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Last night I described how scheduling works, and the min-heaps Linux uses to implement most of it's schedulers. But once we have multiple programs running (seamingly) simultaneously, we need a way for them to synchronize and communicate.

Producer-consumer queues (atomic ringbuffers) are arguably the easiest technique though mutex locks are often used too, both of which need lowlevel primitives to build upon.

Linux *really* needs this due to multiple cores and hardware interruptions!

1/3?

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Do you use uBlock Origin? Did you know that you can use the Better Blocker block list on it?

Just add the rules from here:

better.fyi/blockerList.txt

PS. If you have other rule sets, I’d recommend not mixing them as we go to great pains to ensure that we don’t break sites while protecting your/our privacy. If you are mixing rulesets, we can’t help you if things break :)

I've had to buy an phone for reasons and I decided to NOT setup ANY account. This means no properly working browser (as the preinstalled cannot be considered properly working without and it doesn't let you install extensions without logging to chrome store) and no Play Store, that require you to autheticate even just to download a .

Well, with careful use of , and , (obviously with uMatrix and proper tuning), , and few other tools... it's working like a charme!

I planned to root it and install (which is still an option) but not giving it any account and using TorBrowser (still with uMatrix) for anything that does not require authentication seems really... enough to get rid of Google!

Am I missing something obvious?

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"The tech industry as a whole is having its own Eternal September. The world, with all its experiences and opinions, has come flooding in, and technologists are now reassessing the consequences of the systems and structures they have built or inherited. Some of these systems are social, and include the general modes of thought and expression that Hacker News embodies."

I'm mystified by this trope that hacker culture and Silicon Valley startup culture are one and the same.

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Google Analytics is the most prevalent tracker in the world. During our last crawl, we found it on 64.2% of web sites:

better.fyi/trackers/google-ana

Developers: every time you add Google Analytics to a site, you are helping build the global panopticon. Stop it!

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Every time I install , I give a chance.

Every single time I wonder "Why the hell Tor's people prefer such shit to ?"

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RT @copernicani
#dialoghicopernicani con Romano Prodi. "La politica ambientale è una priorità assoluta. Ma occorre essere coerenti. I protocolli si firmano ma poi non vengono rispettati. L'Europa deve essere all'avanguardia, dobbiamo essere attivi e innovativi. Non abbiamo scelte alternative."

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@Shamar It's going quite well!

I'm now working on an auditory web browser, which is a surprisingly elegant design. Both it and Odysseus are nearing completion on their basic featuresets!

Then I'll tackle a smart TV browser, possibly preceded by a print one!

I've decided to target unusual devices to better show the power of HTML/CSS, give myself a better sense of progress, & to try bending IoT hype to combat JS hype.

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Dominijanni su Internazionale racconta della nota corrispondenza tra Indro Montanelli e Clare Boothe Luce sulla creazione di un'organizzazione "terroristica e segreta" di picchiatori che avrebbero dovuto compiere azioni in caso di una vittoria elettorale dei comunisti con l'appoggio di Carabinieri, monarchici, industriale e gli Stati Uniti internazionale.it/opinione/ida

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Web Analytics, GDPR and is Google Analytics compliant?

New post in which I list all the steps you need to take to make Google Analytics GDPR compliant so you don't need to ask for visitor consent. There are many steps!

plausible.io/blog/google-analy

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I've implemented a naive p2p system which can be both federated or fully decentralized, something in-between #ssb and maybe #activitypub:

github.com/adzialocha/beep-bee

Added many comments in the source-code itself if you want to check it out.

The main ideas are:
* Not invent a new protocol but patch something together of great components
* Keypairs live in the clients, where messages get signed and then posted to the "home-server"
* Home servers are the actual nodes of the network, find each other and replicate data with each other
* All data is stored in append-only-logs of every managed key (github.com/AljoschaMeyer/bambo)
* Clients can be simple browser-based interfaces without any heavy crypto-crunching or file system access needs (which forces us to live in Electron etc.)
* .. still one could simply build a client which comes together with the Node itself

Happy to hear any comments/ideas or projects which already do something similar in this direction?

Thank you!! 🎈

#p2p #rfc

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If you were design the worst possible file format, one which maximizes the number of bugs in its parsers, what features would it include?

Let me start:
Length-prefixed everything. Containers (lists, dicts, etc) have a length field in bytes, but all the items inside them also have their own length fields.

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