Daily Shaarli
January 3, 2021

NoiseTorch is a program for PulseAudio that creates a virtual microphone that suppresses noise.
This release of git doesn't contain significant user-facing changes but comes with several internal improvements and fixes.
The article shows that it's possible to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers with Wi-Fi signals.

The author illustrates some of the implications of the Virtualization framework in macOS.

reptyr allows »re-ptying« programs. It comes in handy for reattaching a long-running process in terminal multiplexer sessions originally started outside of one.
Easy to remember site with Richard Cook's essay on »How Complex Systems Fail«.
The author gives an introduction to the underlying concept of message queues and introduces popular implementations.

sshuttle adds VPN-like capabilities to SSH that go beyond the built-in port-forwarding features of SSH.
»five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It's that simple.«
This guide provides extensive information on hardening Linux.

This blog post shows stats of the progress the fediverse made in 2020.