Entrepreneur and developer Tom Coates joined many developers protesting Twitter’s announcement. Coates tweeted that, while “it is not unreasonable to want to find a way to charge those developers who extract more value than they contribute” to Twitter, “one week’s notice and no indication of pricing shows Twitter is chaotic and unreliable. No one’s going to build a business on that.”
Provincial parks have groomed trails for a variety of activities, including cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, fat biking, snowshoeing and hiking. Paint Lake, Spruce Woods and Turtle Mountain provincial parks also offer outdoor skating areas, hockey rinks and toboggan hills. Trails province-wide are in excellent condition with a good snow base.
The new organization also preserves the core process and mission of the Consortium to shepherd the web, by developing open web standards as a single global organization with contributions from W3C Members, staff, and the international community.
The Internet Archive now houses a collection of old-school calculators that you can boot up and use as if you had a physical version right in front of you.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
If anyone out there really, really, misses the pre-web internet, you might want to look into Gemini. It's a basically a modernized version of the old gopher protocol. It all feels very nostalgic, but you'll need a custom Gemini client, like Lagrange to get very far.
A bot on Mastadon that communicates with NASA to see if any new pictures were taken yesterday of our planet using the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the DSCOVR spacecraft 1.5 million kilometres away at Lagrange point 1. It then combines the images into an animated GIF showing what our world looked like yesterday.
This initial release contains most of the new features and breaking changes that 5.0 will contain. This release contains a minimal working application skeleton. The scope for 5.x isn’t locked down so if you’d like to see a feature or breaking change made please open an issue.
The federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which uses a process called inertial confinement fusion that involves bombarding a tiny pellet of hydrogen plasma with the world’s biggest laser, had achieved net energy gain in a fusion experiment in the past two weeks, according to three people with knowledge of preliminary results from a recent experiment.
Remote work had already begun in earnest well before the pandemic, but obviously COVID lockdowns ushered it in fully. Intersting ideas on how to repurpose downtowns across N.America.
Office is still using the IE engine to execute the JavaScript that enables the attack, which is why it worked on Windows 7 through 11 and Windows Server 2008 through 2022 machines that haven’t installed new November 2022 security updates.
Additional E2E covers Device Backups and Messages Backups, iCloud Drive, Notes, Photos, Reminders, Voice Memos, Safari, Bookmarks, Siri Shortcuts, and Wallet Passes. Not yet covered are Mail, Contacts, and Calendar, dut to legacy technologies.
By Neal Agarwal. Simulate an asteroid overall size and speed, what its made of, and where it will hit. Then launch it to fin out just how much damage it would cause.
A desktop visual IDE for React that allows you to build and edit components visually and side-by-side with your project’s codebase. Changes can be made through code or with editing panels and are reflected instantly, for a faster workflow. Free to use in its current beta stage.
An eclectic mix of tunes for the holiday season! If you have any suggestions on tunes we may want to add, drop us a line with your favourites and we'll look at adding them to the list.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Lizards!
Hive Social, a social media platform run by a small group, saw tremendous growth as people looked to what might replace Twitter. But it abruptedly shut down its service when it was discovered to be riddled with vulerabilities.