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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look
  mac security
  Comments
• Why Git blame sucks for understanding WTF code (and what you should use instead)
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator
  video unix
  Comments
• No, "Open Source" does not mean "Includes Free Support"
  practices rant
  Comments
• Force-with-lease: an alternative to force push
  vcs
  Comments
• dsnet: Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker
  linux networking
  Comments
• Git Rebase: Don't be Afraid of the Force (Push)
  vcs
  Comments
• Has downvoting been removed for everyone, or just me?
  meta
  Comments
• My WebRTC video startup is hiring a distributed systems Rust programmer
  job rust
  Comments
• A Modest Proposal In The New Age of DMCA Takedown Aggression
  law
  Comments
• Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
  ruby
  Comments
• Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip
  hardware historical reversing
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Going Bark: A Furry’s Guide to End-to-End Encryption
  crypto javascript privacy security
  Comments
• Warp: Improved JS performance in Firefox 83
  compilers javascript
  Comments
• PL-Lefty, a Slightly More Ergonomic Polish Keyboard
  show a11y
  Comments
• We need less powerful languages (2015)
  compilers plt programming
  Comments
• Removing Support For The IndieWeb
  web
  Comments
• Forbidden Commands to Speed Up macOS
  mac security
  Comments
• dekuNukem/pimp_my_microwave
  art hardware reversing
  Comments
• Hunting for Malicious Packages on PyPI
  python security
  Comments
• Writing Software for an Among Us League
  games programming
  Comments
• About open-source community and the opennesss of projects to contributions
  ask programming
  Comments
• PokéWalker hacking
  assembly games hardware
  Comments
• GNUnet 0.14.0
  distributed networking release
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Everything is an X
  plt
  Comments
• M1 Memory and Performance
  hardware ios mac mobile performance
  Comments
• Dino 0.2 Release
  release
  Comments
• macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs
  mac
  Comments
• "Homeworld" will be the default theme for Debian 11
  linux
  Comments
• What are some differences between x86 and ARM processors
  ask hardware
  Comments
• Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 1 (Module Systems)
  plt
  Comments
• Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea
  networking
  Comments
• KPHP, a PHP C++ transpiler
  php
  Comments
• LazySSH - A jump-host SSH server that starts machines on-demand
  show devops
  Comments
• macOS Big Sur is here
  mac release
  Comments
• Program Development by Stepwise Refinement
  practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Evidence-based software engineering: book released
  book science
  Comments
• Chasing a Performance Regression with Erlang/OTP 22
  erlang performance
  Comments
• Linux graphics, why sharing code with Windows isn't always a win
  linux
  Comments
• Write code top-down
  practices programming
  Comments
• Postgres Observability
  databases devops
  Comments
• Everyone Talks About Insecure Randomness, But Nobody Does Anything About It
  crypto
  Comments
• Apple Special Event for November 10th, 2020
  video event ios mac
  Comments
• Go for Internal Services
  go
  Comments
• RustAudio/dasp
  rust
  Comments
• Extracting libraries with git subtree
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Will R Work on Apple Silicon?
  compilers hardware mac math
  Comments
• What Is The Purpose Of Private?
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
  linux security
  Comments
• Apple announces MacBook Air with Apple’s Arm-based M1 processor
  hardware mac
  Comments
• On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
  practices rant
  Comments
• Eleven Years of Go
  go programming
  Comments
• Indie Systems Programming Conference (Nov 14-15)
  event programming
  Comments
• With an 'alternative' keyboard layout, how do you use hjkl?
  ask vim
  Comments
• PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP using Python
  python
  Comments
• EmacsConf 2020 schedule, poster, watching, and participating
  emacs event
  Comments
• Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
  emacs practices rant vim
  Comments
• PLATYPUS: With Great Power comes Great Leakage
  security
  Comments
• Optimizing your code is not the same as parallelizing your code
  performance python
  Comments
• McSema: An Executable Lifter
  assembly compilers programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Origins of the youtube-dl project
  historical
  Comments
• This is how I git
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Haskell: The Bad Parts (part 2)
  haskell
  Comments
• What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and Why Do We Care if They are Open Source?
  hardware security
  Comments
• Nixops Services on Your Home Network
  linux systemd
  Comments
• Booting a macOS Apple Silicon kernel in QEMU
  mac reversing virtualization
  Comments
• The myriad meanings of pwd in Unix systems
  historical unix
  Comments
• How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet
  programming
  Comments
• Making Mass Effect not require administrator rights, or maybe how not to write a boolean check
  reversing windows
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Low Hanging Fruits in Frontend Performance Optimization
  javascript performance web
  Comments
• Turing Incomplete Languages
  plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Pijul: Towards 1.0
  vcs
  Comments
• EU Draft Declaration Against Encryption
  pdf privacy
  Comments
• BGP Lego Bricks
  hardware networking
  Comments
• Zig v0.7.0 released
  zig
  Comments
• OpenBSD Router Guide
  networking openbsd privacy
  Comments
• Stop checking for NULL pointers
  c
  Comments
• PeerTube Live Streaming Support
  release
  Comments
• XuanTie C906 based Allwinner RISC-V processor to power $12+ Linux SBC's
  hardware
  Comments
• sq5bpf/etherify - bringing the ether back to ethernet
  networking security
  Comments
• The Fuck is an app that corrects errors in previous console commands
  linux unix
  Comments
• seL4 12.0.0
  osdev release security
  Comments
• One week of NixOS
  unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 9, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Add tag for Nix/NixOS
  meta
  Comments
• Is Zig the Long Awaited C Replacement
  zig
  Comments
• Migrating my blog to Zola
  go rust web
  Comments
• Rust vs Go
  go rust
  Comments
• An Immutable Blog Application in PostgreSQL
  databases
  Comments
• Installing the world’s worst video card
  video graphics hardware
  Comments
• Pop!_OS Linux 20.10: Review
  linux
  Comments
• media.ccc.de - Arch Conf 2020
  event osdev
  Comments
• Why not use GraphQL?
  api web
  Comments
• An RSVP speed reader for your terminal
  programming
  Comments
• A tiny CI system
  programming
  Comments
• awklang.org - Τhe site for things related to the awk language
  unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 8, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• (t,i,x,y) => "creative code golfing"
  art graphics javascript
  Comments
• Rust Ray Tracer, an Update (and SIMD)
  graphics rust
  Comments
• Calibre, ePub and epubcheck: the curse of editing XHTML
  book web
  Comments
• ZSA Moonlander Review
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Utility vs usability
  practices programming
  Comments
• A little npm headscratcher
  unix
  Comments
• Rails autoloading — now it works, and how
  ruby
  Comments
• postmarketOS in 2020-11: Apps, UIs & Devices, Part 1
  linux mobile osdev
  Comments
• Standing on Our Own Two Feet
  android networking
  Comments
• Local Docker Port Exposed
  security
  Comments
• Announcing HAProxy 2.3
  devops networking release
  Comments
• Server management in 2020
  ask java linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 7, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No, your clean code won't save the planet
  performance rant
  Comments
• A Gopher view of Gemini
  historical web
  Comments
• Deprecating scp
  devops linux
  Comments
• Why Typing Erlang is Hard: Standard Erlang
  erlang plt
  Comments
• A Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
  graphics rust
  Comments
• Functions That Go Backwards
  programming
  Comments
• SuperTinyIcons: SVG versions of open source logos
  design
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• IPv6 Is a Total Nightmare — This is Why
  networking rant
  Comments
• Managing my personal server in 2020
  devops
  Comments
• A Nod To The 90s Web
  web
  Comments
• The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 BASIC
  historical
  Comments