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📢 Overview As of August 28th, 2025, the Bitnami public catalog will undergo the following changes: Community catalog Disable images generation for Debian-based images and gradually move existing on...

A document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden from…

I was just scammed by a @Hyatt hotel — and what I’ve uncovered so far points to a *much* bigger issue.

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Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?

Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]

DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

Feeding slop is an act of war

Why I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

Download YouTube No Translation for Firefox. Keeps titles, descriptions and audio tracks in their original language on YouTube.

The method was pioneered by UK scientists to overcome devastating, often fatal inherited diseases.

Economists credit ads with two welfare‑enhancing roles:

1. Informative – trimming search costs (Stigler 1961 (pdf)).
2. Signaling – In classic models, high-quality sellers are more willing to incur large, sunk ad costs because they expect to recoup them…

Close to three years ago I wrote about using Oddly Specific Objects' alternate "motherboard" to modify a classic Casio F-91W watch:  Pimping...

The future of software development might just be jazz. Everyone improvising. Nobody following the sheet music.

One man's struggle with his mortality.

How do the sizes of local LLMs compare to the size of offline Wikipedia downloads?