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Home Getting Started Learn More Community BlogOSv is the open-source versatile modular unikernel designed to run unmodified Linux applications securely on micro-VMs in the cloud. Built from the ground up for effortless deployment and management of micro-services and serverless apps, with superior performance.

Source: OSv – the operating system designed for the cloud

Awesome Free Tabletop RPGs

Zireael07 is curating an Awesome Free Tabletop RPGs list. Ideally I would like to find a generic, class-less, level-less rule set, ideally using other dices than d6 Runic SRD – looks to be an SRD of a Runequest adaptation (OGL), could be a fairly good candidate Reddit has a related discussion

Programming fonts with ligatures

A recent fad in programming communities is monospaced programming fonts full of cool ligatures. For example GitHub has 92 repositories marked as such; among them: I understand Fabrizio when he wrote Guys, try to put in my place. Probably you have never attempted to draw fonts and, above all, optimize a font for the screen…

Why another?

Wonderful! Most programmers struggle to design portable applications and support them over Win, Linux, MacOS , Android and iOS. And now this: Huawei Makes a Break From Android With Next Version of Harmony OS 9 China’s Huawei will not support Android apps on the latest iteration of its in-house Harmony operating system, domestic financial media…

The loss of deep reading: How digital texts impact kids’ comprehension skills

From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids’ reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.

Key Takeaways

  • Digital reading might be adversely affecting kids’ reading comprehension skills, a recently published meta-analysis finds. Digital reading does improve comprehension skills, but the beneficial effect is between six and seven times smaller than that of print reading.
  • Digital texts, such as social media chats and blogs, tend to be much shorter and have worse linguistic quality compared to printed works. Phones and computers also expose readers to distractions from social media, YouTube, and video games.
  • The authors recommend that parents and teachers limit kids’ time with digital content, or at least emphasize printed works or using basic e-readers with ink screens.
Source: How digital texts impact kids’ comprehension skills- Big Think