today's leftovers
Operating Systems and Data
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Server
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Standards/Consortia
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Jan Lukas Else ☛ Self-hosting my emails again: A few weeks in
Now, several years later, I feel much more comfortable running my own mail server again. I regularly work with infrastructure-related tasks, deploying services on Kubernetes and managing cloud resources. This experience has made self-hosting easier. I actually self-host fewer services than I used to – Miniflux, for example, I now use as a hosted service – but for the services I do run, I feel confident in maintaining them properly.
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Distributions
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Arca Noae ☛ ArcaOS 5.1.1 now available
ArcaOS 5.1.1 continues to support installation on the latest generation of UEFI-based systems, as well as the ability to install to GPT-based disk layouts. This enables ArcaOS 5.1.1 to install on a wide array of modern hardware. Of course, ArcaOS 5.1.1 is just as much at home on traditional BIOS-based systems, offering enhanced stability and performance across both environments.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Piya Gehi ☛ Baby's first monitoring system
I’m halfway through my second batch at RC, and one of my batch goals was to learn DevOps/SRE skills by contributing to this cluster. Having put it off for the first 5 weeks, I finally reached out to folks in the weekly meeting about the cluster, where I was recommended to look into Prometheus.
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Linuxiac ☛ TigerVNC 1.15 Released with Improved Mouse Support
TigerVNC, a high-speed remote display system that allows users to view and interact with remote computers, has just released version 1.15.
In this update, the native viewer and Unix servers now support both the back and forward mouse buttons, which should simplify navigation for users who rely heavily on these controls.
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The New Stack ☛ Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How They’ve Kept It Going
Moolenaar started Vim 30 years ago, and he carried in his head “a lot of knowledge on the original Vim of all the features he wanted to have.” But more than that, Moolenaar was also the project’s leader. “He basically determined the strategy — where he wanted the project to go and what he wanted to be included and what he didn’t like.”
“We had to restructure and find ways to continue.”
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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James G ☛ Designing a delete action in a web interface
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, has a page where you can see all of the authors to which you are subscribed. The page shows: [...]
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FOSDEM ☛ FOSDEM 2025 - How browsers REALLY load Web pages
This talk is a deep dive into how browsers decide when to load a specific resource, and some ways in which you can influence them to modify their behaviour (so you can make sure that important LCP image is definitely one of the first things to come in!). We will look at A LOT of different waterfalls and discuss why each looks the way it does, why browsers often make different decisions, and how to solve common problems (no, don’t just preload everything with fetchpriority=high, you monster!).
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Licensing / Legal
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[Repeat] Hacker Noon ☛ Hackers Are Becoming a Rarer Breed
In 1986, a document called the 'Techno-Revolution Manifesto,' which was written by a hacker named 'Doctor Crash’, argued that hacking is not just about intellectual curiosity or a mental challenge. It claimed that the origins of hacking are linked to activities like phone phreaking (exploiting phone systems), credit card fraud (carding), and the principles of anarchy (rejecting authority). The manifesto encouraged hackers to take control of the internet, which was initially developed by the military and the defence industry towards a freer and more open internet, ultimately reducing the government's control over it. The GNU Manifesto, which was released in 1985 by Richard Stallman, called for open collaboration between the developers working towards the freedom for users of software, free software distributions, and to challenge the status quo of copyright.
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