Brian Conway @blocknonip@mastodon.sdf.org

#resflash 6.6.0 released, premade images available: https://www.freelists.org/post/resflash/resflash-660-released-premade-images-available #OpenBSD

The Product-Minded Software Engineer: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engineer/

Go: Work-Stealing in Go Scheduler - https://medium.com/a-journey-with-go/go-work-stealing-in-go-scheduler-d439231be64d #golang

VerneMQ no longer allows binary distribution for commercial use (i.e. not open source): https://vernemq.com/blog/2019/11/26/vernemq-end-user-license-agreement.html #MQTT #sad

2019 Firefox Flashback: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/flashback/

Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/122

Woman Heading To Testify At Rape Trial Set On Fire In India: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/05/785271217/woman-heading-to-testify-at-rape-trial-set-on-fire-in-india

Students are required to carry their school supplies in clear backpacks, as ordinary backpacks might be used to conceal a weapon, she said. Water bottles must also be clear, so school officials can see the color of the liquid inside. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/dec/02/school-surveillance-us-schools-safety-shootings

Wow, and one of them was already convicted of terrorist offenses and was released after only 8 years to do it again. Crazy.

Replace the leader-follower culture with a leader-leader one: https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/11/27/the-first-non-bullshit-book-about-culture-ive-read/

How is NordVPN unblocking Disney+? It might be through YOUR own computer. Even if you’ve never used Disney+ or NordVPN: https://medium.com/@derek./how-is-nordvpn-unblocking-disney-6c51045dbc30 #snakeoil

Multiple terrorist-related stabbings in Europe making international news. Very sad.

A Closer Look at Go's sync Package: https://medium.com/@teivah/a-closer-look-at-go-sync-package-9f4e4a28c35a #golang

The California DMV Is Making $50M a Year Selling Drivers' Personal Information: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv-is-making-dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information

Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished - https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50435014

We Tested 5 Popular Web Hosting Companies & All Were Easily Hacked: https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/report-popular-hosting-hacked/

Google is blatantly lying about the quality of Stadia's games, and that's not okay: https://9to5google.com/2019/11/20/stadia-4k-games-quality/

Go's features of last resort: https://www.arp242.net/go-last-resort.html #golang

Remote work is more than a job perk - for people with chronic illness, it's life changing: https://medium.com/swlh/remote-work-is-more-than-a-job-perk-for-people-with-chronic-illness-its-life-changing-a61d34aead6c

JWT revocation: https://lanre.wtf/blog/2019/11/11/jwt-revocation/ #API #REST