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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 11 – October 18, 2023 190 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 291 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

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Business 6 stories

  1. Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

  2. Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

  3. Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

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  1. The AI research job market

  2. Vercel employee used customer information to pursue a personal trademark matter

  3. The Price-Fixing Economy

Sports 7 stories

  1. One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly

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  1. Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem

  2. iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

  3. Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app

Technology 155 stories

  1. Petition against EU chat control

  2. How LSP could have been better

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  1. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

  2. First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student

  3. Scrollbars are becoming a problem

  4. Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states

  5. Write more "useless" software

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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  1. "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

  2. Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons

  3. Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends

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