{"id":357,"date":"2014-10-31T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T07:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dereckson.be\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2014-11-09T03:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T02:43:10","slug":"october-2014-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dereckson.be\/blog\/2014\/10\/31\/october-2014-links\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2014 links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some links of stuff I appreciated this month. Links to French content<\/a> are in a separate post.
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In the servers world<\/h2>\n

SSL.<\/strong> October is the month we disabled SSLv3 protocol support from nginx following the POODLE<\/strong> attack. So this means we can look to this paper<\/a><\/strong>, nginx configuration<\/a> and a tool to check SSL configuration<\/a><\/strong>. The provider Linode has published a comprehensive guide<\/a> to mitigate the attack.<\/p>\n

FreeBSD.<\/strong> FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE<\/a> will soon<\/a> be available. The\u00a0virtual terminal console driver vt<\/a> is improved. Oh, and you can now boot bhybe on ZFS<\/a>. Shell servers will have to deal with the fact login.conf settings will take precedence on .profile and other shell environment for variables like path, blocksize or umask.<\/p>\n

Docker.<\/strong> To improve Docker workflow, nitrous.io has released tug<\/a><\/strong>, a set of scripts in Go to help common tasks.<\/p>\n

Thus shall ye compile in JavaScript<\/h2>\n

Humble Bundle launches the Humble Mozilla Bundle<\/a>, games compiled in ASM.js<\/a> and so playable in the browser.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the functionnal language world, a paper shows you can compile OCaml in JS<\/a>, an it’s sometimes quicker in the JS JIT than it its own JIT (but well… you can also compile OCaml in native, and OCaml JIT isn’t really well optimized).<\/p>\n

So if you want to respect this commandment, just compile your C code with clang: emscripten<\/a> will then happily compile your LLVM bytecode in ASM.js.<\/p>\n

Gamergate \/ NotYourShield<\/h2>\n

A CNN journalist reads the gamergate<\/a> as the end of the narration controlled by journalists.<\/p>\n

When an Examiner journalist suggests #NotYourShield is 4chan white heterosexual users posing as women and PoC, his tweet is replied with a lot of photos from women and PoC. We so now have a picture of the diversity in video games<\/a> (permanent link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

On a related theme, I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup<\/em><\/a> is interesting to read and heavily commented.<\/p>\n

Finally, a call for help:<\/p>\n

I have a new project, but I need your help. Looking for diverse female voices in STEM that could donate their time & expertise.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Randi Actually (@freebsdgirl) October 20, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n