There Are Three Open Source Communities, Not Just One by gslin

September 26, 2023 It is a common understanding that great Open Source projects succeed in large part because they are successful at building Community. It is especially important in the early stage when it is the community largely responsible for traction, adoption, and often technology advantage. I argue that this thinking is a bit simplistic

ByHackTechSeptember 27, 20230Comments

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Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campus when Azure went out by pophenat

Microsoft had “insufficient” staff levels at its data centre campus last week when a power sag knocked its chiller plant for two data halls offline, cooking portions of its storage hardware. The company has released a preliminary post-incident report (PIR) for the large-scale failure, which saw large enterprise customers including Bank of Queensland and Jetstar

ByHackTechSeptember 4, 20230Comments

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A Tale of Three Bidirectional Level Shifters by zargon

Level shifters, voltage translators: whatever you call them, these devices are very handy when interfacing 5V and 3.3V logic for devices that aren’t 5V-tolerant. The 74LVC244 has long been my go-to solution for unidirectional 5V to 3.3V level shifting, and for 3.3V to 5V I’ll typically do nothing, since the 5V inputs generally work OK

ByHackTechAugust 22, 20230Comments

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Three 6 Mafia turns $4,500 into $45M with ‘Mystic Stylez’ by stayalert333

3 members of the Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia. D.J. Paul (from left), Juicy J and Crunchy Black at MTV’s Total Request Live on March 22, 2006, in New York City. Peter Kramer/Getty Images Entertainment hide caption toggle caption Peter Kramer/Getty Images Entertainment 3 members of the Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia. D.J.

ByHackTechAugust 19, 20230Comments

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We visited three Worldcoin orb locations since its July launch – Rest of World by vinnyglennon

At Nairobi’s Imaara shopping mall on a quiet Thursday, two dozen people stood in line to have their irises scanned. It was the fourth day after the official launch of Worldcoin, a global blockchain project championed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The line was made up of a mix of college students, artists, and boda

ByHackTechAugust 1, 20230Comments

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Three Reads over a Holiday Weekend: Encrypted Phones Spill the Beans on Crimina by todsacerdoti

Just articles, posts and thoughts that I’ve found interesting falling asleep on the beach while reading a book, anime style art Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones (New Yorker) – How European police have cracked “safe” encrypted phones often used by criminals, and the wealth of data it’s provided. Come for the tech story and

ByHackTechMay 27, 20230Comments

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Three years working on BlueRetro – BT adapter for retro consoles by darthcloud

Two years ago today, I open sourced BlueRetro [1] v0.1 in the context of the Hackaday Prizes 2020 [2]. Up to that point I had been working on the project for about a year in private. So we could say BlueRetro is three years old now! Let’s do a small retrospective! What is BlueRetro? BlueRetro…

ByHackTechDecember 20, 20220Comments

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Three Cofounder Stances: Facing, Chasing and Quitting by mooreds

Cofounder relationships are like all important relationships in your life- they require care, time, attention, and I believe skill, in order to maintain. Rupture and repair is the cycle we all experience with our functioning relationships. Humans are imperfect creatures. What we do and say or fail to do and say can hurt the people…

ByHackTechMarch 17, 20220Comments

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Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope? by LinuxBender

Build numbers causing problems: Truly, what is new is old again This February Google put out Chrome 98, closely followed by Mozilla releasing Firefox 97. Soon both will hit version 100. The memory of the web industry is short. This has happened before: when Opera reached version 10 in 2009, it caused problems, and just…

ByHackTechFebruary 20, 20220Comments

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West Bengal: Three of Family Hang Selves, Streams It Live on Facebook by type0

Three members of a family from Bakkhali in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district hanged themselves from a tree in a forest. They even streamed the act live on Facebook. The incident occurred on January 8. The deceased were identified as Ashok Naskar, his wife Rita and their son, Abhishek.The family lived in the district’s Kulpi…

ByHackTechJanuary 20, 20220Comments

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