Daily Shaarli
March 7, 2021
This OpenSSH release enables the UpdateHostKeys option by default to assist the client by automatically migrating to better algorithms if the weak SHA-1 hash algorithm in conjunction with the RSA public key algorithm is still used.

Jonah Edwards gives insight into the Internet Archive Infrastructure.

In this post, the author explains the asymmetry of ICMP ping requests and ways of measuring the difference.
Murat Demirbas compiled a collection of foundational papers in the distributed systems area.
Major changes include toolchain updates to glibc-2.33
, and binutils-2.36.1
.

This zstd
release brings significant performance improvements for the --long
mode, a setting designed to improve compression ratio for files with long matches at a large distance.

This article explains the issues with Google's technology called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC).
Apache AGE is a PostgreSQL extension that provides graph database functionality.
»For the third year in a row, "infrastructure modernization" is the top use for enterprise open source software. Furthermore, 64% now cite it as a top use, up from 53% two years ago. This continued popularity isn't really surprising. Linux and other open infrastructure like web servers have long been used to replace proprietary alternatives.«