Storage
BtrFS vs Ext4 performance on random-read/write operations
I got a faster disk and investigate alternate file systems to fix a disk I/O performance bottlenecked. The difference between BtrFS and Ext4 were unexpected.
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Metadata
Put your image metadata to use: embed it in your image files
Put your existing image metadata to good use. Embed descriptions, copyright information, and more into your images to improve Bing/Google Image Search results.
HTML
HTML5 parsed as 4 with uppercase DOCTYPE in HTML Tidy
HTML5 documents could end up being parsed as legacy HTML4 documents in HTML Tidy (libtidy) depending on the DOCTYPE casing.
Copyright
Ctrl blog is now licensed under Creative Commons licenses
I’ve applied a permissive content license in hopes to enable more free-culture sharing and attract more incoming links.
WordPress
Enough of WordPress
WordPress no longer makes me happy, so I’m changing it out for something that does. A static-site generator is the best option for me.
Copyright
Copyright and the distributed peer-to-peer web
An investigation into the legal-side and international copyright law when publishing on distributed peer-to-peer internet alternatives.
Security
What’s with the tech media’s obsession with VPN services
VPN providers are good advertisers and also pay good money to make even [formerly] reputable tech media websites “recommend” their services.
Copyright
Aren’t AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
How can mass-copying pages from web publishers without a license not be mass-copyright infringement? The weird copyright law exemption that enables AMP Caches.
Web Browsers
Four interesting Firefox-derived web browsers
Stave off the looming Chromium monoculture with a Firefox-based web browser. Here’s a look at four of them: Cliqz, Tor Browser, Pale Moon, and Waterfox.
Apache HTTPD
Don’t rely on mod_negotiation to serve pre-compressed resources
Apache’s module for server-driven HTTP content negotiation isn’t suited to make decisions about which pre-compressed resource to serve.
ProtonMail vs Mailbox.org comparison
Comparison review of the two secure PGP-oriented email providers ProtonMail vs Mailbox.org. A huge price discrepancy for the same service.
DNS
Hurricane Electric secondary DNS adds support for TSIG authentication
I asked HE DNS if they had plans to support TSIG authenticated AXFR requests. Weeks later they rolled out support for the feature.