He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
When programmer Micah Lee was kicked off X for a post that offended Elon Musk, he didn't look back. His new tool for saving and deleting your X posts can give you that same sweet release.
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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
Last Week in Kubernetes Development - Week Ending December 1 2024
Week Ending December 1, 2024
https://lwkd.info/2024/20241203
Developer News
Kubernetes Code of Conduct committee nominations are currently open. The CoCC is a key part of why our community is a nice place to be. Consider serving on it.
Kubecon London: The first round of Maintainer Summit proposals is due December 8th. You need to make that deadline if you will be applying for a scholarship. Applications for other Project/SIG opportunities – including kiosks, lightning talks, and Maintainer Track talks – are due December 11th.
Kubecon India: The Maintainer Summit is on December 10th, don’t miss it.
Release Schedule
Next Deadline: Release Day, December 11th
We’re in the final week of the v1.32 cycle and are one week away from the release date. Thanks to everyone for their work so far! v1.32.0-rc.1 was scheduled for December 3rd and the release cut has started.
KEP of the Week
KEP-4802: Graceful Node Shutdown for Windows Node
This KEP extends node graceful shutdown to Windows, enabling Kubelet to handle shutdowns by triggering proper pod termination, including pre-stop hooks. It focuses on nodes where Kubelet runs as a Windows service, ensuring a cloud-agnostic approach with minimal shutdown delays and adherence to the expected pod lifecycle.
This KEP is tracked for alpha release in the ongoing v1.32 cycle.
Version Updates
Golang to 1.22.9 on 1.29, 1.30, 1.31 and to 1.23.3 on 1.32
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December 03, 2024 at 06:50PM
Supermicro clears itself of misconduct claims
But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth'
OpenWrt One router is now available for $89 - Liliputing
OpenWrt One router is now available for $89
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Latest US clampdown on China's chips hits semiconductor toolmakers
The US will launch its third crackdown in three years on China's semiconductor industry on Monday, restricting exports to 140 companies.
AI Readiness Survey: Are Companies Prepared for AI Adoption?
Capital One’s AI readiness survey explores the gap between business leaders’ confidence in AI adoption and technical teams’ operational reality.
Did not see that coming | Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Steps Down Amid Chipmaker’s Struggles
Pat Gelsinger stepped down after nearly four years at the helm of the onetime highflying company, Intel said Monday.
Run a Bluesky PDS From Home
Take ownership—and responsibility—of your social data
Edit the /pds/pds.env file and add the following lines.
Optimize the Kubernetes dev experience by creating silos with Michael Levan
Optimize the Kubernetes dev experience by creating silos, with Michael Levan
https://kube.fm/kubernetes-silos-michael
Michael Levan explains how specialized teams and smart abstractions can lead to better outcomes. Drawing from cognitive science and his experience in platform engineering, Michael presents practical strategies for building effective engineering organizations.
You will learn:
Why specialized teams (or "silos") can improve productivity and why the real enemy is ego, not specialization.
How to use Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and abstractions to empower teams without requiring everyone to be a Kubernetes expert.
How to balance specialization and collaboration using platform engineering practices and smart abstractions
Practical strategies for managing cognitive load in engineering teams and why not everyone needs to know YAML.
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December 03, 2024 at 05:00AM
The Forgotten Story of How IBM Invented the Automated Fab
Fifty years ago, a brash middle manager had a vision: a chip in a day
I Can Die Now. - Intel Fab Tour!
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
NVIDIA’s RISC-V Transformation: How Open Architecture Became Central to AI and Computing - Guest Blogger
Last week at the RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, NVIDIA’s Vice President of Multimedia Architecture/ASIC, Frans Sijstermans, took to the stage to recount NVIDIA’s strategic transformation. For an audience of engineers, developers, and industry insiders, Sijstermans’ keynote was both an inside look at NVIDIA’s journey with RISC-V and a demonstration of how open architecture has […]
Say Goodbye to Direct Communication! Event-Driven Pub/Sub With NATS
Say Goodbye to Direct Communication! Event-Driven Pub/Sub With NATS
Dive into the world of event-driven architecture with NATS! Learn how to decouple applications and achieve complete separation of concerns using pub/sub messaging. We'll walk you through setting up a Kubernetes cluster, installing NATS, and demonstrating how to publish, subscribe, and request messages. Discover the simplicity and power of NATS for building efficient, decoupled systems. Whether you're new to event-driven architecture or looking to enhance your DevOps practices, this tutorial is packed with practical insights and hands-on examples.
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How Tailscale's infrastructure team stays small
Tailscale’s secure, simplified networking solution helps DevOps teams eliminate infrastructure headaches. Learn how our infra team of just three engineers uses Tailscale to handle networking, secrets, and security with minimal effort.
caronc/apprise: Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!
Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform! - caronc/apprise
I like the idea of this, just wondering if I could do it myself without paying anyone | How I turned my blog into a social media hub
Tools like Micro.blog help you post on your website, syndicate to Bluesky, and more.
Salt Typhoon’s cyberstorm reaches beyond US telcos
Plus, a brand-new backdoor, GhostSpider, is linked to the cyber spy crew's operations
Last Week in Kubernetes Development - Week Ending November 24 2024
Week Ending November 24, 2024
https://lwkd.info/2024/20241127
Developer News
If you attended the Kubernetes Contributor Summit in Salt Lake City, please complete the post-event survey.
SIG-Security shared CVE-2024-10220, which allowed attackers to use a gitRepo volume for unauthorized file access. This vulnerability was patched in versions 1.31.0, 1.30.3, 1.29.7, and 1.28.12; if you are running older versions, please upgrade.
Release Schedule
Next Deadline: Release Highlights completion, December 3rd
Docs freeze is in effect as of Tuesday 26th November. We are now in the final phases of the v1.32 release cycle with the scheduled release date just two weeks away.
Kubernetes v1.32.0-rc.0 is live!. v1.32.0-rc.1 is scheduled to be cut on Monday, December 3rd.
KEP of the Week
KEP-3157: Allow informers for getting a stream of data instead of chunking
This KEP addresses the kube-apiserver’s vulnerability to excessive memory consumption caused by LIST requests in large clusters, which can lead to server crashes, node pressure, and workload disruption. To solve this, it proposes reducing temporary memory usage from an exponential scale to a manageable constant, leveraging the watch cache to reduce etcd load, ensuring consistent and fresh LIST responses, and maintaining backward compatibility—all while protecting the server and its node from OOM scenarios
This KEP is tracked for beta release in the ongoing v1.32 cycle.
Other Merges
Validate DRA Node Selector Labels even on upgraded objects; while this is a backwards-incompatible change, it’s not expected to break anything
Version Updates
golang to 1.23.3 in 1.32, and to 1.22.9 in older releases
via Last Week in Kubernetes Development https://lwkd.info/
November 27, 2024 at 05:00PM
We are all at the whim of supply chains at some point | Why an Offline Nuclear Reactor Led to Thousands of Hospital Appointments Being Canceled
Radioisotopes are a vital resource for imaging patients’ organs and tumors—but these unstable elements also suffer from an unstable supply chain.
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Goodfellas Meme | ISPs say there’s no need for new customer service rules; everything is great
How many choices do you have?
Cybertruck’s Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles
Since launch, Tesla’s polarizing electric pickup has been beset by quality issues, and is now heading to be one of the most unreliable EVs made yet. Strangely, Cybertruck owners may not care one bit.
Ask Me Anything about DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetses, or anything else
Ask Me Anything about DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetses, or anything else
We are restarting AMA sessions. This time, there are not restrictions. You can ask anything about anything.
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Someone has to pay for all the GPUs | The Beginning of the End of Big Tech
From politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have the chance to build something open and trustworthy.
This Website is Hosted on Bluesky
Well, not this one. But this one is! How? Let’s take a closer look at Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it.
Note: I communicated with the Bluesky team prior to the publishing of this post. While the functionality described is not the intended use of the application, it is known behavior and does not constitue a vulnerability disclosure process. My main motivation for reaching out to them was because I like the folks and don’t want to make their lives harder.
Newly identified chemical in drinking water is likely in many homes and could be toxic, study finds
The substance is a byproduct of the process of treating water with chloramine, a chemical used to kill viruses and bacteria. It’s not yet known whether it is dangerous.
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Jaeger v2 released 🎉
Jaeger is celebrating a major milestone with the release of Jaeger v2
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.