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GeneralRe: What exactly is your brain doing when reading code? Pin
Dan Neely6-Apr-21 2:34
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NewsMost loved programming language Rust sparks privacy concerns Pin
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Bleeping Clueless:
Interestingly, despite being a privacy risk, the inadvertent inclusion of metadata such as absolute paths may aid computer forensics experts and the law enforcement as the path could reveal system usernames.


This isn't happening despite it being a privacy risk, it's happening because it's a privacy risk. D'Oh! | :doh:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

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NewsPersonal data for 533 million Facebook users leaks on the web Pin
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NewsXinuous—owners of what used to be SCO—file suit against Red Hat and IBM Pin
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NewsNew research shows that near-term quantum computers can learn to reason Pin
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NewsMicrosoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android Pin
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NewsDatabase-related bottlenecks are holding businesses back Pin
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NewsNew Open Source Index: VS Code is no. 1 code editor Pin
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NewsCanonical releases Ubuntu on Windows Preview with early builds, new tools for the brave Pin
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NewsMicrosoft Technical Fellow Don Box has left the building Pin
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NewsScientists implant and then reverse false memories in people Pin
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