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Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

    Time Event
    2:29p
    Speeding up Linux disk encryption (Cloudflare)
    The Cloudflare blog has an
    article on the company's work     to improve the performance of Linux disk
    encryption.
    "As we can see the default Linux disk encryption implementation has a
    significant impact on our cache latency in worst case scenarios, whereas
    the patched implementation is indistinguishable from not using encryption
    at all. In other words the improved encryption implementation does not have
    any impact at all on our cache response speed, so we basically get it for
    free!    "
    Patches are available, but they are apparently not in any form to go
    upstream.
    2:47p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (e2fsprogs, ruby2.1, and weechat), Fedora (java-1.8.0-openjdk and webkit2gtk3), openSUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc, glibc, mcpp, nghttp2, and skopeo), Oracle (libvncserver and thunderbird), and SUSE (keepalived).
    3:10p
    [$] Django changes its governance
    The Django web framework has
    come a long way since it was first released as open source in 2005. It
    started with a benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) governance model, like
    the language it is implemented in, Python, but switched to a different
    model     in 2014. When Python switched
    away     from the BDFL model in 2018, it followed Django's lead to some
    extent. But now Django is changing yet again, moving from governance based
    around a "core team" to one that is more inclusive and better reflects the
    way the project is operating now.
    6:14p
    Some stable kernels
    Stable kernels 5.5.13, 5.5.12, 5.4.28, and 4.19.113 have been released. They all contain
    important fixes and users should upgrade.
    7:27p
    O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
    O'Reilly has announced
    that it is canceling all of its upcoming in-person conferences and shutting
    down its conference group permanently. "Without understanding when
    this global health emergency may come to an end, we can’t plan for or
    execute on a business that will be forever changed as a result of this
    crisis. With large technology vendors moving their events completely
    on-line, we believe the stage is set for a new normal moving forward when
    it comes to in-person events.    " There is still no notice to this
    effect on the OSCON page, but
    one assumes that is coming.
    11:12p
    [$] Helping FOSS conferences in the face of a pandemic
    The effects of the Coronavirus
    disease 2019     (COVID-19) pandemic are horrific and far-reaching; we
    really do not yet know just how bad it will get. One far less serious area
    that has been affected is conferences for
    and about free and open-source
    software (FOSS). On the grand scale, these problems are pretty low on the
    priority list.
    There are a fair number of non-profit organizations behind the
    gatherings, however, that have spent considerable sums setting up
    now-canceled events or depend on
    the conferences for a big chunk of their budget—or both. A new
    organization, FOSS Responders,
    has formed to try to help out.

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