Wandering Thoughts archives

2020-04-30:	The afterlife of Python 2
2020-04-29:	The problem of Ubuntu 20.04, Snaps, and where your home directory is Dealing with my worries about Django and HTTP Basic Authentication
2020-04-27:	I think you should generally be using the latest version of Go My views on SystemTap as compared to eBPF for Linux kernel instrumentation
2020-04-26:	Looking back at DTrace from a Linux eBPF world (some thoughts)
2020-04-25:	Some notes on Firefox's interstitial warning for old TLS versions
2020-04-24:	Accepting TLS certificate hostnames based on IP address checks is not safe
2020-04-23:	The Unix divide over who gets to chown things, and (disk space) quotas
2020-04-22:	More on `chown` in combination with symlinks
2020-04-20:	An important safety note about `chown` and symlinks (also chmod and chgrp)
2020-04-19:	Verifying the server hostname for a TLS certificate has two purposes GMail, POP, and TLS server certificate verification
2020-04-17:	We've disabled eBPF for normal users on our Linux machines Some bits of grep usage are where I disagree with Shellcheck
2020-04-15:	Some ways that servers make their disks not hot-swappable We're (temporarily) moving to three way mirrored disks on our servers
2020-04-13:	If you use GNU Grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option
2020-04-12:	The appeal of doing exact string comparisons with Apache's `RewriteCond` ZFS on Linux has now become the OpenZFS ZFS implementation
2020-04-10:	'Deduplicated' ZFS send streams are now deprecated and on the way out Why my commit messages for configuration files describe my changes
2020-04-08:	Why you want a Linux bootloader even on UEFI systems There can be differences in what malware variants anti-spam systems distinguish
2020-04-06:	Fedora 31 fumbles DNF modules, package updates edition
2020-04-05:	My normal process for upgrading from one Fedora version to another Why it's very bad for applications to start themselves automatically
2020-04-03:	Microsoft Teams' bad arrogance on (Fedora) Linux
2020-04-02:	We may face some issues with the timing of Ubuntu 20.04 and its effects
2020-04-01:	Why Linux bootloaders wind up being complicated

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