Miscellaneous Tech News
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@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel.
https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/
Long as ufw and firewall-cmd will still work, this is good.
In the article, it did say that it will be a non-disruptive transition for Linux users. Whatever that means for ufw and firewalld.
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@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel.
https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/
Long as ufw and firewall-cmd will still work, this is good.
Yeah. For now, at least, it looks like they're going to make it backwards compatible.
I just wonder what kind of syntax they'll use for things like NAT and such.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/microsoft-linux-custom-kernel-azure-sphere
Not too surprising. Microsoft has been a UNIX vendor since the 1980s. They made Xenix.
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel.
https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/
Looks like I need to go experiment with BPF!
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel.
https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/
Looks like I need to go experiment with BPF!
Going to show my ignorance a bit.
When they are talking about hardware offloading do they mean to the NIC or to an independent machine?
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel.
https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/
Looks like I need to go experiment with BPF!
Going to show my ignorance a bit.
When they are talking about hardware offloading do they mean to the NIC or to an independent machine?
I haven't ready that far into it yet, but I'd assume the NIC. You know what they say about assuming tho. Using an ASIC can be a huge performance boost as well.
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Cambridge Analytica had been planning to release their own cryptocurrency. That is not likely happening now.
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@mlnews Cryptocurrency and scumbags together again! Dont worry it is a totally legit use of electricity and money though.
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Microsoft Hotfix KB4093112 causes issues with Pen devices, including Wacom devices.
To correct the issue determine if the hotfix was installed
get-hotfix -computername <name>If it is, apply the patch described to address pens, scrolling and moving the window rather than "drawing". -
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"Facebook has moved more than 1.5 billion users out of reach of European privacy law, despite a promise from Mark Zuckerberg to apply the “spirit” of the legislation globally."
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
"Facebook has moved more than 1.5 billion users out of reach of European privacy law, despite a promise from Mark Zuckerberg to apply the “spirit” of the legislation globally."
I'm like totally shocked (said no one).
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
But who cares because anyone that tries to use it will get sued by Oracle
