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Gender bias on GitHub: women's contributions accepted more often than men's - except when gender is identifiable. https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/ 

The reason Spider-Man was not in Civil War teaser. pic.twitter.com/vcqCviurYj

A digital, 3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time https://boingboing.net/2016/02/09/a-digital-3d-printed-sundial.html … pic.twitter.com/zTSRoXL9a7

Pretty shredded polygons in html & js https://www.clicktorelease.com/code/polygon-shredder/ …

My notes and experience with LetEncrypt on my NearlyFreeSpeech hosted blog: https://deletethis.net/dave/2016-02/Let%27s+Encrypt+NearlyFreeSpeech.net+Setup …. TLDR:difficulty 4/10

[WRITE-UP] A tale of two offline @google Chrome UXSS vulns!http://ceukelai.re/a-tale-of-two-offline-chrome-uxss-vulns/ … pic.twitter.com/USZmlbVy2M

Public radio staffers across the U.S. lay out new guidelines for the "Wild West” of podcast audience measurement http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/02/public-radio-staffers-across-the-u-s-lay-out-new-guidelines-for-podcast-audience-measurement/ …

Epic ‘Frinkiac’ Search Engine Matches Any Simpsons Quote With Its Still http://www.wired.com/2016/02/ultimate-simpsons-search-engine-pairs-quotes-with-stills/ … via @WIRED

Frinkiac search terms gives Simpsons screencaps. https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=go+school&e=S10E02&t=387970 …. Make it video and always listening and I'll wear it on my face.

This is brilliant! https://frinkiac.com/  pic.twitter.com/HFHBxT4KIX

I didn't realize so many Debian/Ubuntu apps don't/can't do cert verification. Also "untrusted websites" is a thing. pic.twitter.com/euTZzXuxzw

Chakra conversions between JavaScript objects and WinRT types: http://deletethis.net/dave/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdavescoolblog.blogspot.com%2F2016%2F01%2Fjavascript-types-and-winrt-types.html … I've just updated to note how IPropertySet works.

Combat bad drones? NL police have attack eagles. Better than JP police drones w big nets? http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/dutch-police-training-eagles-to-take-down-drones …

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display: contents;It's new.https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/01/29/vanishing-boxes-with-display-contents/ …parent (disp flex) child (disp contents) grandchildgrandchild now flex item

These are getting really good. pic.twitter.com/mmsEcES9bx

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Identify coder from binary based on code style. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/aylin/when-coding-style-survives-compilation-de-anonymizing-programmers-from-executable-binaries/ … Following company style guidelines is now a privacy issue.

FCC proposes replacing cable card with software based equivalent. Would be amazing if it could happen. http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/cable-lobby-is-really-mad-about-fccs-set-top-box-competition-plan/ …

#Firefox 46 Developer Edition is out! Non-HTTPS pages w/ login form are now marked insecure https://www.fxsitecompat.com/versions/46/  pic.twitter.com/o2WZ6K2KxN