today's leftovers
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2022 hardcore list of linux distributions without elogind and other systemd parts
This list is going to be short and there may be a sublist of distros with a medium strict standard. We shall explain what the object is, below the short list (which we hope the community will assist in making longer as we have not been able to currently review the work of every distro and fork).
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The frustrating RouterOS–WireGuard VPN peering bug
The router runs the RouterOS operating system, which supports WireGuard, a modern VPN protocol. I wasted several afternoons and late evenings but didn’t manage to set it up. It would turn out that a bug caused all my hardship in the MikroTik web configuration interface.
The WireGuard protocol is relatively new and is an overall improvement compared to older VPN protocols. However, it’s more difficult to troubleshoot than those older protocols. The remote end of a WireGuard tunnel stays quiet unless you can successfully authenticate against it. This behavior makes it harder to distinguish an authentication error from a head-on collision with a firewall rule or other networking roadblocks. Older VPN protocols would aid troubleshooting efforts by emitting error messages when a client connected to it with incorrect credentials.
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Observability-driven development with OpenTelemetry
The OpenTelemetry project has the industry backing to be the 'plumbing' for enabling observability across distributed applications. The OpenTelemetry project is second only to Kubernetes when measuring the size of its contributor community among Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, and was formed when OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects merged in 2019. Since then, almost all of the major players in the industry have announced their support for OpenTelemetry.
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So you want to do ODD, and you have a standard of how to instrument the code with OpenTelemetry. Now you just need a tool to bridge the gap and help you develop and test your distributed application with OpenTelemetry. This is why my team is building Tracetest, an open source tool to enable the development and testing of your distributed microservice application. It's agnostic to the development language used or the backend OpenTelemetry data source that is chosen.
For years, developers have utilized tools such as Postman, ReadyAPI, or Insomnia to trigger their code, view the response, and create tests against the response. Tracetest extends this old concept to support the modern, observability-driven development needs of teams. Traces are front and center in the tool. Tracetest empowers you to trigger your code to execute, view both the response from that code and the OpenTelemetry trace, and to build tests based on both the response and the data contained in the trace.
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Why Is Linux Better Than Mac? The Comparison | Itsubuntu.com
Linux is a free, open-source operating system. You don’t have to pay anything to use it, and it’s not owned by any particular business. Due to the rules of its license agreement with users, Apple Inc.’s commercially produced Mac OS X is offered free of charge. The Unix operating system (UNIX), which was created by AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1969 as a substitute for Multics, is the basis for the name (which became UNIX System V).
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StarFighter Linux Laptop comes with tons of new and unique features! Available to pre-order in the next few days.
If you are a fan of the Linux OS, you must be happy as I am with the news of the releases of Linux devices. Today's article is one of that news.
StarLabs, the British company whose laptops we've reviewed in several articles on this humble blog, has announced a bunch of brief detail about their upcoming laptop, the StarFighter, which will be available to pre-order in the next few days.
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The HTTP crash course nobody asked for
Usually with HTTP, you control at least the client or the server. So you can trust those to some extent. Or, should trust not suffice, you can always get in there and add instrumentation until either you, or the problem, meets their maker.
But when you write a proxy, you can trust no one.
Not even yourself.
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openScale: Free Libre Body Metrics Tracker That Respects Your Privacy
This app has no ads and requests no unnecessary permissions. The location permission is only needed to find a Bluetooth scale. Once found the permission can be revoked (or never granted if Bluetooth isn't used).
openScale doesn't send any data to a cloud and not having permission to access the internet is a strong guarantee of that.
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The project is a true free Libre open source software (FLOSS) that is released under the GPL-v3.0 license.
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NLnet Grant Application for Domain Rejected
On October 12th, 2022, we received the following form letter, informing us that our NLnet Grant Application (original application, follow-up questions and answers) for Domain has been rejected.