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Dealing with a data explosion in #HPC and #LifeSciences? Managing petabytes of data without breaking the bank is a huge challenge. 🤯

Our latest blog post explores how Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering can revolutionize your workflow. Learn how to get self-managing storage that optimizes costs and delivers incredible performance.

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Marius Quadflieg · Supercharge Your Research: Smarter, Faster, and Cheaper Data Storage with AWS! 🚀 - Marius Quadflieg
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Félicitons 2025 pour son abondance d'événements open source, de développements et d'activités 💡

Il est temps de vous partager notre newsletter trimestrielle qui détaille le travail réalisé par notre équipe, avec un focus sur quelques événements intéressants, informations ou ressources qu'il nous paraissait pertinent de mettre en avant.

Venez le consulter sur Substack (aucun abonnement n'est nécessaire pour le lire) :

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You’ve seen my posts about Linux accessibility. You’ve read me scream about broken screen readers, unusable bootloaders, and the sheer volume of stuff that only works after three undocumented hacks and a blood sacrifice. That’s from someone who already knows how to deal with this mess.
But what happens when someone new tries to step in?
My partner just published the first post in a new blog series called “Linux: Helpful or Headache?” It’s a personal account of what it feels like to stare into the abyss of Linux as a blind user who hasn’t even installed it yet. This isn’t a “how to” guide. It’s not a technical tutorial. It’s a moment of honest vulnerability and curiosity in the face of a system that’s infamous for treating newcomers like an inconvenience.
Part One – An Introduction
reading4life.mataroa.blog/blog
She’s totally blind. She’s used to Windows and iOS — platforms where accessibility is at least visible, documented, and supported. Linux? From the outside, it looks like a twisted obstacle course: too many distros, zero onboarding, no centralized help, and a community that can't agree on anything except that "you should have read the wiki."
And yet… she’s jumping in anyway.
This first post talks about that pre-installation limbo. The “what the hell even is a distro?” stage. The existential dread of picking between MATE and GNOME when you don’t even know how to pronounce “Flatpak.” The raw, unfiltered feeling of not knowing what you don’t know — and doing it anyway, because the itch to explore is stronger than the fear of breaking stuff.
There’s no cheerleading here. No “yay open source!” No tidy beginner tutorial with copy-paste terminal commands. Just one blind woman staring down the reality that Linux doesn’t come with a support number, and deciding to try it anyway — not because it’s easy, but because she wants to learn, grow, and maybe even call bullshit where it’s due.
And if you're wondering — no, I didn’t write or co-write it. This is her voice, her experience, her story. But it does tie in beautifully with the nightmare I’ve been chronicling in my own posts, from a totally different vantage point.
If you’ve ever tried to onboard someone to Linux, especially someone disabled, this is what it actually looks like. And if you’ve ever told someone “Linux is great, just pick a distro,” read this and realize how much we take for granted.
Go read it. Boost it. Follow the series. She's only just getting started.
#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #DisabilityInTech #Blind #NewUserExperience #Debian #UX #TechBlog #DigitalInclusion

reading4life.mataroa.blogLinux: Helpful or Headache? (Part one, An Introduction) — reading4life

Did you know you can run AI models on your own laptop or desktop without needing an internet connection?
👉 How local AI is secure, cost-effective, and offline.
👉 Why smaller models can sometimes be the perfect tool for the job.
👉 How to quickly get started with Ollama and models like Llama 3.1.
#ArtificialIntelligence #TechBlog #LocalAI #SmallModelsBigImpact
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Dynamic Code Blocks · Local hosted modelsIt is fun to download Ollama and run an AI model locally on your laptop or desktop computer, even without an Internet connection. It teaches us to think about model selection even in cloud AI.

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Announcing the launch of a new blog, Reclaim Your Tech (reclaimyour.tech).

This blog was founded on the premise that digital infrastructure should be owned by individuals, their families, and their communities. Being user first, it will provide technical guides, open-source tools, software recommendations, essays, and discussion.

Reclaim Your TechAboutThis blog promotes an alternative to the mainstream: digital infrastructure should be owned by individuals, their families, and their communities. I a…