TLDR: This is a smart move for Yahoo. It didn’t cost them much. I would say that this was cheaper than the “cheap and cheerful” category. Second, it gives Yahoo News a chance to modernize. ** “A lo…
🦑 The 14 pains of building your own billing system - Arnon Shimoni
Trying to cobble together your own billing system is like wrestling an octopus that's armed with tax codes and invoices instead of tentacles. It's a beast of complexity that can tangle up everything from customer support to compliance. I have 14 points on why it's hard.
Whenever there is a large manufacturer of a popular product in the tech space, they always attract tales of near-mythical prototypes which would have changed everything on the spot had they just no…
They say you don't know what you have until it's gone, and I gotta be honest, that's how I'm feeling about the iPad right now. I sold my iPad Pro to help pay for my Vision Pro. Part of my rationale was that the Vision Pro would swap in for
How Star Trek Breached The Defences Of A Major Broadcaster
Back in 2000 in the brief lull between COVID lockdowns in the UK, I found myself abruptly on the move, with a very short time indeed to move my possessions into storage. As I was going through the …
How Does Postgres Perform Across File Systems? | EDB
One of the guiding Postgres design principles is heavy reliance on features provided by the environment (particularly operating system) and file systems are a prime example of this. Unlike other databases Postgres never supported raw devices that would require implementing a “custom” file system.
IPv6 has been in the works since 1998 to address the shortfall of IP addresses available under Ipv4, yet despite its efficiency and security advantages, adoption is still slow.
Xz Utils gets nailed by a supply-chain attack almost exactly a decade after Heartbleed highlighted similar structural weaknesses in the FOSS ecosystem.
Linux xz Backdoor Damage Could Be Greater Than Feared
A mysterious contributor who planted the backdoor helped maintain the widely used xz compression library for the past two years. So what else was hidden in there?
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.
On March 7, 2024, tailscale.com was unavailable for approximately 90 minutes due to an expired TLS certificate. We were able to identify and address the issue quickly, and the downtime was mostly limited to our marketing materials and documentation; still, we would like to explain exactly what happened, what the impact was, and what steps we’ve taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again.