[Link] NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theregister.com

For DevOps folk, this was tantamount to clickbait: Nix and Docker are different tools for different jobs, and anyway, it's possible to use Nix to build Docker images. The distro, which hit version 21.11 on the last day of November, was built around the purely functional Nix package manager.

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[Link] A Super Speedy Lightweight Lossless Compression Algorithm

Read: 30/11/2021 hackaday.com

[Dominic Szablewski] was tinkering around with compressing RGB images, when he stumbled upon idea of how to make a simple lossless compression algorithm, resulting in the Quite OK Image Format, which seems to offer comparable file sizes to the PNG format but is so simple it runs up to 50 times faste

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[Link] Crossword Fans Are Mad At The New York Times

Read: 4/8/2021 kotaku.com

Many fans of The New York Times’ iconic crosswords will soon have to find a new way to play, as the paper announced it will stop supporting the popular Across Lite file format third-parties use to import the daily puzzles into their apps.

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