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archixe··on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
The article mentions that they accessed the information through a Danish company whose access has been revoked now. I find it really surprising that a company could access these records without any limitations on which info or how many records they can pull.
archixe··on Exercises to Learn Rust
I did Rustlings without any knowledge of Rust and I thought it worked great. There are links to guide & documentation pages for every exercise. It worked great to learn the basics through practice.
archixe··on Edsger Dijkstra carried computer science on his shoulders (2020)
> "Whether written using a fountain pen or typewriter, Dijkstra’s technical reports were composed at a speed of around three words per minute. “The rest of the time,” he remarked, “is taken up by thinking.”9 For Dijkstra, writing and thinking blended into one activity. When preparing a new EWD, he always sought to produce the final version from the outset."

> "He also never purchased a computer. Eventually, in the late 1980s, he was given one as a gift by a computer company, but never used it for word processing. Dijkstra did not own a TV, a VCR, or even a mobile phone. He preferred to avoid the cinema, citing an oversensitivity to visual input. By contrast, he enjoyed attending classical music concerts."

This is very fascinating to me, as a generally unsure person, I can't imagine writing anything this way let alone scientific papers. It certainly requires a deep focus and great knowledge on what you are writing about. I will try to give it a go next time I write out my thoughts.

There is interesting interview where he goes deeper into this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0w1MJHxStg

archixe··on How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul
There is an add-on called unhook that allows you to disable almost everything on youtube. I turned off shorts, recommendations, the home page even the comments. Now all I see is my subsriptions page. It really stopped me from wasting hours hopping videos.

It also workes on firefox mobile, I stopped using the default youtube app.

archixe··on What Happened to Lee (2020)
I didn't know who he was when I clicked it. This a very nice write up, it was very interesting
archixe··on Roblox sued for allegedly enabling young girl’s sexual, financial exploitation
As someone who knows nothing about roblox these videos were very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
archixe··on Notion still wants to become 'the next Microsoft'
Agreed, I liked using it too. Now I've switched to md notetaking with Obsidian. Do you have any good alternatives for notion?