Practical Technology

While trolling through the dark web this week, I found my Twitter account’s data. A dark web site this month released a data set of 200 million Twitter profiles. That’s where I found my account’s data. I know my data hadn’t been revealed in earlier…Read More

The group, Natives in Tech, is calling on the Apache Foundation to change its name. I didn’t see this coming. But, then, I’m a baby boomer white guy, so I was born with blinders on. So, I didn’t see Natives in Tech’s protest against the Apache…Read More

Want to really secure a containerized Linux? Don’t include the kernel. Seriously. There are many ways to get serious about securing Linux on a container. Heck, Microsoft has one, Common Base Linux (CBL)-Mariner. Others include Alpine Linux, Flatcar…Read More

My first languages were IBM 360 Assembler and C. I’ve always been fond of low-level languages. If I were going to become a developer today, my first choice would be Rust. The language has already become a critical system-building language for the…Read More

Elon Musk didn’t make many friends when he took over Twitter, but some bosses liked that he banned remote work. Too bad he’s already backed off that idea. When Twitter was evicted from its Seattle offices because Musk was no longer paying rent, he…Read More

If you downloaded PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between Dec. 25, 2022, and Dec. 30, 2022, you’ve got trouble. Someone, we still don’t know who, uploaded a poisoned Python Package Index (PyPI) dependency that hid under the real dependency name,…Read More