Daniel @da@mastodon.technology

Intel: replace thermal compound “every few years”
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/repaste-thermal-compound.html#src=mastodon

It's 2020 and Firefox still doesn't support <link rel="preconnect">. #webperf
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/dns-prefetch-preconnect.html#src=mastodon

The 0,5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/apple-music-nullbytes.html#src=mastodon

How to get Microsoft Edge back into your Windows Timeline
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/edge-timeline-integration.html#src=mastodon

Options for deduplicating storage of TV series intros
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/deduplicate-tv-intros.html#src=mastodon

Review: Beurer TL20 daylight therapy lamp ☀
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/review-beurer-tl20.html#src=mastodon

I can’t seem to shake this feeling of impending doooooom. I guess it’s just 2020, right?

I deleted my Fitbit account in June 2018 (post GDPR). I created a new one today, and wouldn't you know: the new account with the same email address but a different password had access to my deleted personal data.

Fedora 33 Beta is out! Time to put my penguin pants on and test all the new stuff! I've been looking forward to comparing Btrfs by default setup versus Btrfs-optional setup in F22. 🐧
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-the-release-of-fedora-33-beta/

How to label a webpage as being out-of-date
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/label-outdated-webpages.html#src=mastodon

PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/

What happened to BitTorrent’s Project Maelstrom web browser? #p2p
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/bittorrent-maelstrom.html#src=mastodon

More than 10% of links on my blog now point to the Internet Archive because the original link has disappeared.
https://www.ctrl.blog/about/meta/sources.html
You can help prevent link rot! Put in redirects when you move pages about! Missing redirects is the most common cause of link rot. I repair these when I can locate the new URL. Better yet, don’t make any changes to your URLs! 78% of detected redirects in the last year added or removed a trailing forward-slash from URLs. ⛓️ 0% used HTTP/2 push to speed up redirection.

Which file systems support copy-on-write file cloning? 💾
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/file-cloning.html#src=mastodon

Firefox Send is being discontinued. I guess Mozilla doesn't want to build services around the Firefox brand anymore? 🦊
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/09/17/update-on-firefox-send-and-firefox-notes/

So what’s happening with the EU’s time to abolish seasonal change of time (daylight-savings time)? Is the plan still a go for 2021?

Non-ironically, here’s a long-read on dyslexia from The Guardian. Is it how we’re taught how to read and write that’s causing life-long difficulties for so many?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/17/battle-over-dyslexia-warwickshire-staffordshire

Network routers are just computers
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/routers-are-computers.html#src=mastodon

Review: Fedora Linux on the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 (great except minor issues with the webcam and microphone.)
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/lenovo-thinkpad-t14-fedora.html#src=mastodon

Is there a law of nature that guarantees that delivery drivers always call during the one minute period of the day when you’re in an elevator/faraday-cage or the bathroom? #phonecalls