Weekly Shaarli
Week 07 (February 15, 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.
Minimalist and opinionated feed reader.
Home of the ncurses-based disk usage analyzer; also contains a list with similar projects.
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.)

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

»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.
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.

This article shows the consequences of proprietary, closed software finding its way more and more into farming.