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I have recently started using the grobi program by Alexander Neumann again and was delighted to discover that it makes using my fiddly (but wonderful) Dell 32-inch 8K monitor (UP3218K) monitor much more convenient — I get a signal more quickly than with my previous, sleep-ba...

In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the 386 has a 16-byte instruction prefetch queue. The purpose of the prefetch queue is to fetch instructions from memory before they are ne...

Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC

...with caveats.

Jeff Geerling May 9, 2025

A description of some of my personal computing habits, focusing on avoiding things ‘just turning out’ to last for ever in a disorganised manner.

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For many years, people would come to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), run a search on their email address, get the big red "Oh no - pwned!" response and then... I'm not sure. We really didn't have much guidance until we partnered with 1Password

Over the past few years I’ve written a lot about the cloud, and what it means for Europe. Here I want to pull the various articles together into a coherent story. Note, nothing what follows is in any way novel or original. While the facts presented in the articles are pretty inconvenient and in parts depressing, they are not controversial. To start with, “the cloud” by now is a large catalog of services.

Trump seems to be ceding the future to China while emulating its past.

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Today we welcome the 39th government and first self-governing British Crown Dependency to Have I Been Pwned, The Isle of Man. Their Office of Cyber-Security & Information Assurance (OCSIA) now has free and open access to query the government domains of their jurisdiction.

We're delighted and encouraged to

In his book “The Order of Time” Carlo Rovelli notes how we often asks ourselves questions about the fundamental nature of reality such as “What is real?” and “What exists?” But those are bad questions he says. Why? the adjective “real” is ambiguous; it has a thousand meanin...

You wouldn't download a site.

While answering how much information is in DNA may seem straightforward, it actually requires a wild odyssey through information theory and molecular biology.

A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo designs, a new investigation reveals.

In the earlier post ‘But how to get to that European cloud?’ I alluded to a coherent strategy that might get us to such a non-US cloud. In the present article I hope to clarify what this could mean, and why I think it could work. Here I focus especially on what should happen concretely, and who should do it. Note that this page is compatible/congruent with the latest EuroStack document.

On daydreaming of unicorns and rocket ships.

Forward and back and then forward and back and then go forward and back, then put one foot forward

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) For the past couple years, I have transported my 'working set' of video and project data to and from work on an external Thunderbolt NVMe SSD. But it's always been slow when I do the sync. In a typical day, I m...

Islands, but make it fractal.

Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs. It’s about the disillusionment of designers since the ~2010s. Having ridden that wave myself, there’s a lot of very relatable stuff in ...

But for what I do use LLMs for, it’s invaluable.

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Let me start by very simply explaining the problem we're trying to solve with passkeys. Imagine you're logging on to a website like this:

And, because you want to protect your account from being logged into by someone else who may obtain your username and password,