A passionate engineering student who writes about Unix related topics and tech stuff.

What does it mean to have freedom of speech? Naively, it means that you have the right to express ideas without fear of governmental retaliation or censorship. But that’s not worth much in a vacuum. Free speech is valuable when you are communicating with others: abstractly, freedom of speech means the right to distribute information to an audience.

Even the ‘successful’ contact tracing apps have fallen well below expectations, and incapable of discovering their effectiveness.

Your value is not about utility.

This is a story of how a software company was able to start a conversation with 8x more of their users by cutting the length of their emails by 90%. You could set up a test of this method in less than an hour.

So you want to learn how to secure WordPress. Congratulations! You are in good company and this post will show you all the right steps!

One-minute spellcaster royale. Shoot fireballs, swing your lightsaber, dodge meteors in a fast-paced skill-based one-minute multiplayer arena.

Empire lists the 100 greatest film characters as voted by the readers. From Die Hard to Harry Potter, we bring you the people you love.

Zim is a notepad like desktop application that is inspired by the way people use wikis.

In my previous seven articles in this series about systemd, and especially in the most recent article, time and date have come up in multiple contexts. systemd uses calendar time, specifying one or more moments in time to trigger events (such as a backup program), as well as timestamped entries in the journal. It can also use timespans, which define the amount of time between two events but are not directly tied to specific calendar times.

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