Shave and a Haircut
Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
Intended audience: You are likely to enjoy this post the most if you are interested in Linux and/or Linux manual pages, or if you enjoy reading about esoteric programming projects. Linux computers come with pre-installed manual pages that describe how to use specific commands. These pages are readable by typing man into your terminal. For […]
Dallol
Dallol Highest point Elevation −48 m (−157 ft) Coordinates 14°14′30″N 40°18′00″E / 14.24167°N 40.30000°E Geography Dallol Location within Ethiopia Location Ethiopia Parent range Danakil Depression Geology Mountain type Explosion craters Last eruption 2011 The colorful hydrothermal pools and terraces of Dallol, Ethiopia. Note how the colors of the site change from white and light green to yellow, orange […]
The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6
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Ask HN: Code Llama 70B on a dedicated server
It’s technically possible, in the sense that you will eventually get a complete response, but it will be extremely slow. Inference will be something like 1 word per second. Far too slow to use as an assistant for writing code. If you don’t want to rent something with a GPU, you should look into running […]
NVK is now ready for prime time
Faith Ekstrand February 28, 2024 Today, I’m proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time. I just landed a merge request which gets rid of the non-conformant implementation warnings and changes the Meson configuration option for NVK from nouveau-experimental to just nouveau. This […]
Hetzner switches to new billing model
Questions about billing changes between March and May 2024 What will change about the way that Hetzner calculates the invoice for March 2024 and why? We are in the process of changing our billing structure to make it more unified; by doing this, we hope to make our products more user friendly. As part of […]
Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemon
Unix daemons are programs which run in the background, performing tasks on our behalf indefinitely. Daemons are somewhat mysterious, easily overlooked, programs of a kind few of us have experience in writing. In this post I’m going to describe some of the things I’ve learnt in the course of writing and maintaining 3 daemons (extsmail, […]
Beyond Linux from Scratch
Version 12.1 The BLFS Development Team Copyright © 1999-2024 The BLFS Development Team Published 2024-03-01 Revision History Revision 12.1 2024-03-01 Twenty-ninth Release Revision 12.0 2023-09-01 Twenty-eighth Release Revision 11.3 2023-03-01 Twenty-seventh Release Revision 11.2 2022-09-01 Twenty-sixth Release Revision 11.1 2022-03-01 Twenty-fifth Release Revision 11.0 2021-09-01 Twenty-fourth Release Revision 10.1 2021-03-01 Twenty-third Release Revision 10.0 2020-09-01 […]
Endatabas: An open source immutable, Document Database with Full History
Endatabas is an open source immutable database. We hope you will enjoy building with Endatabas as much as you enjoyed writing your first program. Endatabas is now in Beta. For more information, please contact us at [email protected].