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pouuleton Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program

Something like this?

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html

pouuleton Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

The tags are exported : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/exporting-your-pocket-l...

What is contained in the export file?

Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links. Additionally, the export does contain tags or highlights.

pouuleton Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent

And for even more details, you can look at the relevant patch: https://lwn.net/ml/all/20241021015311.95468-1-jdamato@fastly...

The power efficiency seems to be limited to "network applications using epoll".

The 30% the article talks about seems to be benchmarked on memcached, and here is the ~30 lines diff they're probably talking about: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/martinkarsten/irqsuspend/m...

pouuleton Gary Bowser and gaming's most infamous piracy case

For the interested, Darknet Diaries did a great episode about that case:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/136/

pouuleton Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts

This man claims to have reproduced the same kind of effects with a simple ferromagnetic sample:

https://nitter.net/VanGennepD/status/1688052003216261120

pouuleton OpenWorm – A computational model of C. elegans worm

Reminds me of the first episode of Devs ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/ ) where an artificial intelligence engineer does a demo about syncing, and then predicting the future movements of a nematode worm. Great show by the way!

pouuleton The origin of the strong form of superconductivity

This made me think about this nice little TV show: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/

pouuleton Going multipath without Multipath TCP

There is much more than "two commonly deployed used" of MPTCP, to name a few : OpenMPTCPRouter is an improved fork from OVH Overthebox project ( https://www.ovhtelecom.fr/overthebox/ ), Tessares is a company that provide key in hand MPTCP solutions for many ISPs ( https://www.tessares.net/customers ). MPTCP was designed to be transparent for the end user, so you might be using it without knowing it, from your phone, your computer or your internet box

pouuleton Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?

Pretty new to it (~3 months), I've been using it in docker, using https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

The official docker version looked way too complicated imo -> https://github.com/bitwarden/server/blob/master/scripts/run....

Pretty straightforward, lightweight, no issues so far

pouuleton Show HN: Deadrop.us

When you try to create an empty Drop, you get a weird message like this :

{"iv":"6p7sXVuJe+MR9EcAvSYNxQ","v":1,"iter":1000,"ks":128,"ts":64,"mode":"ccm","adata":"","cipher":"aes","salt":"A+pgCtAsfyQ","ct":"DNsHqh4bMEs"}