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In the recent past, a typical client/server environment consisted of multiple clients connected to a central database server. A central database architecture is a system where all data is stored in a single centralized location. When client A from Si...
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
If I navigate to https://blog.cloudflare.com/, my browser will connect to a remote TCP address from the local IP address assigned to my machine, and a randomly chosen local TCP port. What happens if I then decide to head to another site?
Libreboot – Libreboot 20230319 released!
Digs into a unexpected memory leak when using Zig's FixedBufferAllocator
Vigneshwaran C explained the internals of PostgreSQL Logical Replication during PGConf India - if you were not able to attend, you can read all here.
Yet another JDK release that is on track - JDK 20 GA is almost here . Another opportunity to summarize changes and improvements in Hotspot´s stop-the-world garbage collectors for the JDK 20 release.
In this blog post we discuss the details of two vulnerabilities we discovered in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference implementation code. These two vulnerabilities, an out-of-bounds write (CVE-2023-1017) and an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2023-1018), affected several TPM 2.0 software implementations (such as…
New version of ViableS runs in a sandbox, with no shared folders, and can now be isolated from networks. So how well does Ventura work without internet?
I’m excited to announce that the translation of the “ PostgreSQL 14 Internals ” book is finally complete thanks to the amazing work of Liudmila Mantrova. The final part of the book considers each of the index types in great detail. It explains and demonstrates how access methods, operator classes, and data types work…
If you’re new to the Arm ecosystem, consider this a quick primer on terms you likely have seen before but might have questions about.
Note: If you're here because you just want to watch Netflix on Asahi, install this (Edit: for Arch users, grab this . Fedora users can install the widevine-installer package), and then scroll down to the "Netflix-Specific Annoyances" section.
Just one instruction at a time!
From the Zed Blog: A deep-dive into the graphical underpinnings of GPUI, the hardware-accelerated framework that powers Zed's user interface.
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to be a centralized, integrated product because that’s what our customers need. This requirement and the design choices we’ve made to meet this need create some daily efficiency challenges for our team. As a remote-first company, we’re…
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
The time has come to talk about something uncomfortable to a lot of you. You’ve been using legacy methods for far too long. It’s time to move to IPv6. But, of course, there’s a lot more to IPv6 than ‘just’ switching everything over. A lot of systems in the world still haven’t…
Legacy software systems in 2026: why they are still used, myths about legacy and Java, tips from our engineers, and when to upgrade Java.
Someone mentioned cargo-bloat the other day and it reminded me that I have been wanting to measure the code size for generic functions in librsvg, and see if there are improvements to be made.
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I recently came home to visit with family, but right now as I write this, it's 1:00am and I'm running memtest86+ by myself in the basement.
Another guest post by @NeoMoevius from Twitter. Same as earlier with the Native Urban Terror on FreeBSD article. This time it will be about setting up Home Audio Studio on a FreeBSD 13.1 system. Th…
This is the second post in the series about effortless performance improvements in C++. Check the first post to get the full story!
Twitter user opdroid1234 remarked that they are getting more performance out of the ARM nodes than out of the Intel nodes on Amazon's cloud (AWS). I found previously that the Graviton 3 processors had less bandwidth than comparable Intel systems. However, I have not done much in terms of raw compute power. The Intel…
I’m often surprised that people continually have fundamental misconceptions about how distributed systems behave. I myself shared many of these misconceptions, so I try not to demean or dismiss but rather educate and enlighten, hopefully while sounding less preachy than that just did. I continue to learn only by…
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ESET researchers are the first to publish an analysis of BlackLotus, the first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot.
