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Surveillance pricing already has its own page in Wikipedia. It also has its own authority: Abbey Stemler, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics and Weimer Faculty Fellow in Business Law & Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business. And she’ll be speaking about her work…
Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots — a problem that we have written about before, and which has slowly ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This has not gone uncontested, however: web site operators from around the world have been working on inventive countermeasures.…
Recommendations?
My (guessing) seven-year-old LG 5K Ultrafine 27" display has become flaky. Repair estimates run into many hundreds, so I need a new monitor. Currently, I'm browsing Apple 5K Studio Displays on eBay. Saves me several hundred dollars from the $1599 Apple Store price.
Reinhard Tartler of Debian's new DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team, or simply "DFSG Team", has announced that the team is now operational and is deploying new tooling to improve the NEW queue experience for Debian developers and maintainers.
Our primary and immediate goal is simple: get the queue…
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.71 stable kernel. He writes,
"All users of the 6.12 kernel series that had issues with 6.12.69
or 6.12.70 should upgrade, as some regressions are fixed
here.
"
The grepc(1) program is something that originated in this project, as it helped me find code quickly in glibc and…
Remembering when radio was radio
Nice write-up on one of the greatest radio stations ever: WQDR/94.7 in Raleigh, during its album rock era, which ran from 1971 to 1984, as I recall. My own involvement (as a creative director for the station's ad agency) ran from '78 to '83…