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At its core, the metaverse is defined by the concept of the virtual world. The telegraph and later the telephone constitute early virtual worlds.

Matyáš Racek's blog

An illustration of good taste in code

Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors.

In Solutions Architecture

This map shows mountain symbols above a river symbol. Suppose that, in the part of the world that the map represents, there really are mountains in the location that the map indicates. But suppose that there are also mountains on the other side of the river — where no mountains are indicated on the map. Would we say that the map is inaccurate? People tend to say yes — in general, if a marker appears on a map, then we tend to think that the absence of the marker reflects an absence of that feature from the corresponding location. But...

It appears that Microsoft has started to block Windows ISO downloads that originate from Rufus.

In this article I will explain why you really should not be using github copilot.

Maintainers are expected to be consummate generalists, but in order for open source to be sustainable, @swyx suggests we rethink this and start with a simple file called MAINTAINERS.md:

Why the first “portable” computers, produced before integrated circuits, would really stretch the term today. Some portables needed a truck to move.

Posted on Thursday 11 Aug 2022. 1,400 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. A new survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds that TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply.

In my spitball theory here, App Track Transparency is not the cause of Facebook’s troubles, but just an extra kick in the pants as they stumble downhill toward legacy media irrelevance.

App Tracking Transparency (hereafter, “ATT”) is in the news again because many advertising-supported companies have reported a particularly bad earnings quarter attributable, many of them have said, to several factors, perhaps best summarized by Mobile Dev Memo’s Eric Seufert: It’s impractical, if not impossible, to try to tease out the individual burden of any of […]

Websites and advertisers can not prevent personal data from leaking in programmatic advertising. If not fixed, this will render consent to use personal data meaningless. The GDPR applies the principle of transparency:[1] People must be able to easily learn who... #adtech #compliance #dataleakage

No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.

A criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable

How might Copilot’s descendants change the craft of programming?

Java has been declared dead many times—and yet, it’s still going strong, undergoing what some might call a renaissance from both a technology and ecosystem perspective. Learn more on The ReadME Pro...

I once had an engineering manager who wanted 100% unit test coverage. This is someone whom I respect deeply since the moment I started…

Techstrong Group CEO Alan Shimel talks about the upcoming CloudNativeDay and the realization that cloud-native is a state of mind.

Can you control what you've already set free?

The new Pretty Good Phone Privacy service for Android hides the data linking you to your mobile device.

Spoken languages have distinct levels to measure skills; why shouldn't programming languages, too?