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title: "Things I read, Week 5"
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published_date: "2018-01-29 12:00:00 +0100"
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This post is part of a [new experiment this year](/2018/01/08/things-i-read-week-2/index.html):
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Trying to briefly collect articles/posts/code/documentation I read in the past week and add some comments for things I consider important.
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### Article: [The oral history of _Breaking Bad_](http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a15063971/breaking-bad-cast-interview/)
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A longer interview with the actors and creators of [_Breaking Bad_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/), the famous TV show about a chemistry teacher turned drug lord.
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Interesting to know that Breaking Bad wasn't a hit from the start off, was still not canceled and grew a large fanbase overtime.
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I really liked the show back then, maybe it's time to occasionally rewatch it.
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### Article: [How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet](https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/)
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This article details how three college-age friends initially wrote the largest botnet since ever, just to take down competing Minecraft servers.
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Of course they got greedy and targetted bigger and bigger networks and later turned to click-fraud advertisers using the hijacked IoT devices.
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### Blog post: [In defence of swap: common misconceptions](https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html)
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Chris Down thoroughly explains how memory reclamation and swap usage works on Linux and why it might be benefitial to have some swap space.
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Turns out swap is not just *emergency memory*.
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Additional settings introduced in the new cgroup v2 API allow for more fine-grained control of swap behaviour.
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Until then tune your `vm.swappiness`.
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