how user agents became a lying mess

Lix is an independent variant of the Nix package manager, developed by a team of open-source volunteers, and maintained by and for a passionate community of users.

I kind of assumed that Lix is a purely political fork, but they seem to write actual code, so that’s nice. Changelog promises faster evaluation, better errors and REPL improvements.

Very much not-production-ready (didn’t even compile on my machine), but looks pretty cool (rad, even).

In this blog, we go on an interactive journey to understand common queueing strategies for handling HTTP requests.

microforum in DNS TXT records

Something about tying abstract models to Rust programs, looks useful.

A paper about choosing “nothing-up-my-sleeve” numbers while having stuff up your sleeve.

gstreamer-plugins-bad includes a NES 6502 emulator, which was vulnerable to RCE.

Looks really cool. I wonder what’s inside.

How to spin before sleeping so that it actually helps and not harms?

a whirlwind tour through the guts of the system

Dungeons and Dragons, but about philosophy.

When it comes to security, we care about limiting access of each entity of a system to as few other entities as possible. Network input, executables and users must be able to reach only those resources, which are necessary to perform the defined server tasks. Principle of least priviledge.

Generally, it's better to implement as many layers of security as possible. Although, there is no way to make a server 100% bullet proof - it's a huge endless topic, this article covers some feasible essential systemd tunables that give us a layer of protection.

Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole—can feel like an insurmountable challenge. We wrote this cookbook to share our coping strategies. It has recipes to make when you’ve worked a 16-hour day, when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why, when you accidentally woke up an Eldritch abomination at the bottom of the ocean. But most of all, this cookbook exists to help Sad Bastards like us feel a little less alone at mealtimes.

The new Riptide garbage collector in WebKit leads to a five-fold improvement in latency in the JetStream/splay-latency test.

It’s extremely important to make sure your OAuth implementation is secure. The fix is just one line of code away. We sincerely hope the information shared in our blog post series will help prevent major online breaches and help web service owners better protect their customers and users.

Supports a lot of fun stuff, maybe worth trying.

Series of posts about how make C++ exceptions fast.