Description
In today's episode, we discuss the growing fake GitHub star black market and the history of the legendary hackerspace L0pht. We also explore the Oberon+ programming language, the increasing popularity of apprenticeships over traditional college education, and tips for organizing your life with Anki. Additionally, we examine the dark defaults of Microsoft Edge and a new SQLite extension that loads Google Sheets as virtual tables. Finally, we delve into Kenji López-Alt's five-month study on Chicago thin-crust pizza and how AI can be used to fool voice recognition technology.
Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships
How to participate in Monday’s oral arguments re: Internet Archive
Libgsqlite: A SQLite extension which loads a Google Sheet as a virtual table
Anki-fy your life
The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendary hackerspace
The Oberon+ Programming Language
Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza
AI fooled voice recognition to verify identity used by Australian tax office
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Published 03/23/23
This episode covers various tech news and updates, including Adobe's new AI art generator, Google Bard entering open beta, tips for using the programming tool `fzf`, and the end of Dpreview.com. Additionally, we discuss updates to the ad-blocking extension uBlock, the release of MySQL for...
Published 03/21/23