Weekly Digest – Week 28, 2021
Articles and News
What Went Wrong?
Poul-Henning Kamp on why it’s time for governments to establish IT accident investigation boards.
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3475967
#politics #it-accidents
Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS)
The Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) is the open-source base for the federated data infrastructure project Gaia-X.
#digital-sovereignty #gaia-x
“But What if We Just Use Encryption?” – Practical GDPR for CTOs
For data protected by the GDPR, encryption is not sufficient for processing data.
https://elastisys.com/but-what-if-we-just-use-encryption-practical-gdpr-for-ctos/
#gdpr #encryption
Japan Has Shattered the Internet Speed Record at 319 Terabits per Second
https://interestingengineering.com/japan-shattered-internet-speed-record-319-terabits
#internet-speed #network-performance
MySQL/ZFS Performance Update
Percona finds that MySQL on ZFS is now on par with ext4 performance-wise for their test use case.
https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-zfs-performance-update/
#zfs #database-perormance #mysql #filesystem-performance
Installing SCO UNIX
Two-part blog series on installing SCO UNIX.
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2021/07/13/installing-sco-unix-part-1/
#unix #sco #computer-history
Microsoft puts PCs in the cloud with Windows 365
Microsoft introduces Windows 365, its virtual desktop product.
#microsoft #virtual-desktop #virtualization
First Complementary Vertical Organic Transistors Reach GHz Speeds
»A team at the Technische Universität Dresden has developed the first implementation of a complementary, vertical organic transistor technology.«
https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/first-complementary-vertical-organic-transistors-reach-ghz-speeds
#organic-transistors
time(1) and CPU Frequency Scaling
With dynamic CPU scaling, the time a CPU took to complete a task and how much work the CPU did have to do, are two different things.
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2021-07-14/0/POSTING-en.html
#cpu-metrics #time
Projects and Releases
Proxmox Backup Server 2.0
Like Proxmox VE, the new release of Proxmox Backup Server is based on the upcoming Debian Bullseye and includes Kernel 5.11 as well as ZFS 2.0.
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-2-0-released.92509/
#backup-software #proxmox #type:release
Virtuozzo Linux 8.4
https://virtuozzosupport.force.com/s/article/VZA-2021-030
Virtuozzo Linux is another alternative to RHEL/CentOS 8.4.
#centos #type:release
Mitmproxy 7
Among other improvements, mitmproxy now supports TLS-over-TLS, HTTP/2 - HTTP/1 interopatibility, and host header-based proxying.
https://mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy7/
#security #mitmproxy #type:release
OpenSearch 1.0
OpenSearch, Amazon’s fork of Elasicsearch and Kibana, is now generally available.
https://opensearch.org/blog/updates/2021/07/opensearch-general-availability-announcement/
#elastic-stack #type:release
AmIUnique
»Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet.«
#privacy #browser-fingerprinting
Looking Glass
VGA PCI Pass-through KVM optimized for low latency and performance.
#kvm #virtualization #low-latency
rpm-ostree
rpm-ostree is a hybrid image/package system allowing atomic upgrades/rollbacks.
https://rpm-ostree.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
#package-manager #red-hat
Ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework by the NSA.
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
#reverse-engineering #security
mboxviewer
»Simple mbox viewer.«
https://github.com/eneam/mboxviewer
#mbox #email
Open Insulin Foundation
#bio-hacking #open-source
Raspberry Pi 1U Server
https://github.com/pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server
#colocation #raspberry-pi
Casio fx-9750GII Webserver
Webserver on a calculator.
#webserver #calculator
Regex Cheatsheet
https://remram44.github.io/regex-cheatsheet/regex.html
#regex
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