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Monday November 18, 2024. 10:00 AM
“Nobody cares if you contribute.” That’s what a Postgres friend said to me during lunch at KubeCon when I suggested that hiring Postgres contributors could be a selling point for customers. His comment surprised me because for years I’ve believed the open source...
As much as we love them, programming languages can often feel like straitjackets. They’re a complex bundle of syntactic rules, and if we break them—even once—the compiler starts screaming out error messages. There are conventions to define every little thing, such as...
In the last decade, every web application developer has become an API designer. But most organizations do not think of developers as API designers, nor do they think about APIs as a product of design — to the detriment of their developers’ productivity. With the rise of...
Fermyon has released Spin 3.0, a major update to its open source developer tool for building serverless WebAssembly applications. The new release introduces polyglot programming to ease development. The update to Fermyon’s Spin framework was introduced November 11....
Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with an early warning system for lithium-ion battery fires.…
For fans of debloating Windows, Tiny11 has been a godsend. The free utility has made it possible to debloat Windows 11 and shrink the installation footprint of the operating system far beyond what many people thought possible. Now there is a new version of the decrapifier...
Uni sysadmin who ran the lab he erased was a big part of the problem Who, Me? Another Monday and what a fine one it is here in the lair of Who, Me? – the reader contributed column in which your fellow Reg-admirers admit to the moments they messed up the tech they were...
Stuff from the far side is basalt - but less KREEP-y than expected The first ever samples of soil and rock collected from the far side of the moon has revealed more recent lunar volcanic activity than expected, according to studies published in two journals last Friday.…
The Tiobe index tries to track the popularity of programming languages by counting the number of search results for the language's name followed by the word 'programming' (on 25 different search engines). And this month there were some surprises... By TIOBE's reckoning,...
Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux 6.12, confirming that the last week of development went as planned, allowing the project to stick to its typical release schedule. Torvalds mentioned that the merge window for the next development phase is opening, and he...
Execs at Chinese company confident President Trump's trade policies won’t present a problem Lenovo’s enterprise business has posted 65 percent year on year growth but still posted a loss.…
Again defends his belief that 70-hour weeks are essential and work/life balance is bunk Infosys founder Narayama Murthy has tripled down on his previous statements that 70-hour work weeks are what's needed in India and revealed he also thinks weekends were a mistake.…
A new six-episode Dune series premiers tonight on HBO and Max — a prequel to the Denis Villeneuve-directed Dune movies set 10,000 years before the birth f Paul Atreides. The Hollywood Reporter writes that it 'draws on source material from the 2012 novel Sisterhood of Dune by...
Joins the likes of HPE, Cisco, and VMware in failing to challenge dominant hyperscalers Datacenter giant Equinix will end its foray into infrastructure-a-service by shuttering its “Metal” bare metal IaaS offering.…
Slashdot unixbhaskar writes: Linus has released a fresh Linux kernel for public consumption. Please give it a try and report any glitches to the maintainers for improvement. Also, please do not forget to express your appreciation to those tireless folks who did all the hard...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Chimera Linux vs ChimeraOS News: Fedora elevates KDE spin to an edition, Fedora trials new system installer, KDE developing its own distribution, Qubes-style isolation...
TL;DR: Sobero can help make sobriety fun, and a lifetime subscription is only $59.99 (reg. $149). Holidays are tricky when you're trying to skip the booze. Between the holiday parties, family gatherings, and toasts all around, it can feel like everyone's celebrating with a...
While the relationship between election results and adult site traffic may seem unrelated at first glance, the data from Pornhub’s 2024 Election Day statistics does provide an interesting lens through which to theorize voter behavior. Could these traffic patterns offer...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The GhostBSD project has announced the arrival of GhostBSD 24.10.1, the latest update to this desktop-oriented branch of the FreeBSD family. The new release focuses on driver updates and improvements. It also...
PLUS: Cost of Halliburton hack disclosed; Time to dump old D-Link NAS; More UN cybercrime convention concerns; and more Infosec in brief A teenager has pleaded guilty to calling in more than 375 fake threats to law enforcement, and now faces years in prison.…
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