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jdcon The Social Dilemma

I was with you until the last sentence.

jdcon Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

Depends on your threat model and how playful you are.

jdcon JDK 15

Pattern matching is available as a preview feature: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/375

jdcon A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation

I know someone who got extra severance conditional on non-disparagement when leaving a pretty modest Canadian tech company.

Is this a more rare event than I thought?

jdcon Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml

also the interactive https://github.com/jmespath/jmespath.terminal

jdcon Transformers Are Graph Neural Networks

Better explained by Chaitanya Joshi (while at the NTU Graph Deep Learning Lab)

here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1233220586358181888.html

and here: https://graphdeeplearning.github.io/post/transformers-are-gn...

jdcon Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query

In case anyone else is wondering what's doing the templating in this project, it's Scriban.

https://github.com/lunet-io/scriban

jdcon In the animal kingdom, the astonishing power of the number instinct

Hey, this is great info. Any machine learning engineers have a bunch of spare time on their hands?

jdcon Tesla Shares Fall as It Fails to Make It into S&P 500 Index

Well at least there's still the Russell 3000!

jdcon Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

If you're looking to switch and Firefox isn't your cup of tea, you'd probably like Kiwi -- it's based on Chromium and it has an integrated ad-blocker.

https://kiwibrowser.com

jdcon Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects

... it's almost like their server knows you're a person and not a crawler

jdcon Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld

How long ago did you try? I think Adafruit's PiTFT should work fine for most use cases.

EDIT:

if you want to have a look at the installer script it's here: https://github.com/adafruit/Raspberry-Pi-Installer-Scripts/b... (the business end starts at line 222)

jdcon Many Ways to Start an Xserver

With the right xinit / display manager config I don't see why not.

jdcon Many Ways to Start an Xserver

Unfortunately your best bet is going to be LDAP and PAM.

https://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/setup

jdcon PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board

https://riscv.org/risc-v-genealogy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#History

jdcon Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (2017)

Previous discussion of Specter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295060

also cf

Glom for Python: https://sedimental.org/glom_restructured_data.html