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Leading F1 drivers are despairing at power unit software glitches that derailed the start of the Bahrain GP in Malaysia, with Lando Norris calling the electronic glitches “horrible” and further proof that F1 should move away from hybrids. The start at … Read more
I’m writing this so you don’t slap your forehead like I almost did when I decided to run swap in production to absorb memory spikes. I had a cgroup with two processes: one is a Go process that calls io.ReadAll … Read more
In 2011 I heard a piece of music that didn’t make any sense. The music was a perfect piece of stadium indie rock – thoughtful but expansive, layered yet elegantly simple. The band was Salvage, and the two tracks on … Read more
About 1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections with viruses, bacteria or parasites, a new study finds, suggesting that one of the most effective ways to reduce cancer rates might be to prevent common infections. In a new … Read more
Open source Every line is on GitHub under permissive licenses. Read it, fork it, build on it. Native, not wrapped Pure Rust compiled to real desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux. No Electron, no web views. Familiar from day … Read more
A friend wants to proofread your work-in-progress blog post, but its preview only runs on localhost:8080. Several tools can help. Some run as a commercial service, like ngrok or Cloudflare Quick Tunnels. Some are self-hostable but require a specific client, … Read more
The stop motion work of Phil Tippett and the now closed Tippett Studios is being preserved in a free-to-browse online archive. August brought with it the sad news that Tippett Studios, the Berkeley-based animation and effects house founded by Phil … Read more
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and remove its downloaded models. macOS 27 no longer has a single switch for Apple Intelligence, and its models stay on disk after the features are turned off. RemoveMacAI turns the features off, … Read more
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Nebraska data centers are required to turn in an annual report to Nebraska’s Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some state statutes are preventing the public from seeing just how much electricity and water data … Read more