ReHacked vol. 303: Using Coding Skills to Make Passive Income, Why Do Some People Get Drunk Faster Than Others and more

Using Coding Skills to Make Passive Income | Cory Zue #career #longread #video

A decade of firsthand advice on going from an employed software developer to successful indie hacker running your own business(es).

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The Fuzzing Book #software #programming #longread

Welcome to "The Fuzzing Book"! Software has bugs, and catching bugs can involve lots of effort. This book addresses this problem by automating software testing, specifically by generating tests automatically. Recent years have seen the development of novel techniques that lead to dramatic improvements in test generation and software testing. They now are mature enough to be assembled in a book – even with executable code.

Lenovo has removed its iconic TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops | PCWorld #hardware

For more than three decades, the TrackPoint’s iconic red rubbery nub has been a staple of IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. But now, no longer. Lenovo has removed its famous TrackPoint from its latest ThinkPad laptops, calling it time for a change.

Nokia Design Archive #fun #rabbithole

David Lynch Dead: 'Blue Velvet,' 'Twin Peaks' Director Was 78 #promemoria

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78.

GOG joins the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects | GamingOnLinux #gaming #history

“GOG was created with video game preservation in mind”, said Maciej Gołębiewski, Managing Director at GOG. “Classic games and the mission to safeguard them for future generations have always been at the core of our work. Over the past decade, we’ve honed our expertise in this area. The GOG Preservation Program, which ensures compatibility for over 100 games and delivers hundreds of enhancements, is just one example of this commitment. We were thrilled to see the Program warmly received not only by our players but also by our partners and the gaming industry as a whole”.

Why Do Some People Get Drunk Faster Than Others? | TS Digest | The Scientist #health

Individual reactions to alcohol can vary due to differences in genetics and tolerance. Alcohol metabolism is influenced by enzymes such as alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase, and mutations in these enzymes can alter alcohol metabolism and lead to different experiences. Additionally, other factors like family history of alcoholism and brain function can impact how alcohol affects coordination and drinking behavior.

A filter that blocks spam & misleading websites from appearing in search results via uBlocklist #software

Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform • The Register #internet #economy #software

Broadcom has lost another sizable customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs, some of them rented by major European businesses, to an open-source system based on the KVM hypervisor.

Anexia was founded in 2006, is based in Austria, and provides cloud services from over 100 locations around the world by placing equipment in third party datacenters. Clients include remote access and control vendor TeamViewer, and airline Lufthansa – plus plenty more outfits that need reliable hosting and service to match.

Index - IRC Driven - Everything Driven By IRC #internet #oldschool

IRC Driven is a modern IRC indexing site and search engine. Originally started in 2006, inspired by the now defunct SearchIRC, and after several rewrites we are now evolving into a social media platform for IRC. Our goal is to bring awareness to IRC, help modernize the IRC platform and prove that IRC is not dead.

Starlink is cheaper than many leading internet providers in Africa - Rest of World #internet

• In at least five of the 16 African countries where the service is available, a monthly Starlink subscription is cheaper than the leading fixed internet service provider.
• Starlink has disrupted the existing internet service provider industry in Kenya.

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