Scratchpad for July 19 2020
- Focker
- A FreeBSD image/jail orchestration tool in the vein of Docker. Although I’m no fan of Docker, it will be interesting to see where this leads.
- Package Management on Linux, BSD, and Solaris
- A Package Management Phrase Book for RPM/yum/urpmi, apt/dpkg, pkg, pkg*, and pkg_*.
- How to live a happy life
- Five Oxford academics address this question from backgrounds of philosophy, practical ethics, psychology, psychiatry and Buddhist studies.
- When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived
- It’s about time that this happened globally.
- Understand Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E (802.11 n/ac/ax)
- Exhaustive summary of how to make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions and cut through all the marketing hype. Bring time, this is way more information than you ever wanted but you’ll be glad you stayed.
- FreeBSD jails with a single public IP address
- Nice writeup of how to do this.
- Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
- From the looks of it, an incoherent and vague, catch-all initiative aimed at challenging AWS dominance without the backbone to acknowledge it. Even the name is goofy.
- The world in which IPv6 was a good design
- Highly interesting article about the history of networking and why we have the internet in its current form today.
- The Bike-Share Oversupply in China
- The photos in this article are just bonkers.
- Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
- After reading about the failure of smartphone contact tracing recently, I remembered this article by Bruce Schneier that’s well worth a read.
- How Are Rich People Getting Richer During the Coronavirus Pandemic?
- Jeff Bezos has reportedly made another $25 billion since the beginning of the year.
- Make Any Printer AirPrint-compatible on FreeBSD
- Works great.
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