Wandering Thoughts archives

2018-05-31:	What is the long term future for Extended Validation TLS certificates? Extended Validation TLS certificates are basically invisible
2018-05-30:	Taking over program names in Linux is generally hard
2018-05-28:	An incomplete list of reasons why I force-quit iOS apps
2018-05-27:	ZFS pushes file renamings and other metadata changes to disk quite promptly Most modern web spiders are parasites
2018-05-25:	Some notes on Go's `runtime.KeepAlive()` function There's real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, netstat, et al
2018-05-24:	Registering for things on the Internet is dangerous these days
2018-05-23:	Almost no one wants to run their own infrastructure
2018-05-21:	Bad versions of packages in the context of minimal version selection
2018-05-20:	'Minimal version selection' accepts that semantic versioning is fallible Modern CPU power usage varies unpredictably based on what you're doing
2018-05-18:	ZFS `spare-N` spare vdevs in your pool are mirror vdevs How I usually divide up NFS (operation) metrics
2018-05-17:	I'm worried about Wayland but there's not much I can do about it
2018-05-16:	How you run out of inodes on an extN filesystem (on Linux)
2018-05-15:	I have a boring desktop and I think I'm okay with that
2018-05-13:	My GDPR pessimism
2018-05-12:	ZFS on Linux's development version now has much better pool recovery for damaged pools Sorting out some of my current views on operator overloading in general
2018-05-11:	Notice to web spiders: an email address in your user-agent isn't good enough
2018-05-10:	Python modules use operator overloading in two different ways
2018-05-09:	Yubico fails to care that people give you email addresses for specific purposes
2018-05-08:	How we're going to be doing custom NFS mount authorization on Linux
2018-05-07:	One reason why Python doesn't let you overload the boolean AND and OR operations
2018-05-06:	Firefox turns out to need some degree of 'autoplay' support
2018-05-05:	Modern Unix GUIs now need to talk to at least one C library
2018-05-04:	Why you can't put zero bytes in Unix command line arguments
2018-05-03:	Using `grep` to hunt around for null bytes in text files
2018-05-02:	An interaction of low ZFS `recordsize`, compression, and advanced format disks

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