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GalaxySnail

joined 9/9/22, 4:06 PM has 829 karma

• Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

  by GalaxySnail on 2/3/26, 4:33 AM, with 161 comments

• SRE deep dive into Linux Page Cache

  by GalaxySnail on 1/6/26, 2:47 PM, with 0 comments

• Vali, a C library for Varlink

  by GalaxySnail on 10/10/25, 1:13 PM, with 15 comments

• CDC File Transfer

  by GalaxySnail on 10/1/25, 2:38 AM, with 102 comments

• Changing the Cursor with CSS for Better User Experience (Or Fun)

  by GalaxySnail on 9/21/25, 9:22 AM, with 0 comments

• How Binary JSON Works in YDB (2022)

  by GalaxySnail on 9/6/25, 1:32 PM, with 0 comments

• Wayland Compositors – Why and How to Handle Privileged Clients (2014)

  by GalaxySnail on 8/25/25, 5:08 AM, with 0 comments

• PuTTY has a new website

  by GalaxySnail on 8/16/25, 3:35 AM, with 283 comments

• Hashcat v7.0.0 Released

  by GalaxySnail on 8/2/25, 3:10 AM, with 0 comments

• Gradual negation types and the Python type system

  by GalaxySnail on 7/17/25, 6:56 AM, with 0 comments

• Linux as a UEFI bootloader and kexecing windows (2022)

  by GalaxySnail on 5/8/25, 12:55 PM, with 0 comments

• Par2cmdline v1.0.0 Released

  by GalaxySnail on 4/30/25, 8:59 AM, with 0 comments

• Introduction to seccomp: BPF Linux syscall filter (2014)

  by GalaxySnail on 4/11/25, 2:31 PM, with 0 comments

• Login Managers: An Introduction (2022)

  by GalaxySnail on 3/22/25, 2:45 PM, with 0 comments

• Reassessing Wayland

  by GalaxySnail on 2/13/25, 10:02 AM, with 59 comments

• Allocator Hints for Btrfs

  by GalaxySnail on 2/7/25, 10:46 AM, with 17 comments

• Curl features experimental support for HTTPS RR

  by GalaxySnail on 2/5/25, 12:32 PM, with 0 comments

• QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support

  by GalaxySnail on 12/11/24, 8:48 PM, with 50 comments

• Python Type System Conformance Test Results

  by GalaxySnail on 11/29/24, 9:33 AM, with 2 comments

• Simple NDP Proxy to Route Your IPv6 VPN Addresses (2019)

  by GalaxySnail on 11/27/24, 8:31 AM, with 0 comments

• GUD: An open USB display protocol

  by GalaxySnail on 11/23/24, 2:23 PM, with 0 comments

• One method declaration; two Zig annoyances

  by GalaxySnail on 11/21/24, 11:16 AM, with 1 comments

• Termux Selected for NLnet NGI Mobifree Grant

  by GalaxySnail on 11/15/24, 10:36 AM, with 2 comments

• Fresh Take on Linux Uncached Buffered I/O "Rwf_uncached" Nets 65~75% Improvement

  by GalaxySnail on 11/12/24, 6:30 PM, with 0 comments

• Modern USB gadget on Linux and how to integrate it with systemd (Part 1) (2019)

  by GalaxySnail on 10/7/24, 6:46 PM, with 2 comments

• Mozilla Thunderbird gets system tray notifications

  by GalaxySnail on 7/24/24, 12:36 PM, with 2 comments

• File Descriptor Limits (2021)

  by GalaxySnail on 6/14/24, 11:02 AM, with 0 comments

• Enabling a USB Serial Console on Linux (2022)

  by GalaxySnail on 6/8/24, 1:05 PM, with 5 comments

• drm/panic: Add a drm panic handler

  by GalaxySnail on 5/26/24, 3:56 PM, with 0 comments

• Setting the TZ environment variable avoids system calls (2017)

  by GalaxySnail on 5/21/24, 6:11 PM, with 0 comments

• The Safe Pinned Initialization Problem in Rust

  by GalaxySnail on 5/14/24, 10:00 AM, with 0 comments

• dlopen() Metadata for ELF Files

  by GalaxySnail on 5/8/24, 3:44 PM, with 0 comments

• PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default

  by GalaxySnail on 4/26/24, 11:55 AM, with 115 comments

• Zig 0.12.0 Release Notes

  by GalaxySnail on 4/20/24, 10:09 AM, with 58 comments

• Improved __attribute__((cleanup)) Through defer

  by GalaxySnail on 3/16/24, 3:07 PM, with 0 comments

• The shrinking role of ETXTBSY (2021)

  by GalaxySnail on 3/1/24, 1:23 PM, with 0 comments

• Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition

  by GalaxySnail on 12/20/23, 11:57 AM, with 24 comments

• Why not rely on app developer to handle security? (2021)

  by GalaxySnail on 12/1/23, 8:51 AM, with 0 comments

• Why glibc's fstat() is slow

  by GalaxySnail on 9/28/23, 5:31 PM, with 0 comments

• Mpv now supports Vulkan Video Decoding

  by GalaxySnail on 5/31/23, 7:08 AM, with 0 comments

• Report on platform-compliance for cargo directories

  by GalaxySnail on 5/24/23, 5:36 AM, with 0 comments

• Efficient Game of Life in Python

  by GalaxySnail on 4/21/23, 1:22 AM, with 0 comments

• Benchmark for interactive zsh – plugins, frameworks and plugin managers

  by GalaxySnail on 3/15/23, 12:19 PM, with 0 comments