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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 10 – February 17, 2020 192 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 48 Get it by email ↓
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

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Business 12 stories

  1. How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

  2. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

  3. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

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  1. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

  3. ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

  4. GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups

Sports 12 stories

  1. Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

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  1. Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine

  2. Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8

  3. The outsize influence of middle-school friends

Technology 143 stories

  1. U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks

  2. Gears

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  1. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

  2. 1-on-1 meeting questions

  3. Why are we so bad at software engineering?

  4. Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety

  5. “We already store data. In a database. It works well”

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)

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  1. Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

  2. Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video]

  3. The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”

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