POWER9 processors1 ship with two hardware compression engines: NX-842 (a kernel crypto API accelerator for the 842 algorithm) and NX-GZIP (a gzip/deflate-compatible engine accessible from userspace). NX-GZIP is the interesting one: it provides zlib-compatible acceleration via LD_PRELOAD without rebuilding any …

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I am using a Talos II PowerPC (ppc64le) machine as my daily computer. This poses some challenges every now and then as the support for that architecture is less ubiquitous than the default x86-64. It's the price to pay for having a completely open, documented machine. On this system I run archpower distribution to get …

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I had the leather interior of my Jaguar XKR restored last week and the supplier provided me with a video of it; in the "before/after" style. Rob did an amazing job on the whole of the interior. /assets/video/xkr-interior.mp4 Impression of XKR interior restoration

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I get a lot of DMARC reports because I host mail for a couple of domains. Most of these mails require no attention as they are just notifications that others use one of our domains. I want to separate these mails from my normal mail workflow and auto archive them if I haven't looked at them within, say, 2 weeks. Doing …

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