Articles and News

How To Resize ZRAM (Compressed Swap) Managed by Systemd/Zram-Generator

This article gives a short, practical introduction to ZRAM, a Linux kernel subsystem for handling volatile memory compression.

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-systemd-zram-generator.html

Your Computer Isn’t Yours

Apple’s macOS security design decisions are not aligned with their marketing claim to value their customer’s privacy.

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

Booting a macOS Apple Silicon Kernel in QEMU

The author describes how he was able to boot a macOS silicon kernel in QEMU.

https://worthdoingbadly.com/xnuqemu3/

SAD DNS

The SAD DNS page explains this advanced DNS cache poisoning attack. The paper the attack is based on is also linked.

https://www.saddns.net

OpenBSD Router Guide

This tutorial shows how to create a router based on OpenBSD.

https://www.unixsheikh.com/tutorials/openbsd-router-guide/

Releases and Projects

openSUSE MicroOS

MicroOS is the latest contender in the category of operating systems specially tailored at container-based workflows.

https://microos.opensuse.org

WebGL Fluid Simulation

https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/

PostgreSQL Observability

This page gives a graphical overview of the internal Postgres observability functions for the current version 13.

https://pgstats.dev

.NET 5.0

.NET 5.0 is available with a lot of performance improvements.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-5-0/

Proxmox Backup Server

Version 1.0 of Proxmox Backup Server is out. It’s n ZFS based, open-source backup solution written in Rust.

https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-backup-server

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