The BBC Research & Development team is exploring social technologies and experimenting with the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse. They have set up a Mastodon server at social.bbc where users can follow the BBC’s social media accounts. Mastodon is a federated social network, meaning anyone can run a server and each […]
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Edge computing is a solution to reduce latency by allowing app developers to deploy their applications closer to the users. However, the main challenge in adopting edge computing is data consistency. Apps often make multiple requests to the database for a single user request, resulting in higher latency. To minimize latency, the app and the […]
Welcome to issue 013 of abroaden’s WTF is going on with the Economy?! Newsletter! Did you know that airlines are similar to central banks? They have the power to create their own currency, control its value, and use it for financial purposes. Frequent flyer points or miles are the valuable assets that airlines possess. While […]
Linkwarden is a fantastic tool for collecting, organizing, and archiving webpages. Whether you come across an interesting article, a valuable resource, or something inspiring for your project, Linkwarden makes it easy to save and categorize everything in one central hub. You can collect links from any browser with just a few clicks and effortlessly organize […]
In this web content, the author discusses the end of the tech bubble and the shift in the industry towards monopolistic companies that control the market and extract revenue from other tech companies. They also highlight the changes taking place in the open source project Eleventy, which is now partnering with CloudCannon to ensure its […]
Researchers at the EGRIP research station have successfully drilled through a 2670-meter ice sheet to reach the bedrock below. This is the first time a deep ice core has been drilled through an ice stream, providing valuable material to analyze. The researchers discovered mud underneath the ice, which has not seen the light of day […]
This study investigates the microbial growth and odor development in cotton and synthetic clothing fabrics. The researchers collected t-shirts from 26 healthy individuals after an intense bicycle spinning session and incubated them for 28 hours before analysis. They found that polyester t-shirts smelled significantly less pleasant and more intense compared to cotton t-shirts. A dissimilar […]
In 1963, Richard Feynman was invited to give the 1964 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University. These lectures were a tradition since 1924 and were aimed at improving the moral standard of society. Feynman, a renowned physicist, had previously worked at Cornell and had recently gained wider recognition through his book, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. […]
musl 1.2.4 has been released, addressing some long-standing issues and making several improvements. One notable fix is the addition of TCP fallback to the DNS stub resolver, allowing for queries of large DNS records and compatibility with recursive nameservers that don’t provide partial results in truncated UDP responses. The release also includes bug fixes and […]
In this guide, the author provides steps to harden a new virtual machine from a cloud provider. They emphasize the importance of taking the security of these hosts seriously, even if one is not a sysadmin. The author assumes that the reader is familiar with navigating directories and editing files in a Linux shell. They […]