Bookmarks - Week of Dec 28th

28 Dec 2015 by Marco Pracucci Comments

Postgres 9.5 - the Feature Rundown - the killer feature of Postgres 9.5 will definitely be the upsert, but this major release is not only about it. This article outlines what’s new.
An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles - The IESG has approved the 451 (Unavailable for Legal Reasons) HTTP Status code.
Sunsetting SHA-1 - Twitter is supporting the proposal sent from CloudFlare and Facebook to CA/B forum, asking to create LV certificates, to be able to continue serving SHA-1 HTTPS certificates to old devices.
Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than it is to find a SHA-1 collision - A good article from CloudFlare that explains why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than it is to find a SHA-1 collision, following the history of MD5 attacks.
GCC deprecated on Android NDK - GCC in the NDK is now deprecated. Everyone should be switching to Clang.
Hackercouch - Couchsurfing for Hackers, by Hackers.
Bitcoin is Unsustainable - An ipotesys on electricity power required by a large scale Bitcoin adoption.
An opinionable tweet by @randfish asserting “Mobile isn’t killing desktop. It’s killing all our free time.”

I don’t know why, but I can’t stop laughing at this video.

I will join the following conferences. Reach me out on Twitter if you wanna meet:

Incontro DevOps 2020	Virtual	22 October 2020