Monthly Shaarli
February, 2021
»arara is a TeX automation tool based on directives and rules.«
Release 3.0 release of podman comes with support for Docker Compose, improved security, and over 100 bug fixes.
This post's authors provide insight into Mozilla's fuzzing-pipeline, including links to the open-source tools in use.
This post shares insights on how this year's FOSDEM was held on Matrix.
This article highlights three challenges in consensus for highly available systems.
The author suggests defining a single place where SRE should document temporary information on systems and their operation.
This post gives some general security advice in working with .NET containers.
In this post, the author gives a short introduction to ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography.)
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the US and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, the Dunant submarine cable system delivering a capacity of 250 terabits per second.
The Threat Modeling Manifesto provides guidelines with values and principles in threat modeling.
» ‘Move fast and break things’ is not a tenable paradigm for this industry today — if it ever was. In the light of our experience, with the outcomes of an industry that became fixated on pumping out minimally viable products, it’s a paradigm that heads towards what we could conventionally label as criminal negligence.«
»NetStatus is designed as an always-on dashboard WebUI to track internet connectivity. It will periodically recheck its connection & provide a live view of status, online or off. speed up/down & latency«
This short note states that OpenBSD can boot into multi-user mode on Apple M1 Hardware now.
»The results of the study, which was commissioned by the European Commission, show that there is a widespread lack of understanding of the benefits that can be drawn from the open-source ecosystem in Europe.«
Minimalist and opinionated feed reader.
Home of the ncurses-based disk usage analyzer; also contains a list with similar projects.
»For this release, we have improved array indexing, expanded safe access to union fields, and added to the standard library.«
In this post, the author reflects on how Amazon AWS’s Babelfish will influence PostgreSQL.
This article gives an insight into the history of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.
On https://distrotest.net/, over 300 different operating systems can be tested from within the browser or via a VNC client.
»This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems.«
This blog post explains what checkpoints in PostgreSQL are and how you can tune them.
This article differentiates between process-oriented and commitment-oriented projects and their imposter equivalents.
This paper shows that NTP is vulnerable to attacks by malicious NTP servers.
A postmortem by Slack on the outage from the beginning of January, caused by the overload of one of their AWS transit gateway.
The first release of inetutils in 6 years brings updates to programs like ping and ficonfig.
The first stable kernel release for 2021 includes an AMD performance regression fix, new hardware support, and filesystem improvements.
This article explains why the upcoming distributed RAID vdev type is an excellent addition to ZFS's existing data protection capabilities for large installments.
plocate is a faster mlocate replacement with a smaller index footprint.
This article shows the consequences of proprietary, closed software finding its way more and more into farming.
The author analyzes an old issue in the Linux kernel TCP implementation.
Operating Systems book centered around the concepts of virtualization, concurrency, and persistence.
Canonical released Ubuntu Core 20, it’s minimal, containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Docker donates the code of it’s container registry to the CNCF.
This post explains how to parse plain text gRPC messages in Wireshark.
Adding a document that describes the high-level architecture is a useful thing to add to your project.