Four years since Apple figured we give free support to their users. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/11/18/free-apple-support/

"The seventh HTTP Workshop is on for 2026: 14-16 July in Basel, Switzerland."

https://github.com/HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/

…over the past few weeks – with the help of a growing group of rebels fighting to take back ownership and control over their digital lives – I did something radical: I built my own cloud.
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¡Ya está https://masto.es actualizado a Mastodon v4.4! Estas son las principales novedades de esta versión de #mastodon :mastodon: :

- Se pueden destacar en el perfil etiquetas y cuentas.
- Las publicaciones fijadas en el perfil ahora aparecen en un carrusel
- Se muestra la gente que conoces […]

This is an amazingly detailed yet accessible description of how tape storage (media, drives, and libraries) work. Even if you don't care about storage, the engineering that goes into making this all work is fascinating.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708997

(from […]

You'll never become a NATIVE English speaker

No matter how hard you try, the years in the UK or Ireland, the effort in your accent, or the AI applications you might use to fake it

There is a language wall, made of accents, cultural references and seemingly illogical phrasal verbs and idioms […]

OTD 2005: #sunmicrosystems open-sources #solaris. 20 years!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sun-begins-open-source-solaris-era/

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read the #microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important […]

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.

Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!

https://endof10.org/

Yesterday I requested a person to pay for support as they desperately asked me for immediate help with their #libcurl problem (for a huge international company doing an expensive commercial device), seemingly in a hurry.

To which the user said no thanks, closed the issue and vanished.

The open […]

we whipped up a bittorrent swarm that has 200TB of proven storage in like a month by cobbling together everyone's random hard drives. storing 200TB on s3 would cost at least $4.5k per month and would cost $10,000 to download it _one time._

why is the cloud good

A partner team of mine is hiring a senior engineer to help develop next-generation #hpc infrastructure in Azure. It's a great team with a great manager working on really exciting stuff, including the new custom AMD CPU with HBM Microsoft launched at SC […]

Parliament suspended as Maori reps perform Haka.

Fuck yeah!