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Web Browsers/Web Servers: Varnish 8.0.0, Hosting A Website On A Disposable Vape, and Firefox 143
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LWN ☛ Varnish 8.0.0 and bonus project news
Version
8.0.0 of Varnish Cache
has been released. In addition to a number
of changes to varnishd parameters, the ability to access some runtime parameters using the Varnish Configuration Language, and other
improvements, 8.0.0 comes with big news; the project is forming an
organization called a forening
that will set out formal governance for the project.
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Hackaday ☛ Hosting A Website On A Disposable Vape
For the past years people have been collecting disposable vapes primarily for their lithium-ion batteries, but as these disposable vapes have begun to incorporate more elaborate electronics, these too have become an interesting target for reusability. To prove the point of how capable these electronics have become, [BogdanTheGeek] decided to turn one of these vapes into a webserver, appropriately called the vapeserver.
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The Register UK ☛ Engineer turned a vape into a web server
BogdanTheGeek, the handle for researcher Bogdan Ionescu, took apart a discarded vape pen, which he describes as "fancier pacifiers for adults," and decided to repurpose it. The base-level kit was "so bad, it's basically disposable" he said, consisting of a 24MHz Cortex M0+ chip, 24KB of flash storage and just 3KB of static RAM, but it was still workable.
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Mozilla
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Linuxiac ☛ Firefox 143 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
One of the more noticeable changes is the addition of camera previews in the permission dialog. Now, when a site asks for access, users can see which camera they’re about to allow, which should make switching between multiple devices a little less frustrating.
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