This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another.  It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses.The quality of the code I was reading was amazing!  My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers…

London’s mayor has announced an emergency program to provide free meals for all children attending state primary schools in the capital, adding to a string of fresh evidence that Brits are struggling to afford necessities.

The vandals have come for Roald Dahl. His books for children are to be cleansed of their ‘offensive’ content. Sensitivity readers – what we used to call censors – have been employed to pore over his works and expurgate any word or passage that might hurt…

A debate rages over changes to references to characters' appearance and weight in the author's works.

Linux is now ready to run on modern Macs.

How modern songwriting evolved into a game of aggressive credit—even for the people who didn’t technically do the composing.

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Introduce Quadlet, a new systemd-generator that easily writes and maintains systemd services using Podman.
The podman kube play command now supports hostPID in the pod.spec (#17157).
The ...

A researcher's quest to understand a mysterious mass extinction leads to cud-chewing culprits.

Advertisements are a scourge upon society, the environment, and ourselves. They are among the worst capitalism has to offer. Why not get rid of them?

One of the best features of Podman is how well it works with systemd. Podman uses the standard fork/exec model, which is easily adaptable to the systemd syst...

An awful lot of effort is going these days into boosting product teams’ productivity: getting them to burn those story points faster, deliver the planned scope in every sprint and cycle, and generally ship more stuff, faster. The term “development velocity”…

Just got my M2 Pro Mini today and it’s a mess. If I ping google.com (or any site) I get maybe a 50-60% packet loss. Wifi is OK. Plugged another PC into the same cable and no issues. Went to a...

Discover the skills required for effective communication in various media, including the curse of knowledge, and the importance of listening.

UChicago breakthrough creates methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water