BlackSuit Labs

07/08/2019

African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

It took African countries four years to agree to a free-trade deal in March. The trade zone will unite 1.3 billion people, create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc and usher in a new era of development across the continent.

07/07/2019

Strong_password Rubygem hijacked

I recently updated minor and patch versions of the gems our Rails app uses. We want to keep dependencies fresh, bugs fixed, security vulnerabilities addressed while maintaining a high chance of backward compatibility with our codebase. In all, it was 25 gems we’d upgrade.

07/07/2019

Learning Golang – From Zero to Hero

Golang was designed by Google engineers Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is a statically typed, compiled language released on March 2012.

07/07/2019

The death watch for the X Window System has probably started

I was recently reading Christian F.K. Schaller's On the Road to Fedora Workstation 31 (via both Fedora Planet and Planet Gnome). In it, Schaller says in one section (about Gnome and their move to fully work on Wayland):

07/07/2019

The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar

It’s the review we’ve all been waiting for. Since December last year – and particularly since CES – AMD has been teasing us about the new Zen 2 microarchitecture and AMD’s newest Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs. Incorporating a significantly upgraded CPU architecture and built using TSMC's lat...

07/07/2019

How to write idempotent Bash scripts

It happens a lot, you write a bash script and half way it exits due an error. You fix the error in your system and run the script again. But half of the steps in your scripts fail immediately because they were already applied to your system. To build resilient systems you need to write software that...

07/07/2019

Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 Released

07/07/2019

A Look at the AMD Zen 2 Core

Ahead of the highly anticipated Ryzen 3000 desktop series launch, here is a look at the AMD Zen 2 core microarchitecture.

07/07/2019

Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies

“So it is finally here: reveal day. I am proud to announce I have written a paper with help from a variety of people that comes from a massive leaked database of Chinese CV's that shows just how close Huawei and Chinese state security services are. 1/n https://t.co/Knyo4OCz5B”

07/07/2019

How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox

A step by step guide to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support in the Firefox browser.

07/07/2019

A Secure Runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Built with V8, Rust, and Tokio

07/07/2019

Finally an image of X-37B/OTV-5, US Air Force's secretive space plane, in orbit