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What You Need to Know About X11 Forwarding
 
 
X11 forwarding is a useful and reliable tool for running graphical programs on remote machines securely. It's also relatively easy to set up. Learn more about some of the lesser-known details about X11 forwarding, how it works, and how it can be used securely.
 
 

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faun.dev faun.dev
 
Stats for data science
 
 
Basics and important areas of statistics that will be helpful to start a career in the field of data science

By @krishnaverse , Data Scientist at Commonwealth Secretariat
 
 

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www.dylanpaulus.com www.dylanpaulus.com
 
Advice for New Software Engineers
 
 
The author shares details about the following advice:
  • Don't worry about knowing everything
  • Ask questions, have opinions
  • Have a business-oriented mindset
  • Iterate on failures to learn and get better
 
 
benjamincongdon.me benjamincongdon.me
 
In Praise of Stacked PRs   ✅
 
 
“Stacked PRs” is the practice of breaking up a large change into smaller, individually reviewable PRs which can depend on each other, forming a DAG.

Github encourages the Stacked PR approach, whereas tools like Gerrit encourage stacked commits. Stacked commits use a single commit as the unit of atomic change.
 
 
ai.facebook.com ai.facebook.com
 
Advancing direct speech-to-speech modeling with discrete units   ✅
 
 
Meta AI researchers share their findings regarding advancement in direct speech-to-speech translation models in this blog post.
 
 
www.qamadness.com www.qamadness.com
 
25 Useful Chrome Extensions for Software Testers
 
 
Looking for helpful Google Chrome extensions for QA engineers? Check this list.
 
 
the.scapegoat.dev the.scapegoat.dev
 
Why I Love Still PHP and Javascript After 20+ years
 
 
The author provides 7 reasons explaining why PHP and JS are one of their favorite programming languages.
 
 
techbeacon.com techbeacon.com
 
Revisiting '13 programming languages for the future'
 
 
Baseball great Yogi Berra famously said that predictions are hard, especially about the future. Seven years ago, editors askedPeter Waynerto come up with a list of 13 programming languages that would define the future of coding.

Here’s the list of the original 13 along with a discussion of what went right and wrong with the predictions.
 
 
future.com future.com
 
Data Architecture Revisited: The Platform Hypothesis   ✅
 
 
Software systems are increasingly based on data, rather than code. A new class of tools and technologies have emerged to process data for both analytics and ML.
 
 
www.makeuseof.com www.makeuseof.com
 
What Are the Different Types of Programming Language?
 
 
Each programming language differs from the next, in various ways. One of the biggest differences is how a program runs.
 
 
www.i-programmer.info www.i-programmer.info
 
Scratch Can Even Do Linux Kernel
 
 
Is writing a Kernel module in Scratch, the block-based programming language used primarily by kids, possible? Absurd it may be, but yes, it is absolutely possible!
 
 
 
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GitLab has reversed its decision to automatically delete projects that are inactive for more than a year and belong to its free-tier users.
 
 
Commit comments on Github will no longer appear in the pull request timeline.
 
 
Linux now has a Runtime Verification Interface merged in.
 
 
Instagram will support NFTs in over 100 countries, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
 
 
GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initiative.
 
 
WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) v0.65.1 is out.
 
 
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internxt.com internxt.com
 
Internxt - the world’s safest, fully encrypted, open-source cloud storage service.
 
 
Internxt is a fully-encrypted, open-source cloud storage service designed to keep your data safe and well out of reach of hackers and data collectors. Designed for Web3, Internxt's zero-knowledge ecosystem currently offers three primary services: Drive, Photos, and Send.

Introducing Internxt - World's most secure cloud storage
 
 
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github.com github.com
 
simplex-chat/simplex-chat
 
 
SimpleX - the first messaging platform operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS and Android apps are released
 
 
github.com github.com
 
initialcommit-com/git-story
 
 
Easily create video animations (.mp4) of your Git commit history, directory from your Git repo.
 
 
github.com github.com
 
Wisser/Jailer
 
 
Database Subsetting and Relational Data Browsing Tool.
 
 
github.com github.com
 
bregman-arie/devops-exercises
 
 
Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions
 
 
github.com github.com
 
ray-project/ray
 
 
Ray is a unified framework for scaling AI and Python applications. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a toolkit of libraries (Ray AIR) for accelerating ML workloads.
 
 

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