Weekly Digest – Week 49, 2020
Articles and News
EC2 Mac Instances
Amazon now provides EC2 Mac Instances powered by Mac mini hardware, Intel, not M1 based.
Web Analytics Should At Least Meet the Standards of Informed Consent
What if we would base web analytics on the concept of informed consent?
https://drewdevault.com/2020/12/04/Analytics-and-informed-consent.html
Modern TPMS Sensors: Let’s Try a DoS attack
The author proves that it is not hard to switch tire-pressure monitoring sensors, typically using the 433 MHz ISM band, into “shipping” mode.
http://www.mirider.com/weblog/2020/12/04/#20201204_Modern_TPMS_Sensors_Lets_try_a_DoS_attack
Kubernetes 1.20 Is Deprecating Docker Runtime
Dockershim finally gets deprecated with version 1.20 of Kubernetes.
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.20.md#deprecation
Microconfig.io - Microservice Configuration Made Easy
Microconfig aims to solve common microservice configuration problems.
JavaScript Turns 25
»28 industry-leading companies to endorse JavaScript as a complement to Java for easy online application development.«
https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html
QEMU Advent Calendar 2020
»An amazing QEMU disk image every day!«
https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2020/
Intent to Remove: HTTP/2 and gQUIC Server Push
The developers intend to remove the HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 server push feature from Chrome.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/K3rYLvmQUBY/m/vOWBKZGoAQAJ
Projects and Releases
OpenZFS 2.0.0
Version 2 of OpenZFS was officially released this week. There are some impressive new features, but the most significant change is, of course, the unification of the codebase between the former ZoL and ZFS on FreeBSD.
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.0.0
Debian 10.7
»This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems.«
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20201205
Ethr
Ethr is a golang-based network performance measurement tool similar to ip iPerf3.
https://github.com/microsoft/ethr
jailhouse: Linux-based partitioning hypervisor
Jailhouse is a bare-metal hypervisor, optimized for simplicity, developed by Siemens.
https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse
alacritty
Alacritty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Command Line Interface Guidelines
https://clig.dev is the home an open-source guide with the intention to help writing better command-line programs. The guide is written in a single Markdown file and served by the popular static-site-generator Hugo.
:wq