Sasha Mortimer

Freelance Content Writer with a decade of experience writing about system administration, networking, and security.

Using du to Free Up Disk Space in Linux

Learn one of the quickest ways to free up disk space in Linux.

Linux – Sep 14, 2021

How to Convert Ubuntu Into Regolith Linux

Regolith can run as a standalone operating system or on top of a Ubuntu installation. Here we show how to install Regolith on Ubuntu for a pre-configured i3 experience.

Linux – Sep 13, 2021

When Edme Mariotte stared at marks on a wall in the 1660s, one mark vanished inside a six-degree hole where the optic nerve leaves the eye and the brain has been filling in wallpaper, sky, and faces ever since

Jun 5, 2026

When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.

Jun 5, 2026

Macro view of a smartphone displaying Google and other app icons on the home screen.

On 28 May 2009, Google demoed a product called Wave on stage at I/O for 80 minutes and got a standing ovation from developers who had no idea what they had just watched, and 15 months later the company quietly shut it down because almost nobody could explain to a friend what it was actually for

Jun 5, 2026

When Clair Patterson set out in 1948 to measure the age of the Earth using lead in meteorites, his samples kept coming back contaminated, and the seven-year detour he took to find the source ended with him almost single-handedly forcing leaded gasoline out of American cars by 1986.

Jun 5, 2026

Close-up view of a vintage IBM circuit board and disk drive showcasing retro computer technology.

The IBM 305 RAMAC stayed in production until 1961, weighed more than a ton, stored five million characters on fifty spinning platters, and still drew customers because the alternative was a room full of punched cards

Jun 4, 2026

A close-up of a vintage vinyl record in black and white, emphasizing its grooves.

In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed the compressed minute onto Voyager’s Golden Record as a private love signal now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth

Jun 4, 2026

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