Moin moin, this weeks paper discusses how silent hardware failure can lead to actual user facing errors. In the paper Facebook found that some files went missing because of a power function “1.1^53=0” failing due…
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Hello great person, this weeks paper came to me trough the interwebs. It covers the topic how Facebook does Hundrets of Releases to their services all around the globe. TBO most interesting was for me…
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Ciao persona fantastica, this weeks paper is about one of my favorite usages of time in computer systems. With calculating time differences between radio signals we(our devices) are able to locate us all around the…
Hello time travelers, the most difficult moments for clocks are the leap seconds. Additional to leap years we also have seconds that are injected into our time system from time to time (pun intended :P).…
Hallo vrienden, the internet time protocol (NTP) is the basis of time synchronization in computer networks. This weeks paper explains the design principles behind it. As the paper is form 1991 you will find some…
Happy new year everyone, during the holidays I did think about my life as well as the past and future of human kind….just kidding 😉 But I went down the rabbit whole in one of…
TLDR; After years of searching around I finally found a Linux backup setup that fits my needs: Borg + Vorta + BorgBase As long as I can think back, backing up my Linux system always…
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As you might already have recognized I am in favor of strong privacy technology to counter the surveillance in our current age. One pillar to archive this is to get developers thinking about this and…