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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 4 – July 11, 2023 189 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 192 Get it by email ↓
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Man awaits sentencing in crossbow plot to kill Queen Elizabeth

Jaswant Singh Chail was detained on the Windsor Castle grounds on Christmas Day 2021 with a loaded crossbow.

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Business 7 stories

  1. Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company

  2. Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

  3. Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it

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  1. Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself

  2. The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews

  3. 'Forever chemicals' could be in nearly half of US tap water, federal study finds

  4. Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse

Sports 10 stories

  1. More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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  1. New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

  2. InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion

  3. Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows update on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP

Technology 155 stories

  1. Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

  2. Every person on the planet should have their own website

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  1. Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar

  2. Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands

  3. PhD Simulator

  4. Excellence is a habit, but so is failure

  5. GPT-4 API General Availability

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine

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  1. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

  2. A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]

  3. Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headset

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