Shows how to recover information from pixelated images. TLDR: If you want to conceal sensitive information, don't just pixelate it.

With this commit, WireGuard supports lands in the FreeBSD kernel.

pbgopy is a clipboard sharing server.

clair is a tool for doing static vulnerability analysis in OCI and Docker containers.

JetBrains announced the early access program for Qodana, their new static analysis tool suited for running in CI/CD environments.

Linux 5.10 was released. It is an LTS release and will receive support over the next five years. Among the many updates and fixes are Btrfs and EXT4 performance tuning, better RISC-V support, and enhancements for BPF programs.

Report on scanning publicly available Docker Hub images for vulnerabilities. It isn’t the first analysis of this kind, but the result is the same: There are still many harmful container images out there.

The link contains a step-by-step guide with interesting self-hosting tips.

This insightful article helps with understanding the Git object model.

This post mortem explains how a change in the quota system has lead to an outage of customer-facing services requiring Google OAuth.

Explains what you can do when you have special DNS requirements inside of Kubernetes.

Transcription of a short talk that explains how the if-then-else statement came to life.

»Complexity has to live somewhere. If you are lucky, it lives in well-defined places. … If you're unlucky and you just tried to pretend complexity could be avoided altogether, it has no place to go in this world. But it still doesn't stop existing.«

Linux 5.10 is released. It is an LTS release and will receive support over the next 5 years. Amongst the many updates and fixes are the performance tuning of Btrfs and EXT, better RISC-V support, and enhancements for BPF programs.

»Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux, now that CentOS has shifted direction.«

»Babelfish is a new translation layer for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL that enables Aurora to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server.«

»CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.«

CentOS Linux 8 (2011), derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3 source code, was released.

Qt 6.0 is the first release of the new major version. Areas of improvement:

• Leveraging C++17
• Next-generation QML
• New graphics architecture
• Unified 2D and 3D for Qt Quick
• CMake build system

»Tectonic is a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.«