Submissions from utcc.utoronto.ca

		The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		97 points by kencausey 5 months ago \| past \| 40 comments
		I have a GPS bike computer (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		32 points by speckx 5 months ago \| past \| 39 comments
		Using systems because you know them already (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		2 points by goranmoomin 5 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Why ports <1024 are privileged and require root (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		13 points by samwho 6 months ago \| past
		Syndication feed fetchers, HTTP redirects, and conditional GET (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		2 points by thomasjb 6 months ago \| past
		Go's builtin 'new()' function will take an expression in Go 1.26 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		3 points by birdculture 6 months ago \| past
		Go's builtin 'new()' function will take an expression in Go 1.26 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		5 points by todsacerdoti 6 months ago \| past
		Free and open source software is incompatible with (security) guarantees (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		2 points by naves 6 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		116 points by zdw 6 months ago \| past \| 169 comments
		Some stuff on how Linux consoles interact with the mouse (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		20 points by kencausey 6 months ago \| past
		Free and open source software is incompatible with (security) guarantees (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		5 points by speckx 6 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		I have divided (and partly uninformed) views on OpenTelemetry (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		2 points by valyala 6 months ago \| past
		The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		7 points by naves 6 months ago \| past \| 6 comments
		The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		13 points by todsacerdoti 6 months ago \| past \| 5 comments
		Why Firefox's media autoplay settings are complicated and imperfect (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		3 points by ingve 6 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		We can't expect people to pick 'good' software (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		3 points by zdw 6 months ago \| past
		HTTP headers that tell syndication feed fetchers how soon to come back (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		3 points by DamonHD 6 months ago \| past
		Mapping from total requests per day to average request rates (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		1 point by zdw 6 months ago \| past
		My mail notifier avoids interrupting me (2010) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		3 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago \| past
		Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		59 points by kencausey 7 months ago \| past \| 54 comments
		Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		62 points by zdw 7 months ago \| past \| 64 comments
		The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		7 points by ingve 7 months ago \| past
		Getting Linux nflog and tcpdump packet filters to sort of work together (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		2 points by speckx 7 months ago \| past
		ZFS scrubs check (much) less than you probably think they do (2018) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		3 points by susam 7 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		How not to check or poll URLs, as illustrated by Fediverse software (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		6 points by zdw 7 months ago \| past
		Being Nibbled to Death by Moths (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		2 points by thelastgallon 7 months ago \| past
		Another reason to use expendable email addresses for everything (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		27 points by ingve 7 months ago \| past \| 13 comments
		Implementing a basic equivalent of OpenBSD's pflog in Linux nftables (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		11 points by zdw 7 months ago \| past
		Abuse systems should handle email reports that use MIME message/rfc822 parts (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		2 points by thomasjb 7 months ago \| past
		The problem of Python's version dependent paths for packages (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		4 points by ingve 7 months ago \| past
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