today's leftovers
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[PATCH RFC 00/18] Rust DRM subsystem abstractions (& preview AGX driver)
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The initial posting of the Apple AGX graphics driver [LWN.net]
Asahi Lina has posted an initial version of a Rust-based driver for Apple AGX graphics processors; the posting includes a fair amount of Rust infrastructure for graphics drivers in general.
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Special tcpdump filtering options for OpenBSD's pflog interface
As part of this, the OpenBSD tcpdump has some special additional filtering options that are useful for selecting interesting traffic on this pf logging interface. These are covered in pcap-filter; many or all of them can be found by searching for mentions of pf(4). Here are the most notable ones that I want to remember.
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8 examples of influential women in tech
A journey through open source is rarely something you do alone. Your hobby, career, and your life has been affected by others in the tech space, and statistically some of those people have been women. That's one of the many reasons International Women's Day exists, and it's a good excuse to reflect upon the women who have inspired your career in tech. We asked Opensource.com contributors for their thoughts.
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On Trusting Trustlessness
The basic problem here is that an "upgradable smart contract" isn't worth the bits it is printed on, because the terms of the "contract" can be changed after the parties agreed to it by the owner of the "contract", or by the owners of any "upgradable smart contracts" used by the "contract" in question, who may or may not be one of the parties.
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kopanocore), Fedora (golang-github-projectdiscovery-chaos-client, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-sop, rust-sequoia-sq, and usd), Oracle (libjpeg-turbo and pesign), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, osp-director-downloader-container, pesign, rh-mysql80-mysql, samba, and zlib), SUSE (mariadb), and Ubuntu (fribidi, gmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux-raspi, nss, python3.6, rsync, systemd, and tiff).