I’ve gathered a fresh batch of links to kick off the new year, ranging from Kubernetes networking and BSD tools to security talks from the 39C3 congress.
Cloud, BSD & Infrastructure 🔗
- Kubernetes Egress Control with Squid / Hacker News Discussion: A guide on using Squid proxy to control egress traffic in Kubernetes clusters.
- BSD Tools Collection: A collection of BSD utilities including mfsBSD & mfslinux (minimal memory-based distributions), miniBSD (small footprint FreeBSD), and occambsd (an application of Occam’s razor to FreeBSD).
- Blackship - A FreeBSD jail orchestrator with TOML config, ZFS, VNET, and Jailfile templates.
- Community Cafes: Community hubs for operating systems enthusiasts, including the BSD Cafe and illumos Cafe.
- Building Container Images on SLE BCI - Documentation on building container images based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Base Container Images.
- Adafruit nRF52 Bootloader - USB-enabled bootloaders for the nRF52 BLE SoC chips.
- raspi-config - The source code for the Raspberry Pi configuration tool.
DevOps & Tools 🔗
- regclient - A Docker and OCI Registry Client in Go, providing tooling for managing registries.
- traefik/whoami - A tiny Go server that prints OS information and HTTP request details, useful for testing.
- macau - A simple and efficient URL shortener.
- Cobalt - A clean media downloader for various platforms that avoids ads, trackers, and other “nonsense”.
Security & AI 🔗
- MongoBleed explained simply - An explanation of the MongoBleed vulnerability.
- Debunking the AI food delivery hoax - Platformer investigates a viral “whistleblower” story that turned out to be fabricated with AI.
- Hacking washing machines (39C3) - A talk from the 39th Chaos Communication Congress about reverse engineering washing machines.
- Brainf*ck: The Ultimate AGI Test - A discussion on using the esoteric programming language as a benchmark for Artificial General Intelligence.
- The AI Engine - A retrospective look (from 2017) at AI engines, relevant in the context of modern developments.
SDR & Radio 🔗
- SigDigger - A Qt-based digital signal analyzer using the Suscan core and Sigutils DSP library.
- PySDR - A comprehensive guide to Software Defined Radio and Digital Signal Processing using Python.
- PiFmRds - An FM-RDS transmitter using the Raspberry Pi’s PWM output.
- BattyBirdNET-Pi - A realtime acoustic bat and bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 4/5.
Linux, Customization & Web 🔗
- Ambxst / Quickshell Tutorial: Ambxst is a customizable Wayland shell built with Quickshell, a framework for creating Qt/QML-based desktop shells.
- Asahi Linux (39C3) - An update on the state of porting Linux to Apple Silicon devices.
- You can make up HTML tags - A blog post exploring the flexibility of HTML and custom tags.
- Glamorous Christmas - A post about bringing “Charm” to the Ruby programming language.
General & Misc 🔗
- 39C3: Power Cycles / Design for 3D-Printing: Talks from the recent Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg.
- Essentials for Pixels - Essential tools, mods, and workarounds for Google Pixel phones and other Android devices.
- Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh? - An analysis of the tempo choices in Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”.
- Vitaki-Vitarps5 - A fork of the Chiaki PS Vita port for remote play.
- What an unprocessed photo looks like - A visual comparison and explanation of RAW vs processed photography.