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“We know that forests absorb carbon dioxide, thus reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So when there was a large population decline due to epidemics, a lot of natural forest could grow back over previous agricultural land.” The presence of more forested land meant more CO2 was absorbed by those plants, thus reducing carbon dioxide levels across the world. “This change in the atmosphere is recorded in our ice bubbles,” says King.

Recent versions of Chrome have been phasing in a new requirement for certificates - KeyUsage=DigitalSignature - and will *completely* block access without even offering the "no really, I want to visit this unsafe site" option. If IIS won't generate a cert with this property, you can do it with PowerShell: `New-SelfSignedCertificate -FriendlyName ANY_CERT_NAME -DnsName YOUR_SERVER_PC_NAME -KeyUsage DigitalSignature`

Markdown editor based on GTK. Flatpak and several distro repos including Fedora

Thread starting with:
"i uh spend a lot of time thinking about whether various surprising software design choices are a) intrinsic to the problem domain ("it turns out it DOES make sense!”) b) made sense historically ("this made sense in 1992, but it didn't age well”) c) just a typo/mistake (the "Referer" header) d) related to budget/time constraints (“well, prototyping with shell scripts is fast!”) e) cultural/organizational (“well, Google is the main funder for this project, and…”) f) something else"

Photographers: Petr Horálek; Lars L. Christensen

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"Once you start thinking about large web platforms as governments, the logical question is what kind of government are they. One thing is for sure – none of these platforms are democracies. They are oligarchies controlled by founders, investors or shareholders."

Know your audience and your goals.
Stop formatting everything to death. Use white space. Learn your tools. Pay attention to sequencing and order. It's not a murder mystery. Give people wayfinding. Ask answerable questions. Close by reiterating your mission and goals.

How to Spot a Bad Study, 2019: "On a basic level, the study has flaws, namely that it makes written claims that are not supported by the numbers, images and other data reported in the study itself. This isn’t a situation where a research group made a controversial discovery, and other scientists simply disagree."