Brave adds support for IPFS distributed P2P websites
The Brave browser beta has added support for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer protocol alternative to the traditional centralized web server.
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The official Raspberry Pi accessory distributor conundrum
Why isn’t the Norwegian keyboard layout variant of the official Raspberry Pi keyboard accessory available for sale in Norway? Norway must be its only market.
What is Brave browser’s market share
The Brave browsers blocks the scripts that usually tracks web browser market share trends. I’ve independently measured Brave’s market share among readers.
A technical and privacy review of Cloudflare Web Analytics
Cloudflare has launched a new free web analytics/visitor-counting service. It promises to put end-user privacy first. The service has plenty of room to improve.
Chrome to remove HTTP/2 Push
Chrome intends to remove support for server push; an underutilized performance feature introduced in HTTP/2. It cites low usage and implementation complexity.
Rollerblade wheels are a great upgrade for your office chair
Rollerblade-style wheels don’t resist movement and help you stay slightly less inactive while spending hours in your office chair.
The projector lamp trap
Projector bulbs have a limited life-time, and getting hold of them can be difficult. Here are my experience from owning three projectors over the last decade.
I replaced the aging battery on my MacBook Pro
The battery on my seven-year-old MacBook Pro 15″ had begun to swell and replacing it myself was way cheaper than via an authorized dealer.
How to resize ZRAM (compressed swap) managed by systemd/zram-generator
zram-generator’s default configuration is 50% of RAM or 4 GB. You may want to explore increasing these limits if you’re throttled by low memory or swap performance.
Don’t super glue heatsinks to your Raspberry Pi
Super glue is heat-insulating and shouldn’t be used to attach an aluminum heatsink to thermal hotspots on your Raspberry Pi. Use thermal glue/pads instead.
The entirely predictable problems with the Vulnonym naming scheme
An automated naming scheme intended to rid the security research field of “sensational names” predictably creates sensational, ambiguous, and suggestive names.
TeamViewer RPM repo left door open for malicious packages
A configuration error made the TeamViewer RPM repository vulnerable to an attacker-in-the-middle substituting TeamViewer with its own GPG keys and software.
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Get the Apple News app for macOS in unsupported regions
Article updated at .
Save-Data aware HTTP/2 server push
Update (): Chrome has announced plans to remove support for server push.
Accelerate redirects with HTTP/2 server push
Update (): This didn’t turn out quite the way I’d envisioned. Chrome has announced plans to remove support for server push.
Which CDN providers support stale-while-revalidate?
Update (): Corrected table to reflect that Cloudflare does not support asynchronous background revalidation.
Promote your Onion site with the Onion-Location HTTP header
Update (): Both Brave for Linux, macOS, and Windows; and Onion Browser for iOS has added support for Onion-Location. Neither browsers are affiliated with the Tor Project, but can connect to the Tor Onion network.
How to enable hibernation on Fedora
Update (): The above assumption is no longer the default. Starting with version 33, Fedora no longer creates a swap partition by default, but relies on ZRAM instead. You still need a storage drive backed swap partition as you still can’t swap volatile memory into itself when the system powers down.