A backdoor bonanza?
A couple of weeks ago, a U.S. federal court ruled that the GNU General Public License (GPL) is an enforcable license. As this is a potentially important legal event - at least in the U.S. - it's been discussed both on Hacker News and on Reddit's
Mastodon
If you ever need to perform operations relative to the path of a shell script, the following snippet should be useful:
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"This will give you the absolute path to the script in most cases (see this...
Turns out Netflix is making a westernized English language adaptation of the hugely popular manga (and later anime series) Death Note, which will be released on August 25th.
For those that don't know, Death Note is basically a psychological thriller...
Protest the Hero
In the folders of my various projects - software or otherwise - I usually add two files that i add to my .gitignore, which only serve as personal notes.
The first file is SCRATCH.md, which I treat as a scratchpad of sorts; It contains only temporary...
Deep learning is all the rage these days, still achieving increasingly better results on various machine learning problems. While the field is evolving rapidly, it is also becoming more and more accessible for experiementation. Anyone can download state...
If you're a programmer, you might know what a hashbang (also known as a shebang) is – a shellscript might, for instance, start with the hashbang #!/bin/sh on the first line, which includes an absolute path to the sh interpreter.
But what do hashbangs...