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How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS)
Why throw away your old Camera? In this guide we'll show you how simple it is to reuse your old Camera as a webcam using the NixOS linux distribution.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,377 posts.
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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
Why I uninstalled Plex Media Server after over a decade and migrated my movie and TV show collection to Jellyfin instead of Emby.
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Tracing HTTP Requests with tcpflow
PagerDuty went off very early in the morning, and our hero cursed his bad luck and received the phone call. He made PagerDuty repeat the message twice, but couldn’t understand the message. He pressed the number to acknowledge the incident. He opened the MacBook and found the slack message from the PagerDuty bot more…
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AWS IAM Roles, a tale of unnecessary complexity
This is going to be a highly opinionated blog post. I think AWS is great and use it daily, but their implementation of IAM is unnecessarily complicated.
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Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus
TL;DR: Mastodon’s Sidekiq deferred execution jobs are the limiting factor for scaling federated traffic in a single-server or small cluster deployment. Sidekiq performance scales poorly under a single process model, and can be limited by database performance in a deployment of the default Dockerized configuration.
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Block web scanners with ipset and iptables
Anybody who runs an internet-facing webserver has seen their fair share of spammy scanners in the logs. It varies server to server, but some of mine get up to 15,000 scans per day. Almost all of these are harmless network mappers, but they still annoy me. Many are compromised hosts or belong to hackers & organized…
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Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
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Stop using low DNS TTLs (2019)
Guest Post: Why does half the Internet use a TTL of 1 minute or less?
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What chroot taught me about containers
In this article, the author explores the concept of containers and how they are essentially chrooted processes. They walk through the process of bu...
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Solving Common Problems with Kubernetes
A storytelling guide to starting k8s
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Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
Microsoft is increasingly standardizing on its in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution. Is this Microsoft Linux?
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Linux boot partitions and how to set them up
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
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An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts
“An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts” has moved to https://src-bin.com/substrate/blog/an-aws-account-just-for-getting-into-other-aws-accounts/ .
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Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale
Grafana Labs is helping enable continuous profiling at cloud native scale for the open source community and enterprises, giving developers a better understanding of resource usage of their code.
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One Million Database Connections
Learn how to use PlanetScale to safely include your database in your serverless functions without hitting connection limits in MySQL.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2022
Q3 2022 Drive Stats: Read the latest insights and check out the data.
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The McMurdo Wastewater Treatment Plant
Sweet, sweet humidity.
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Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
Want to know the best places to deploy your apps now that Heroku is ending their free dynos? We'll tell you.
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Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability
The GlobalSign blog is the top resource to see what's trending in public key infrastructure (PKI), SSL/TSL, digital signing solutions, cybersecurity & more!
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Writing systemd units that stop gracefully before shutdown
systemd Shutdown Units
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IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine
Today I’m excited to announce that we deployed our next-generation storage engine that’s built on InfluxDB IOx in our InfluxDB Cloud platform. #influxdb
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Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
Today, a change to our Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail for users with status code 530
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The Docker+WASM Technical Preview
Learn more about the Docker+Wasm Technical Preview that enables all developers to quickly & easily build applications that target Wasm runtimes.
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Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?
Cloudflare Pages 😍 I got into Cloudflare pages because it lets you host static websites with all the latest optimizations conveniently and for free. Setting up a static website with a custom domain is easy, and you get the benefits of automatic SSL, CDN, and latest version of HTTP3. This is how this blog is hosted and…
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Leaving the Cloud
Cloud services have been used by tech companies for many years, but it’s not the only way. Hear why 37signals is making the decision to go in another direction.
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Leveraging mispriced AWS spot instances
AWS creates a market for spot instance pricing, but this market is inefficient as customers don’t consider all instance types available. Leveraging this mispricing can save even more than spot pricing already does.
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MagicDNS is generally available
Tailscale’s MagicDNS is now GA and enabled by default for new tailnets. Say goodbye to IP address management and access your devices using simple, memorable DNS names for enhanced connectivity.