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• Blizzard Reveals Source Of Diablo II: Resurrected Server Issues — Blizzard has published a detailed post about the issues and hoo boy, they're complicated
• THE DECLINE OF DJANGO — Let's face it, it’s not very exciting to be a Django developer today.
• Python Programming - The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2021 Infographic
• Facebook Newsroom on Twitter — Right now 30+ journalists are finishing up a coordinated series of articles based on thousands of pages of leaked documents. We hear that to get the docs, outlets had to agree to the conditions and a schedule laid down by the PR team that worked on earlier leaked docs.
• Facebook Says AI Will Clean Up the Platform. Its Own Engineers Have Doubts — AI has only minimal success in removing hate speech, violent images and other problem content, according to internal company reports
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• microsoft/pyright: Static type checker for Python — Pyright is a fast type checker meant for large Python source bases. It can run in a “watch” mode and performs fast incremental updates when files are modified.
• Jeremy Soller on Twitter — "I can no longer let things like this go. While System76 has been a part of the process, this should not be interpreted as consent to the new GNOME Shell design. We will do whatever possible to improve Pop!_OS UX even if it breaks significantly from GNOME's defaults."
• Carl Richell on Twitter — Yes, we were involved but our involvement had no impact on the design. Our design ethos and reading of the research differs. We raised our concerns and proposed a different design. We’re continuing our research and building prototypes.
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