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Summary: The new edition of Hypermedia Systems has been redesigned with typo and grammar fixes and a new layout. The book was ported to Typst, a LaTeX replacement, due to limitations in AsciiDoc’s print output. Typst offers better typesetting capabilities, allowing for a more customizable design. Despite challenges with bugs and manual workarounds, the book […]
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Garage is a lightweight, efficient, and self-contained software designed by sysadmins, ensuring easy deployment and operation on all Linux distributions. It can be run on any machine, offering high resilience to network and system failures with low hardware requirements. Unique to Garage is its ability to build clusters with heterogeneous hardware, providing data resiliency by […]
Visual programming is not a magic solution that will turn anyone into a programmer, similar to how CAD didn’t make everyone an industrial designer. There are still complex concepts to master, whether programming visually or textually. Most visual programming paradigms focus on coding basics, which can be helpful for beginners but offer limited value to […]
Experience the power of the Radxa X4, a credit card-sized Intel Processor N100 SBC priced like a Raspberry Pi 5. With features like dual micro HDMI output, 2.5GbE, WiFi 6, and M.2 SSD support up to 8 times faster than PCIe HAT for the Pi 5. This x86 platform offers 4GB or 8GB LPDDR5 RAM, […]
The author, a former SRE at Google, is a big Prometheus and Grafana fan. They use Prometheus for monitoring their personal servers, client work, and internal events like Euskal Encounter. They experienced an unexpected crash in node_exporter, a Prometheus component written in Go, which led to a series of unusual crashes hinting at a potential […]
On May 30, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover uncovered yellow sulfur crystals on the Red Planet, surprising scientists exploring a region rich with sulfates. Unlike past detections of sulfur-based minerals, this discovery was of elemental sulfur, which is odorless and forms in unique conditions not associated with the area’s history. The rover found a significant amount […]
Research focuses on the major signalling mechanisms affecting lifespan, highlighting the AMPK-mTORC1 axis’s significance in metabolic health and ageing-related pathologies. The study proposes IL-11 as a key contributor to age-related decline, linking its upregulation with inflammation, cellular senescence, and metabolic dysfunction. Genetic and pharmacological approaches in mice support the hypothesis that IL-11 signalling negatively impacts […]
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A buggy update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software has caused widespread system crashes, leaving various businesses scrambling to fix the issue. Microsoft and CrowdStrike have advised IT admins to reboot affected machines multiple times to potentially resolve the problem. More complicated fixes involve restoring systems from backups or manually deleting the problematic file. For users […]
The prison telecom industry faces significant changes with new rules expected to result in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue. Aventiv and ViaPath, two major players, are struggling financially, with Aventiv defaulting on a significant debt. Various states are moving towards making prison communication free, with California and Connecticut already implementing this change. […]