Is there a command-line tool that takes arbitrary UTF-8 text and formats it into 72 characters per line with linebreaks set properly and two spaces after a period? #AskMastodon#AskFedi :BoostOK:
Are there any recent epoll(2) vs. fork(2) benchmarks for TCP servers? Most of what I can find is from the early 2000s, but a lot has changed since then, including a new scheduler. :BoostOK:
@feld I believe COW improves the performance because it should save the time lost during the memory copy.
And no, I certainly want to use processes instead of threads because they offer a more fine-grained control over permissions, such as with technologies like seccomp(2) and pledge(2).
@Uni_Stuttgart please stop blocking UDP traffic in your eduroam, it’s required for QUIC and WebRTC and generally makes your network a pain to use with anything except old-style web browsing.
@filmroellchen@Uni_Stuttgart Have you considered running a WireGuard service at port 53/UDP? Having an intense conversation with your DNS server is a pro gamer move in order to circumvent UDP blockage.
The urge to submit a talk about a toy project started a week ago in the last minute and hoping to still have interest in it when the event takes place.
@fallenvalkyrie As someone who almost exclusively writes libraries or very low-level C components, I can tell you that a missing front-end never makes something entirely useless. 🙂