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nofollowon A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily

a syndication feed would probably suffice

nofollowon The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges (2018)

> Altruism in large social groups is something chimps haven't worked out yet

But their close relatives, the Bonobos, apparently have.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Behavior:

> Primatologist Frans de Waal states bonobos are capable of altruism, compassion, empathy, kindness, patience, and sensitivity, and described "bonobo society" as a "gynecocracy".

nofollowon Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers

nofollowon P2panda: P2P protocol for secure, energy-efficient local-first web applications

easy to find from the homepage:

https://p2panda.org/libraries/

> The core library is shipped both as a Rust crate p2panda-rs with WebAssembly bindings and a NPM package p2panda-js with TypeScript definitions running in NodeJS or any modern web browser.

nofollowon DOJ charges 10 with fraud in global air freight kickback scheme

I think they'd be more worried about the relatively large number of suspicious deaths in that industry increasing: https://www.apo-observers.org/observer-safety/misses/

nofollowon Pomsky – A portable, modern regular expression language

You mean the qr// operator. qx// is the generic operator for backticks.

nofollowon Rooftop wind energy innovation claims 50% more energy than solar at same cost

I'm waiting for Vortex Bladeless: https://vortexbladeless.com/

nofollowon VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration

only if you use Apple's walled garden. did you miss the multiple links to the free download hosted on github?

nofollowon Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate

if the kdramas are indicative of their society, they believe kissing will make you pregnant ;-) seriously, they should take a page out of japan's playbook- legalize pornography and establish a contest to encourage economic and population growth :-)

nofollowon Wild turtles age slowly, and some basically don’t age at all

I wonder how some snakes' ability to atrophy and regenerate internal organs (including the heart) is related to aging: https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/how-pythons-regenerate-their-o...

nofollowon Cozy is a modern audiobook player for Linux

couldn't this be solved by integration with fitbit and other health trackers? pause player when tracker detects user is asleep or out of range of device.

nofollowon Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors

"In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values."

nofollowon Lightning Network: Scalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain Transactions

lower fees, but still no return of free transactions? core recently removed support for free transactions even though satoshi stated [1] clearly that free transactions should always be allowed.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=994.msg12168#msg1216...

nofollowon HTML5 Anonymous Bitcoin Poker

frequently loses connection and when i reconnect the old dealt cards for a hand are not redrawn, only the newly dealt cards for that hand are drawn.

nofollowon Unicode is Kind of Insane

the unicode consortium addresses this: http://unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Confusable_Detection

edit: a quick search found implementations of the described algorithms in c++ (ICU library) and perl (Unicode::Security).

nofollowon Mac OS X Yosemite Under the Magnifying Glass

Agreed. I wish they'd focus more attention on the kernel. Many of the system processes frequently run amok consuming excessive cpu or memory. And the filesystem is hopelessly outdated.