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Hi there, I’d like to gift a computer history book to a curious geeky teenager. Ideally, the book would: - Give some historical context, but focus on explaining how each technology works (e.g. it was invented in the…

MicroSD cards with a capacity of 1 TB are readily available. Their dimensions are 15mm x 11mm x 1mm. If we built 3.5” hard drives with as much information density, a single standard 3.5” drive (5.75in x 4in x 2cm) would…

Hi! I have to machines connected to consumer-grade fiber at major ISPs. One in France on the Orange network, and one in the US on ATT. Each of them have perfectly fine internet access: they can ping and be pinged by…

I've been using Rails for over a decade now, and contributed occasionally. I think it's a great framework and that Ruby is an awesome language. Sure, it got some hype in the early 2010's, and understandably the hype…

https://downdetector.com/status/gmail/map/ Apparently this happens to AT&T customers…

Assuming you want to use your own hardware (no cloud computing), what would be the most simple, minimal way to continuously run a website (for instance just a simple HTML page) without any single point of failure ? I…

Following the recent zoho.com downtime, an interesting discussion emerged about choosing a registrar. I always assumed registrars were "just" middlemen between you and the registry (ICANN for example), and that the…

There are tons of options available. Integrated ones (GitHub, GitLab, Launchpad,...) and specific ones (Gerrit, Monorail, RedMine,...). We would like to make it as easy as possible for potential new contributors to jump…