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Top 25 stories on lobste.rs:
๐ Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/
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๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/gj8uup/static_web_hosting_on_intel_n150_freebsd
๐ What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good?
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/crafting-interpreters-intro/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/jlf6y8/what_makes_intro_crafting_interpreters
๐ The lost cause of the Lisp machines
https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/11/18/the-lost-cause-of-the-lisp-machines/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/rifpe8/lost_cause_lisp_machines
๐ Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/nac5wa/cloudflare_outage_on_november_18_2025
๐ Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit
https://linderud.dev/blog/self-hosting-dns-for-no-fun-but-a-little-profit/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/pmsbte/self_hosting_dns_for_no_fun_little_profit
๐ Rebecca Heineman - from homelessness to porting Doom
https://corecursive.com/doomed-to-fail-with-burger-becky/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/wtnzei/rebecca_heineman_from_homelessness
๐ What Killed Perl?
https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl
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๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/0m6yln/what_killed_perl
๐ Why BSDs?
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/why-bsds/
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๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/gdwxd5/why_bsds
๐ Twenty years of Django releases
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/19/twenty-years-of-django-releases/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/idtphq/twenty_years_django_releases
๐ Specialized CSV readers for Rust leveraging hybrid SIMD techniques
https://docs.rs/simd-csv
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/liq0sa/specialized_csv_readers_for_rust
๐ A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ShebangRelativePathSurprise?showcomments
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/1rluks/surprise_with_how_handles_its_program
๐ Announcing Lix 2.94 โAรงaรญ na tigelaโ
https://lix.systems/blog/2025-11-18-lix-2.94-release/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/lqsrgo/announcing_lix_2_94_acai_na_tigela
๐ My next chapter with Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/t37jcs/my_next_chapter_with_mastodon
๐ Hachi: An Image search engine
https://eagledot.xyz/hachi.md.html
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/6ufew7/hachi_image_search_engine
๐ A Month of Chat-Oriented Programming
https://checkeagle.com/checklists/njr/a-month-of-chat-oriented-programming/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/0r5kmb/month_chat_oriented_programming
๐ Experiment: making TypeScript immutable-by-default
https://evanhahn.com/typescript-immutability-experiment/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/hhuu5z/experiment_making_typescript_immutable
๐ Are large language models worth it?
https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/are-llms-worth-it.html
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/vwdvly/are_large_language_models_worth_it
๐ vibesdk: An open-source vibe coding platform that helps you build your own vibe-coding platform, built entirely on Cloudflare stack
https://github.com/cloudflare/vibesdk
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/1ckynu/vibesdk_open_source_vibe_coding_platform
๐ 6 years after too much crypto
https://bfswa.substack.com/p/6-years-after-too-much-crypto
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/nnor3p/6_years_after_too_much_crypto
๐ An actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5
https://github.com/riot-ml/riot
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/yit3fo/actor_model_multi_core_scheduler_for
๐ Inside a global campaign hijacking open-source project identities
https://www.fullstory.com/blog/inside-a-global-campaign-hijacking-open-source-project-identities/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/t7mtqi/inside_global_campaign_hijacking_open
๐ Building with Distributed Actors: What and Why
https://withblue.ink/2025/11/19/distributed-actors-model.html
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๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/z7hwno/building_with_distributed_actors_what
๐ When high availability brings downtime
https://medium.com/learnings-from-the-paas/when-high-availability-brings-downtime-7a6261b0ef1c
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/gfl26c/when_high_availability_brings_downtime
๐ A 'small' vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS
https://stephank.nl/p/2025-11-17-a-small-vanilla-kubernetes-install-on-nixos.html
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/i8ez2g/small_vanilla_kubernetes_install_on
๐ Adventures in upgrading Proxmox
https://blog.vasi.li/adventures-in-upgrading-proxmox/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/pkuck9/adventures_upgrading_proxmox
Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
Compare static web hosting performance on an Intel N150 using the same nginx.conf across FreeBSD jails, SmartOS zones, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, focusing on HTTP vs HTTPS and TLS CPU usage.
it-notes.dragas.net ยท IT Notes
Link author: 
Stefano Marinelli@stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it
๐ข New Changelog interview!
Spencer Chang caught our attention with the alive internet theory website, but he creates all kinds of computery things to bring people together around play, connection, and creation. Spencer's experiments with computing-infused objects inspired him to create an entire line of internet sculptures and real-world computing shrines that will hopefully inspire all of us to keep the internet alive and flourishing for years to come...
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@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber if you're not already familiar with the rabbit hole, the history of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg_1000 is wild! mass-produced subscription service generic muzak vinyl albums for retail shopping chains in the 50s-60s, the sheer VOLUME of available kitsch is difficult to comprehend. There's plenty available from above-board and below-board sources, including the archive https://archive.org/details/Seeburg1000_2
I decided to make my aunt a CD out of one of their Christmas albums as a gift one year, just low-fi 50's instrumentals, it gave her SO much nostalgia for her childhood, I wasn't expecting it to be a hit but a nice surprise :)
@daemonicusprincemel @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber not directly related, but I may never get another chance to share this intact Muzak volume control at my local electrolysis clinic.
Gov. Abbott's office redacts pages of emails about Elon Musk
Link: https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-11-19/texas-governor-abbott-elon-musk-emails-redacted
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983746
Top 25 stories on lobste.rs:
๐ Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/gj8uup/static_web_hosting_on_intel_n150_freebsd
๐ What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good?
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/crafting-interpreters-intro/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/jlf6y8/what_makes_intro_crafting_interpreters
๐ The lost cause of the Lisp machines
https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/11/18/the-lost-cause-of-the-lisp-machines/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/rifpe8/lost_cause_lisp_machines
๐ Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/nac5wa/cloudflare_outage_on_november_18_2025
๐ Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit
https://linderud.dev/blog/self-hosting-dns-for-no-fun-but-a-little-profit/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/pmsbte/self_hosting_dns_for_no_fun_little_profit
๐ Rebecca Heineman - from homelessness to porting Doom
https://corecursive.com/doomed-to-fail-with-burger-becky/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/wtnzei/rebecca_heineman_from_homelessness
๐ What Killed Perl?
https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl
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๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/0m6yln/what_killed_perl
๐ Why BSDs?
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/why-bsds/
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๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/gdwxd5/why_bsds
๐ Twenty years of Django releases
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/19/twenty-years-of-django-releases/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/idtphq/twenty_years_django_releases
๐ Specialized CSV readers for Rust leveraging hybrid SIMD techniques
https://docs.rs/simd-csv
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/liq0sa/specialized_csv_readers_for_rust
๐ A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ShebangRelativePathSurprise?showcomments
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/1rluks/surprise_with_how_handles_its_program
๐ Announcing Lix 2.94 โAรงaรญ na tigelaโ
https://lix.systems/blog/2025-11-18-lix-2.94-release/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/lqsrgo/announcing_lix_2_94_acai_na_tigela
๐ My next chapter with Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/t37jcs/my_next_chapter_with_mastodon
๐ Hachi: An Image search engine
https://eagledot.xyz/hachi.md.html
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/6ufew7/hachi_image_search_engine
๐ A Month of Chat-Oriented Programming
https://checkeagle.com/checklists/njr/a-month-of-chat-oriented-programming/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/0r5kmb/month_chat_oriented_programming
๐ Experiment: making TypeScript immutable-by-default
https://evanhahn.com/typescript-immutability-experiment/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/hhuu5z/experiment_making_typescript_immutable
๐ Are large language models worth it?
https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/are-llms-worth-it.html
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/vwdvly/are_large_language_models_worth_it
๐ vibesdk: An open-source vibe coding platform that helps you build your own vibe-coding platform, built entirely on Cloudflare stack
https://github.com/cloudflare/vibesdk
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/1ckynu/vibesdk_open_source_vibe_coding_platform
๐ 6 years after too much crypto
https://bfswa.substack.com/p/6-years-after-too-much-crypto
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/nnor3p/6_years_after_too_much_crypto
๐ An actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5
https://github.com/riot-ml/riot
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/yit3fo/actor_model_multi_core_scheduler_for
๐ Inside a global campaign hijacking open-source project identities
https://www.fullstory.com/blog/inside-a-global-campaign-hijacking-open-source-project-identities/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/t7mtqi/inside_global_campaign_hijacking_open
๐ Building with Distributed Actors: What and Why
https://withblue.ink/2025/11/19/distributed-actors-model.html
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/z7hwno/building_with_distributed_actors_what
๐ When high availability brings downtime
https://medium.com/learnings-from-the-paas/when-high-availability-brings-downtime-7a6261b0ef1c
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/gfl26c/when_high_availability_brings_downtime
๐ A 'small' vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS
https://stephank.nl/p/2025-11-17-a-small-vanilla-kubernetes-install-on-nixos.html
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/i8ez2g/small_vanilla_kubernetes_install_on
๐ Adventures in upgrading Proxmox
https://blog.vasi.li/adventures-in-upgrading-proxmox/
๐ฅ Score: 0
๐ฌ https://lobste.rs/s/pkuck9/adventures_upgrading_proxmox
Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
Compare static web hosting performance on an Intel N150 using the same nginx.conf across FreeBSD jails, SmartOS zones, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, focusing on HTTP vs HTTPS and TLS CPU usage.
it-notes.dragas.net ยท IT Notes
Link author: Stefano Marinelli@stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it
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I'm going to spend the rest of the day wandering brooklyn in search of the police station from brooklyn 99. wish me luck
this checks out lmao
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moving to the US so I can finally release my tell-all book:
"life before Maine"
Wurde ein Bundeskanzler jemals in der รffentlichkeit so gedemรผtigt?
Wรคhrend der heutigen Rede von Friedrich Merz bei der Talisman Preisverleihung in Berlin verlassen etliche Gรคste den Saal.
(Ich kann sie verstehen, ich ertrage ihn auch nicht. Mit der Verleihung des TALISMAN zeichnet die Deutschlandstiftung Integration Menschen aus, die sich durch ihr Engagement fรผr den Zusammenhalt unserer Gesellschaft verdient gemacht haben.)
we should ask @dom96.picheta.me@bsky.brid.gyDominik Picheta
Systemd's run0 is going to make me learn Polkit, isn't it, so that I can force members of group wheel to have to authenticate as root instead of themselves (and so polkit will stop asking me to pick which group-wheel login to authenticate as).
This is my not entirely happy face.
(I have no deep objections to run0 as a thing, it certainly deals with a variety of long-standing su/sudo problems. Although it adds its own limitations, it's not for everything.)
Had a couple of conversations with folk recently about the joys of time sheets โ and why tracking an individuals work is often / usually a terrible idea, as well being a PITA.
But it reminded me of a practice I've found super useful in the past when I've been forced to do it myself.
TL;DR: Don't track time on task. Track interruptions.
Block out the time for the primary task - then log and subtract time spent on interrupting tasks. I found this useful coz: (1/3)
I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W with MicroPython on OpenSUSE Leap 16.0.
The terminal emulator minicom is not available on Leap, but picocom is:
$ sudo zypper install picocom
$ sudo usermod -aG dialout $USER
Log out, and back in.
$ picocom --quiet --baud 115200 /dev/ttyACM0
Type Ctrl-a Ctrl-x to exit.
Thonny IDE can be installed as a flatpak from flathub.
The minicom terminal emulator can be used from a Tumbleweed distrobox, but then you need to setup udev rules, see link.
ask your doctor if lying down in the forest to be consumed by the earth is right for you
Trauma freezes you in time
they should make burner laptops you can snap in half after one zoom meeting
And this is why @tangled.org@bsky.brid.gyTangled and #atproto in general is really promising. They provide centralized indexer over decentralized data. So someday, if bsky or Tangled becomes an evil, we can still opt-out and choose different indexer to view the *our* data.
(3/3)
Because we've all seen what's happening with Youtube. We cannot opt out because all our data over the decades is there, locked behind Google's service. I can degoogle the search engine but not YT. While google doesn't own the web, YT owns the videos. This kind of things should not happen. (2/3)
To be honest, I don't hate github that much. I do trust them and actually I like them if I have to choose a side. Sure, their recent movements are questionable, but they are yet neutral enough as a hub. But the problem here is that GH is centralized. That itself is enough to get feared. (1/3)
Ways to stop being a man:
- Transitioning
- Growing feathers
Mozilla's TABS API helps developers build AI agents to automate web tasks, and interested users can now sign up for access.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/mozilla-tabs-api-ai-web-agents
AI will make your ex-wife come back, and now she's also got a younger, hotter sister. Only with AI.
Have your children gone no-contact with you? Well AI will make them love you again.
Say what you want about the problems of social media today, but itโs kind of magical that I find a 50-year-old memo from Dan Ingalls announcing bitblt availability on the Alto coming across my Mastodon timeline, letting me send a โHappy 50th anniversary of bitblt for all those that celebrateโ message to my former-Xerox-PARC buddy. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@fvzappa/115574872559813280
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Why does Jared Leto get cast in *anything*? Lee Pace is *right* *there*
Inside a global campaign hijacking open-source project identities via 
@nfriedlyNathan Friedly https://lobste.rs/s/t7mtqi #security
https://www.fullstory.com/blog/inside-a-global-campaign-hijacking-open-source-project-identities/
I gotta say... I met so many cool people at W3C #TPAC
It was especially great meeting all the incredible champions who have dedicated their careers to accessibility work.
OMG new Stargate?! And it's not a reboot?! (via 
@JonathanGerlach)
As someone who was there, I will say that Perl 6 absolutely killed Perl. It was always coming Real Soon Now but was never going to be backwards-compatible with Perl 5, so every new line of Perl 5 code you wrote was instant technical debt; something you were (in theory) going to have to rewrite in the not-too-distant future.
Your choices were to wait for Perl 6 or switch to a different language. If you waited, you were waiting for a long time. Like most people, I eventually switched.
A lot of this comes down to naming. If they'd called it Raku from the get-go rather than Perl 6, nobody would have seen it as obsoleting Perl 5.
This gets at one of my longstanding hobby horses, to wit: names mean things, or more accurately, names REPRESENT things. They are handles our brain uses to grasp abstractions. Applying the same name to wildly different things is slathering grease on the handle. The brain can't grasp it. It slides right off.
If you are making a new version of an existing product, and that new version is so different as to effectively be a completely new product, just give the new version a different name. It will save you so much heartburn.
Happy #InternationalMensDay to my fellow dudes!
Great opportunity to reflect on our shared privilege. We all need to work together to address toxic masculinity and gender inequality that are at the root of so many of today's world's problems.
We need to learn to call each other out, just saying "not cool, man" can make a big difference.
And we also need to embrace being vulnerable and not be afraid to ask other men for help. And be there for other men seeking help.
It's not the responsibility of other gender groups to provide us with free emotional labor.
โจ Author Spotlight: 
@ricmacRichard MacManus โจ Richard sat down with ActivityPub creator Evan Prodromou to talk about the protocol's history and the future of decentralized social media.
https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse
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US gov is giving $1bn for Microsoft to restart a nuclear power plant at a former nuclear power plant disaster site, because AI. https://gizmodo.com/us-approves-1b-loan-to-restart-three-mile-island-as-microsoft-data-centers-drive-demand-2000688138
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I just installed 
@cadeyXe 
's Anubis on one of my personal domains, because my little hobby website doesn't need to support 639K scraper requests per day.
A million thanks, Xe!
i support men celebrating international men's day so we don't have to hear "why don't we have an international men's day???" every fucking year on on international women's day
The November 18th, 2025 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:
We discussed Podman updates and support utilities such as a GUI for various operating systems, the FreeBSD OCI Runtime announcement, did a deep dive into kqueue, kevent, knote, klist, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
Tech workers!
Open Source now powers just about every technology out there.
If you find yourself in that magical position of having more money than time to donate, please reach out to the projects you use and the projects you love.
The global to do list ranging from coding to documentation and more is endless but we all do our part.
I can guide you on OpenZFS, bhyve, and several aspects of FreeBSD.
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Installing #openbsd is easy, but what does it take to keep your system in trim?
Here is a piece I wrote, "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html to provide some pointers (also at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html if tracking is not a thing you worry about) #maintenance #sysadmin #dailytasks #dailydriver
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Stefano Marinelli
Glyph
Darius Kazemi
Evan Prodromou
