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May 6 · Issue #118 · View online
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Hey Gregarious Mammals š Back after holidays, work travel, sickness, and general āblehā. Life is getting back to pre-2020 normality and itās taking a little getting used to! š
Anyway, as itās been a while, thereās a lot to cover, so letās get down to it. xx Chinch
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Chinchilla Squeaks ⢠A podcast on Anchor
A weekly podcast from Chris Chinchilla covering technology, board and role play games, history, current affairs, and frankly whatever I feel like covering.
Show notes can be found at - chrischinchilla.com/podcast
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Digging into one of the biggest downtimes in history, a recommendation for Apple nerds wanting to dig (really) deep, HoloLens isnāt going anywhere fast, RIP macOS Server and more!
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Hands on - Private browsing with DuckDuckGo for macOS
Iāve used DuckDuckGo as a search engine for a while, but the company also has mobile browsers Iāve been experimenting with, and now announced a browser for mā¦
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Whatās in an M1 chip, and what does it do differently?
Over the last nine months, a great deal of work has gone into discovering just what is in Appleās M1 chip, and what it all does.
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The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time
š Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. If youāre not a full subscriber yet, you missed the deep-dive on Amazonās engineering culture, one on Retaining software engineers and EMs, and a few others.
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Microsoft's HoloLens still isn't good enough yet for US military testing
Back in October 2021, the US Army pumped the brakes on a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft to provide its soldiers with combat ready versions of the companyās augmented reality headset HoloLens.
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Tales of an attempted switch from Google Workspace
Many years ago, I took over a small publishing company, thatās an entirely different story, and not relevant now, but as part of it, Iā¦
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RIP macOS Server
Apple has officially discontinued macOS Server, its long-neglected set of server features for managing Macs and iOS devices.
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Oh hadnāt you heard? Twitter has a potential new owner, but what does his plan to āopen sourceā twitter actually mean?
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The problems with Elon Muskās plan to open-source the Twitter algorithm
Just hours after Twitter announced it was accepting Elon Muskās buyout offer, the SpaceX CEO made his plans for the social network clear. In a press release, Musk outlined the sweeping changes he intended to make, including opening up the algorithms that determine what users see in their feed.
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Open-source regulationāgood idea?
Earlier this year, the open-source community came under the scrutiny of a US Senate committee investigating a serious vulnerability in Log4j, a widely used, Java-based logging utility.
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Twitter is protecting its source code from disgruntled employees, reports say
Twitter locked down its source code to prevent unauthorized changes, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The reports say that this change was made to prevent employees from āgoing rogueā and sabotaging the platform after Elon Muskās $44 billion purchase of the company.
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30,000 New Users Signed Up for Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter
Social media platform Mastodon, often seen as an alternative to Twitter, gained nearly 30,000 new users on the day that Elon Musk bought Twitter. On Tuesday a Mastodon domain became unresponsive. Eugen Rochko, Mastodonās CEO, later told Motherboard in an email that there were performance issues.
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Comprehend Languages: D&D in Translation
Dungeons & Dragons is more popular than ever, having racked up seven years of continuous growth since the launch of the gameās fifth edition in 2014. There are more than 50 million D&D players around the world as the tabletop roleplaying game continues to expand its audience.
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Because everyone in the world apparently lives in large homes with loads of spare rooms to dedicate to the āmeta verseā donāt you know⦠What you donāt?
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How the pandemic is changing home design
The pandemic has changed what Americans want from their homes, and builders say they expect those changes to last. The big picture: A ton of pandemic-era adaptations are becoming common fixtures in new homes.
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Great to get back to Riga and tech conferences again!
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