This Cartoon Is the Simplest Explanation of Heartbleed Yet

This Cartoon Is the Simplest Explanation of Heartbleed Yet

You may have read some long explainers about how Heartbleed works , but this cartoon is the simplest description you’ll see of the bug.

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Even If Heartbleed Loses Your Data, You Still Have Your Thoughts

Even If Heartbleed Loses Your Data, You Still Have Your Thoughts

Heartbleed may be one of the biggest internet security flaws to date, and it may see you lose your emails, identity, passwords and who knows what else. But hey! At least you’ll always have your memories.

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Computers Are Only Great Because of the People Behind Them

Computers Are Only Great Because of the People Behind Them

Next time you’re sat mashing keys, wildly frustrated because something is proving so difficult to get done, remember that the majority of computing tasks are only straightforward because someone already made them easy.

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Life Before the Internet Was Just Plain Boring

Life Before the Internet Was Just Plain Boring

Before the internet? Don’t kid yourself. It wasn’t more fulfilling or engaging; you didn’t have more time to read and think and play. You just sat around in your underwear watching daytime TV instead.

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Any Technology Whose Manual Needs a Manual Is Bad Technology

Any Technology Whose Manual Needs a Manual Is Bad Technology

Not all technologies are created equal: some are easy to use, some are tough to get to grips with, and others are downright impossible to get working.

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Not All Online Editors Are Made Equal

Not All Online Editors Are Made Equal

What you see is possibly perhaps maybe slightly tangentially almost related to what you may or may not get. Or, WYSIPPMSTARTWYMOMNG as I like to call it. [XKCD]

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The Time Everywhere, Right Now, Beautifully Visualized

The Time Everywhere, Right Now, Beautifully VisualizedToday’s XKCD really is wonderful: called Now, it’s a simple clock which shows you what time it is in the world right… now, and changes each time you check back on it.

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Even The Most Serious of Updates Get Ignored If They Require a Restart

Even The Most Serious of Updates Get Ignored If They Require a Restart

You computer may be at risk. Your privacy may be at risk. Hell, you may be at risk. But if you’ve got a lot of apps running and that update will require a restart? Forget about it. [XKCD]

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Facebook Is the New Walmart

Facebook Is the New Walmart

Because when everyone hangs out somewhere, those awkward conversations—just like the ones you end up having in the middle of Walmart when you bump into someone you barely know—are inevitable.

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Actually, You Don’t Always Need to Be More Precise Than Everyone Else

Actually, You Don't Always Need to Be More Precise Than Everyone Else

Whether it’s a comment thread on a blog or a conversation in a bar, we’re all guilty of interjecting with our own, more precise, more accurate—hell, plain better—take on pretty much any topic. But maybe we should all quit that habit, every now and then.

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