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https://caddyserver.com/ Caddy is written in Go, and make use of native fibers/green threads/goroutines.

Middle ground between dropping [1] and buffering is Active Queue Management as wtallis pointed out above. State of the art AQM on Linux nowadays is CoDel [2]. Big network gear vend…

> Wrong: you see 10KB/s download speed because you are not throttling the incoming packets but the outgoing packets! Yep. TC's default is to policy outgoing traffic, which in OP's …

If you don't need hierarchical classes[1], just use tbf (token bucket filter) instead of htb (hierararchy token bucket) - it's more efficient, more compact, and gives you access to…

> I wish there were an API to detect how much data still hasn't been acked. From example code attached to the original article (Linux only): int outstanding; ioctl(fd, SIOCOUTQ, &o…

And that is exactly why open IM protocols and 3rd party clients are so important. If both you and your correspondents do use 3rd party IM client ([1], [2], etc), then just run OTR2…

If this [1] Lenovo employee's answer is a real deal, and this was in fact sanctioned by MS, I wonder if their actual goal was to prevent people from installing Windows 8/7/whatever…

Have a look lenovo forums [1] (also linked prominently from original article), where OP has following to say: I am attempting to install ubuntu 16.04 on my yoga 900. The bios can s…

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1174/

And for an example of co-existence of competing languages, see javascript triggering flash/actionscript (e.g. for clipboard access) and vice-versa (e.g. for DOM access). Both are s…

This was mostly from a personal experience of running couple of dozens Raspberry Pies. To elaborate: - Cheap cards would start corrupting right in the middle of first "apt-get upda…

Designed-for use-case for an SD card is a buffer where a photo/video camera will save footage sequentially, then you copy everything to your PC/laptop and reformat the card. When u…

I wonder how well would it perform when used in place of laptop's system disk (i.e. with tons of small files and very random read/write access patterns).

Two hard things in computer science: - cache invalidation: check (root cause of the actual bug); - naming things: check (terrible name for an article, as others already pointed out…

The only time I had to use (admittedly annoying) HP GUI installer is for scanner part of HP CM1015 MFP. Printer part of the same MFP worked fine with just normal CUPS.

This 30-minutes-then-shutdown annoyance looks to be optional and disabled at the very least on the x230 machine that trmm is hacking on: https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot…