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Technology Short Take 177

Scott Lowe

In this Technology Short Take, I have links on things ranging from physical network designs to running retro operating systems as virtual machines. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Open Policy Agent (OPA) is approaching their 1.0 Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans digs into what “current branch” means in Git.

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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The Verge

Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on,” wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. But among the other major characters — the Linux developers — there was no such hesitancy.

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What’s Free At Linux Academy June 2019

Linux Academy

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Technology Short Take 175

Scott Lowe

The Linux kernel project has become a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote a blog post that discusses this in more depth. Operating Systems/Applications Google has open sourced Magicka, an AI-powered file type identification library. More details are available in this blog post.

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Technology Short Take 165

Scott Lowe

This post on Cedar—a new policy language developed by AWS—is an interesting read. I’m curious as to the constraints that led AWS to develop a new policy language versus using something like Rego (part of Open Policy Agent); this isn’t something the article touches upon. As fate (luck?)

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Technology Short Take 154

Scott Lowe

Liam Galvin shows a couple of ways that Rego (the language behind Open Policy Agent) can be used maliciously. Richard Seroter shares some data comparing container size and startup latency for serverless apps written in various programming languages. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Technology Short Take 140

Scott Lowe

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Michael Kashin combines networking and programming in this post on getting started with eBPF and Go. Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

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