Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel
interesting — faster boots, CPU throttling resolved on t2.micros, other nice stuff
serviette/serviette.py at master · heathervm/serviette · GitHub
Delete tweets based on search terms. Wonder why you’d want that
(tags: twitter tweets delete privacy social-media)
How Google Book Search Got Lost – Backchannel
There are plenty of other explanations for the dampening of Google’s ardor: The bad taste left from the lawsuits. The rise of shiny and exciting new ventures with more immediate payoffs. And also: the dawning realization that Scanning All The Books, however useful, might not change the world in any fundamental way.
(tags: books reading google library lawsuits legal scanning book-search search)