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Orcus sculpture in the Gardens of Bomarzo in Bomarzo, Italy (© Scott Wilson/Alamy)

The POSIX standard requires that operating systems maintain filesystem metadata that record when each file was last accessed. Let’s take a look at what all that means.

Today, Safari 16 arrives for macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16.

Oil lamps arranged on a rangoli to celebrate Diwali in Guwahati, India (© Biju Boro/Getty Images)

Linux phones with minimum software feature parity can’t come fast enough. I’d get rid of all my Android devices instantly. My only saving grace is that I have some technical knowledge on updating/compiling Android os, but it’s a pain because the Android ecosystem is messy. postmarketOS looks promising.

Mute swan in Valkenhorst Nature Reserve, near Valkenswaard, the Netherlands (© David Pattyn/Minden Pictures)

In this tutorial I am going to use Void Linux to “replicate” how FreeBSD is utilizing ZFS snapshots for boot environments. I am going to use a MBR based setup with a native ZFS encrypted root mirror. With a ZFS root mirror we not only get the …

It’s mesmerizing how an appeal to human nature can also be an appeal to contradiction itself. Humans operate in perpetual extremes and contradictions — if everyone wants decentralization today, they’ll eventually want centralization tomorrow, and vice versa. Philosophically, it’s an airtight appeal because the contradiction can be anything time/history allows.

Karst mountains in Guilin and Lijiang River National Park, China (© Sean Pavone/Alamy)