Basic Attention Token radically improves the efficiency of digital advertising by creating a new unit of exchange between publishers, advertisers and users. It all happens on the Ethereum blockchain. The value of the token is based on user attention, which simply means a person’s focused mental engagement.
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OpenNIC is a user owned and controlled top-level Network Information Center offering a non-national alternative to traditional Top-Level Domain registries such as ICANN. Use of OpenNIC DNS servers enables host name resolution in the Legacy U.S. Government DNS, OpenNIC operated namespaces and namespaces the OpenNIC has peering agreements with.
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PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language. Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on 18 August 2016 with the introduction of PowerShell Core.[5] The former is built on .NET Framework while the latter on .NET Core.
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This talk proposes an introduction to the ARM architecture, to help Linux users and developers understand the huge variety of ARM processors and platforms that are available, and how such a variety of hardware is supported in bootloaders and the kernel.
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Ftrace is an internal tracer designed to help out developers and designers of systems to find what is going on inside the kernel. It can be used for debugging or analyzing latencies and performance issues that take place outside of user-space. Although ftrace is typically considered the function tracer, it is really a frame work of several assorted tracing utilities. There's latency tracing to examine what occurs between interrupts disabled and enabled, as well as for preemption and from a time a task is woken to the task is actually scheduled in. One of the most common uses of ftrace is the event tracing. Through out the kernel is hundreds of static event points that can be enabled via the tracefs file system to see what is going on in certain parts of the kernel.
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I have CKEditor installed and much prefer it. Upon attempting to write a new entry today I found post-new.php yielded just a blank page. Then through my mental fog came the realization that WordPress has been threatening to cut in Project Gutenberg recently. Additionally I realized that CKEditor plugin often conflicts with other plugins. So upon disabling it I saw the new interface. Ok no thanks. I googled and found the following officially supported Wordpress plugin.
I was a little surprised that Wordpress must be automatically updating my php scripts because I run on my own servers. The update process is detailed here:
