Daily Shaarli

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August 15, 2024

Why We Picked AGPL - ParadeDB
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I wish more product companies would pick this license. Going for AGPL with a support and/or double license offering is a strong model in my opinion.

Garbage Collection and Metastability - Marc's Blog

Interesting, it confirms garbage collectors can be the source of unrecoverable performance degradation in request based systems.

blocking=render: Why would you do that?!
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A new HTML attribute to keep an eye on. I can expect people to abuse it with hard to debug problems in the frontend if you don't know it is there.

Breaking Up Google

Of course it sounds complicated to break Google up... but that's not the point. It's about avoiding its monopolistic position, the fact that it's complicated is just another symptom.

Some thoughts on OpenSSH 9.8's PerSourcePenalties feature

Clearly a new OpenSSH feature to keep an eye on. This should improved security of the server by default. That said, it needs to be a bit more in the wild before knowing how to best tune it.

slow TCP connect on Windows

This is indeed surprising behavior and specific to Windows. If you wonder why TCP connect is slow and you got IPv6 support active this might be why.