Practical Technology

Wizards of the Coast is changing the rules for the Dungeons and Dragons Open Gaming License, and game designers are Not happy. Long before there was open-source software, there was Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). And, I was there from almost the…Read More

It’s always something! The Kinsing malware has long been known to Linux administrators, and, now — surprise! — it’s coming after Kubernetes as well. is an old-school Linux/Unix Executable and Link format (ELF) malware program, written in Go. Given a…Read More

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