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All links of one day in a single page.

April 18, 2021

Postgres EXPLAIN Visualizer (pev)
diffoscope

In-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories.

FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE

Only some of the highlights:

  • ZFS now provided by OpenZFS
  • in-kernel framing and encryption of TLS
  • arm64 is promoted to Tier-1 status
  • rewritten routing stack
  • clang, lld, llvm, libc++ update to 11.0.1
  • bhyve improvements
  • removed obsolete GDB
Statement on DNS Encryption

In this statement, the DNS root server operators explain why they don't feel comfortable being the early adopters of authoritative DNS encryption.

Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network
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The short instructions on this post show how to set the Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() header in popular HTTP/S servers.

KVM/Qemu VMs With a Multi-Screen Spice Console

In this multi-part article, the author covers access methods to multi-screen spice consoles.

Prioritizing Memory Safety Migrations

In this post, the author shows that replacing C/C++ with safer languages is not an all-or-nothing task and suggests prioritizing systematically.

List of Online Text to Diagram Tools

Page with a comprehensive list of various text to diagram tools.

LLVM 12

Version 12 of the LLVM compiler toolchain was released.

FBI Cleans Web Shells From Hacked Exchange Servers in Rare Active Defense Move
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The FBI actively removes backdoors from the hacked Microsoft Exchange servers.

Element Matrix Services launches bridging for Microsoft Teams
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Element Matrix Services is now bridging to Microsoft Teams.

US Investigators Probing Breach at Code Testing Company Codecov

The Codecov supply chain hack gets investigated.

RFC: Rust in Linux Kernel

»Some of you have noticed the past few weeks and months that
a serious attempt to bring a second language to the kernel was
being forged. We are finally here, with an RFC that adds support
for Rust to the Linux kernel.«

upptime
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»Upptime is the open-source uptime monitor and status page, powered entirely by GitHub Actions and Issues.«

Expiration Date 4-6-2021
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The Epic Games Reliability Engineering team did a post-mortem on a certificate expiration issue they recently experienced.

VMware and Dell Technologies Reach Agreement Regarding Spin-Off
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»Dell Technologies to Spin-off 81% Equity Ownership of VMware.«

Allow arbitrary URLs, expect arbitrary code execution | Positive Security
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The article demonstrates with practical examples how insufficient user input validation leads to code execution vulnerabilities.