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Quiz: You run the Unix or Linux command:
sleep 100 &

What is the most likely state of the sleep process immediately after you press Enter key?
a) Running in the foreground 🏃‍♀️
b) Running in the background 🏃‍♂️
c) Stopped 🛑
d) Zombie 🧟‍♀️

A Perl programmer is asked to write a script to find all the prime numbers. They finish in 5 minutes. "How did you do it so fast?" asks their coworker. "I just used the is_prime function," they reply. "But Perl doesn't have an is_prime function!" yells back the coworker. The Perl programmer laughs. "I know. I wrote it in three lines."
After Putin sacked Russia’s space chief, the rumor mill is running red-hot
The Ukraine war has exacerbated Russia's decline in space.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/after-putin-sacked-russias-space-chief-the-rumor-mill-is-running-red-hot/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
After Putin sacked Russia’s space chief, the rumor mill is running red-hot

The Ukraine war has exacerbated Russia’s decline in space.

Ars Technica
Anthropic (Claude LLM) AI Company doesn’t want people using AI for their resumes or any part of Interview for software developer or IT jobs at their office. How ironic? LOL. The company says AI tools are flooding their system with bogus résumés and too many applicants. They can't find real talent even using their own AI system where candidates lie about their skills when resumes are created by AI.
@AnnaAnthro There are alternatives like ProtonCalendar and Tuta Calendar. Stay away from rotten Google.

Remember Aaron♥️

Fuck #Meta 

Brave Browser is getting a new feature called 'custom scriptlets' that lets advanced users inject their own JavaScript into websites, allowing deep customization and control over their browsing experience.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/brave-now-lets-you-inject-custom-javascript-to-tweak-websites/

Brave now lets you inject custom JavaScript to tweak websites

Brave Browser is getting a new feature called 'custom scriptlets' that lets advanced users inject their own JavaScript into websites, allowing deep customization and control over their browsing experience.

BleepingComputer

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

— Alan Cooper

In this article, I talk about
how the current changes in the US are affecting the tools we use in privacy:

Each change of government can have a serious effect on data privacy legislation for better, or worse.

Privacy is a politically charged field.

Many privacy tools we use depend at least partially on government funding or on other tools which depend on government funding.

Current projects that could be impacted now or later include the Tor Project, the Python Software Foundation, and all the projects relying on these.

More on this here: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/03/the-future-of-privacy/

#Privacy #USpol #Tor #Python

The Future of Privacy: How Governments Shape Your Digital Life

Privacy is intrinsically intertwined with politics. Each change in governance can have substantial effects on privacy rights and privacy tools. Using concrete examples, we examine how politics can impact the tools we use.

Privacy Guides