Wandering Thoughts archives

2021-03-31:	Understanding Prometheus' `changes()` function and what it can do for me Systemd's NSS `myhostname` module surprised me recently
2021-03-29:	Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice
2021-03-28:	What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter
2021-03-27:	Internet routing can now vary based on things you wouldn't expect The attractions of reading sensor information from IPMIs
2021-03-26:	Linux's hardware monitoring can lie to you
2021-03-24:	HTTPS is really multiple protocols these days
2021-03-23:	Discovering Vim's Visual (selection) mode
2021-03-22:	Portability has ongoing costs for code that's changing
2021-03-21:	My uncertainty about swapping and swap sizing for SSDs and NVMe drives My experience with x2go is that it's okay but not compelling
2021-03-20:	Paging out memory can be 'global' or 'local' these days
2021-03-19:	Remote X versus 'seamless windows' in remote desktop software
2021-03-18:	Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy
2021-03-17:	Remote X has been a life saver over this past year
2021-03-16:	The fading HTTP Referer header and (Google) Search paywall bypasses
2021-03-15:	Different views of what are basic and advanced Vim features
2021-03-14:	I wish Prometheus had some features to deal with 'missing' metrics
2021-03-13:	Prometheus and the case of the stuck metrics
2021-03-11:	Wrangling HTTP and HTTPS versions of the same Apache virtual host What OpenSSH sshd logs when a session disconnects (on Linux)
2021-03-10:	The tradeoffs of Go version behavior in go.mod module files
2021-03-09:	Go version directives in go.mod files: some notes and crude usage numbers
2021-03-08:	Packaging Python 2 doesn't mean that Linux distributions support it
2021-03-06:	Some views and notes on ZFS deduplication today
2021-03-05:	How not to use Apache's RewriteRule directive in a reverse proxy
2021-03-04:	Systemd needs (or could use) a linter for unit files
2021-03-03:	What signal a RJ-45 serial connection is (probably) missing
2021-03-02:	The Python `ctypes` security issue and Python 2
2021-03-01:	Link: Taking This Serially The balance of power between distributions and software authors

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