Does or did COBOL default to 1875-05-20 for corrupt or missing dates?
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Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After ‘Insiders’ Pocket $87M
Argentina’s president Javier Milei has backtracked on a tweet promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4 billion market cap before plunging by more than 95%. In a now-deleted tweet, Milei initially wrote: “This is a private project dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economy,” along with a Solana contract address […]
Physicists uncover evidence of two arrows of time emerging at the quantum level
The study, published in Scientific Reports, explored how a quantum system – the world of the sub-atomic – interacts with its environment, known as an ‘open quantum system’. Researchers investigated why we perceive time as moving in one direction, and whether this perception emerges from open quantum mechanics. To simplify the problem, the team made […]
Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting
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Uchū · the color scheme for internet lovers
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I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
Written by nyanpasu64on December 29, 2024 I dual-boot my desktop between Windows and Linux. Over the past few years, Linux would often crash when I tried to sleep my computer with high RAM usage. Upon waking it would show a black screen with moving cursor, or enter a “vegetative” state with no image on-screen, only responding […]
Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio
What makes a Raspberry Pi project tactical? Maker and developer Media-Grizzly has their own ideas with this cool, portable Pi-powered software-defined radio (SDR) system they built from scratch dubbed the D.E.S.E.R.T Pi-Powered Tactical System. Not only does it work as a handy SDR on the go, it doubles as a drone jammer that can disable […]
Trick to find commands in the terminal quickly
blog/docs/cmd_icons.md at main · madprops/blog · GitHub {{ message }} Latest commit 29 lines (15 loc) · 747 Bytes I gained a new trick. I go back in shell history very often to re-run the same commands over and over. There’s no efficient way to do this yet. I think this is a problem that […]
Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
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IPv6 Is Hard
Yesterday I read this toot (German) over on mastodon which starts with “IPv6 is hard.” No it’s not. It’s different. I ran across this multiple times: There is an A and an AAAA-record for a FQDN, but the web server is only reachable via IPv4. You can easily test this with curl $ curl -4 […]