Can We Know Whether a Profiler Is Accurate?
If you have been following the adventures of our hero over the last couple of years, you might remember that we can’t really trust sampling profilers for Java, and it’s even worse for Java’s instrumentation-based profilers. For sampling profilers, the so-called observer effect gets in the way: when we profile a program, the profiling itself […]
Disk Prices
$0.009 $8.995 $18 2 TB 3 months Internal SAS Used MDD MAXDIGITALDATA 2TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SAS 6Gb/s 3.5inch Internal Enterprise Hard Drive (MD2TSAS12872E) – [NOT a SATA HDD] (Renewed) $0.009 $9.167 $55 6 TB 3 months Internal SAS Used Dell 6TB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SAS 3.5 HDD (NWCCG) (Renewed) $0.009 $9.333 $28 3 TB […]
Why The Pentagon run the best schools and the safest nuclear program
You know what I love most about Mars? They still dream. We gave up. They’re an entire culture dedicated to a common goal, working together as one to turn a lifeless rock into a garden – Franklin DeGraaf in Remember the Can’t Episode 3 Season 1 of The Expanse In The Expanse, a character observes […]
New England’s last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners
The last coal-fired power plant in New England, Merrimack Station, has stopped running. With the closure of that facility, the region is poised to become the first in the United States without a coal plant on its grid (though New York state, which has its own regional grid operator, stopped burning coal in 2020). Granite […]
Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem
14th October 2025 NVIDIA sent me a preview unit of their new DGX Spark desktop “AI supercomputer”. I’ve never had hardware to review before! You can consider this my first ever sponsored post if you like, but they did not pay me any cash and aside from an embargo date they did not request (nor […]
Meditating with mongooses: Backyard wildlife phtotography lessons
ಪ್ರಾಣಿ ಪಕ್ಷಿಗಳ ಛಾಯಾಚಿತ್ರ ತೆಗೆಯುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ಮಾಡುವಾಗ ನಾನು ಎರಡು ವಿಷಯಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ವ್ಯವಹರಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ. ಒಂದು: ಪ್ರಾಣಿ ಮತ್ತು ಅದರ ಪರಿಸರ. ಇನ್ನೊಂದು : ನಾನು ಮತ್ತು ನನ್ನ ಆಂತರಿಕ ಪರಿಸರ, ಮನಸ್ಸು ಮತ್ತು ದೇಹ. ಅರ್ಥವತ್ತಾದ ಛಾಯಾಚಿತ್ರ ತೆಗೆಯಲು ಈ ಎರಡು ವಿಷಯಗಳು ಒಂದು ತರಹದ ಸಮರಸ್ಯದೊಂದಿಗೆ ನೃತ್ಯ ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಹೊರಗಿನ ಪರಿಸರವನ್ನು ನಾನು ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣ ಮಾಡಲು ನನಗೆ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ. ಬಹಳ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಅದು ವನ್ಯ ಛಾಯಾಗ್ರಾಹನದ “ವನ್ಯ” ಭಾಗವಕ್ಕೆ ಅಗೌರವ ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಹಾಗೆ! ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ […]
Ally Petitt: Youngest OSCP at 16yo. Over 11 CVEs by 18
Author’s note: This article was initially published on Synack’s README. They have great content and I recommend that you browse their articles if you are interested cybersecurity. Editor’s note: This post from Ally Petitt describes her journey towards earning the vaunted OSCP at 16 > and being an active part of the Synack Red Team […]
FSF announces Librephone project
Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right […]
GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels and it may never look back
Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the privacy-focused Android fork to Snapdragon-powered smartphones. The project has confirmed it’s bringing support for Pixel 10, but is unsure whether support will continue for Pixel 11. GrapheneOS didn’t reveal the name of […]
Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)
The following submission to Jeremy Friesen’s ‘elevator pitch’-themed Emacs blog carnival is taken from my rather long manuscript in progress (‘the present work’), tentatively titled Voluptuous Panic! I began work on this chapter in late 2022. Can’t gestate forever. The book is about magic and other antirational practices/beliefs. My actual elevator pitch for Emacs is […]