today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 30, 2024

• Unix Men ☛ AI Development and the Role of Linux [Ed: Another new example of linkspam disguised as article about "Linux" while promoting some "Hey Hi" (AI) snake-oil instead]

  The flexibility of Linux as a system is another significant contributor to it being a suitable development system – since it works with a large variety of devices, from small single-purpose hardware to complex data centers and infrastructures. The ever-rising number of data breaches and ransomware variations makes security a top priority for most companies in the world, and many AI-oriented topics often use large data amounts in their work, creating a rather significant security risk. Luckily, Linux is a highly secure platform by design, which is an advantage that is hard to overestimate in this day and age. 

• TecMint ☛ Linux is an Art – Driving Force Behind Linux

  Unlike commercial operating systems like Windows or macOS, Linux is open-source, meaning its source code is freely available for anyone to inspect, modify, and distribute.

• Carl Svensson ☛ Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS

  In keeping with the Commodore tradition of cost cutting, most consumer models of their Amiga line of computers came with severely watered down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception from this rule, but owners of later machines - such as the A1200 - may not have gotten any documentation for the command line part of AmigaOS at all.

  And, of course, even if this documentation had shipped with the machines, it wouldn't have revealed features that were hidden to anyone without access to official developer documentation or even left completely undocumented or unfinished.

  This is a quick look at a few of these interesting features, some more obscure than others, but all of them decidedly useful. Most of them only apply to versions 2.x and/or 3.x of the OS. With that said, let's dive right in!

• BSD

  • Undeadly ☛ pinsyscalls(2) work summarized by Theo de Raadt

    In a post to tech@, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) summarizes the multi-year effort to make certain attack vectors unavailable on OpenBSD: [...]

• Red Hat

  • Red Hat Official ☛ Introducing the Microsoft Active Directory inventory plug-in for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform [Ed: Red Hat Official ☛ His first article, boosts Windows]

    Create an Inventory - We are ready to create our inventory. Navigate to “Inventories” and click “Add” and then “Add Inventory”. Give the inventory an appropriate name.Once you hit “Save”, additional options will become available for the inventory. Select “Sources” and click “Add”. This is where we will bring our configuration together by selecting the inventory configuration file and credential. Here is our completed inventory source.

  • Red Hat Official ☛ How to implement a cloud-native application architecture

    In this article, I explore the journey of creating a cloud-native application using Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Runtimes and Red Hat Quay. I outline key phases from development to production deployment, demonstrating how these tools can help organizations excel.

  • Red Hat Official ☛ DevOps and Platform Engineering: What's the difference?

    I’ll get to that—but first, a little history for context.