Published on: 2025-06-09 02:37:27
If you use Unix today, you can enjoy relatively long file names on more or less any filesystem that you care to name. But it wasn't always this way. Research V7 had 14-byte filenames, and the System III/System V lineage continued this restriction until it merged with BSD Unix, which had significantly increased this limit as part of moving to a new filesystem (initially called the 'Fast File System', for good reasons). You might wonder where this unusual number came from, and for that matter, wha
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[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] From 1975 through early 1977, the use of personal computers remained almost exclusively the province of hobbyists who loved to play with computers and found them inherently fascinating. When BYTE magazine came out with its premier issue in 1975, the cover called computers “the world’s greatest toy.” When Bill Gates wrote about the value of good software in the spring of 1976, he framed his argument in terms
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@another, @mstorsjo, @gramner Introduction I noticed a very clickbait bounty, I initially realized that company's original task was not to overtake implementation, but to advertise that Rust is 5% slower than C. Whether she actually pays or not is another matter. The main thing for Prossimo was to make a fuss that the current rav1d implementation was only 5% slower, so that the general public would think that the language was the same in speed. I also noticed contributor's blog who tried to o
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Greets all! Another brief note today. I have gotten Guile working with one of the Nofl-based collectors, specifically the one that scans all edges conservatively ( heap-conservative-mmc / heap-conservative-parallel-mmc ). Hurrah! It was a pleasant surprise how easy it was to switch—from the user’s point of view, you just pass --with-gc=heap-conservative-parallel-mmc to Guile’s build (on the wip-whippet branch); when developing I also pass --with-gc-debug , and I had a couple bugs to fix—but, bu
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Poking through layers of indirection in go trying to recover some efficiency. Many functions in go take an io.Reader interface as input. This is a sensible default, allowing for streaming of data, instead of loading the entirety into memory. In some cases, though, we need the bytes. Which we may already have, in which case it would be great to simply use those bytes. Alas, this can be quite difficult. context I’m decoding some images. I’m using libavif and libheif via C bindings. For reasons
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Background As a game developer who works primarily in frameworks instead of engines, one of the biggest pain points is the need to render on multiple platforms efficiently. For most platform-level tasks, like window management, input handling, etc, SDL does a beautiful job and I barely have to think about it. Rendering, by comparison, is a huge can of worms. Every platform has their own unique support matrix. For Windows you have D3D12/D3D11/Vulkan/OpenGL. For Apple platforms you have Metal an
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust The big picture: Cerabyte and Western Digital have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of ceramic-based storage solutions. Cerabyte has spent years refining its long-term storage technology and will likely use Western Digital's backing to bring its ambitious concept closer to a consumer-ready product. As more data is archived digitally, the inherent fragility of bits remain
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? Gigabyte has introduced the Aorus Stealth Ice X870 and B850 motherboards with a practical innovation: M.2 EZ-Flex. This new simplistic thermal solution could significantly enhance SSD performance and longevity by improving heat management. Gigabyte is no stranger to ambitious motherboard designs, but its latest move leans practical. Last week, the company launched the Aorus Stea
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? Gigabyte has introduced the Aorus Stealth Ice X870 and B850 motherboards with a practical innovation: M.2 EZ-Flex. This new simplistic thermal solution could significantly enhance SSD performance and longevity by improving heat management. Gigabyte is no stranger to ambitious motherboard designs, but its latest move leans practical. Last week, the company launched the Aorus Stea
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When GADTs (Generalized Algebraic Data Types) landed in OCaml, I wasn’t particularly happy about it. I assumed that it was the kind of nonsense you get when you let compiler writers design your programming language. Which is to say that the standard GADT examples all seem to be about the kinds of things that compiler writers do, like embed domain-specific languages or build typed abstract-syntax trees. But it didn’t seem particularly relevant for the kind of systems programming that I think abo
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Forward-looking: As the world faces a data tsunami, with most information destined for long-term storage, one technology could offer a sustainable, low-maintenance alternative. Whether Cerabyte can deliver on its promise of millennia-long durability and ultra-low costs remains to be seen. Still, its boiling and baking tests have already raised the bar in the race for the future of data storage. Cer
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is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is a gaming laptop, and it sure looks like one. It’s an inch thick, weighs 5.5 pounds, and is awash in RGB lighting, stylized text, and curved plastic. This Aorus Master offers powerful hardware and a lovely high-res, high-refresh OLED display. It’s the first of several laptops we’re reviewing with the GeFo
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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET With viruses, ransomware, spyware, infostealers, and outright scams, online fraud has been a pervasive and growing problem. In the US, one in three people who reported fraud last year lost money, with the total collective amount reaching $12.5 billion. Now, security firm Malwarebytes is trying to combat these types of cybercrimes by providing security tools to a new host of partners. Also: 7 password rules security experts live by in 2025 - the last one might surpr
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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET With viruses, ransomware, spyware, infostealers, and outright scams, online fraud has been a pervasive and growing problem. In the US, one in three people who reported fraud last year lost money, with the total collective amount reaching $12.5 billion. Now, security firm Malwarebytes is trying to combat these types of cybercrimes with its latest security tools. Also: 7 password rules security experts live by in 2025 - the last one might surprise you Aimed at finan
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Internet terminology is often maddeningly confusing. Case in point: Megabits and megabytes. Both refer to units of digital information, but the difference is subtle enough to cause plenty of confusion. Knowing the difference between the two terminologies can make all the difference when picking out an internet plan or figuring out how quickly you can download a file. Don’t worry -- we’ll clear it all up so you never get scolded on Reddit again. Megabits vs. Megabytes It all starts with bits an
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PiLiDAR - DIY 360° 3D Panorama Scanner WORK IN PROGRESS Core Features: LiDAR : custom serial driver for LDRobot LD06 , LD19 or STL27L CRC package integrity check Hardware PWM calibrated using curve fitting 2D live visualization and export (numpy or CSV) Panorama : 6K 360° spherical map stitched from fisheye photos using Hugin Panorama photo stitcher constant camera exposure by reading EXIF data of automatic constant white balance by iterative optimization of color gains 3D Scene : assembly
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Accelerated Zig Parser A high-throughput tokenizer and parser (soon™️) for the Zig programming language. The mainline Zig tokenizer uses a deterministic finite state machine. Those are pretty good for some applications, but tokenizing can often employ the use of other techniques for added speed. Two tokenizer implementations are provided. A version that produces a few bitstrings per 64-byte chunk and uses those to skip over continuation-character matching. I gave two talks on this subject. (
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A surprising enum size optimization in the Rust compiler Enums are one of the most popular features in Rust. An enum is type whose value is one of a specified set of variants. /// Foo is either a 32-bit integer or character. enum Foo { Int(u32), Char(char), } Values of type Foo are either integers (e.g. the variant Foo::Int(3) with a payload of 3 ) or characters (e.g. the variant Foo::Char('A') with a payload of 'A' ). If you think of structs as being the and combination of their fields, enum
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The next part of the Advent of Code puzzle involves interpreting instructions called do() and don't() which turn on and off the contributions of mul instructions to the sum. As we parse, we now need to keep track of one bit of state. This is a nightmare for regexes to deal with, because they recognise regular languages, and regular languages are literally stateless languages.2 There’s more nuance, of course, but as a first approximation. Technically regular languages are those that can be recogn
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How “deleting multiplayer from the engine” can save memory Although the title of this article might suggest otherwise, I don’t dislike Unreal’s multiplayer features. As someone who has worked on two different multiplayer games in Unreal, I enjoy Unreal’s seamless multiplayer integration. It’s built deep into the engine instead of being moved to an optional plugin like so many other features. You can test any project in multiplayer mode without writing a single line of code. Of course, it will n
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Intro In August 2020, we were commissioned by a client with a cache of locked QText documents from the mid 90s - to which he has lost the passcode. QText was a DOS era Hebrew-English word processor written in Turbo Pascal, released 15 or so odd years before neither I nor @Elisha had laid hands on a reverse engineering tool. In this blog post, we’ll describe the process of analyzing the encrypted documents and reverse engineering a DOS program. Hopefully we’ll be a
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The Treachery of Image Files I have recently come into possession of a series of exquisite miniatures which I pray are worthy of your esteemed attention. While my employers are familiar with your unusual tastes, they also appreciate your desire for privacy- this showing was arranged with the utmost discretion, I assure you. To the untrained eye, the pieces might appear remarkably similar. Each canvas is a digitally-reproduced composition measuring ten pixels in height and ten pixels in width,
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is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Donald Trump’s initial 75-day delay against enforcement of the TikTok ban law would’ve expired this weekend, but on Friday, he announced on Truth Social that “I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.” This week, Trump announced new taxes on products coming into the US, including a 34 percent
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Why it matters: As ByteDance's April 5 deadline to divest TikTok or face a ban approaches, last-minute players have entered negotiations to potentially take over the U.S. operations of the popular social network. The Trump administration, which postponed the ban in January, is reportedly exploring several options to bring some or all of TikTok under American ownership. Sources recently told The New
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The AppLovin logo arranged on a laptop in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. AppLovin is one of the companies in negotiations to potentially acquire TikTok, sources familiar with the situation told CNBC's David Faber on Wednesday. The Trump administration, which has been trying to shepherd a deal to shift control of the Chinese-owned app to an American company, is "fully aware" of AppLovin's interest in TikTok, the sources said. Faber said, based on his reporting, that it's unclear wh
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is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. After President Donald Trump pushed back a deadline for banning TikTok in January, the 75-day delay will run out on April 5th, but there’s still no word on a deal that could satisfy the law by shifting control of TikTok away from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. The Information reports that later today, Trump plans to announce a pla
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According to a report from The New York Times, Amazon has just submitted an offer to acquire TikTok. TikTok will potentially face another U.S. ban as soon as April 5th, if ByteDance does not divest the platform to an American entity by then. The TikTok ban has been an interesting story, to say the least. It was originally slated to be banned on January 19th, 2025. Then, President Trump made an agreement to delay the ban, allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US for longer. However, the
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In Brief Amazon has submitted a bid to acquire all of TikTok, according to a new report from The New York Times. The last-minute bid comes as TikTok faces an April 5 deadline to shed its Chinese ownership or face a ban in the U.S. However, the parties involved in the deal talks do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously, according to The Times’ report. President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with officials to discuss the app’s fate on Wednesday. Trump said earlier this week that a d
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Measuring acceleration structures Hardware accelerated raytracing, as supported by DirectX 12 and Vulkan, relies on an abstract data structure that stores scene geometry, known as “acceleration structure” and often referred to as “BVH” or “BLAS”. Unlike geometry representation for rasterization, rendering engines can not customize the data layout; unlike texture formats, the layout is not standardized across vendors. It may seem like a trivial matter - surely, by 2025 all implementations are c
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The internet is massive. But does it have … actual mass? Big server farms and miles of fiber-optic cables do, of course, but we don’t mean the infrastructure of the internet. We mean the internet itself. The information. The data. The cybernetics. And because storing and moving stuff through cyberspace requires energy—which, per Einstein, has mass—it should, in theory, be possible to calculate the internet’s weight. Way back in the adolescent days of the web, in 2006, a Harvard physicist named
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