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deep die into this proposed merger. Some interesting details on both companies

wired headphones recommended by wirecutter

Python compression, including DEFLATE

IP addresses for all 13 root name servers

super helpful, detailed docs on how datadog metrics are aggregated on charts

old but interesting summary of security implications of the linux capabilities system

We evaluated PostgreSQL using Jepsen’s new transactional isolation checker Elle, and found that transactions executed with serializable isolation on a single PostgreSQL instance were not, in fact, serializable. Under normal operation, transactions could occasionally exhibit G2-item: an anomaly involving a set of transactions which (roughly speaking) mutually fail to observe each other’s writes

Julia Baird on the toppling of statues

Solid answer describing how to use zlib to inflate 3 different types of compressed data: deflate, zlib, gzip

use the pigz command

a pure ruby zlib library

“Soon enough, the TERFs went right off the deep end. These days, increasing numbers of them really do truly actually believe that a sinister group of “transactivists” are conspiring to destroy the entire concept of womanhood, and that trans women are not ordinary people trying to live their lives authentically in a way that brings them peace, but “perverted” men in dresses determined to destroy feminism, force lesbians to have sex with them and prey on little girls in changing rooms.”