Valuable News – 2019/06/03

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here.

Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1).

UNIX

OmniOS Installation in the Amazon Cloud.
https://omniosce.org/setup/aws

Golang Web Server in chroot(8) in OpenBSD.
https://vetelko.gitlab.io/openbsd-golang-web-server-chroot.html

Docker Bug Allows Root Access to Host File System.
https://duo.com/decipher/docker-bug-allows-root-access-to-host-file-system

Broken by Default – You Should Avoid Most DOCKERFILE Examples.
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/dockerizing-python-is-hard/

Running WordPress on OpenBSD.
https://besirovic.com/post/wordpress-on-openbsd/

FreeBSD 12-STABLE has Working Console on EC2 a1.* and *.metal Instances.
https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1133499607835537408
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=348342

BSD Now 300 – Big Three.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/300

FreeBSD Foundation 2019 Q1 Status Update.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-q1-2019-status-update/

Smartisan.com made $400,000 CAD donation to OpenBSD.
https://twitter.com/canadianbryan/status/1134442873716387840
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

DragonFly BSD | FreeBSD | Linux Benchmarks on AMD Threadripper.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dragonfly-55-threadripper

Drupal on OpenBSD.
https://dev.to/nabbisen/drupal-on-openbsd-4n39

Jailer is simple Proof of Concept of build system for building FreeBSD Jails from JAILFILES.
https://gitlab.com/kwiat/jailer

FreeBSD 11.3-BETA2 Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2019-May/091227.html

GOG.com Summer Sale – OpenBSD Highlights.
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd_gaming/comments/bvagkt/gogcom_summer_sale_openbsd_highlights/

Check Hard Drive Health on FreeBSD.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-check-hard-drive-health-on-freebsd/

Hardware

USB Stick as SSD – New Silicon Motion SM3282 Single-Chip Controller for USB SSDs.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14439/silicon-motion-sm3282-usb-ssds

Life

Kids of 1% are 10 Times More Likely to Become Inventors.
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/lost-einsteins-which-kids-become-innovators

Twitter Bans Analyst Who Revealed AntiFa Connections with Journalists.
https://humanevents.com/2019/05/29/twitter-bans-analyst-who-revealed-journalists-antifa-connections/

Google uses Gmail to Track History of Things You Buy.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html

USA Demands Social Media Details from VISA Applicants.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48486672

Other

Why I Still Use jQuery in 2019.
https://arp242.net/jquery.html

Temporary Staging Ground for Firefox ppc64 JIT.
https://github.com/classilla/jitpower

Block Fingerprinting with Firefox.
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-block-fingerprinting-with-firefox/

Switch from Chrome to Firefox in Just Few Minutes.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/switch/

Google Just Gave 2 Billion Chrome Users Reason to Switch to Firefox.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/#1b219e42751f

Serious Google Cloud Platform Outage – Status Dashboard.
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003

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