February 2024

First off, thanks @cloudyy for reviving exozine and giving it an amazing new design! The feed is now at https://zine.exozy.me/rss.xml instead of https://zine.exozy.me, so you will have to add the new feed if you already have exozine in your feed reader.

The previous issue of exozine was in June 2023, and we’ve done a lot of cool stuff since then. Here are some nice blog posts written by our community members:

• Asian Bayesian by @a: Puns, game theory, and the loss of precision
• Dead Pixels by @a: A nice algorithms problem
• Spelling Reform is Hard, NP-Hard by @a: How to prove problems are NP-hard and why you should care
• The Self-Hosting Barrier to Entry by @ersei
• Mirroring Sourcehut to GitHub by @ersei
• Representing Concepts with Linked Linked-Data Links by @iacore
• Why philosophy should be part of the education system by @aryak
• Using my phone as a webcam with just scrcpy and ADB by @aryak
• Website 2.0 by @daudix: The long-awaited website rewrite using the new static site generator - Zola

We’ve created several new projects:

• Status by @iacore, @dragongoose, @vnpower, @xtex, @daudix, and others: A status page in Go
• Twineo by @cloudyy: Alternative front-end to Twitch
• LiteXiv by @peaksol: A free frontend for Pixiv that is simple yet sufficient
• Dumb physics engine by @a: A dumb physics engine written in JavaScript
• 星布 by @iacore: File-based concept quad store

We’re also hosting several new services:

• CyberChef maintained by @nvpie: The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
• Navidrome maintained by @vnpower: Modern music server and streamer
• Redlib maintained by @x: Private front-end for Reddit
• Priviblur maintained by @x: A privacy-focused frontend to Tumblr
• Memos maintained by @x: A privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service
• YT Local maintained by @nvpie: Browser-based client for watching YouTube anonymously without forcing Javascript

And finally, the exozyme server had a few technical changes:

• We upgraded our storage from a 500GB SSD and 500GB HDD to a single 4TB SSD
• We changed our filesystem from ext4 to Btrfs for faster backups and so you can access old copies of your data in /.snapshots
• Woodpecker CI now clones repos to ~/.cache/woodpecker instead of /tmp for persistent caching
• Website sockets should now be placed in /srv/http instead of /srv/http/pages