They are popular and they are misunderstood. Containers have become the default way applications are packaged and run on servers, initially popularized by Docker. Now, Docker itself is misunderstoo…

A Lost Technology of the 1950s — Rugged, dependable, EMP-proof.

In a 1928 letter, Wells says he can’t grok Finnegans Wake.

This is somewhat of a followup to my post on Lua integration from a few days ago.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry’s failure to protect…

Got a business? Yubineeding Yubikeys.

Is this guide only for developers? This guide is mainly aimed at developers working alone or in teams, team leaders, service providers but also at anyone interested in web or application development. It provides advice and best practices, and thus gives useful…

UPDATE
June 18, 2020 at 10:24 PM EST: I have made contact with a human at Apple after they reached to me via Resolution Center. We are working on solving the issues, and while I have not been told “yes, your account will not be terminated”, I believe in good…

(1978) 30m, dir. David Loeb Weiss. On July 2, 1978, the last hot lead edition of the New York Times rolled off the presses. Weiss, a proofreader for the Times,...

A fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python


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On average, PyPy is about 3 times faster than CPython 3.11. We currently

More and more web-site owners are concerned about the "all-seeing Google"
tracking users as they browse around the web. Google Analytics (GA) is a
full-featured web-analytics system that is available for free and, despite the privacy
concerns, has become…

Here is my (extended) family tree: Everyone in the tree shares at least one common ancestor and at least one common descendant. This ...

"We must care as much about securing our systems as we care about running them if we are to make the necessary revolutionary change." -CIA's Wikileaks Task Force. So ends a key section of a report the U.S. Central Intelligence…

Government now intends to launch an app in the autumn but it may still lack contact-tracing tech.

My program received a SIGSEGV signal and crashed with "Segmentation Fault" message. Where does the "V" come from?

Did I read it wrong? Was there a "Segmentation *V*ault?"? Or did Linux authors make a mistake? Shouldn't the signal be named SIGSEGF?