Almost good news on the CVE front
17/04/25 10:28 Filed in: Security
Apparently the funding to Mitre that pays for maintaining the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) https://www.cve.org nearly ended.
The good news is that
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The good news is that
- it got a last minute 11 month extension; and,
- a group of concerned people on the board had a non-profit ready to go if it wasn''t funded
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Kubernetes Ingress on Microk8s
27/03/25 11:51 Filed in: Systems Administation
There is a CVE (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1974) pointing out a serious bug in Nginx based Kubernetes Ingress (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/131009). While the Microk8s crowd get their snaps sorted there is a work around. Read More...
Windows App
12/03/25 16:22 Filed in: Mac OS X
Microsoft has been promising to update Microsoft Remote Desktop for MacOS for years. It is finally here and renamed Windows App. But changing the name of an application has security implications in OS X. If you can't save you updated connection information after the update then you need to make some changes in the keychain. Read More...
Replacing dlvr.it
12/03/25 15:59 Filed in: Systems Administation
After many years of using the free tier of dlvr.it (https://dlvrit.com) to glue together my blog and social media they made a decision to stop their free service. Let me make clear that this was a sensible decision on their part, if a lot of their users were low volume and never going to be upsold then this loss leading service was probably just a loss. So with no animosity I have moved on to an IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/) integration.
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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
This is NOT a book review. Instead I ask the question should you read this book. It is a key work, in a particular point in the development of economics, beloved source of quotations from all sides of politics. But at just shy of a 1000 pages it is a long read.
The quick summary is that it is that it depends on who you are:
As for the rest, most readers will find a cliff notes version and dipping into relevant sections of the full text will suit their rhetorical needs; but be warned you are as likely to find a quote that appears to support the position you want to say Adam Smith supports you on as find one that appears to support the counter position. Read More...
The quick summary is that it is that it depends on who you are:
- professional scholar in economics or humanities - pretty much obligated to read it as a primary source
- person interested in history and / or economics much more of a toss up; its long and while you get to see the emergency of some key ideas in the field, some of those ideas are no longer well regarded, some are bed rock (but not expressed the way we would now) and there are whole new schools of thought that have come since
As for the rest, most readers will find a cliff notes version and dipping into relevant sections of the full text will suit their rhetorical needs; but be warned you are as likely to find a quote that appears to support the position you want to say Adam Smith supports you on as find one that appears to support the counter position. Read More...