging. Brought to you by BlipJoy!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

from my link log —
ECFiber: building a fibre-to-the-premises network in rural Vermont.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/18/building-your-own-fibre-to-premises-network/
saved 2021-02-18

Building your own Fibre-to-Premises Network: The ECFiber Story | APNIC Blog
How to build and operate a FTTH network when existing infrastructure, topography, and low population all work against the need for fast Internet

My god, we knew it all along. The migration crisis of the last 15 years was engineered by Russia but nobody wanted to say anything. Not Merkel, Obama, Trump, or Rubio. It was until the Lithuanians started pushing back the weaponized migration of Iraqs from Belarus in 2021 that I heard anything. See…

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B-tree path hints.
https://github.com/tidwall/btree/blob/master/PATH_HINT.md
saved 2021-07-30 https://

btree/PATH_HINT.md at master · tidwall/btree
B-tree implementation for Go. Contribute to tidwall/btree development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mother nature’s version of a double tap is a second wildfire at a town that was essentially burned off the map in 2021.
About the only good thing here is there are very few people impacted as most of the town has not been rebuilt yet despite all the initial hand ringing and nice words from BC politicians.
#climateEmeregency #bcwildfire #bcpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lytton-saw-creek-wildfire-evacuations-9.7243091

from my link log —
Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16

Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
The past year has been a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is the Bytecode Alliance’s native code compiler that serves as the foundation for the Wasmtime and Lucet WebAssembly virtual machines, and is used in other cont...

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The problem with function namespaces and Lisp macros.
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-game/the-problem-with-macros/
saved 2021-10-13 …

Making a Game in Janet, Part 3: The problem with macros
So we’re supposed to be writing a game, right? But in order to make progress, we have to fix a bug. And in order to fix the bug, we have to write a test. And in order to write a test, we have to write a test framework. And in order to write a test framework, we have to understand a thing or two about macros. Okay. So, caveat: I am not a lisp person. I didn’t know very much about macros going into all of this – and I still don’t. But when I started writing Judge I knew, like, only the ab…

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Stop your (business rules) engines!
https://adhocteam.us/2017/10/10/stop-your-business-rules-engines/
saved 2021-02-22

Stop your (business rules) engines! | Ad Hoc
One of the many surprising artifacts of the initial failed HealthCare.gov launch was a “business rules engine.” This was a new concept for most of the team that helped rescue the site.

from my link log —
An exploration of JSON interoperability vulnerabilities.
https://labs.bishopfox.com/tech-blog/an-exploration-of-json-interoperability-vulnerabilities
saved 2021-02-25

An Exploration & Remediation of JSON Interoperability Vulnerabilities
Learn more about how the same JSON document can be parsed with different values across microservices, leading to a variety of potential security risks.

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The Negro Subversive on Critical Race Theory.
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/guest-post-vic-bradley-on-critical
saved 2021-09-18

On Critical Race Theory
A guest post by The Negro Subversive.

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PostgreSQL is a great pub/sub and job server.
https://webapp.io/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/
saved 2021-12-18 https://

Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology.