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Undeadly ☛ Post-Quantum Cryptography Advice Added to OpenSSH Website
We have long been aware that OpenBSD and OpenSSH in general are at the very forefront of cryptography engineering.
A recent data point here is that Damien Miller (djm@) just committed a new OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography FAQ page to the OpenSSH web site: [...]
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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Linuxiac ☛ Redis 8.2 Brings Up to 49% More Throughput
After returning to the open source family in early May, Redis, a distributed in-memory key-value data store, officially rolled out version 8.2 a few days ago, building on the foundation set by Redis 8.0.
The headline figures are more than impressive: This update offers up to 35% faster command execution, 49% higher throughput—surpassing one million operations per second on a single instance—and memory savings of up to 67% in certain scenarios.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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W Evan Sheehan ☛ A Subtle Footgun in Eleventy’s Default Permalink Algorithm - Evan Sheehan
My mental model of how Eleventy maps input files to output files by default is that the path of the file in the input directory is the path of the file in the output directory. If I have a blog post written on 1 August in my input directory at blog/2025/08/01.md, I expect that file to be written to blog/2025/08/01/index.html in my output folder. And for the most part this is true.
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Education
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Olimex ☛ Join Us at Varnaconf 2025 – Varna’s Premier IT Event!
Varnaconf is back — part of the IT Tour series — bringing together tech enthusiasts, professionals, and innovators for a full day of inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, and networking.
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Licensing / Legal
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Omicron Limited ☛ Even online, body language in court still matters
And online, contrary to what one might think, nonverbal communication doesn't disappear. "Generally speaking, there's no less nonverbal behavior in virtual trials—it's just different," said Denault.
The differences are wide-ranging. For example, in a videoconference, only part of the judge or a witness is visible; one doesn't see the whole person. People also experience a trial differently in a courtroom setting, which lends a certain gravitas to the proceedings.
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