today's leftovers
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Wayland on OpenBSD
These are my notes from experimenting with building Wayland bits on OpenBSD during g2k23 in Tallinn… Thanks to the OpenBSD foundation for organizing this event.
This is still far from a complete running system as there are many issues on the road, but it’s a good start and it shows that it’s definatly not impossible to get Wayland running on OpenBSD.
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2023-07-04 [Older] Interoperable Europe +++ Cyber Resilience Act +++ AI Act
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The HTTP status code for a web server's default "hello" front page
I personally find this fascinating and can't really vote against it (in contrast to Jonathan). To me, it raises the interesting question of whether a web server's default 'hello I am <X>' front page should actually exist, in the sense of what HTTP status code it should use.
On the one hand, the front page is there and there's often some traditional content to it (announcing the web server, host OS, and so on, although how wise that is these days is an open question). On the other hand, no one has actually set up this front page; the web server is mostly showing it to be friendly, especially in a completely stock configuration as installed by a package manager (where everyone can assume that the configuration itself is working). Since no actual person has deliberately set up the front page, I can see an argument that the right HTTP response code is a 404 not found. In the sense of deliberate content put there by the website operator, there is no front page.
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The ThinkPad You All Wish You Had, With A Brain That’s Not Ancient
An IBM (or, later, Lenovo) ThinkPad is a popular choice in our community. They’re prized for their rugged design, longevity, and good software support. Over the many years that the line has been available, there have been a few models which have captured the attention more than others, and among those, probably the most sought-after is the ThinkPad 701c. It would be an unremarkable mid-1990s 486 laptop were it not for the party piece of that flip-out butterfly keyboard (see video, below). [Karl Buchka] has one that’s profoundly dead, and rather than use it as a novelty paperweight, he’s giving it a new lease of life with a Framework motherboard.