Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 12 (March 22, 2021)

Web Development History
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Web Development History is an excellent resource on different aspects of web development history.

nzyme
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nzyme is an open-source WiFi IDS.

Grafana 7.5
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The latest stable release of Grafana comes with a new and improved pie chart panel, alerting support for Loki, a Grafana Tempoo backend data source, and many other improvements.

How to Conditionally Configure Your Git Username and Email Address
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This short post explains how to use different git usernames and email addresses per directory.

Does Sigstore Really Secure The Supply Chain?

The author discusses which supply chain attacks aren't covered by sigstore.

Transfer of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation

Nokia has transferred the copyright of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation.

Rethinking Site Capacity Projections With Capacity Analyzer
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This in-depth article shows how LinkedIn Engineering improved the capacity projections on their site.

Plausible Analytics
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Plausible is a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics, compliant with GDPR.

Git 2.31
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The git maintenance command is probably the most notable feature of this newest release of Git.

Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives
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This article summarizes Seagate's long-term HDD technology roadmap.

Fundamentals of Optimal Code Style

»Cognitively-Oriented Approach to Improving Program Readability«

z3
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»z3 is a ZFS to S3 backup tool.«

Links

Links is a text-based open-source web browser.

Debian 10.9

The Debian project released a fresh point release, including the latest bug fixes and security updates.

GNOME 40

A new stable version of the popular desktop environment was released, the first one following the project's new versioning scheme.

SQLite Is Not a Toy Database
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The author gives some good reasons why the omnipresent DBMS should not be underestimated.

RFC 9006
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TCP Usage Guidance in the Internet of Things (IoT)

Performance Optimizations in VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 CPU Scheduler for AMD EPYC Processors

The performance impact of a new CPU scheduler for AMD EPYC in VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 is described in this document by VMware.

Notes on Some PostgreSQL Implementation Details
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This is an interesting write-up of a PostgreSQL performance issue.

Firefox 87 Trims HTTP Referrers by Default

»Starting with Firefox 87, we set the default Referrer Policy to 'strict-origin-when-cross-origin' which will trim user sensitive information accessible in the URL.«

Focalboard

Focalboard is an open-source, self-hosted project management software.

Toolbox
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Toolbox is a tool for containerized command-line environments based on Podman.

New Old Bugs in the Linux Kernel

This post takes a deep dive into several bugs inside the iSCSI subsystem of the Linux kernel.

What's New in FreeBSD 13.0
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»FreeBSD 13.0 comes out at the end of March. Take a look at what's new in the upcoming release.«

The Most Popular Databases ‒ 2006/2021
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Based on the TOPDB Top Database index, this post gives an overview of the most widely used DBMS since 2006.

tz
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tz is a neat little timezone helper for the command-line.

runj
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runj, is a new experimental, proof-of-concept OCI-compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails.

Checkmk 2.0

Version 2 of Checkmk comes with an overhauled user interface.

How We Responded to a 2-Hour Outage in Our Grafana Cloud Hosted Prometheus Service
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Short post-mortem on a Grafana Cloud Prometrheus outage.

RFC 8996
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Deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Now GA
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AWS launched Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).

Regexploit: DoS-able Regular Expressions

This post explains the issue of DoS against regular expressions. The authors also introduce their tool regexploit, which helps analyze regular expressions against such vulnerabilities.

Trying Out Cosign

cosign is part of the sigstore project to make the open-source software supply chain more secure. In this post, the author describes how to use the cosign tool to sign container images.

Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme

ssss is a practical implementation of a secret sharing scheme, a method for distributing a secret amongst a group of participants.

Buildroot

Buildroot is a simple, efficient, and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.

Awesome .NET Performance
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A curated list of .NET Performance resources.

PDF: Prototyping an Onboard Scheduler for the Mars 2020 Rover

This paper describes the prototype for the onboard scheduler of the Mars 2020 rover.

PDF: Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V ISA

Paper on the efforts of porting OpenBSD to the RISC-V ISA.

RHEL in Your Car?
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Red Hat is currently building an automotive infotainment team.