More cartel news from Gamers Nexus
July 30th 2026 (week 31 of 2026)One about a DRAM cartel, and one about a hard drive cartel.
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BLAKE3 vs BLAKE2 for btrfs
July 26th 2026 (week 30 of 2026)A comparison (from 2020) of BLAKE2 and BLAKE3 as btrfs' checksum algorithms.
Fastner & Larson
July 26th 2026 (week 30 of 2026)Messrs Steve Fastner and Rich Larson have some wonderfully pulpy (the subtitle of their page is "New Pulp Art") on their website.
Future euro banknotes
July 25th 2026 (week 30 of 2026)The European Central Bank announced the ten shortlisted designs from the design contest for the future euro banknotes.
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[$] Reconsidering O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY
July 30, 2026Linux provides a system call (mkdir()) to create a directory, and a few variants of open() that can open a directory. There is, however, no system call in Linux that can create and open a directory in a single, race-free call. Jori Koolstra has been workin…
via LWN.netVera Rubin Observatory
July 29, 2026 via xkcd.comI'm sorry, Dave
July 27, 2026Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off. The iconic scene with HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod-bay doors captures the whole align…
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