Wandering Thoughts archives

2025-02-28:	Always sync your log or journal files when you open them
2025-02-27:	Using Netplan to set up WireGuard on Ubuntu 22.04 works, but has warts
2025-02-26:	I'm not impressed by the state of NFS v4 in the Linux kernel
2025-02-25:	MFA's "push notification" authentication method can be easier to integrate
2025-02-24:	Go's behavior for zero value channels and maps is partly a choice
2025-02-23:	JSON has become today's machine-readable output format (on Unix)
2025-02-22:	Institutions care about their security threats, not your security threats
2025-02-21:	HTTP connections are part of the web's long tail
2025-02-20:	It's good to have offline contact information for your upstream networking
2025-02-19:	Shared (Unix) hosting and the problem of managing resource limits
2025-02-18:	One problem with "shared Unix hosting" was the lack of resource limits
2025-02-17:	More potential problems for people with older browsers
2025-02-16:	The HTTP status codes of responses from about 21 hours of traffic to here
2025-02-15:	Why I have a little C program to filter a $PATH (more or less)
2025-02-14:	The profusion of things that could be in your $PATH on old Unixes
2025-02-13:	'Internal' accounts and their difference from 'external' accounts
2025-02-12:	How you should respond to authentication failures isn't universal
2025-02-11:	A surprise with rspamd's spam scoring and a workaround
2025-02-10:	Everything should be able to ratelimit sources of authentication failures
2025-02-09:	Providing pseudo-tags in DWiki through a simple hack
2025-02-08:	The Prometheus host agent is missing some Linux NFSv4 RPC stats (as of 1.8.2)
2025-02-07:	Web application design and the question of what is a "route"
2025-02-06:	Linux kernel NFSv4 server and client RPC operation statistics
2025-02-05:	How Ubuntu 24.04's bad bpftrace package appears to have happened
2025-02-04:	The practical (Unix) problems with .cache and its friends
2025-02-03:	Why writes to disk generally wind up in your OS's disk read cache
2025-02-02:	Web spiders (or people) can invent unfortunate URLs for your website Build systems and their effects on versioning and API changes
2025-02-01:	An alarmingly bad official Ubuntu 24.04 bpftrace binary package

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