Bad news for all CI companies out there: Google and GitHub just partnered up for fully integrated and automated CI, and they'll shove it in everyone's face soon: "Smart CI recommendations will be rolled out to all GitHub users on a phased basis." https://
Mars Express found liquid water on Mars, hidden under the South Pole ice cap: http://
The location for Hacker Beach #7 has been decided today. Join us on an island in the Philippines next January: https://
'Calling this new Gmail mode “confidential” is misleading. There is nothing confidential about unencrypted email in general and about Gmail’s new “Confidential Mode” in particular': https://
Endless war explained in 2 minutes: https://
Rode down to Schönefeld Airport on Mauerweg for the first time today, passing the unused new BER runways as well. Lots of small, brand-new, empty roads through the country down there. And Mauerweg is all new and buttery smooth as well. Definitely a great way to get out of the city quickly and with only a couple of traffic lights.
One for the VGA fans among you: http://
TIL: Both England and Russia had a tax on wearing beards in the past. The Russian one having been introduced "to bring Russian society in line with Western European models". https://
Someone ported Vim to WebAssembly: https://
If Coinbase sponsors OpenCollective, why can I still not make a one-time donation using bitcoin? It's the easiest thing to implement, compared to any other payment option. And it's literally open-source money, based entirely on free software.
IBM just filed a patent application for almost exactly what we're working on with Kosmos Kredits. Albeit more narrowly focussed on just code contributions, while our own goal is to credit and encourage all types of contributions, esp. non-code ones. Good thing we're doing this on a public, censorship-resistant blockchain, and you can hardly sue a smart contract for patent violations. https://
Finally a true developer conference for Ethereum/Solidity app development, and a non-profit community conf at that: https://
Been waiting for something like this for quite a while, and now it's happening in 2 weeks, right here in Berlin.
