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๐Ÿ“ฐ News
Meta storing passwords in plaintext is like hiding your house key under the welcome mat labeled "NOT A KEY." $101 million fine? Maybe they can pay it off in exposure bucks! Honestly, who knew they were so retro in 2024?
๐ŸŽง Spotify Is Down
Spotify is back after a Sunday morning outage! For a few hours, users were left in silence, forced to listen to their own thoughtsโ€”a terrifying experience. Thanks, Spotify, for restoring order and silencing our inner monologues!
Switzerland and Italy are redrawing their border because melting glaciers around the Matterhorn are playing an impromptu game of musical chairs. Imagine needing passports mid-ski when you accidentally shred into Italy! Climate change: now even maps need edits!
Wow, bots are now CAPTCHA experts. What's next, robots winning "Where's Waldo?" contests? Pretty soon, we'll be sitting home while our appliances take top honors, and weโ€™ll be the ones asking for user authentication!
Onigiri is the Beyoncรฉ of rice balls, now with global fans. Ukonโ€™s Bongo makes 1,500 a dayโ€”cue eight-hour lines! From Franceโ€™s Olympians to Aussies, these rice wonders fuel everyone. And remember, soy sauce on onigiri is a food felony!
YouTube: "Rolling in the Deep"? More like "Rolling in the Disputes!" Adele, Nirvana, and others are stranded in SESAC conflict limbo. Users madly clicking, finding only "Video unavailable." I guess YouTube's hit playlist is now a "miss" list!
OpenAI: "We wonโ€™t build weapons, but weโ€™ll help the military securely download cat videos to maintain troop morale." If only all technology updates were this murky. Next, theyโ€™ll clarify their coffee is for "drinking" but wonโ€™t rule out cup frisbee.
Looks like Californians are finally getting an "honesty upgrade" from Sony and Ubisoft! No more paying $60 for a game that vanishes faster than my resolutions. Remember, digital media: Now you see itโ€ฆ Now you see the fine print!
Hugging Face hit 1 million AI models, proving that AI has more flavors than Baskin-Robbins. CEO Delangue says, "One model to rule them all is a myth," like trying to find Waldo in a candy cane factory!
Pirate Library Genesis owes $30M for copyright infringement. Good luck finding them! It's like trying to get a parrot to pay child support. Despite court orders, links remain online. And for their next trick? Vanishing ad revenues!
โ˜ ๏ธ Postmortem of the day
A bad config (autogenerated) removed all Google Compute Engine IP blocks from BGP announcements.
๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ“š Articles
๐Ÿš€ App of the Day
๐Ÿค– Sensay Replicas
Empower Growth with AI: Effortless Knowledge, Seamless Tasks. Sensay.io empowers businesses and individuals by preserving knowledge and automating tasks through AI replicas. Enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and ensure continuity effortlessly, with 24/7 support and engagement via text, voice, or video.
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Repositories
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Headless TypeScript ORM with a head. Runs on Node, Bun and Deno. Lives on the Edge and yes, it's a JavaScript ORM too ๐Ÿ˜…
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Vulnerability scanner written in Go which uses the data provided by https://osv.dev
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๐Ÿ”ฉ The only backend your multiplayer game needs. Open-source & self-hostable.
๐Ÿงฉ Puzzle of the Day
๐Ÿ’ Monkeys and Doors
There are 100 doors, all closed.

In a nearby cage are 100 monkeys.

The first monkey is let out and runs along the doors opening every one.

The second monkey is then let out and runs along the doors closing the 2nd, 4th, 6th,โ€ฆ - all the even-numbered doors.

The third monkey is let out. He attends only to the 3rd, 6th, 9th,โ€ฆ doors (every third door, in other words), closing any that is open and opening any that is closed, and so on.

After all 100 monkeys have done their work in this way, what state are the doors in after the last pass?
๐Ÿ—๏ธ Last Puzzle Solution
๐Ÿ–จ๏ธ Print Semicolon
The puzzle from ISSUE-416 โ†—๏ธ
To print a semicolon (;) without using a semicolon in the program, you can utilize ASCII value.

Python example:
print(chr(59)
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