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BoingBoing ☛ How to turn modern Linux into an old Mac
Adam Lawson's Zac-OS-9 is a completist recreation of the classic Mac desktop experience for Debian Linux, "drawn pixel by pixel from scratch." Modeled on the last versions before the switch to Mac OS X (more than 25 years ago!) it's not just a skin: it replicates the window manager, file browser, menu bar and every control panel. [via Hacker News]
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TecMint ☛ 5 Useful Linux Commands Every Sysadmin Should Use
These habits aren’t wrong, but they add unnecessary steps. Across multiple servers, those extra commands add up. They also make shell scripts longer and introduce more opportunities for typos.
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AOCR.org Referrer Spam in Surveillance Giant Google Analytics and Server Logs
AOCR.org referrer spam sent 253 requests a day from 10 IPs. How to spot fake referral traffic in Surveillance Giant Google Analytics, nginx and Apache logs, and when to block it.
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Ronalds Vilciņš ☛ CSS border-shape Can Draw Boxes clip-path Cannot
A clipped badge is easy enough until it needs a border that follows the cut edge. That’s the part I like about CSS border-shape : the border and box shadow can follow the shape itself.
clip-path can already describe the outline. The difference is how the box decorations follow it, rather than which silhouettes CSS can draw. border-shape is still experimental, so I would keep the shaped version optional.
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James G ☛ A whimsical CSS :target design for headings
The headings in my blog posts, and some pages, have HTML fragments so that each heading can be linked to. I seldom use this feature, most likely because, at present, I don't have a visual affordance to create such links. Occasionally, though, I find myself wanting to link directly to a heading, so I will make sure there is an anchor.
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1st Amendment Encrypted Openness LLC ☛ Part 1 — How Tor Directory Floods Fetch and Wait
Three patterns stand out across 29 measured flood periods on 23 relays. Here, “dominates” means more than half of a period’s streams; relays can appear in both groups.