Matej Ľach ✅ @MatejLach@social.matej-lach.me

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@ndpi On Linux you can simulate a low-end CPU:

$ sudo apt install cpulimit
$ ps aux|grep Program
$ cpulimit -l30 -p<Program-PID>

Src: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96387/run-program-at-lower-cpu-speed

Oh. This is cool. Open-source, E2E optional, messaging using email as the back-end.

https://delta.chat/

via https://jlelse.blog/posts/email-messenger-delta-chat

If you were wondering whether slapping an SSD cache on a Mastodon database would make a performance difference... yes.

In the last month, 91% of IOPS on the entire system have been served out of cache rather than hitting the spinning rust.

There are three hard problems in computer science: standardizing on a single chat application with your friends and off by one errors

Curious to try something like this for Plausible and see how it goes. Right now we pretty much respond at any waking hour!

The docs on scaling up a Mastodon instance are quite helpful, if you're interested: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/

The problem with Medium is that it’s full of people for whom being read is more important than writing.

I guess this might be relevant to #Telegram users. Or not.

>Security researcher Ahmed Hassan has shown that spoofing the Android’s “People Nearby” feature allows him to pinpoint the physical location of Telegram users

#BruceSchneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/01/finding-the-location-of-telegram-users.html

I can’t believe that in [current year] basic features like [literally hardest problem to solve] isn’t fixed yet. Absolute laziness on the part of [massively underfunded open source org]

Purism and Linux 5.9 and 5.10

"...this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.9 and 5.10 development cycles."

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-9-and-5-10/

#librem5 #privacy #linux

It's always a little scary when Music Brainz Picard completely fails to identify some (but not all?) the tracks from a widely publicized, well documented, commercially released album.

I have the 6 disc set of the Savory Collection, which appears to be in a different order, and include slightly different tracks, than the more widely available iTunes releases.

Back in the day, third-party Android ROMs really changed up how the OS looked and behaved. These days, it seems like most ROMs are attempting to stick as close as possible to “stock” or Pixel-style Android as possible. Are there any popular *funky* ROMs still around?

The Most Backdoor-looking Bug I've Ever Seen - Cryptography Dispatches: https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cryptography-dispatches-the-most-backdoor-looking/