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Biden urges Congress to pass his $33 billion aid package; Israel reportedly plans to increase military aid to Ukraine  CNBCsource

A fully interactive, real-time, and modern text-based browser rendered to TTYs and browsers Why use Browsh? Not all the world has good Internet. If you only have a 3kbps internet connection tethered from a phone, then it’s good to SSH into a server and browse the web through, say, elinks. That way the server downloads…

Granting unlimited paid holiday doesn’t make these problems go away – in fact, it can make them worse. With UPTO, workers are not technically owed any vacation days, since there’s no fixed number, and everything must be cleared by the boss on a case-by-case basis. For workers, establishing what the ‘right’ amount of paid time…

Bulgaria dispatchAn enormous monument to the Communist Party in Bulgaria is now a decrepit ruin. The country is wrestling with how to deal with a symbol of an unwanted and, in many ways, deeply ugly past.A masterpiece of brutalist architecture, the building formerly known as the Memorial House of the Bulgarian Communist Party opened in…

Sky News has been given rare access to the port of Odesa where more than a quarter of a million…

tl;dr: dd works for reading and writing disks, but it has no advantages and some disadvantages over just treating the disk as a regular file. In many commands it’s entirely pointless. If you’ve ever used dd, you’ve probably used it to read or write disk images: # Write myfile.iso to a USB drive dd if=myfile.iso…

A classic black swan event has just happened to the LUNA cryptocurrency.A black swan event is characterised by a spectacular run up in price, followed by the price falling off a cliff to near zero. It famously happened to a hedge fund named LTCM (Long Term Capital Management) back in 1998. The resulting loss temporarily…

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