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The service Whembat helps you search for a stolen bike across various platforms using image recognition. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Today I discovered the service “Feed Canary”, which monitors my feed’s uptime and immediately emails me if any errors occur. This tool proves to be a simple yet extremely useful way to ensure the reliability of my content publishing. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

The article »Pluralistic: How I got scammed« by Cory Doctorow recounts an experience of fraud. Even someone as savvy as he is isn’t immune to scams. In the process, he also examines the issues surrounding artificial intelligence. we’re nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we’re certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job ...

“Pong wars” by Koen van Gilst is a successful combination of Pong and Bricks Breaker. It’s fun to watch and would make a stylish screensaver or decoration in the study. The source code is available at Github; implementations in other programming languages are linked there as well. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Try out RSS Anything — a handy service from diffbot.com. With this tool you can effortlessly create an RSS feed for sites that don’t provide one themselves. Over the past few weeks I’ve tested the service with several sites, and it seems to work reliably. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.