Weekly Shaarli
Week 36 (September 6, 2021)
In this short blog, the author summarizes a paper that categorized types of software development waste.
This post introduces the locked down GNOME/Mutter kiosk mode on RHEL 8.
»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.«
»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.
Draft for the peer review of the 2021 edition of the OWASP Top 10.
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.«