- Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate? (dailydot.com)
- The most expensive number in engineering (surjan.substack.com)
- Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept (onezero.medium.com)
- We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor (butwhatfor.com)
- Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station (sciencealert.com)
- Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020) (datacenterdynamics.com)
- NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report (bbc.com)
- On Smoking (annagat.substack.com)
- Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct (nationalgeographic.com)
- PostGIS at 20, the Beginning (blog.cleverelephant.ca)
- What Oxford taught me about posh people (unherd.com)
- Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120 (hackaday.com)
- Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back (jalopnik.com)
- iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices (imore.com)
- China allows couples to have three children (bbc.com)
- Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
- In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes (apnews.com)
- Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014) (outofyourrut.com)
- Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business (thebigtech.substack.com)
- UUID, serial or identity columns for PostgreSQL auto-generated primary keys? (cybertec-postgresql.com)
- WordTsar, a WordStar Clone (wordtsar.ca)
- The May 18 Gwangju Uprising (datasecretslox.com)
- Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints (noyb.eu)
- I Was Paralyzed by Severe Depression. Then Came Ketamine (nytimes.com)
- Air France cancels flights as Russia withholds clearance (reuters.com)
- How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s (atlasobscura.com)
- After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism (monocle.com)
- Sodium rutin extends lifespan and health span in mice by 10% (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Interactive Visualization of Gaussian Processes (infinitecuriosity.org)
- Japanese government is selling houses for $500 to populate rural areas (insider.com)