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The author begins by expressing their personal connection to the topic of bug reports and their importance in software development. They mention reading a post by Peter Steinberger on writing good bug reports and appreciating his recommendations. However, they also express sadness that such recommendations are necessary, as bug reports should not have to rely […]
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OpenSSL 1.1.1, which was released in 2018 as a Long Term Support (LTS) release, has now reached its End of Life (EOL). This means that it will no longer receive publicly available security fixes. If you obtained OpenSSL 1.1.1 from an Operating System vendor or another third party, their support periods may be different, so […]
Arm presented the Neoverse V2, their latest high-performance server core, at Hot Chips 2023. Although the core was announced in 2022, it is now being implemented in products such as NVIDIA’s Grace processor. The Neoverse family has expanded rapidly, with the addition of the N2 and V2 cores. Arm faces tough competition from Intel and […]
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956 is widely regarded as the birth of AI as a research discipline. The event brought together leading thinkers in AI, computer science, and information theory to discuss future paths of investigation. A group photo from the event has long puzzled researchers, as one person remained […]
Growing up in the ’90s, PC gaming was a different experience than it is now. Remembering the excitement of getting a second family computer with 1GB of storage space, the author reflects on the early days of exploring the internet and stumbling upon websites through books. Revisiting childhood loves like Wizard 101 and Neopets brings […]
This web content provides a list of regular expressions and their corresponding syntax and functionality. The author provides examples of various expressions such as concatenation, alternation, kleene star, grouping, exponentiation, repetition, and more. They highlight that certain features, such as anchors, zero-width assertions, back references, subgroup extraction, and searching or partial matching, are not supported. […]
The Book8088 is a unique machine that mimics a 1980s computer but in a laptop form factor. Despite some compatibility issues, the Book8088 has promising specs, including a real 8088 CPU and socketed CRTC chip. However, the absence of DRAM refresh in the system affects its compatibility with software that relies on the exact speed […]
In today’s world, giant tech companies hold more power than some nation states, shaping the political agenda according to their whims. This phenomenon, known as “technopolarity”, highlights how digital power is reshaping the world. While some argue that market dominance will eventually lead to self-correction and decreased influence of Big Tech, others question this notion. […]
HDMI is a commonly used video connector on modern PCs and monitors, but vintage PCs from the 1980s have difficulty connecting to modern displays without additional adapters. Graphics Gremlin (GG) is an open-source project that addresses this problem by using scan doubling and increasing the vertical refresh rate to output to a VGA port. However, […]
In this article, the author discusses the different types of documentation and introduces a concise and readable way to write interactive tutorials and how-tos for HTTP APIs. The author explains the basics of the HTTP protocol, including HTTP requests and responses, including the request line, headers, and body, as well as the status line, headers, […]