A loose collection of content this week, there's a few loose themes. Maybe 🤔.
Google Talk, Google's first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed.
Back in 1992, the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) was introduced in Unix circles as a new, much faster network packet filter. That was nice, but far from revolutionary. Years later, in 2014, it was modified and brought into the Linux kernel as extended BPF (eBPF).
How did you enjoy the first installment of this regular look back at a month in observability? Well, it’s back again, and as August and vacations draw to a close, the amount of news and content to tell you about is increasing. It’s time to get started, and as always, get in touch if you have stories for inclusion.
Belgrade has been kitted out with Chinese security cameras. Activists and Europe are both worried Seven years ago, on a quiet summer night in Belgrade, Luka Jovanović and his friends were coming home from the Angels Club. When they arrived at Branko’s Bridge, their car suddenly broke down.
You can argue about Linux's official birthday. Heck, even Linus Torvalds thinks there are four different dates in 1991 which might deserve the honor. Regardless, as Linux turns twenty-nine, here are some of its highlights and lowlights. Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Want a powerful, self-hosted personal cloud? Then look no further than Nextcloud running on Kubernetes with a service mesh to add all the help and features you need.
Rockset builds real-time, interactive dashboards and data-intensive applications in record time. Or does it? And how does it compare to other analysis tools or open source projects?
I love learning about the origins of words, and if you're looking for a bit more detail after reading the article below, I recommend starting the amazing "History of English" podcast.
English spelling is ridiculous. Sew and new don’t rhyme. Kernel and colonel do. When you see an ough, you might need to read it out as ‘aw’ (thought), ‘ow’ (drought), ‘uff’ (tough), ‘off’ (cough), ‘oo’ (through), or ‘oh’ (though).
These two stories feel closely related to me, along with recent news that Apple will start scanning pictures (in certain countries and configurations). I guess in summary, "careful where you put that data".
Belgrade has been kitted out with Chinese security cameras. Activists and Europe are both worried Seven years ago, on a quiet summer night in Belgrade, Luka Jovanović and his friends were coming home from the Angels Club. When they arrived at Branko’s Bridge, their car suddenly broke down.
Muhibullah is a translator in his thirties who has been working with western companies and the US Army in Kandahar, a city in the south of Afghanistan, for several years.
LaTeX, it's awesome.
In 1976, Stanford University computer science professor Donald Knuth experienced firsthand a problem that had been plaguing the scientific community in recent years: how to ensure that research papers that included mathematical equations and scientific notation were formatted correctly for printing
