Daily Lobsters for 2025-03-15

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can we communally deprecate git checkout?
  

  rant vcs
  

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• An introduction to Magit, an Emacs mode for Git
  

  emacs
  

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• A look at Firefox forks
  

  browsers
  

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• TinyKVM: The Fastest Sandbox
  

  linux virtualization
  

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• i-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox
  

  hardware web
  

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• What Programming Concepts do you Struggle to Grok or Use in Production?
  

  ask compsci programming
  

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• IO devices and latency
  

  performance visualization
  

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• Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 / Expat 2.7.0 released, includes security fixes
  

  c programming security
  

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• It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself
  

  compsci games
  

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• fsync() after open() is an elaborate no-op
  

  databases
  

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• did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?
  

  databases debugging
  

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• PAM unixsock
  

  security unix
  

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