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December 29th, 2023 | In 2024, please switch to Firefox

Dec 29, 2023
This podcast discusses the benefits of using Firefox as a browser, ideal display rotation angles for programmers, Gentoo Linux's support for binary packages, a U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes, major pharmacy chains accessing medical records without warrants, Apple Silicon VMs, copyright as a monetization strategy, Korea's new Workcation Visa, and the smallest typeface. It also covers discussions on back-end databases, AWS usage, scalability issues, public funding spending efficiency, data privacy concerns, and immutable B-plus trees.
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