Hi everyone! 👋
Welcome to cron.weekly issue #146.
A quick heads-up: I’m taking my final summer holiday break next week, so I’ll be back in your inbox on September 6th!
Enjoy your warm cup of ☕️ and happy reading.
News & general 🗞
Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic
The Chromium browser is responsible for 50% of the DNS traffic on root nameservers, all because of a feature to detect DNS interception. Wild!
Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks
This whole idea is just crazy, using commodity microphones (ie: smartphones) researchers can now 3D-print a key just by the sound it made. 🤯
Debian turns 27!
A week late, but still happy birthday Debian!
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Tools & Projects 🛠
tracee
Tracee is a lightweight, easy to use container tracing tool. After launching the tool, it will start collecting traces of newly created containers.
archivy
Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your knowledge bank.
tunshell
Tunshell is a simple and secure method to remote shell into ephemeral environments such as deployment pipelines or serverless functions.
i2p
I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties.
umami
Umami is a simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
ytt
ytt is a YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text.
nginxconfig
This is the repo of the Nginx configurator built by Digital Ocean. Very powerful with lots of options.
Guides & Tutorials 🎓
Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
This was a good step-by-step guide on moving videos (with subtitles) to a self-hosted PeerTube instance (which does P2P video streaming) using Docker.
Back To The Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (2014)
An oldie but a goodie: in Unix, wildcards can sometimes have some unintended (for the user) consequences. This post gives a clear summary of the dangerous cases and the results.
Set up a Secure and Highly Available etcd Cluster
This guide explores how to configure a three-node etcd cluster that will be used by a highly available, multinode K3s cluster.