Web Browsers/Web Servers Leftovers
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Nicolas Magand ☛ Why are static site generators so complicated to use?
I am talking about Dark Souls because I think modern static site generators are a bit like a hard video game: extremely frustrating at first, difficult to use, making you want to give up, until things get better and it becomes very rewarding. Succeeding at doing something feels great, and you end up forgetting how difficult and painful that simple action really was.
Out of curiosity, I have been wanting to see what the fuss was about with these tools: Hugo, Gatsby, Zola, Jekyll, Astro, 11ty, etc. There are so many that it’s hard to keep up.
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Medevel ☛ 10 Free Nginx Dashboards and Control Panels - Manage Nginx Sites and Configuration Easily
Nginx is a free and open-source web server that serves as a replacement for the legacy Apache web server. It also functions as a reverse proxy, mail proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache engine.
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Debian Family
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Lukas Märdian: Waiting for a GNU/Linux system to be online
Networking is a complex topic, and there is lots of confusion around the definition of an “online” system. Sometimes the boot process gets delayed up to two minutes, because the system still waits for one or more network interfaces to be ready. Systemd provides the network-online.target that other service units can rely on, if they are deemed to require network connectivity. But what does “online” actually mean in this context, is a link-local IP address enough, do we need a routable gateway and how about DNS name resolution?
The requirements for an “online” network interface depend very much on the services using an interface. For some services it might be good enough to reach their local network segment (e.g. to announce Zeroconf services), while others need to reach domain names (e.g. to mount a NFS share) or reach the global internet to run a web server. On the other hand, the implementation of network-online.target varies, depending on which networking daemon is in use, e.g. systemd-networkd-wait-online.service or NetworkManager-wait-online.service.
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Mozilla
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The Record ☛ Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users
According to Tor’s statement, Mozilla is aware of the flaw being actively exploited in the wild against Tor Browser users.
“Using this vulnerability, an attacker could take control of Tor Browser, but probably not deanonymize you in Tails,” the statement reads.
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Standards/Consortia
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PC World ☛ Convert WebP to JPG or PNG - PC-WELT
The format supports both lossless and lossy compression.
With lossless compression, the original image quality is retained, while lossy compression enables an even smaller file size at the expense of image quality.
WebP can also handle transparency (alpha channel) in a similar way to PNGs. Animations from several images, as known from GIFs, are also possible.
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