Yes C is unsafe, but…

Planet Mozilla

I posted curl is C a few days ago and it raced on hacker news, reddit and elsewhere and got well over a thousand comments in those forums alone. The blog post has been read more than 130,000 times so far. Addendum a few days later Many commenters of my…

30 March 2017

[$] Overlayfs features

LWN.net

The overlayfs filesystem is being used more and more these days, especially in conjunction with containers. Amir Goldstein and Miklos Szeredi led a discussion about recent and upcoming features for the filesystem at LSFMM 2017. Copyright © 2017,…

29 March 2017

Note on reinstalling httpie for SSLv3 Handshake failure

Planet Mozilla

I ran into this issue recently with httpie (The python code for doing http requests) http --verbose GET https://ti.to/home I was getting: http: error: SSLError: [SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert handshake failure (_ssl.c:590) while doing…

29 March 2017

MacVideo Promo launches free video editor for macOS

Apple World Today

MacVideo Promo — a promotion company that offers exclusive deals on tools for Mac video editors — is giving away Media 100 Suite 2.1.8, the latest version of its video editing software for macOS.

28 March 2017

[$] The future of DAX

LWN.net

DAX is the mechanism that enables direct access to files stored in persistent memory arrays without the need to copy the data through the page cache. At the 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit, Ross Zwisler led a plenary session…

28 March 2017

Google's new open-source site

LWN.net

Google has announced the launch of opensource.google.com. "Today, we’re launching opensource.google.com, a new website for Google Open Source that ties together all of our initiatives with information on how we use, release, and support open source. …

28 March 2017

curl is C

Planet Mozilla

Every once in a while someone suggests to me that curl and libcurl would do better if rewritten in a “safe language”. Rust is one such alternative language commonly suggested. This happens especially often when we publish new security vulnerabilities.…

27 March 2017