Posts Tagged ‘open source’
April 2021
Pupdate As the weather has improved it’s been great to get out and about more with Max. We also had some fun with his mother Nellie coming to visit. Coding The new job means I’m back to writing code a lot more. One of my first adventures was into using the ZeroSSL API to automate […]
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Tags: BBQ, Beat Saber, brisket, coding, dachshund, open source, podcast, puppy, Raspberry Pi, Rust, smoking, vr
Managing GitHub Labels
I was on a sprint planning call last week where it felt like we spent way too much time getting the labels in our various repos straightened out. After a little Googling I found various scripts that use the GitHub API to manage labels. But nothing that seemed easy enough. So… I pulled together my […]
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Tags: action, github, labels, open source, python, script
Andrew “bunnie” Huang recently presented at the 36th Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) on ‘Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware‘ with an accompanying blog post ‘Can We Build Trustable Hardware?‘. His central point is that Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) is very different for hardware versus software, and so open source is less helpful in mitigating […]
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Tags: FPGA, hardware, open source, trust
Jessie Frazelle, Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck have announced the launch of Oxide Computer Company to deliver ‘hyperscaler infrastructure for the rest of us’. The company aims to tackle the ‘infrastructure privilege’ presently enjoyed by hyperscale operators by developing ‘software to manage a full rack from first principles’, including platform firmware. Continue reading the full story at InfoQ.
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Tags: cloud, firmware, hyperscale, open source, Oxide, Rust
Open Source and Export Controls
This is the blog version of a Twitter conversation with my colleague Graham Chastney. Huawei, and the war on trade POTUS #45 has been pursuing a ‘trade war’ with China, as this appears to be popular with his base, even though it makes stuff more expensive for them and will ultimately harm the US economy. […]
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Tags: amazon, android, AOSP, ARM, export, google, government, hardware, Huawei, open source, RISC-V, software, trade
RISC-V[1] is something that I’ve been aware of via the Open Source Hardware Users Group (OSHUG) for a little while, and their most recent meeting was a RISC-V special, with talks on core selection and porting FreeBSD to the platform. Suddenly it seems that RISC-V is all over the news. A sample from the last […]
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Tags: ARM, hardware, innovation, open source, RISC-V, x86
I’m writing this for my fellow DXCers, but I’d expect the points I make here likely apply to any open source project. The first thing I’ll check is the README.md Because that’s the first thing that somebody visiting the project will see. Is the README written for them – the newbies – the people who’ve […]
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Tags: documentation, open source, README.md
At the recent DockerCon event in Austin Docker Inc announced two significant open source projects, Moby and LinuxKit. Moby essentially marks the split of Docker the open source project from Docker Inc the company, with the docker/docker GitHub repo moved to moby/moby. LinuxKit provides a set of tools to build ‘custom Linux subsystems that only […]
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Tags: Docker, LinuxKit, Moby, open source, Unikernels
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has introduced ‘software security requirements’ obliging WiFi device manufacturers to “ensure that only properly authenticated software is loaded and operating the device”. The document specifically calls out the DD-WRT open source router project, but clearly also applies to other popular distributions such as OpenWRT. This could become an […]
Filed under: InfoQ news, technology, WRTnode | Leave a Comment
Tags: android, CyanogenMod, FCC, firmware, open source, OpenWRT, router, wifi, WRTnode
Netflix have announced the release of the Message Security Layer protocol (MSL), which they describe as ‘A Modern Take on Securing Communication’. The project is available on github under the Apache 2.0 license, with implementations in Java and JavaScript. The high level goals of the protocol are to improve performance, be cross language, flexible and extensible, […]
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Tags: MSL, Netflix, open source, PKI, SSL, tls
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