Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 07 (February 15, 2021)

How They SRE
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How they SRE is a curated collection of SRE resources.

arara

»arara is a TeX automation tool based on directives and rules.«

Podman v3.0.0

Release 3.0 release of podman comes with support for Docker Compose, improved security, and over 100 bug fixes.

Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla
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This post's authors provide insight into Mozilla's fuzzing-pipeline, including links to the open-source tools in use.

How We Hosted Fosdem 2021 on Matrix

This post shares insights on how this year's FOSDEM was held on Matrix.

Miniflux

Minimalist and opinionated feed reader.

ncdu

Home of the ncurses-based disk usage analyzer; also contains a list with similar projects.

Consensus is Harder Than It Looks

This article highlights three challenges in consensus for highly available systems.

NOTAM for SREs

The author suggests defining a single place where SRE should document temporary information on systems and their operation.

Staying Safe With .NET Containers
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This post gives some general security advice in working with .NET containers.

(Very) Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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In this post, the author gives a short introduction to ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography.)

NetStatus
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»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«

OpenBSD on Apple M1

This short note states that OpenBSD can boot into multi-user mode on Apple M1 Hardware now.

How Much Are Open-Source Developers Really Worth?
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»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.«

plocate

plocate is a faster mlocate replacement with a smaller index footprint.

Rust 1.50.0
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»For this release, we have improved array indexing, expanded safe access to union fields, and added to the standard library.«

Babelfish: the Elephant in the Room?

In this post, the author reflects on how Amazon AWS’s Babelfish will influence PostgreSQL.

ENIAC Turns 75

This article gives an insight into the history of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.

dog
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dog is a command-line DNS client with support for DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS protocols.

inetutils 2.0

The first release of inetutils in 6 years brings updates to programs like ping and ficonfig.

LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 5.11

The first stable kernel release for 2021 includes an AMD performance regression fix, new hardware support, and filesystem improvements.

dRAID, Finally!
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This article explains why the upcoming distributed RAID vdev type is an excellent addition to ZFS's existing data protection capabilities for large installments.

Beej's Guide to Network Programming
FileRun
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FileRun is a self-hosted file manager.

Farmers Are Having to Hack Their Own Tractors Just to Make Repairs
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This article shows the consequences of proprietary, closed software finding its way more and more into farming.