today's leftovers
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Operating Systems
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HaikuOS ☛ Haiku Activity & Contract Report, December 2023
These two problems resolved (and some other minor refactors and cleanups done along the way), TCP throughput on loopback (on a single-core VM) increased from an unsteady ~45Mbit/sec to a solid 5.4 Gbit/sec. (On multi-core machines the difference will be much less dramatic; it was already in the Gbit/sec range there.) Users have reported improvements in real-world traffic speeds, too, but at least here there’s still much more work to be done: the whole implementation could use a refactor, and then some work to take better advantage of TCP features like SACK, congestion-control, and window-scale. I intend to work on some of these, so stay tuned for that.
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Windows TCO
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Cyble Inc ☛ Global Nonprofit Water For People Targeted by Medusa Ransomware With 9-Day Payment Ultimatum
Medusa ransomware, also known as MedusaLocker, surfaced in September 2019, primarily targeting [sic] Windows computers. Since its inception, the group has been responsible for attacks on various entities, including corporations, governmental bodies, and healthcare providers.
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Chromium
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Gizmodo ☛ Chrome Users Now Worth 30% Less Money Thanks to Google's Cookie Killing, Ad Firm Says
The problem is cookies are one of the primary ways that information is collected and shared on the web. Without cookies, it’s hard for websites to tell the ad system much more than “there’s a person here reading this really cool article.” Advertisers aren’t willing to pay as much for random internet users, so every time the page loads for a cookieless Chrome user, it’s bringing in less money than it might have before.
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Free, Libre Software
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Adam Nowak ☛ How Logseq became my note-taking app
Logseq stood out with its versatility—it wasn’t just about Markdown. The appeal of themes, templates, and plugins captured my attention, but the journaling view truly set it apart. Each day automatically begins with a fresh entry, ready to capture spontaneous thoughts. As the day unravels, links and tags organically connect these entries to relevant pages. Sometimes, a simple woodworking tip or a memorable point from a conversation can effortlessly become part of a vast network of interconnected knowledge. The ability to recall details just by navigating to a person’s or topic’s page is, for my workflow, invaluable.
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Press Gazette ☛ Where is all of the fediverse?
Spurred on by the problems at Twitter, a lot of my social media timeline has “moved out” of Twitter/“X” on to what people mostly describe as mastodon or the “fediverse”. The fediverse being the collection of decentralised “instances” (aka servers) sometimes using different software but speaking a common protocol called ActivityPub.
Since people are now posting social media updates on a system that is a lot more decentralised than twitter once was, I was interested in knowing where these instances are hosted to see just how decentralised it really was!
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