UK’s Biggest ISP Is Bundling Google Stadia With Its Broadband Offers
Google is taking an interesting new approach with its cloud game streaming platform Stadia. The…
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Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout
This post was written by Derrick Stolee, a Git contributor since 2017 who focuses on performance. Some of his contributions include speeding up git log –graph and git push for large repositories. You can hear him speak at Git Merge in Los Angeles on March 4. Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command…
Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
Enlarge/ A Charter Spectrum vehicle. 86 with 63 posters participating Charter is killing its home-security service and telling customers that security devices they’ve purchased will stop working once the service is shut down on February 5. The impending sh…
What Nihilism Is Not
In order to preserve nihilism as a meaningful concept, it’s necessary to distinguish it from pessimism, cynicism, and apathy.Nihilism is one of those concepts that we are all pretty sure we know the meaning of unless someone asks us to define it.By: Nolen GertzNihilism, not unlike time (according to Augustine) or porn (according to the…
Biden wants Sec. 230 gone, calls tech “totally irresponsible,” “little creeps”
Enlarge/ Former Vice President Joe Biden poking at a mobile phone in October 2019. 304 with 139 posters participating Former Vice President Joe Biden is calling for one of the primary laws defining how Internet content is regulated to be “revoked,” adding t…
Report: Google wants to bring the Steam game store to… Chrome OS?
Enlarge/ Pictured: a hotrod gaming device. 77 with 51 posters participating We have a wild report from Android Police this morning, as the site claims that Google is working to bring official Steam support to Chrome OS. Yes, Valve’s Steam. The gaming platfo…
3 reasons you can’t fight facial recognition
The biometric backlash is but a brief blip. Resistance is futile. You WILL be identified….
Get Compressed Air From Falling Water With The Trompe
If you’re like us, understanding the processes and methods of the early Industrial Revolution involved…
A Simple Auger Pet Feeder
Pet feeders are a popular maker project. One can speculate that this shows the great…
Jen Costillo Explains Why Hackers Thrive in a Recession
If you haven’t noticed, this is an absolutely fantastic time to be a hacker. The…
EU declares it’ll Make USB-C Great Again™. You hear that, Apple?
Bloc to make not-quite-universal connector universal within its bounds The EU plans to force manufacturers…
PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon’s ‘bullying with a smile’ tactics
Friendly face. Image: Alex Wong / getty By Jack Morse2020-01-17 20:13:29 UTC Amazon has a “bullying” problem. So insisted PopSockets CEO and inventor David Barnett today while describing his company’s relationship with the e-commerce and logistics giant. Barnett was addressing members of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law and, over the course…
