Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc(birchtree.me)

669 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 703 comments

Birchtree blog link post commenting on an extended Xbox outage that blocked players from launching even disc-based games, raising game ownership concerns.

Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems(micahlerner.com)

32 points by malphite 3 years ago | 2 comments

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

Faster sorting with SIMD CUDA intrinsics (2024)(winwang.blog)

73 points by winwang 1 year ago | 9 comments

Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git(blog.cloudflare.com)

191 points by jgrahamc 6 months ago | 20 comments

macOS Finder is still bad at network file copies(jeffgeerling.com)

51 points by kencausey 2 years ago | 90 comments

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

Your hex editor should color-code bytes(simonomi.dev)

569 points by tobr 6 months ago | 151 comments

Blog post by Alice Pellerin arguing that hex editors should color-code bytes to make binary data easier to read.

The day Windows died(thomasbandt.com)

918 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 710 comments

Personal blog post by Thomas Bandt recounting his history with Windows and why setting it up as his son's first computer didn't work out.

Hyperspace(hypercritical.co)

809 points by tobr 1 year ago | 422 comments

John Siracusa's blog post announcing Hyperspace, a Mac app that reclaims disk space by converting duplicate files into APFS clones.

It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360(kennedn.com)

155 points by kennedn 13 days ago | 42 comments

A personal blog post recounting the author's years-long effort to hack an Xbox 360 using a Matrix CoolRunner Rev D glitcher modchip.

Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others(rareese.com)

1034 points by rrreese 6 months ago | 619 comments

A personal blog post reporting that Backblaze's personal backup software quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders, and possibly other data.