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github Playing Doom on the teeniest-tiniest gaming machine Gareth Branwyn

News GitHub fired Jewish employee who said 'stay safe homies, Nazis are about' on Slack amid Capitol riot, 200 staff sign letter asking Microsoft-owned biz to denounce Nazis Xeni Jardin

law Github restores youtube-dl Rob Beschizza

math Trippy demonstration of recursively rotating images Andrea James

AI Watch how AI accessing a huge face database can create better restorations Andrea James

politics Some organizations to retire non-inclusive tech terms like "master drive" and "slave drive" Andrea James

Boing Boing Gadgets Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow

web theory A plugin to force Twitter to respect your settings and stop showing you "top" tweets Cory Doctorow

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Business Google releases a free/open differential privacy library Cory Doctorow

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happy mutants Rogess: chess with roguelike combat Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Read the source code for every classic Infocom text-adventure game! Cory Doctorow

china A rapidly proliferating software license bars use by companies with poor labor practices Cory Doctorow

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videos Freedom EV: free/open replacement firmware for your electric vehicle — including a Tesla Cory Doctorow

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