Netflix plans Squid Game reality show with US$4.5 million prize, no fatal consequences
Unlike in the fictional series, the worst fate for losers is not death, but missing out on what Netflix claims is the largest lump sum prize in reality TV history. ⌘ Read more

For China’s elite graduates, career dreams take a back seat to stability in coronavirus-hit job market
This year, a record 10.76 million college students are set to graduate, adding pressure to a job market economists are calling the most challenging yet for young Chinese. Many are setting aside career dreams for stability. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Introducing Stream Support In RabbitMQ
In July 2021, streams were introduced to RabbitMQ, utilizing a new blazingly-fast protocol that can be used alongside AMQP 0.9.1. Streams offer an easier way to solve a number of problems in RabbitMQ, including large fan-outs, replay & time travel, and large logs, all with very high throughput (1 million messages per second on a 3-node cluster). Arnaud Cogoluègne s, Staff Engin … ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
Where does the Linux Foundation spend the rest of its $177 Million in revenue? Let’s take a look. ⌘ Read more

Docker Verified Publisher: Trusted Sources, Trusted Content
Six months since its launch at DockerCon, the Docker Verified Publisher program delivers on its promise to developers and partners alike The Docker Verified Publisher program means trusted content and trusted sources for the millions of Docker users. At the May 2021 DockerCon, Docker announced its Secure Software Supply Chain initiative, highlighting Docker Verified Publisher […]

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The 2021 State of the Octoverse
The State of the Octoverse analyzes data from millions of developers & repos to share trends across working habits, productivity, and career satisfaction. ⌘ Read more

An estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded across India by 2030 because of the persistent use of selective abortions, researchers estimate. — The Guardian

And from the same article:

India’s skewed ratio of men to women – currently between 900-930 females per 1,000 males – reflects India’s ingrained attitude towards girls. Boys are seen as breadwinners while girls are seen as a burden across every social class. Boys are more likely to receive more nutritious food and better medical care than girls.

That is just beyond sad.

Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions
Docker is used by millions of developers to build, share, and run any app, anywhere, and 55% of professional developers use Docker every day at work. In these work environments, the increase in outside attacks on software supply chains is accelerating developer demand for Docker’s trusted content, including Docker Official Images and Docker Verified Publisher […]

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35 millions d’Européens privés de vacances en raison de leurs faibles revenus ⌘ Read more…

Niplav Yushtun, treasurer of the “Clone John von Neumann a Million Times” party

Scaling Docker’s Business to Serve Millions More Developers: Storage ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-dockers-business-to-serve-millions-more-developers-storage/

Million Short - What haven’t you found? https://www.millionshort.com/

the brand that burnt a million caves of quud

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

Trendism is the logic of the Spectacle applied recursively: the image doesn’t matter, but whether or not the appearance of its appearance appears is worth arbitrary millions.

#now-playing ‘22, A Million’ by Bon Iver https://boniver.bandcamp.com/album/22-a-million

Girlfriend Roleplay videos are racking up millions of views on YouTube, here’s why - i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7v9w/meet-the-whispering-girls-of-youtube-who-pretend-to-be-your-girlfriend?utm_source=idtwitter

I love it. I have a program that needs to processing about half a million records, which will take 3 days. The database that all those records are suppose to go to is acting up after I’ve just done 140K records.

Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethics-in-computer-science-with-up-to-3-5-million-in-prizes/

What You Found In 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-you-found-in-3-million-russian-troll-tweets/

So you bought a ghost town | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5605/ghost-town-owners-12-million

Bad idea of the day: pay a million-account botnet to all change their display names to Elon Musk simultaneously

life hex: is your company’s marketing falling flat? Before spending millions on a re-branding effort, try charging your existing logo by staring at it during orgasm and then reproducing it in seminal fluid

We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.

Band name of the day: the teeming millions

Searching A Million Lines Of Lisp – Wilfred Hughes::Blog http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2016/09/30/searching-a-million-lines-of-lisp/

How The Great 78 Project is saving half a million songs from obscurity https://thevinylfactory.com/features/great-78-project-archive-interview/?curator=MusicREDEF

The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | What The KLF Burning A Million Quid Means In 2017 http://thequietus.com/articles/22945-klf-burn-a-million-quid-bill-drummond-jimmy-cauty?curator=MusicREDEF