Lennart Poettering on the state of disk encryption on Linux.

Issues with btrfs RAID arrays persist.

Aysylu Greenberg on how to verify the integrity of a DevOps software supply chain.

Python PDF library.

Rescue system based on Void Linux.

»Like jq, but for HTML.«

Draft for the peer review of the 2021 edition of the OWASP Top 10.

Self-hosted newsletter & mailing list manager.

»An open source game about learning Git!«

In this short blog, the author summarizes a paper that categorized types of software development waste.

»Red Hat is establishing a small team directly responsible for participating in EPEL activities. «

»Civil engineers have solid rules for the way a bridge ought to be constructed: we switch web application frameworks on an annual basis.«

The author gives some examples where Tor can be of great help for everyday sysadmin tasks.

C++ version of bashtop/bpytop.

Flatpak, Fedora Silverblue, Toolbox, Wayland, and Pipewire.

»Jupyter Book is an open source project for building beautiful, publication-quality books and documents from computational material.«

Introduction to the alternative RACK TCP stack in FreeBSD.

2021 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) virtualization benchmark.

Transfer files via sound.

»Zimit is a scraper allowing to create ZIM file from any Web site.«

A Security Analysis of STARTTLS in the Email Context.

Connection Strings Reference

x11docker provides an X display server on the host and provides it to containers.

»The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS Version 11.0. The reason for the major release number increment is that this version no longer uses the "split-user" system. That is, like most current distributions, /bin is a symbolic link to /usr/bin. Likewise, /lib and /sbin are both symbolic links to their /usr counterparts. «

In this blog post, the author provides reasons against abstracting away the concept of files, especially on mobile operating systems.

»The dream of perfect harmony was destroyed with the harsh reality that someone has to own a problem. It can't be a community issue, someone needs to sit down and work on it.«

In this post, the author explains his tool to create images of mounted volumes by using blktrace to track the dirty sectors.

»ssh-audit is a tool for ssh server & client configuration auditing.«

»This version adds 838 characters, for a total of 144,697 characters. These additions include five new scripts, for a total of 159 scripts, as well as 37 new emoji characters.«

»Integrating ethical and functional requirements to mitigate risk and increase innovation in systems engineering design and development.«

Linux Disaster Recovery

»The scale of Europe’s institutional capacity related to OSS, however, is disproportionately smaller than the scale of the value created by OSS. The study therefore gives a number of specific public policy recommendations aimed at achieving a digitally autonomous public sector, open R&D enabling European growth and a digitised and internally competitive industry.«

This post introduces the locked down GNOME/Mutter kiosk mode on RHEL 8.