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Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors... on my desktop?
I was checking the status of a FedEx order when Brave warned me that "this site has been blocked from accessing your motion sensors". I'm struggling to understand why a website would need that access. Do I get a different experience if I drop my device? Tip my monitor over? Spin the mouse around?
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SO Vault: Overwhelmed by Machine Learning - is there an ML101 book?
From the SO vault: "It seems like there are so many subfields linked to Machine Learning. Is there a book or a blog that gives an overview of those different fields and what each of them do, maybe how to get started, and what background knowledge is required?"...
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3 Ansible playbooks, 2 DO droplets, and a website... in a pear tree 🎄
Running through another of Erika's Ansible posts with example playbooks, creating a few pointless ones of my own, and discovering just how easy it is to deploy a website running on Apache!...
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Being aware of how sites reel you in... and hook you 🎣
I think most of us have a general sense of uneasiness with the firm grasp the most popular sites on the Internet have on us, but it's no mistake in design that they're popular... or that the cause of uneasiness is also the salve....
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SO Vault: Break statements in the real world
From the SO vault: "At my university, you will instantly fail an assignment if you use break anywhere but in a switch statement as it breaks the coding guideline of the university. As I'm still completing my software engineering degree I would like to know from people in the real world."...
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Hands-on Ansible, using two DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets
Today I'm wrapping my head around a build tool called Ansible, used for deploying machines in a scriptable, repeatable manner. Follow along as I step through an excellent tutorial from DigitalOcean, applying what I learn to a couple DO Ubuntu VMs... the $5/mo ones - nothing fancy needed!...
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Do we really need cameras inside our homes? (Spoiler: NO!)
Some Ring cameras got hacked. Just another day in tech. My question is, WHY would you willingly put IOT cameras in your home? In your kids bedrooms??...
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SO Vault: What is your most useful SQL trick to avoid writing more code?
From the SO vault: "I am intending this to be an entry which is a resource for anyone to find out about aspects of SQL that they may have not run into yet, so that the ideas can be stolen and used in their own programming."...
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