Tag: unix

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• How to read a sigmask of a process on Linux

  July 8th 2026 (week 28 of 2026)

  You can get the signal mask of a running process from the /proc filesystem, but how do you interpret it?

• Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA-2 vs SHA-3 vs BLAKE3

  July 5th 2026 (week 27 of 2026)

  An interesting blog post about SHA-256, SHA-512, and BLAKE3.

• Linux distribution timeline (1992-2010)

  June 22nd 2026 (week 26 of 2026)

  The genealogical tree of various Linux distributions.

• In defense of swap

  January 13th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)

  "In defense of swap: common misconceptions" is an article by Chris Down, a Linux kernel developer at Meta.

• builds.sr.ht image maintenance

  December 17th 2025 (week 51 of 2025)

  Documentation is available, and the process itself is not difficult; if you want to update an image you just have to follow instructions.

• run0 devoured my disk!

  December 13th 2025 (week 50 of 2025)

  How I got slapped with a "No space left on device" when trying to run with elevated privileges, and what I did about it.

• Viua VM on OpenBSD 7.8

  October 28th 2025 (week 44 of 2025)

  OpenBSD 7.8 has recently been released, and includes LLVM updated to version 21. This made a port of Viua VM possible.