Samsung has reminded owners of its smart TVs that they should be regularly scanning for malware using its built-in virus scanning software. There haven’t been any recent security vulnerabilities reported for Samsung’s smart TVs, but back in 2017 WikiLeaks revealed that the CIA had developed a piece of software called “Weeping Angel” that was capable of turning Samsung’s smart TVs into a listening device. Samsung’s little PSA about scanning for “malware viruses” (eh hem) might be a sound security practice on a Samsung smart TV, but it’s also an excellent reminder for why you might not want to buy one in the first place.

But don’t take things for granted: despite being over 20 years old, there’s signs that CSS might be going through the same tumultuous teenage years that JavaScript just went through. Parenting books won’t help much with this one, but that’s where we come in: we’ve surveyed over 10,000 developers in this first ever State of CSS survey. The State of CSS Survey is created and maintained by:

Be sure to check out my React/GraphQL JavaScript framework, Vulcan.js, as well as Raphaël’s React data visualization library nivo.

The government has wasted hundreds of millions of pounds painting pointless white lines on busy roads and calling them cycle lanes, according to Britain’s cycling and walking commissioners. In a letter to the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, the commissioners – including the Olympic champions Chris Boardman (Greater Manchester), Dame Sarah Storey (Sheffield City region) and Will Norman (London) – say painted cycle lanes are a “gesture” and do nothing to make people feel safer on a bike. Norman, who has persuaded London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, to commit a record £2.3bn to his “healthy streets” initiative, which puts people before cars, said: ‘“Where towns and cities are investing in high-quality walking and cycling infrastructure the benefits are clear – helping tackle our inactivity crisis, helping clean up our toxic air, and making our streets more welcoming places to spend time.

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This limits the bitrate on the serial port to 38400 b/s (you can experiment with higher values, but I’ve noticed it’s not as stable), sets the ESP8266’s CPU to 160Mhz instead of the default 80 and adds a port mapping to be forwarded to your Amiga via the serial interface. To confirm, when you reset it and issue a command, it should look like this (your external IP might be different based on your wifi DHCP settings and I took this screenshot when the SLIP link was up, hence the PeerIP address being shown):

The serial port is not exposed on my case, and the header on the motherboard isn’t even populated so I had to ask someone at work to solder it for me, and the result was super professional – done by the same person who did the ESP8266 headers, major props to André! The MiST emulates an Amiga 1200 with an extra 24MB of RAM and 2 hard drive files in HDF format.

A minute of arc on the planet Earth is 1 nautical mile. If you were to take the Earth and cut it in half along a line passing from the North Pole through Paris, and then measure the distance of the curve running from the North Pole to the equator on that circle, and then divide that distance by 10,000, you would have the traditional unit for the kilometer as defined in 1791 by the French Academy of Sciences. To travel around the Earth at the equator, you would have to travel (360 * 60) 21,600 nautical miles, 24,857 miles or 40,003 kilometers.

The cannabinoids detected on the wooden braziers are mainly CBN, indicating that the burned cannabis plants expressed higher THC levels than typically found in wild plants. However, it is highly unlikely that the cannabis plants on the steppe before the first millennium BCE were cultivated, and no evidence for wild populations with high THC levels exists for the steppe. Wild cannabis exists across much of Central Eurasia from western China to Eastern Europe and is an abundant component of the vegetation community; hence, claims that the western steppe peoples of the third and second millennia BCE were spreading the plant as a kind of “camp follower” (6, 30) need to be clarified.

Every day, domains linked from the MillionDollarHomepage expire. With the help of PixelPirate’s revolutionary MillionDollarHomepage As A Service (MDHPAAS) technology, our band of robot scallywags scour the data seas, always on the lookout for domains prematurely sent to Davy Jones’ Locker. Click on an image to zoom in on a particular Pixel Block’s location.

It’s not clear what that is 5% of: the total number who took the survey (which would be 226 developers), those who had some regret (102) or those who put Java as their primary language (38). Although Red Hat’s takeover means there is a future for Java, there are undoubtedly warning signs for people that have been relying the language for some time.” Even after 24 years, Java continues to be either at the top or very close to the top of surveys that rank the popularity of programming languages (things like the TIOBE index and the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings).

Now, one of the most comprehensive studies on the subject has assessed the value of this GPS technology to the US economy and examined what effect a 30-day outage would have—whether it’s due to a severe space weather event or “nefarious activity by a bad actor.” Some sectors of the economy are only beginning to realize the value of GPS technology, or are identifying new uses for it, the report says, indicating that its value as a platform for innovation will continue to grow. “GPS came along at a time of significant evolution in the telecom sector and played a critical role in the digitization of telecom infrastructure and the advent of wireless technology,” the study states.

An open letter to Stewart Butterfield: Why Slack will never replace email
Hello Mr Butterfield,
I’m Dvir Ben Aroya, an entrepreneur who has spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve workplace communications, and now focus on Spike — the first conversational email for teams. However, I must say:
Your goal of replacing email with Slack is in complete conflict with the efficient flow of communication that gets real work done.As-is, Slack’s addictive qualities are making it become the Facebook of work communication — and before it causes more damage to workers’ productivity and well-being, we have to limit its reach. Reader’s response to Slack’s claim to replace email, on Quartz.The best of both worlds — but only the best
The answer is a product designed to take the best of each mode of communication and strip away the bad — from both email and Slack — making sure to bake in efficiency and respect for people’s time at a product level.