Wandering Thoughts archives

2021-12-31:	Why I (still) use ext4 for my Linux root filesystems
2021-12-30:	Checking what features your ext4 filesystems have
2021-12-29:	Pipx's 'reinstall' command works right by reinstalling injected packages too
2021-12-28:	A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet
2021-12-27:	Link: Eric Rescorla's "DNS Security, Part II: DNSSEC" A thesis: large, significant open source projects must keep moving or die Security systems and requiring attacks instead of accidents to evade them
2021-12-25:	Our webmail is a surprisingly popular service
2021-12-24:	Sadly, my experience is that big commercial anti-malware detection is better
2021-12-23:	Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
2021-12-22:	Using `pipx` in a PyPy installation more or less just works
2021-12-21:	Our internal network access authentication needs
2021-12-20:	Some usage notes for the Linux `ss` program
2021-12-19:	My Firefox bookmarklet to see links I've visited more reliably Some brief notes for myself on growing a LVM root filesystem
2021-12-17:	Our never-used system for user-provided NFS accessible storage In Go 1.18, generics are implemented through code specialization
2021-12-15:	User runtime directories on modern Linux, aka `/run/user/<uid>`
2021-12-14:	Finding Ubuntu (and Debian) packages that are in odd states
2021-12-13:	A bit on compilation's changing number of stages (and assembly)
2021-12-12:	How Vim's visual mode has wound up being useful for me
2021-12-11:	Some numbers from ZRAM swap on my two Fedora machines
2021-12-10:	The question (and some answers) of modern day partition sizes for Linux
2021-12-09:	Why it's good to explicitly document the purposes of things, illustrated Some NVMe drive temperature things from my drives
2021-12-08:	NVMe drives and the case of opaque bandwidth limits
2021-12-06:	Linux's `vm.admin_reserve_kbytes` sysctl is both not big enough and not sufficient
2021-12-05:	A bit on what Unix system pre-boot environments used to look like
2021-12-04:	Most computer standards broadly require good faith implementations
2021-12-03:	My views so far on bookmarklets versus addons in Firefox
2021-12-02:	On servers maybe moving to M.2 NVMe drives for their system drives
2021-12-01:	Unfortunately, damaged ZFS filesystems can be more or less unrepairable

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