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The Server Side Public License sucks
Sounds like MongoDB‘s Server Side Public License has been a complete failure. Both Redhat and Debian have removed them for their repos. AWS and Azure both built their own MongoDB API compatible databases and have started migrating customers over.
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Jack Bogle has died
Jack Bogle, inventor of the index fund, has died. May he rest in peace.
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State of Messaging
Messaging is in a poor state these days. SMS is unencrypted WhatsApp is proprietary software owned by an advertising company Telegram tried to roll their own crypto Signal is completely centralized and could roll out an update breaking their encryption at any moment Jabber doesn’t seem to support E2E group chats and doesn’t have any…
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Bedrock Linux
I’ve played around with Bedrock Linux for the last few hours. It looks like a really cool project. It’s not really a full distro but rather a package manager for other distros. So for example you can run ‘brl fetch debian arch ubuntu’ and it will install Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu on your system. You…
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Exploration of the Game of Life
Basic Exploration In-depth Exploration Can you find a pattern that returns to its starting point after more than two time steps? What’s the longest you can see a pattern go without repeating a configuration? To answer these questions I decided to build my own implementation of Conway’s Game of Life in Python to brute force…
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GDPR Scam
You know GDPR compliance is going to create a whole new entry point for hackers to impersonate users and send data requests to companies to get people’s info.
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Introducing the AskSteem Search Engine
This article was originally published on Steemit.com Over the past month, I’ve been building a new search engine that indexes the steem blockchain. It’s currently live at asksteem.com. The goal of AskSteem is to provide a reliable, powerful, and fast search engine that is optimized for steem. In this post, I’d like to cover some…
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How to Make Phone Calls on an iPod
The New iPod Touch from Apple is a great way of getting an iOS 8/9 experience without having to pay the hefty price of the iPhone. However while cheaper than the iPhone it does come with a few drawbacks, one of which is that it cannot be used to make Phone calls or send text…
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Top 5 Dedicated Hosting Providers
1. Gigapros Web Hosting While Gigapros do have Shared and VPS hosting, where they really shine is in their Dedicated Servers. They have a very different way of operating that differentiates them for many other web-hosts and puts them as number one on this list. The main one being how they allow you to pick exactly the…
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Top 8 Best AdSense Alternatives
So you’re doing good for yourself and making decent earnings off AdSense. But then one day you get that email in your inbox with the subject “AdSense Account Disabled” and everything changes. You suddenly realize that any other respectable Ad Networks either have low CPM or are just pure scams. So here I’ve compiled a…
Kyle Piira 