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Build VAAPI with support for VP8/9 decode and encode hardware acceleration on a Skylake validation testbed:

Build platform: Ubuntu 16.04LTS.

First things first:

Install baseline dependencies first

sudo apt-get -y install autoconf automake build-essential libass-dev libtool pkg-config texinfo zlib1g-dev libva-dev cmake mercurial libdrm-dev libvorbis-dev libogg-dev git libx11-dev libperl-dev libpciaccess-dev libpciaccess0 xorg-dev intel-gpu-tools

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

CAA Adoption Notes

CA/B mandate

The CA/Browser Forum has voted to mandate that CAs must start checking CAA records to control certificate issuance (to verify what CAs are allowed to issue certificates for a domain) by September 8th, 2017.

https://blog.qualys.com/ssllabs/2017/03/13/caa-mandated-by-cabrowser-forum

Full language of the ballot is here.

How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory

I screwed up using git ("git checkout --" on the wrong file) and managed to delete the code I had just written... but it was still running in a process in a docker container. Here's how I got it back, using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrasite/ and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/uncompyle6

Attach a shell to the docker container

Install GDB (needed by pyrasite)

apt-get update && apt-get install gdb

	public class Constants {

	/**
	* Contains the path to your Lambda function code.
	*/
	public static final String LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT = System.getenv("LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT");

	/**
	* The environment variable is set to one of the following options, depending on the runtime of the Lambda function:
	* AWS_Lambda_nodejs, AWS_Lambda_nodejs4.3, AWS_Lambda_nodejs6.10

	{-# LANGUAGE PatternSynonyms #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE ViewPatterns #-}

	-- \| This module contains some approach for emulating array syntax from
	-- imperative languages. The approach emulates only syntax, not efficiency.
	-- Though if you like working with persistent arrays it may be good for you.
	-- Also it's a fun exercise on lenses.

	# LVDB - LLOOGG Memory DB
	# Copyriht (C) 2009 Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez@gmail.com>
	# All Rights Reserved

	# TODO
	# - cron with cleanup of timedout clients, automatic dump
	# - the dump should use array startsearch to write it line by line
	# and may just use gets to read element by element and load the whole state.
	# - 'help','stopserver','saveandstopserver','save','load','reset','keys' commands.
	# - ttl with milliseconds resolution 'ttl a 1000'. Check ttl in dump!