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Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 3:36p |
| | 4:17p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (connman, firejail, libzstd, slirp, and xcftools), Fedora (chromium, jackson-databind, and privoxy), openSUSE (chromium), Oracle (kernel and kernel-container), Slackware (dnsmasq), SUSE (java-11-openjdk, kernel, and python), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oem-5.6, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux, linux-gke-5.0, linux-gke-5.3, linux-hwe, linux-raspi2-5.3, openjdk-8, openjdk-lts, and snapd). | | 5:11p |
[$] Visiting another world The world wide web is truly a wondrous invention, but it is not without flaws. There are massive privacy woes that stem from its standards and implementation; it is also so fiendishly complex that few can truly grok all of its expanse. That complexity affords enormous flexibility, for good or ill. Those who are looking for a simpler way to exchange information—or hearken back to web prehistory—may find the Gemini project worth a look. | | 11:33p |
[$] Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
There is always a certain amount of tension between the goals of those
using older, less-popular architectures and the goals of projects targeting
more mainstream users and systems. In many ways, our community has been
spoiled by the number of architectures supported by GCC, but a lot of new
software is not being written in C—and existing software is migrating away
from it.
The Rust language is
often the choice these days for both new and existing code bases, but it is
built with LLVM, which supports fewer architectures than GCC
supports—and Linux runs on. So the question that arises is how much these older, non-Rusty
architectures should be able to hold back future development; the answer,
in several places now, has been "not much". |
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