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I Write Like is a website that analyzes your writing and suggests a writer your style is similar to.
The result is an answer like this:…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on March 16, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments
Our friends at LinuxJournal ( hi Doc) posted this fascinating article about Ubos I'm sure many of you will enjoy:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/youre-boss-ubos
"UBOS focuses on making the administration of home servers much simpler", says Johannes Ernst.
From Doc's article:
"Says Johannes:
ContinueMy goal is to make the administration…
Added by Michael Levin on March 15, 2015 at 8:55am — No Comments
Open Source Bridge is a software conference in Portland that equips you for the whole year with news and information to help you be the best developer you can be...and collaborate. Here's some info, and tomorrow night I'll raffle off a free…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on March 10, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments
I ran into Steve from First Magnitude at Ward's yesterday. Sure am looking forward to tomorrow's GatorJUG. Last time, a couple of developers from Opie Software just happened to be there. I'll have a few interesting new books to talk about, one in particular is called "If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript". Adam…
Added by Michael Levin on March 10, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments
Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).
As outlined in the Oracle JDK Support Roadmap, after April 2015, Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 7 to its public download sites.
This might be a good time to read …
ContinueAdded by Adam Davis on March 4, 2015 at 10:22pm — No Comments
My good bud Matt just published an article about his business and I think it's worth sharing: http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/how_to_setup_your_own1
Matt's sees consistent success for a few reasons. One: he is passionate about the technology. You can't go far in a business with…
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AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys (CMKs) for encrypting identity data at rest. This enhancement offers organizations complete control over their encryption keys, ensuring granular access management, robust auditing via AWS CloudTrail, and improved compliance for regulated industries. It’s a key evolution for data sovereignty in the cloud.
By Steef-Jan WiggersAWS has introduced EC2 instance attestation, a new security feature that enables customers to verify that their virtual machines are running approved software configurations in a cryptographically secure manner. The capability is powered by the Nitro Trusted Platform Module (NitroTPM) and Attestable AMIs.
By Renato LosioFlipkart engineers recently published a detailed case study describing how they overcame severe scalability limits in monitoring by adopting a hierarchical federation design in Prometheus.
By Craig RisiHashiCorp has released version 7.0 of the Terraform provider for Google Cloud, introducing security-focused improvements such as ephemeral resources, write-only attributes, and stricter validation. The update enhances secret handling and reliability but introduces breaking changes requiring careful migration.
By Mark SilvesterResearchers from Stanford University, SambaNova Systems, and UC Berkeley have proposed Agentic Context Engineering (ACE), a new framework designed to improve large language models (LLMs) through evolving, structured contexts rather than weight updates. The method, described in a paper, seeks to make language models self-improving without retraining.
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