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This web content delves into the fascinating presence of scratches in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, specifically on the “COM” computer display. The scratches, filmed during production in the 1960s, are visible in multiple editions of the film, including VHS, Blu-ray, and 70 mm prints. It remains uncertain if they were visible during the […]
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Martin Kleppmann wrote about his encounter with the Redlock algorithm on the Redis website. He shared his insights as the algorithm claims to provide fault-tolerant distributed locks. Kleppmann pointed out that using locks merely for efficiency purposes does not warrant the complexity of Redlock, suggesting simpler alternatives. He discussed the importance of generating fencing tokens […]
The Internet Archive fell victim to another breach, this time on their Zendesk email support platform, as threat actors exploited exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Despite being warned in advance, Internet Archive failed to rotate these tokens, leading to unauthorized access to support tickets dating back to 2018. Surprisingly, the breach was not politically or financially […]
Drasi is a cutting-edge data processing platform that simplifies tracking system changes and events without the need for traditional methods. Unique to Drasi is its ability to continuously evaluate incoming data changes through queries written in the Cypher Query Language. These queries trigger context-aware reactions, automating processes like notifying delivery drivers when orders are ready. […]
The author explores compressing neural networks to run on the Padauk 8-bit microcontrollers, specifically the PMS150C, which has very limited memory capacity compared to traditional microcontrollers. Despite downsizing the MNIST dataset to 8×8 pixels and making other adjustments, the author was able to achieve over 90% test accuracy even on models as small as half […]
DataChain Open-Source provides a new way to manage unstructured data like images, audio, video, and text files. The GenAI DataChain allows for data and model versioning, making it easy to explore and enrich annotated datasets on a massive scale. Users can connect to versioned data sources and code with pipelines based on GitOps principles. By […]
QUIC protocol shows promise in enhancing web application performance, but our study reveals a significant data rate reduction on fast internet compared to TCP. The performance gap widens with higher bandwidth and affects various applications like video streaming and web browsing. This issue stems from high receiver-side processing overhead due to excessive data packets and […]
In early 2022, the author obtained several Sun SPARC servers for free and updated readers on their progress. These devices, like the SPARCstation 20 and the Ultra 1 Creator, face NVRAM issues due to battery degradation, resulting in configuration wipes. The author provides a detailed step-by-step guide on manually restoring the NVRAM values using the […]