Weekly Digest – Week 9, 2021

Articles and News

Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

This article explains the issues with Google’s technology called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC).

#google #floc

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea

Splitting the Ping

In this post, the author explains the asymmetry of ICMP ping requests and ways of measuring the difference.

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ping-with-loss-latency-split

#ping #icmp #network

HTTPWTF

https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/http-wtf/

This post presents some of the less consistent features of HTTP.

#http

MySQL from Below

In this post, the author takes a look at different MySQL workloads on NVME drives.

https://blog.koehntopp.info/2021/02/25/mysql-from-below.html

#mysql #database-performance

Internet Archive Infrastructure

Jonah Edwards gives insight into the Internet Archive Infrastructure.

https://archive.org/details/jonah-edwards-presentation

#internet-archive

PDF: The State of Enterprise Open Source

»For the third year in a row, “infrastructure modernization” is the top use for enterprise open source software. Furthermore, 64% now cite it as a top use, up from 53% two years ago. This continued popularity isn’t really surprising. Linux and other open infrastructure like web servers have long been used to replace proprietary alternatives.«

https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/rh-enterprise-open-source-report-f27565-202101-en.pdf

#red-hat #open-source

Projects and Releases

OpenSSH 8.5

This OpenSSH release enables the UpdateHostKeys option by default to assist the client by automatically migrating to better algorithms if the weak SHA-1 hash algorithm in conjunction with the RSA public key algorithm is still used.

https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.5

#openssh #type:release

Zstandard 1.4.9

This zstd release brings significant performance improvements for the --long mode, a setting designed to improve compression ratio for files with long matches at a large distance.

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.4.9

#zstd #compression #type:release