Weekly Digest – Week 4, 2021

Articles and News

Nextcloud, Open-Xchange, and Univention Partner To Create Sovereign Productivity Suite

Three well-known open-source software companies join forces to provide a software suite specifically designed for the German public sector.

https://nextcloud.com/press/pr20210129/

#nextcloud #univention #open-xchange #open-source #digital-sovereignty

Improving How We Deploy GitHub

This blog post gives insight into the recent deployment improvements of GitHub.

https://github.blog/2021-01-25-improving-how-we-deploy-github/

#github #ci-cd

System Separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) analyzed the incident that nearly led to a blackout in Europe.

https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2021/01/26/system-separation-in-the-continental-europe-synchronous-area-on-8-january-2021-2nd-update/

#blackout #entsoe #kritis

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020

Backblaze, the storage and data backup company, released their new hard drive reliability stats.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/

#hard-drive #storage

Achieving 11M IOPS & 66 GB/s IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation

The author shows what impressive IO performance a single workstation can deliver today.

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/11m-iops-with-10-ssds-on-amd-threadripper-pro-workstation/

#io-performance

Controlling Your Destiny

A short reminder that you should always own your platform.

https://avc.com/2021/01/controlling-your-destiny/

#digital-sovereignty

Wikimedia’s CDN

This blog post is the third of a three-part series that describes how Wikimedia’s own CDN evolved. The previous posts are linked there.

https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/12/17/wikimedias-cdn-datacenter-switchover/

#wikimedia #cdn

Latex Tagged PDF Feasility Evaluation

This report shows, what is needed, to automatically generate tagged PDFs from Latex in the future.

https://www.latex-project.org/publications/2020-tagged-pdf-feasibility.pdf

https://www.latex-project.org/publications/2020-FMi-TUB-tb129mitt-tagpdf.pdf

#pdf #latex #tagged-pdf #accessibility

Fast Commits for ext4

The article explains how the optimization of the ext4 journaling leads to increased performance.

https://lwn.net/Articles/842385/

#file-systems #ext4

Projects and Releases

A Dedicated Licence for Open-Source Hardware: CERN OHL Approved by OSI

»The OSI (Open Source Initiative) has approved version 2 of CERN’s Open Hardware License (OHL), meaning it conforms to its Open Source Definition and respects the ideals and ethos of the movement.«

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/29/cern_ohl_approved/

#open-source #open-source-hardware

OPNsense 21.1

Release 21.1 of OPNsense brings improved firewall rules and NAT categories, traffic graphs supporting IPv6, advanced intrusion detection management, and aliases for MAC addresses.

https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-1-marvelous-meerkat-released/

#opnsense #type:release