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How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster
The October 2012 Xbox 360 dashboard update moved the dashboard from the nand flash to the hard-drive. Does it make a difference?
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Improving your online privacy: An update
Ten years ago, after it became clear to almost everyone that all our online activity was being tracked and stored, I wrote a blog post about simple steps a person could take to improve their privacy online .
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The Architecture of Serverless Data Systems
I recently blogged about why I believe the future of cloud data services is large-scale and multi-tenant, citing, among others, S3. “ Top tier SaaS services like S3 are able to deliver amazing simplicity, reliability, durability, scalability, and low price because their technologies are s
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The Apple Network Server's all-too-secret weapon (featuring PPC Toolbox)
Most of my systems are microcomputers (and commensurately sized), though I do have some moderately larger beasts: you've met homer , my 1987...
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Ibn Battuta: A Scholar's Epic Journey (2018)
This morning I stumbled upon [a video](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/films/title/ibn-battutas-search-for-knowledge) that mentions one of the famous traveler, Ibn Battuta. And the deeper I dig, the more fascinated I am by his journey. It is one thing to visit a place and buy merchandises before return to home…
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SirTunnel, a personal ngrok alternative
From time to time I need to expose a development web site or web service to the world. In the past, I’ve used ngrok for that, and of course long ago I built ReverseHTTP which is somewhere in the same ballpark, but I recently got fed up with the state of affairs and decided to see whether there was something simple I…
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First personal search engine prototype
I've implemented a first prototype of my personal search engine which I will abbreviate as "pse" from here on out. I implemented it using three Bash scripts relying on sqlite3 , wget and PageFind to do the heavy lifting.
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Peanut Butter Jellyfin Time
“But what is best is what we saved for last. The one sure-fire thing to make your best day ever the best day ever!" — SpongeBob, ‘Jellyfishing’
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Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
Pattern matching and exhaustive switches come together to enable functional style data models that blend seamlessly with Dart’s…
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Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B
In this article, I go over Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B regarding their specs, performance, and prices.
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Tutanota is now Tuta
Welcome to Tuta! 😍
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Gentoo Linux 2022 Retrospective
News and information from Gentoo Linux
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Do open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus?
I recently downloaded a single-page HTML template for a project I was working on. I wanted a good-looking scaffold to help me getting running quickly. The code had an attribution licence which I was happy to comply with. I ended up removing about a whole bunch of the HTML that I didn't need. That also allowed me to…
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Java 21: First Release Candidate
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 21 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 396 in the Java Community Process.
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I want XAES-256-GCM/11
I want the extended-nonce 256-bit reduced-rounds XAES-256-GCM/11 AEAD. It has infinitely randomizable nonces, a comfortable margin of multi-user security, and nearly the same performance as AES-128-GCM. Only issue is that it doesn’t exist.
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The Lone Banana Problem in AI
The effects of new technology are seldom either solely positive or solely negative and, as such, there is a responsibility that sits with those that develop technology to consider how it will be used. Underlying that responsibility sits a need to deeply understand technology. The recent rise of Large Language Models…
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Bevy 0.10: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 173 contributors, 689 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.10 release on crates…
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Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy
Making it quicker and simpler to run a macOS VM: with Vimy all you need do is double-click its bundle, and the VM runs using its previous settings.
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Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life
Study suggests the organ plays a vital role in immune health, particularly cancer prevention.
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Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB
vivym/midjourney-messages on Hugging Face is a large (~8GB) dataset consisting of 55,082,563 Midjourney images - each one with the prompt and a URL to the image hosted on Discord.
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Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
Eloise looks at whether ‘slow and steady wins the race’.
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“Yes, if”: Iterating on our RFC Process
RFCs, also called Design Documents, let us describe software designs before implementation. But how do you make sure that RFCs get deep review and are seen by the right people? How do you help reviewers catch problems in a system’s design? We’ve been iterating on our RFC review process and here’s wh
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fMRI-to-image with contrastive learning and diffusion priors
a cutting-edge method for reconstructing and retrieving images from fMRI brain activity. Discover how fMRI enables detailed analysis of brain functions and aids in evaluating brain treatments. MindEye's training on the Natural Scenes Dataset brings new insights to neuroscience research. Explore the
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Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why
Researchers in the lab of Brent Fultz have discovered why so-called Invar alloys keep a steady size and shape over a broad range of temperatures—unlike most materials.
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The Lapdock Kit
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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A new way to build with Large Language Models
Ultravox is a real-time voice AI infrastructure layer that powers fast, natural, and scalable voice agents.