today's leftovers
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Rakudo Weekly News: 2022.37 More videos
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10,000 followers on Mastodon! [Ed: A truly meaningless milestone; social control media is a waste of time and it is full of bots]
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Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?
I once (incorrectly) thought the answer to “why is there a dot at the end?” might be “In a DNS request/response, domain names have a “.” at the end, so we put it in to match what actually gets sent/received by your computer”. But that’s not true at all!
When a computer sends a DNS request or response, the domain names in it don’t have a trailing dot. Actually, the domain names don’t have any dots.
Instead, they’re encoded as a series of length/string pairs. For example, the domain example.com is encoded as these 13 bytes:
7example3com0 So there are no dots at all. Instead, an ASCII domain name (like “example.com”) gets translated into the format used in a DNS request / response by various DNS software.
So let’s talk about one place where domain names are translated into DNS responses: zone files.
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Rising to answer the call: sound public policy for Open Source questions [Ed: Just don't forgot to disclose the major bribes from Microsoft, which viciously fights against Open Source, creating a conflict of interest at OSI]
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Thank You For Joining Us - Purism
It has been a long and difficult journey to build a freedom- and privacy-respecting phone like the Librem 5. While the end of this journey is in sight, we aren’t quite there yet, and I wanted to take some time to do something we should do more often: acknowledge and thank all of you who have joined us in this journey, some since the beginning. I also wanted to give some tangible examples of what your support has allowed us to do. But first, to all of you who have backed the Librem 5 project, however long you have been with us: thank you for joining us.
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Using LXD to host your own ERP, cost-effectively | Ubuntu
Are you looking to host your own ERP cost-effectively, or perhaps evaluating solutions to host other types of applications for your small business? You’ve landed in the right blog post. Recently, we reached out to the LXD community and asked them to share real-life examples of how they use LXD to solve different kinds of problems. In this post, we will share the first of the stories, illustrating how easy it is to use open-source container management tools like LXD to host your own business applications.
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Planning run non-root in containers
I have been working on syncing Debian package management with the Puppy-format package management, for the past week. However, I had the nagging feeling that I'm going in the wrong direction...
Have now abandoned apt/dpkg sync'ing with the Puppy-format Package database and PKGget. It just isn't the way I want to go with EasyOS.
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Petter Reinholdtsen: Time to translate the Bullseye edition of the Debian Administrator's Handbook
Almost two years after the previous Norwegian Bokmål translation of the "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" was published, a new edition is finally being prepared. The english text is updated, and it is time to start working on the translations. Around 37 percent of the strings have been updated, one way or another, and the translations starting from a complete Debian Buster edition now need to bring their translation up from 63% to 100%. The complete book is licensed using a Creative Commons license, and has been published in several languages over the years. The translations are done by volunteers to bring Linux in their native tongue.
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GSOC Update 4 - rojas.run
My Google Summer of code is about to close! It’s been very educational time working on my project to implement exporting as svg. Now that it’s just about done its time I put my thoughts on how my GSoC project went.