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From the foundations of AI to the architecture of the modern web, the ACM A.M. Turing Award honors the visionaries who have redefined what is possible.
Join us tomorrow as we announce the recipient of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award and celebrate a lifetime of extraordinary technical achievement.
🗓️ March 18, 2026
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!
PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?
Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example
Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!
This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.
Limit the (#curl) URL size more?
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the study finds that the municipal fiber network has dramatically reshaped the regional economy, supporting 10,420 jobs from 2011 to 2024 – about 31 percent of all net new jobs created locally over the past decade.
For all the new people who have arrived, here's a tool you might enjoy, the Mastodon/Fediverse Circle Creator. It does an analysis of the people who interact with you the most and then gives you a list of the top 50 of them.
And then you can go and question the rest about why they don't seem to care about your wellbeing.
Semi-periodic reminder that the DM feature here is utterly broken and should not be regarded as "private" in any meaningful sense. And its semantics seem designed to violate the principle of least surprise.
Example: ANYONE mentioned in a message, not just tagged at the start, is a recipient. So if you send someone a DM that says "That @mattblaze guy is an ignorant moron", I get a copy.
I was reminded of this behavior just now.
Assn for Computing Machinery
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Keep Android Open
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺
josh
daniel:// stenberg://
Karl Bode
Logan Five Thousand
Matt Blaze