Wandering Thoughts archives

2022-10-31:	I wish ZFS supported per-user reservations, not just per-user quotas
2022-10-30:	Silencing KDE application notification sounds under fvwm
2022-10-29:	Importing a Python program that doesn't have a .py extension
2022-10-28:	People like file extensions whether or not they're necessary
2022-10-27:	Scripts and programs should skip having extensions like '.sh' and '.bash'
2022-10-26:	Our computer security problems are our own fault
2022-10-25:	An email phish attempt using attachment file type confusion
2022-10-24:	Filesystems and progressive deletion of things
2022-10-23:	Why I feel DNS CAA records are a real TLS security improvement in practice
2022-10-22:	TLS Certificate Transparency is about improving the (web) TLS ecology
2022-10-21:	The Prometheus `timestamp()` function can be used on expressions, sort of
2022-10-20:	The programming challenge that is a modern browser
2022-10-19:	Understanding '+incompatible' in Go module version names
2022-10-18:	We're finally fully moving away from Apache's prefork MPM (hopefully)
2022-10-17:	The proper setup of a Go module, as I understand it
2022-10-16:	What it means to see a 'bad' certificate in TLS Certificate Transparency logs
2022-10-15:	How much swap space we're using across our servers (in October 2022)
2022-10-14:	Two views of CPU utilization (a realization)
2022-10-13:	We're moving away from swap partitions on our Linux servers
2022-10-12:	We are stuck with `egrep` and `fgrep` (unless you like beating people)
2022-10-11:	When Promtail seems to make position checkpoints (as of v2.6.1)
2022-10-10:	The pragmatic effects of setting `nconnect` on NFS v3 mounts on Linux
2022-10-09:	Research Unix V7's (comparatively) long time gap from V6
2022-10-08:	Linux NFS clients (normally) make only one TCP connection to each fileserver
2022-10-07:	How old various Unix signals are
2022-10-06:	My performance intuitions and the complexities of SSD performance
2022-10-05:	The Maildir mail storage format doesn't seem to work well over NFS
2022-10-04:	Our unusual traditional /var/mail setup for people's inboxes
2022-10-03:	Universities, "Bring your own device", and security
2022-10-02:	Universities and their non-employees (part two)
2022-10-01:	YAML in practice can be looser than I expected

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