today's leftovers
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Partner success: Highlights from our partner success stories in 2022
The Red Hat partner ecosystem is an integral part of how Red Hat develops and delivers business and technical value to customers. It provides a community to solve customer challenges, build integrated solutions and establish and grow deep relationships—all built around Red Hat’s enterprise open source solutions.
Here we highlight seven partner success stories from 2022, covering everything from 5G telecommunications through manufacturing and financial services.
Grab a cup of holiday cheer and read on to learn how Red Hat and Red Hat's partners might be able to help your organization in the coming year.
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A year in review: Red Hat Training’s most popular courses of 2022
Throughout 2022, Red Hat Training and Certification continued to update our training course catalog to keep pace with changes in Red Hat technology and industry trends. With options for self-paced, live virtual and in-person classroom training, opportunities to sharpen your skill set abound. Check out our top five most visited training courses and resources of 2022.
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Zeno's Paradox and Why Modern Technology is Rubbish
How true is that! If you've worked on any project, you know how easy it is to get most of the way there. And how difficult it is to get all of the way there.
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LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults
In an updated blog post on its disclosure, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba said the intruders took a copy of a backup of customer vault data by using cloud storage keys stolen from a LastPass employee. The cache of customer password vaults is stored in a “proprietary binary format” that contains both unencrypted and encrypted vault data, but technical and security details of this proprietary format weren’t specified. The unencrypted data includes vault-stored web addresses. It’s not clear how recent the stolen backups are.
LastPass said customers’ password vaults are encrypted and can only be unlocked with the customers’ master password, which is only known to the customer. But the company warned that the cybercriminals behind the intrusion “may attempt to use brute force to guess your master password and decrypt the copies of vault data they took.”
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LastPass Admits Hackers Stole Customers’ Password Vaults
In one sense this is a triumph for secure password managers. Even if we get hacked, the hackers can’t access your passwords. That’s true for LastPass. But they did get hacked, badly, so for LastPass this seems devastating. It’s a second-order disaster for an attacker to steal customer’s encrypted vaults, but it’s still a disaster. Anyone who uses LastPass who hasn’t spent today moving to something else [...] either hasn’t heard about this breach or is an idiot.
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'OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems' status - Michael W Lucas
I just finished indexing the manuscript. That’s normally a hard day’s work, but this being the week before a major holiday I was unable to get a full day to dedicate to the task. I wound up spending about two hard man-days on the task, because context switching in and out of indexing has a higher cost than any other task my brain runs.
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Europe Gets an Exascale Supercomputer - IEEE Spectrum [Ed: It runs GNU/Linux]
FRONTIER, THE WORLD’S FIRST exascale supercomputer—or at least the first one that’s been made public—is coming online soon for general scientific use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Another such machine, Aurora, is seemingly on track to be completed any day at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Now Europe’s getting up to speed. Through a €500 million pan-European effort, an exascale supercomputer called JUPITER (Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research) will be installed sometime in 2023 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, in Germany.
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Season’s Greetings from LinuxLinks - LinuxLinks
Everyone involved at LinuxLinks wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. 2022 has been another immensely challenging year for the world (particularly Ukraine). Let’s hope that peace prevails soon.
We have many exciting projects on the horizon in the new year. For example, we plan to massively ramp up the number of articles about hardware running on Linux. But rest assured, we will continue to focus on recommending the best free and open source software. After all, that’s our raison d’etre.