GitHub’s autoscaler watched the wrong service for 7h47m
Monday afternoon, 13:28 UTC, and roughly one request in five to github.com came back an error. That ran for 7 hours and 47 minutes, and the incident report GitHub posted ...
Tag: sysadmin
ChatGPT desktop for Linux: the .deb adds an OpenAI apt repo
Three years of people asking, and on 11 August it turned up: a native ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, public preview, shipping as DEB and RPM packages for x64 and ...
Linux file permissions explained: rwx and 755
You chmod a file, it works, you move on, and permissions stay a thing you never quite have to learn. Then a script won't run, throwing Permission denied, or a ...
MB vs MiB: why your 1 TB drive shows up as 931 GB
You buy a 1 TB drive, plug it in, and Windows cheerfully reports 931 GB. Nothing's broken and nobody robbed you, but it's annoying, and it comes down to MB ...