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- 1Nigerian Banks Boost Standing Deposit Facility Placements▼Money Market Liquidity Rises As Banks Boost SDF Placement
Nigerian banks increased their placements at the Central Bank's Standing Deposit Facility, lifting liquidity across the money market. Market watchers say the stronger placements point to surplus cash in the banking system, with lenders choosing the CBN's deposit window over interbank lending. Analysts will be watching whether the trend eases funding pressures or signals caution about short-term lending.
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A technical comparison of GPU text rendering techniques—signed distance fields (SDF), multi-channel signed distance fields (MSDF), and the Slug algorithm—has drawn attention among developers, outlining the trade-offs each method makes in quality, performance, and implementation complexity for rendering crisp text on graphics hardware. The piece also covers Rive's approach to the same problem.
- 3449 Taiwanese citizens missing or restricted in China●Taiwanese missing or restricted in China reach 449 https:// lemmy.sdf.org/post/59661252
The number of Taiwanese people missing or facing movement restrictions in China has reached 449, according to a new tally circulating online. The figure highlights ongoing concerns about the safety and legal status of Taiwanese nationals on the mainland, amid strained cross-strait relations and limited transparency from Chinese authorities about individual cases.
- 4SDF, the internet's oldest public access Unix system, still running●SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987
SDF, a public access Unix system founded in 1987, is still operating and offering free shell accounts to anyone who wants one. Started as a hobby project in Dallas, it has grown into one of the longest-running independent communities on the internet, predating the public web itself. Readers are celebrating it as a rare living relic of the early networked era.