Daily Shaarli
August 15, 2021
OSADL (Open Source Automation Development Lab): Open Source Software for Automation and Other Industries.
Debian 11 is out, some of the changes: systemd now defaults to using cgroupv2, the systemd journal is now persisted by default. Debian 11 includes over 11294 new packages, and the maintainers updated most of the existing ones. Version numbers of some well-known packages:
- PostgreSQL 13
- Samba 4.13
- Vim 8.2
- OpenSSH 8.4p1
- Nginx 1.18
- KDE Plasma 5.20

Facebook, Google, Isovalent, Microsoft, and Netflix launch eBPF Foundation as Part of the Linux Foundation.

Glowworm Attack: recovering sound by analyzing optical emanations from a device's power indicator LED.

This post explains the rationale behind the decision to switch from Debian to Arch Linux for SteamOS 3.0.

observatory-cli
is the command-line version of Mozilla's Observatory, »a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely.«

Blog post on migrating on-prem Postgres to a GKE cluster with Percona Operator.

This blog post introduces Facebook's Open Compute Time Appliance, based on the PCIe Time Card.
Debian Pure Blends are a solution for groups of people with specific needs.

Blog post on why there is no such thing as a "root cause" in the context of complex systems failure.
Colin Percival compares boot times of different operating systems on EC2 with his tool ec2-boot-bench
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In this video, the speaker gives a practical introduction to SSH tunnels with lots of examples and configuration tips.
This post explains how attackers can abuse middleboxes and censorship infrastructure for DoS amplification attacks over TCP.