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"…meaning it will not be tested nor documented."

Likely, you'll still be able to do it.

post-factumon Introduce DAMON-based Proactive Reclamation

What's described there is disk thrashing, and while there might be different approaches on fixing it, I'd suggest checking [1].

[1] https://gitlab.com/post-factum/pf-kernel/-/commit/1102c90c79...

post-factumon Zstandard v1.5.0

Looking forward to having modern zstd in-kernel! Thanks for your efforts.

post-factumon I, Leah Rowe, have taken over the Libreboot project

FWIW, I'm not taking anyone's side, express any judgements or assumptions. I just post a piece of news.

Previous discussion was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26638037 (probably, because of the fact who initiated it)

post-factumon I, Leah Rowe, have taken over the Libreboot project

Announcement in webcache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:excoaB...

Reaction: https://www.andrewrobbins.info/libreboot.html

post-factumon `three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (2014)

  705 /*
  706  * Iterate through the groups which hold BACKUP superblock/GDT copies in an
  707  * ext4 filesystem.  The counters should be initialized to 1, 5, and 7 before
  708  * calling this for the first time.  In a sparse filesystem it will be the
  709  * sequence of powers of 3, 5, and 7: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 25, 27, 49, 81, ...
  710  * For a non-sparse filesystem it will be every group: 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
  711  */
  712 static unsigned ext4_list_backups(struct super_block *sb, unsigned *three,
  713                   unsigned *five, unsigned *seven)

post-factumon Quad9 public DNS moves to Switzerland

Uh, thanks for the efforts and the answer. Anyway, in case you'll consider this feature to be implemented, count my +1 :).

post-factumon Quad9 public DNS moves to Switzerland

I understand that, but similarly to cloudflare/nextdns they could just provide unfiltered anycast service (with DNSSEC).

post-factumon Quad9 public DNS moves to Switzerland

Looking at https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers, why quad9 doesn't have both DNSSEC and nofilter at the same time?

post-factumon OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD

Thin LVM snapshots solve that.

post-factumon QEMU 4.1 released

memfd? It must be there already (-object memory-backend-memfd).

Regarding io_uring, see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-08/msg001...

post-factumon QEMU 4.1 released

I hope io_uring support will make it into 4.2.