N-gated Hacker NewsApr 24
Oh, look! Another attempt to solve the monumental crisis of handling tarballs—this time with #WebAssembly and a sprinkle of #Emscripten magic. 🙄 Instead of just extracting a file like a normal person, let's generate an "index" to mount things because who doesn't love an overengineered solution to save a few bytes? 😂
https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-tar/ #tarballs #overengineering #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly

How to use a file index to mount a tar.gz archive directly into the Emscripten virtual filesystem without extracting it

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Notes from Jeroen
Show threadAndy BakerOct 18, 2024

Even more on Sydney's mysterious tar balls

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/10/whats-really-behind-the-sticky-blobs-on-our-beaches-the-chemistry-of-tar-balls-explained

#science #marinescience #TarBalls #Sydney #academia

What’s really behind the sticky blobs on our beaches? The chemistry of tar balls explained

A team of scientists from UNSW analysed the mysterious unknown debris that washed up on Sydney beaches this week.

UNSW Sites
Andy BakerOct 17, 2024

I'm off to Coogee today, where tar balls have been washing up on the beach.

My oceanography colleague Matt England was interviewed and explains where they might have come from:

Hundreds of tar balls have surfaced on Sydney beaches. But what are they? - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-17/coogee-beach-tar-balls-everything-you-need-to-know/104482828

#science #oceans #TarBalls #Sydney #academia #scicomms

Hundreds of tar balls have surfaced on Sydney beaches. But what are they?

A number of Sydney beaches have been closed after hundreds of tar balls washed ashore. But what are tar balls? Where have they come from? And are they dangerous?

ABC News
eggsOct 17, 2024
The random shit washing up on Sydney beaches meme was cool when it was bricks of cocaine. Not such a fan of the tar balls TBH. #tarballs #cocaine #GloriousSydney
Show thread[email protected]Oct 16, 2024

Ah. Destroying the living world once again.

#tarballs #oilleak

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/coogee-beach-has-been-closed-after-black-tar-balls-found/news-story/76248c91356467e2bff43bfa92553752

Show threadDroppie [loma] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘Oct 7, 2024

@zenbrowser Nice! Would you pls publish a regular page on your site with all the #hashsums / #checksums for the #tarballs? Alternatively provide these in your #github pages? Eg, github.com/zen-browser/desktop… really should include these sums, but afaict does not. This request is for both Stable & Twilight.

#ZenBrowser

Release Alpha build - 1.0.1-a.7 (2024-09-30) · zen-browser/desktop

🌀 Experience tranquillity while browsing the web without people tracking you! - Release Alpha build - 1.0.1-a.7 (2024-09-30) · zen-browser/desktop

GitHub
SpaceLifeFormAug 15, 2024

I know how to bootstrap.

And I have backups and I know how to use them.

#GitHub #Tarballs

Peter N. M. HansteenApr 17, 2024
In -current, default write format for tar(1) changed to "pax" https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240417053301 #openbsd #tar #archiving #tarballs #backup
In -current, default write format for tar(1) changed to "pax"

David Cantrell 🏏Mar 26, 2024
Woo-hoo! I just did my half-yearly sweep through all the issues I've got open against other peoples' code, and ... one of them got fixed! The ticket wasn't closed, and it's not mentioned in the #ChangeLog so I think it was #FixedByMistake. It was to do with the #PaxHeader problem in release #tarballs on #Solaris, so I assume it was fixed by the author using a different version of tar for the next release, or tweaking his build/release process. But regardless of what happened I am happy.