I've been using zstd compression on btrfs for a while now and it's excellent, most of my stuff is already compressed (movies, music) but my home directory (which is mostly comprised of text files) has shrunk greatly.
The next GRUB release (grub-2.04) includes my patch to add support for zstd compressed BtrFS filesystems, which should solve one of the major pain points of Zstd BtrFS compression.
A temporary work around in the meantime, I've used `chattr +C` on the directories I want to be exempt from zstd compression, so that grub can read those files.
Good point - the main reason I hadn't yet done this is because the whole thing is split into docker containers (static page, api and mail server) and couldn't decide the best way to put a certificate on it without moving to something like Vault.
I switched from nginx to HAProxy for my internal reverse-proxying needs and it is excellent, the configuration is a bit more verbose but it handles every app (including WebSockets, weird RPC, cookies etc) with ease.
I use a mix of wmutils[0] and windowchef[1] and they're great, lots of little programs (some < 10 LoC) but also some cool stuff like mouse support and borders etc. I've only ever had trouble with JAVA apps which is a simple fix (_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1)
This is a screenshot of my Linux desktop [2], I use these on OpenBSD as well without too much issue.
Found that one out after some digging, seems weird to me that AWT manages to screw this up, to this day, maybe I'll understand what cool trick they do which makes this a problem.
> I use these on OpenBSD as well without too much issue.
Portability is a major benefit of these little window managers, I even ran my dwm fork on Minix3 (on real hardware!), with some minor Make changes [0] as a bored teenager.
>The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
He'd made the classic mistake, the one he'd sworn he'd never make. He stole from his employers. He kept something for himself and tried to move it through a fence in Amsterdam. He still wasn't sure how he'd been discovered, not that it mattered now. He'd expected to die, then, but they only smiled. If course he was welcome, they told him, welcome to the money. And he was going to need it. Because -- still smiling -- they were going to make sure he never worked again.
They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin.
Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning or micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours.
The damage was minute, subtle and utterly effective.
For Case, who'd loved for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. In the bars he'd frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into a prison of his own flesh.
Early Gibson vs late Gibson begs the question -- What's more punk? Unfocused but incandescent adolescent rage or technically executed vicious critique?
I don't remember much rage or viciousness in Gibson, early or late - my overwhelming impression is of cool capers and if anything a general optimism about the future.
Ex-hacker is in desperate situation, agrees (reluctantly) to perform one more hack in exchange for getting out of said desperate situation, is the Neuromancer-ripped plot of many a bad hacker movie (Swordfish and Blackhat certainly qualify). Take away the tech and you have a pretty standard heist-film plot going back before Neuromancer.
A nice introduction to BGP is Peter Hessler's BGP-spamd (https://bgp-spamd.net), which is a creative use of BGP for sync'ing lists of blacklisted mail servers.
