Thursday 7th November, 2019 #
- What Is a Shell? - I liked this relatively short article because it goes one level deeper than other similar articles, mentioning the execve system call that the shell calls, and I think in the context of describing what the shell does this adds a lot of interesting context and detail
- Twitter is rolling out Topics, a way to follow subjects automatically in the timeline - Sort of an interesting feature, but too many algorithms imo, personally I like the simplicity of the hashtag
- This AP article on the Saudi/Twitter story is a bit odd, they interview a person called Adam Google, considering Google the company was incorporated in 1998, it's pretty strange to have someone with the surname of Google - They also use quotes from "a critic" with no name
- Ex-Twitter employees accused of spying for Saudi Arabia