Remote work has the potential to significantly reduce an individual’s carbon emissions by more than 50%, according to a new analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. The study examined factors such as commuting, non-commute travel, office energy efficiency, and residential energy use to calculate the carbon reduction potential of […]

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The PQXDH (Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman) key agreement protocol is described in this document. PQXDH is designed to establish a shared secret key between two parties who authenticate each other based on public keys. It provides post-quantum forward secrecy and cryptographic deniability. The protocol is suitable for asynchronous settings where one user is offline and has […]

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The Tailscale Kubernetes operator enables various functionalities, including exposing services in a Kubernetes cluster to a Tailscale network and securely connecting to the Kubernetes control plane via an API server proxy. The operator is currently in private alpha and the setup process involves creating ACL tags, configuring OAuth clients, and applying the operator manifest file […]

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The author starts by explaining their decision to stop listening to the news, as they realized that all news seems to focus on negative topics. They extend this avoidance to watching and browsing the news as well. However, they mention that they still read some subreddits on Reddit for occasional news updates. The author then […]

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Valve and their work on the Steam Deck and SteamOS have been a boon for the open-source ecosystem, according to a presentation at the Linux Foundation Europe’s Open-Source Summit. Alberto Garcia of open-source consulting firm Igalia highlighted the many ways Valve has contributed to the Linux ecosystem, including funding improvements to the KDE Plasma desktop […]

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The author expresses their love for GitHub Actions and how it has been beneficial for their productivity. They also mention the frustrations they have encountered while using it, such as the time-consuming debugging process and security vulnerabilities. Their proposed solutions include the addition of an interactive debugging shell, rejection of obviously insecure workflows, and stricter […]

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Java 21, released as a “long term support” version, has a few nice features but nothing compelling to upgrade for except the tens of thousands of bug fixes. The major features of Java 21 include pattern matching for switch, record patterns, sequenced collections, and virtual threads. Pattern matching simplifies working with algebraic data types, while […]

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On January 1, 2022, an individual named Acme received a salary income of 100,000 INR. This was reflected in their assets, with 100,000 INR in their checking account. However, on January 3, they paid rent and incurred an expense of 20,000 INR, resulting in a decrease in their checking account balance. On January 7, Acme […]

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Ben Johnson, the creator of BoltDB, introduces Litestream, an open-source project that aims to make SQLite suitable for full-stack applications through replication. Johnson explains that the conventional wisdom was to use SQLite for unit tests in n-tier architecture, but he argues that SQLite can serve as the core of data and persistence layer in production […]

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Many popular npm packages have unnecessary dependencies, particularly in the eslint ecosystem. These extra dependencies are often polyfills for JavaScript functions that have long been supported. For example, packages like eslint-plugin-react unnecessarily pull in a polyfill for Object.defineProperties, which is already built into JavaScript engines. What’s even more surprising is that these polyfill functions are […]

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