VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. UsenetArchives - One of the most extensive archives of Usenet newsgroups on the Internet 2024-12-08

   tags: bulletin-board-system, forum/usenet, history, storage/tape, text

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   • Converting UTZOO-Wiseman Usenet Tapes to Website with PostgreSQL backend using Python 3.8
   • 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read
   • DataHoarders, UsenetArchives.com now includes UTZOO-Wiseman tapes of the earliest internet posts made between Feb 1981 and June 1991
   • The UTZOO Wiseman Usenet Archive (data removed following legal action)
2. Self-hosted online collaborative drawing platform Excalidraw 2024-11-25

   tags: database/mongodb, database/sqlite, diagram, image/png, image/svg, network/websocket, programming/json, programming/node.js, programming/typescript, schema, self-hosting, software-engineering/uml

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   • Self-hosted online collaborative drawing platform Excalidraw (alternate version on Medium)
     • alswl/excalidraw-collaboration - Excalidraw with collaboration feature, self-hosting, and only one-click deploy
     • alswl/excalidraw-storage-backend - Storage for scenes, images and collaboration rooms
     • alswl/excalidraw.alswl.com - Custom static version featuring a Chinese font with handwriting style
     • Someone0nEarth/excalidraw-self-hosted - A docker-compose configuration for a fully self-hosted excalidraw stack, a collaborative whiteboard solution
   • r/selfhosted - Excalidraw
     • excalidraw/excalidraw-room - Example collaboration server
     • Comment on excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/4993 - Building your own Docker images
     • excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/6506 - Tutorial for Træfik
   • PatWie/excalidraw-complete - Self-host Excalidraw with a single Go binary - Supports multiple storage options and real-time collaboration
3. ElizabethanDrama.org - Making Elizabethan Plays Understandable and Fun to Read 2024-11-22

   tags: book, history, literature, theater/play

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   • Shakespeare Navigators
   • versemeter - An in-depth exploration of meter in Shakespeare's work
   • The Plays of Thomas Middleton
   • Richard Brome Online
4. paperless-ngx - Open-Source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive 2024-11-22

   tags: django, document/pdf, email, image/optical-character-recognition, microsoft/office, programming/python, programming/typescript, self-hosting, text

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   • paperless-ngx Documentation
5. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette 2024-11-18

   tags: color/palette, game, image/2d, image/compression, image/dithering, image/noise, indie

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   • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
   • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
   • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
   • Differentiable Dithering
   • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
   • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
     • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
     • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
   • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
     • Dither Me This!
   • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

   Online dithering tools:

   • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
     • alexharris/ditherit-v2
   • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
   • Blue Noise in Futhark
     • Munksgaard/bluenoise
6. BBS - The Documentary 2024-11-10

   tags: bulletin-board-system, community, diy, documentary, electronics, forum, history, internet, text/ascii

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   The BBS Documentary Video Collection is a varied set of video items collected by Jason Scott, curator of TEXTFILES.COM. These are recordings about and from the era of the domination of ASCII and Dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (roughly the 1970s through the 1990s, with examples far before and after that).

   • The Full BBS Documentary Interviews are Going Online
   • BBS: The Documentary Archive
   • FidoNet
   • FidoNews Volume 6, Number 19 - 8 May 1989
7. feed reader best practices | Rachel By The Bay 2024-10-26

   tags: feed, network/http, network/http/header, personal-knowledge/blog, storage/cache, web/syndication

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   Test feed:

   • feed reader score project
   • A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers
   • Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s
   • So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
   • The feed reader score service is now online

   RFCs:

   • RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0 - If-Modified-Since
   • RFC 7232 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests - Entity Tag (ETag)
   • RFC 9110 - HTTP Semantics

   Related:

   • Bret Simmons - NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues
   • John Brayton - Feed Polling for Unread Cloud
   • Jeff Kaufman - Looking at RSS User-Agents
   • Chris Siebenmann - The case of the very old If-Modified-Since HTTP header
   • ETag and HTTP caching
   • HTTP Conditional Requests Explained
   • Caching - What takes precedence: the ETag or Last-Modified HTTP header?
8. smallstep/certificates - A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management 2024-05-27

   tags: cryptography/certificate, cryptography/certificate-authority, network/http, network/http-server/traefik, network/reverse-proxy, network/transport-layer-security, programming/go

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   • Run a private online TLS certificate authority in a Docker container
   • Configure popular ACME clients to use a private CA with the ACME protocol
   • Run your own private CA & ACME server using step-ca
   • Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab
9. Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs 2024-01-13

   tags: book, linux, performance/profiling, programming/c++, programming/rust

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   • PerformanceNinja video courses playlist
   • dendibakh/perf-ninja - An online course where you can learn and master the skill of low-level performance analysis and tuning
   • grahamking/perf-ninja-rs - Rust labs for Performance Ninja Class
10. go-deadlock - Online deadlock detection in go 2023-09-20

    tags: mutex, programming/go

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11. Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? 2023-07-22

    tags: database, database/sharding, game/mmo

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    • Startup Lessons Learned: Sharding for Startups
12. OpenSSL Cookbook 2023-05-31

    tags: cryptography/certificate, network/http, network/transport-layer-security, openssl

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    The definitive guide to using the OpenSSL command line for configuration and testing.

    Topics covered in this book include:

    • key and certificate management,
    • server configuration,
    • a step by step guide to creating a private CA,
    • testing of online services.
13. Online diagramming applications 2022-05-31

    tags: diagram, drawing, self-hosting, web

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    • https://app.diagrams.net/ (previously draw.io)
    • https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
    • https://excalidraw.com/
    • https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
    • https://dbdiagram.io/home
14. lichess.org • Free Online Chess 2020-01-09

    tags: chess, game/board-game, scala, strategy, web

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    • https://github.com/ornicar/lila
15. cppreference - a complete online reference for the C and C++ languages and standard libraries 2020-01-02

    tags: documentation, programming/c, programming/c++, wiki

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16. Google Online Security Blog: Introducing Adiantum: Encryption for the Next Billion Users 2019-02-13

    tags: algorithm, cryptography, cryptography/encryption, security

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    • https://github.com/google/adiantum
    • https://github.com/lukechampine/adiantum
    • https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/7360
17. Nearly 1,000 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Now Digitized and Put Online: View/Download the Collection | Open Culture 2018-09-08

    tags: art, digital, painting, van-gogh

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18. tls - How do I use "openssl s_client" to test for (absence of) SSLv3 support? 2018-03-07

    tags: cryptography/certificate, network/http, network/transport-layer-security, openssl, web

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    • https://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/
    • https://major.io/2012/02/07/using-openssls-s_client-command-with-web-servers-using-server-name-indication- sni/
    • https://www.feistyduck.com/library/openssl-cookbook/online/ch-testing-with-openssl.html
19. 20Patch - Online MS patch librarian 2017-10-16

    tags: analog, instrument/synthesizer, patch, preset

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    Superseded by https://metapatch.com/

20. Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) - Collabora Productivity 2016-10-13

    tags: cloud-computing, collabora, document, libre, nextcloud, office, owncloud

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    http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Building-LibreOffice-Online