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Study Challenges Evolutionary Timeline: Nervous System Building Blocks Found in Ancient Single-Celled Organisms
(scitechdaily.com)
A new study reveals that certain ion channels existed before the earliest common ancestor of animals. A recent study has rewritten the conventionally understood evolutionary history of key proteins essential for electrical signaling in the nervous system. Conducted by researchers at Penn State, the ...
Challenges in Designing at Scale: Formal Methods in Building Robust Distributed Systems
(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
There's been a lot of noise about systemd recently, and I would like to filter out that. I'm somewhat interested in linux in general, so I don't think filtering on the linux tag would be a suitable work-around.
Doing a "comments and stories" search for "systemd" gives about twice as many hits as ...
Relevant excerpt from the changes of the 231 version:
>A new service setting MemoryDenyWriteExecute= has been added, taking a boolean value. If turned on, a service may no longer create memory mappings that are writable and executable at the same time. This enhances security for services where this...
Lennart Poettering commented on [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4ypb2g/systemd_rolls_out_its_own_mount_tool/d6qicwi).
I don't know if someone already posted it but there are some interesting talks, e.g. using systemd bindings in [Go and Rust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6WvrHIvwg)