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FreeBSD. YMMV.
RIP Mike Karels, an under-recognised hero of networking. He was the co-author of the definitive paper on congestion control for the Internet:
https://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf
He was also one of the primary implementers of TCP.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/mike_karels/

Most useful write-up I've seen so far, from @eb:

Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

Everything I know about the XZ backdoor

Please note: This is being updated in real-time. The intent is to make sense of lots of simultaneous discoveries

I guess it’s time to backup

I absolutely hate having to deal with a CI pipeline written by dozens of people, filled with numerous includes and spaghetti code, accompanied by a request that asks 'could you take a look and possibly fix it?'

Damn no.

Interview with recruiter
Technical interview in general
Technical interview for system design
Technical interview and live coding leetcode bullshit
Interview with the team
Interview with CEO

Hiring is so broken

Hey HR, fuck your ATS, throw it away and burn it. Stop with that automatic filtering bullshit. Use humans to source humans

One of the best articles I’ve ever read about Austria and Vienna - “If the world once ends, I'll move to Vienna, because that's where everything happens fifty years later”

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/2/26/austria-needs-a-vision/

Austria: A Fearful Country In Need Of A Vision

Some very personal thoughts about the future of Austria.

Tried new terminal on #MacOS. #Alacritty was neat, but Warp requires signup/signin, which is a no-go for me
I've been getting ads from IBM for modernizing COBOL codebases with AI and now I'm concerned all the money in my bank is going to disappear.

Here's some ridiculously exciting news...

One of the most useful nerdy documents on the internet is "Beej's Guide to Network Programming", a comprehensive tutorial on C socket programming that's been continually improved since 1995

I just found out Beej has a new guide (started in March 2023) called "Beej’s Guide to Networking Concepts" - which teaches networking concepts using Python!

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet0/

Beej's Guide to Networking Concepts

Beej's Guide to Networking Concepts