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January 31, 2021

The Biggest Shell Programs in the World · oilshell/oil Wiki · GitHub
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Latex Tagged PDF Feasility Evaluation

This report shows, what is needed, to automatically generate tagged PDFs from Latex in the future.

Controlling Your Destiny

A short reminder that you should always own your platform.

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020

Backblaze, the storage and data backup company, released their new hard drive reliability stats.

System Separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) analyzed the incident that nearly led to a blackout in Europe.

espanso

espanso is a cross-platform text expander.

croc
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crog is a command-line file transfer utility.

Fast Commits for ext4

The article explains how the optimization of the ext4 journaling leads to increased performance.

Wikimedia’s CDN

This blog post is the third of a three-part series that describes how Wikimedia’s own CDN evolved. The previous posts are linked there.

Achieving 11M IOPS & 66 GB/s IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation

The author shows what impressive IO performance a single workstation can deliver today.

Nextcloud, Open-Xchange, and Univention Partner To Create Sovereign Productivity Suite
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Three well-known open-source software companies join forces to provide a software suite specifically designed for the German public sector.

Broot

Broot allows more comfortable command-line directory listing and browsing.

OPNsense 21.1

Release 21.1 of OPNsense brings improved firewall rules and NAT categories, traffic graphs supporting IPv6, advanced intrusion detection management, and aliases for MAC addresses.

A Dedicated Licence for Open-Source Hardware: CERN OHL Approved by OSI
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»The OSI (Open Source Initiative) has approved version 2 of CERN’s Open Hardware License (OHL), meaning it conforms to its Open Source Definition and respects the ideals and ethos of the movement.«

Improving How We Deploy GitHub
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This blog post gives insight into the recent deployment improvements of GitHub.