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operatorequals··on The Elements of Git
I got pretty fed up with learning got from the internet when I had too (about 8 years ago). Every resource I could find was written in a way that only people that already knew could really understand.

Now, that I finally feel good enough, that I can rely on what I know and finally in position to mentor others, I made what I feel was missing, a set of sandbox git repository challenges, with only real life examples [1] I met in professional repos.

I hope the dark age of git education passes soon (and is already fading).

[1]: https://github.com/operatorequals/git-course

operatorequals··on Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency
> Imagine being unable to buy food because an algorithm determined that “you violated our community standards” and there’s no way to contact them. One or two stories like that will kill Libra stone dead.

This is basically what happens in real life too. There are people that cannot buy food because "they violated community standards". This Libra thing is totally aligned with the world!

operatorequals··on Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
"ο γέρος πάει ή από πέσιμο ή από χέσιμο"
operatorequals··on 16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
Actual democracy was never this system's cup of tea anyway
operatorequals··on The Suicides in South Korea, and the Suicide of South Korea
I find this social behavior amazing. And I'm very surprised that humans are capable of it. This is a behavior often recognised in animals that are in captivity.

Personal experience is with some finches. Finches refuse to hatch their fertilised eggs by breaking them, if they were forced to mate in a cage. I was a breeder for a brief while.

operatorequals··on Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?
Copy in write i guess
operatorequals··on PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again
This looks pretty useful. I love these packages that seem like forgotten stdlib features.
operatorequals··on Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?
What's the business model of it anyway? Is it providing you good search results?
operatorequals··on Ask HN: Did anyone just get prompted by Google Chrome with a privacy form?
I'm always surprised with how much people get surprised about google spying on them. Or about google ignoring privacy options in platforms they own (chrome, android).
operatorequals··on Infection Monkey – An automated pentest tool
Given a huge network (or multiple) this thing can do wonders on continuous network auditing. Yet, there should be some security switches, such as complete agent uninstalling, really secure communications with CnC (paranoid mode and above), and no persistent backdoors. Those things can introduce new vulns to the network.

After all, it is only meant to automate the classic identify-> try exploit loop. Good for me.

operatorequals··on Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry
There is a Greek movie based on the exact same idea. Its the "Alps" by George Lanthimos (later known from "Dogtooth" movie).

I don't about Japan, but that movie had a quite depressing ending (not to mention that the whole thing was kinda creepy and unsettling).

operatorequals··on Wapp – a single-file web framework by the creator of SQLite
Our savior, save as from bloated package management, API inconsistencies and Server-side Javascript.

Thank you!

operatorequals··on Dear Apple, please fix notifications
Now this is a "First world problem"...
operatorequals··on Is Facebook.com down?
Up in Abu Dhabi, UAE.