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Why does The Gimp have a green pepper brush?

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Travelling with Tailscale

mrkaran.dev

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XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis

securelist.com

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Building a Linux Container Using Namespaces: Part – 1

polarsparc.com

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Writing highly scalable backends in UDP

mas-bandwidth.com

I'm Glenn Fiedler and welcome to Más Bandwidth, my new blog at the intersection of game...
I'm Glenn Fiedler and welcome to Más Bandwidth, my new blog at the intersection of game network programming and scalable backend engineering. Imagine you have a system you need to code and it needs to scale up to many millions of requests per-second. The well-trodden path is to implement this in HTTPS with a load ba...

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XDP for game programmers

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I'm Glenn Fiedler and welcome to Más Bandwidth, my new blog at the intersection of game...
I'm Glenn Fiedler and welcome to Más Bandwidth, my new blog at the intersection of game network programming and scalable backend engineering. What's this new blog about? Games with thousands of players. Virtual worlds. Performance in virtual spaces to an audience of millions. The Metaverse (no, not THAT metaverse, t...

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Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14

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New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary

bleepingcomputer.com

Firmware security firm Binarly has released a free online scanner to detect Linux executables impacted by...
Firmware security firm Binarly has released a free online scanner to detect Linux executables impacted by the XZ Utils supply chain attack, tracked as CVE-2024-3094. CVE-2024-3094 is a supply chain compromise in XZ Utils, a set of data compression tools and libraries used in many major Linux distributions. Late last...

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How Read-Intensive is The Kernel's Use of RCU?

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RCU is a specialized synchronization mechanism, and is typically used where there are far more readers...
RCU is a specialized synchronization mechanism, and is typically used where there are far more readers (rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_unlock(), rcu_dereference(), and so on) than there are updaters (synchronize_rcu(), call_rcu(), rcu_assign_pointer(), and so on). But does the Linux kernel really make heavier use of RCU'...

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About the Xz Backdoor

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The xz-utils package, starting from versions 5.6.0 to 5.6.1, was found to contain a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)....
The xz-utils package, starting from versions 5.6.0 to 5.6.1, was found to contain a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094). This backdoor could potentially allow a malicious actor to compromise sshd authentication, granting unauthorized access to the entire system remotely.With a library this widely used, the severity of this vul...

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Kubernetes and back – Why I don't run distributed systems

davd.io

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Linux Crisis Tools

brendangregg.com

When you have an outage caused by a performance issue, you don't want to lose precious...
When you have an outage caused by a performance issue, you don't want to lose precious time just to install the tools needed to diagnose it. Here is a list of "crisis tools" I recommend installing on your Linux servers by default (if they aren't already), along with the (Ubuntu) package names that they come from: Pa...

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An invention to silence reggaeton with artificial intelligence

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Roni Bandini once woke up every day to reggaeton songs that his neighbor blasted at full...
Roni Bandini once woke up every day to reggaeton songs that his neighbor blasted at full volume. Until, finally, he couldn’t take it anymore.He didn’t knock on his neighbor’s door and ask for the volume to be turned down. Instead, he developed an autonomous machine “to take care of the situation.” The Argentine musi...

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Linux on the desktop is gaining ground

techcentral.co.za

Linux on the desktop is enjoying something of a resurgence in popularity as the age-old battle...
Linux on the desktop is enjoying something of a resurgence in popularity as the age-old battle between the underdog open-source operating system and market leader Microsoft Windows hots up again. So, is this the year that Linux, in its many variants, becomes the mainstream desktop operating system? That’s unlikely. ...

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Linux Kernel 6.8 Released Goes Big on Hardware Support

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With every Linux kernel release, we have numerous refinements and features. And, Linux kernel 6.8 is...
With every Linux kernel release, we have numerous refinements and features. And, Linux kernel 6.8 is particularly interesting for all the hardware support it brings in.Not to forget, Linux kernel 6.8 is planned to be included with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, so you should get all the benefits with Ubuntu's next big release.He...

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Linux kernel security tunables everyone should consider adopting

cloudflare.com

The Linux kernel is the heart of many modern production systems. It decides when any code...
The Linux kernel is the heart of many modern production systems. It decides when any code is allowed to run and which programs/users can access which resources. It manages memory, mediates access to hardware, and does a bulk of work under the hood on behalf of programs running on top. Since the kernel is always invo...

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Reclaim your focus with ~12 lines of bash

autodidacts.io

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What Is Free Software?

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“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users...
“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free spe...

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New FCC standards should consider latency

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Ruby is better than Python for Unix-like system administration

medium.com

Ruby was conceived by a man who worked a lot in Perl and Unix. This is...
Ruby was conceived by a man who worked a lot in Perl and Unix. This is very much transparent from the language itself. If you are a Unix professional you will know at least half of of these names/symbols by heart:` `, $?, STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ${}, ARGV, $$ ... # shell-isms%Q, %q, %x, -e, -F, -wnlp, / /, $VAR, @VAR...

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MMU-Less Systems and Fdpic

maskray.me

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How to debug C and C++ programs with rr (2021)

redhat.com

The common theme in many time-travel movies is to go back in time to find out...
The common theme in many time-travel movies is to go back in time to find out what went wrong and fix it. Developers also have that desire to go back in time and find why the code broke and fix it. But, often, that crucial step where everything went wrong happened long ago, and the information is no longer available...

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Reflections on 25 Years of Programming

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The Dumbing-Down of Programming

salon.com

Last month I committed an act of technical rebellion: I bought one operating system instead of...
Last month I committed an act of technical rebellion: I bought one operating system instead of another. On the surface, this may not seem like much, since an operating system is something that can seem inevitable. It's there when you get your machine, some software from Microsoft, an ur-condition that can be upgrade...

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