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It was time to do some upgrades on the club's flyer screens. In the past, I had done that by ssh-ing in to each; turning off "Overlay"; rebooting; doing an update; turning on "Overlay"; and rebooting again. It was slow and error-prone and often ended up with a bricked system. It was a real "what the hell am I doing" moment when I realized that 32GB microSD cards are now $3.50 each, so I just ...

Autonomous observability for system monitoring and management aims to use GenAI and machine learning to automatically detect, diagnose and resolve issues.

On September 24, 1979, Columbus-based CompuServe launched its online service for consumers. Its subscribers were among the first to have access to email, online chat, digital newspapers and the ability to share and download files.

After seven years of trying, we need to change course on our adventure in the Android galaxy.

A decade of research busts the myth that high-performance software delivery isn't for the regulated.

wingolog: article: fedi is for losers

The first wave of successful AI implementations will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was dominated by large-scale enterprise installations that eliminated jobs. Consumer …

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OpenTelemetry offers you a big-picture view, while eBPF allows you to zoom in when you need to troubleshoot with precision.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way first — in his DEFCON 32 presentation, [Dr. Mixæl Laufer] shared quite a bit of information on how individuals can make and distribute various contr…

Netflix shared details on the evolution of Pushy, a WebSocket messaging platform that supports push notifications and inter-device communication across many different devices for the company’s products. Netflix’s engineers implemented many improvements across the Pushy ecosystem to ensure the platform's scalability and reliability and support new capabilities.

Discover why Java remains a dominant language for enterprise applications in 2024. Learn about its ecosystem, scalability, and role in cloud computing, microservices, and more.

Automate account research by getting a 360° view of target accounts from the web and internal data. Prioritize, outbound, and prep for meetings for effectively.

Our Online Investigations Toolkit comes with detailed descriptions maintained by a team of volunteers and an AI-powered assistant.

Towards a bigger, better fediverse

A new organization emerges to help tackle some of the challenges the Fediverse faces, from advocacy and policy to training and tooling.

Everything that happened after we left Substack

Open source is more than just the code.

Fun fact: In Alaska, the permafrost makes laying underground cables impractical. It's also not cost-effective to build overhead lines suspended from anchored poles. So to get broadband internet to rural interior communities, they use underwater fiber-optic lines laid in rivers. Also mind-blowing is to see how much of the

Apple’s VP of camera software engineering Jon McCormack gave Nilay Patel a quote about how Apple views photography in our modern age. Here's what he said: Here’s our view of what a photograph is. The way we like to think of it is that it’s a personal celebration of something that really, actually happened. Whether [...]

A few weeks ago, several hundred academics, students, and professionals gathered at the University of Pennsylvania for the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science: two-and-a-half days packed with presentations and posters. This post attempts to highlight some of the work I found most exciting and briefly summarizes the presentations Kevin Zheng and I gave […]

They can invite to join the party, but you are still going to need those nasty capitalists to fill your cup

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

Diagram of the OpenAPI Specification tooling ecosystem, focusing on how tasks relate to the specification

Net-zero emission goals went out the window with AI.