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Project Silica’s advances in glass storage technology

At a glance Microsoft Research publishes breakthrough in Nature on glass-based data storage that could preserve information for 10,000 years.  New technique extends technology from expensive fused silica to ordinary borosilicate...

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Computer Networking Fundamentals

How does the Internet really work? For many technical jobs it is important to understand computer networking. We just posted a massive 12-hour course that will...

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Fragments: February 18

I’ll start with some more tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat  ❄                ❄ We were tired after the event, but our marketing folks forced...

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Fedora now available in Syria

Justin Wheeler writes in Fedora Magazine that Fedora is now available in Syria once again: Last week, the Fedora Infrastructure Team lifted the IP range block...

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Ancient Ice production

Today, we take ice for granted. But having ice produced in your home is a relatively modern luxury. As early as 1750 BC, ancient people would...

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An Asahi Linux progress report

The Asahi Linux project, which is working to implement support for Linux on Apple CPUs, has published a detailed 6.19 progress report. We’ve made incredible progress...

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Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ceph, gimp, gnutls28, and libpng1.6), Fedora (freerdp, libpng, libssh, mingw-libpng, mingw-libsoup, mingw-python3, pgadmin4, python-pillow, thunderbird, and vim), Mageia (postgresql15),...

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The robots who predict the future

To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience...

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The Raspberry Pi as a Studio Camera

The Raspberry Pi has brought digital camera experimentation within the reach of everybody, with its combination of an accessible computing platform and some almost-decent camera sensors....

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DNF Cheatsheet

Basic Commands # Start with package lists and metadata. Command Description dnf --version Show DNF version dnf check-update List available updates dnf makecache Refresh repository metadata...

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MySQL/MariaDB Cheatsheet

Connect and Exit # Open a SQL session and disconnect safely. Command Description mysql -u root -p Connect as root (prompt for password) mysql -u user...

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Notes on clarifying man pages

Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page....

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Uber and OpenAI Retool Rate Limiting Systems

Uber and OpenAI are replacing static rate limits with adaptive, infrastructure-level platforms. Uber’s Global Rate Limiter utilizes probabilistic shedding to manage 80M RPS, while OpenAI’s Access...

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How Codex is built

More than a million developers use OpenAI’s multi-agent coding assistant every week. Named Codex, usage has increased 5x since the start of January, the team tells...

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Bliki: Agentic Email

I’ve heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. The LLM has access to...

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Plasma 6.6.0 released

Version 6.6.0 of KDE’s Plasma desktop environment has been released. Notable additions in this release include the ability to create global themes for Plasma, an “extract...

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An update on upki

In December 2025, Canonical announced a plan to develop a universal Public Key Infrastructure called upki. Jon Seager has published an update about the project with...

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Interop 2026

Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re always poking at but always putting under a “lack...

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Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, go-toolset:rhel8, and golang), Debian (roundcube), Fedora (gnupg2, libpng, and rsync), Mageia (dcmtk and usbmuxd), Oracle (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gimp, gnupg2,...

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Write Python Docstrings Effectively

Writing clear, consistent docstrings in Python helps others understand your code’s purpose, parameters, and outputs. In this video course, you’ll learn about best practices, standard formats,...

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Harness Engineering

Birgitta Böckeler explains why OpenAI’s recent write-up on Harness Engineering is a valuable framing of a key activity in AI-enabled software development. The harness includes context...

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Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs

Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. “Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference“: Abstract: Scaling up language models has significantly increased...

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Thin Is In

Listen to this post: Log in to listen There was, in the early days of computing, no debate about thick clients versus thin: When a computer...

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Does AI Make the Agile Manifesto Obsolete?

Capgemini’s Steve Jones argues AI agents building apps in hours have killed the Agile Manifesto, as its human-centric principles don’t fit agentic SDLCs. While Forrester reports...

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UFW Cheatsheet

Basic Commands # Start with status and firewall state. Command Description ufw status Show firewall status and rules ufw status verbose Show detailed status and defaults...

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Russell Coker: Links February 2026

Charles Stross has a good theory of why “AI” is being pushed on corporations, really we need to just replace CEOs with LLMs [1]. This disturbing...

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Chmod Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Use these core command forms for chmod. Command Description chmod MODE FILE General chmod syntax chmod 644 file.txt Set numeric permissions chmod u+x...

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