The better alternative is to run the script in its own process and leave the task of receiving HTTP requests to the web server. FastCGI allows you to separate the web server (or proxy) and the running script by defining the communication protocol between the two. Performance benchmarks indicate that separating scripts into their own process equates […]

As mentioned the last time, I’m still tracking and building latest kernel releases. 5.6 was on my radar for some time and I’m going to stick to it for longer period. One of the most important features of this release is addition of WireGuard. I was building it in for the older releases but now […]

Claudio Kuenzler: In the past 20 years we have moved from SSL to TLS (yet we’re still talking about SSL certificates, funny isn’t it). According to Wikipedia’s Transport Layer Security page, this is the release history: SSL 1.0 -> Never officially released due to security flawsSSL 2.0 -> 1995, deprecated in 2011SSL 3.0 -> 1996, deprecated […]

Not long ago I wrote about backporting BCC & bpftrace in Ubuntu with focus on bionic (18.04 LTS). With this new release, there’s a lot of going on: release notes. I “backported” this one already into my PPA. On that note, I did drop support for the disco (19.04) and added support for the upcoming […]

NGINX before 1.17.7, with certain error_page configurations, allows HTTP request smuggling, as demonstrated by the ability of an attacker to read unauthorized web pages in environments where NGINX is being fronted by a load balancer. That’s the essence of the CVE-2019-20372. Yet again, as I mentioned in my NGINX Extended post I was not going to work […]

Backups are one of those things that are usually afterthought. Maybe reason for that was a bit too much of necessary configuration or not enough sensible default choices to fit the bill in the older apps I’ve been trying. Either way — this small, single-binary go application simply nails it. All backups are automagically encrypted […]

One of the things I really love about Mac is the availability of the nifty small utilities that aim at solving one problem and doing it right. Maybe it’s simply my admiration of UNIX philosophy. I’m an avid Last.fm user and I stumbled upon NepTunes while looking for something integrating iTunes with it. With the […]

Ansible 2.9 “Immigrant Song” has just been released. Back in May I already mentioned how slowly but surely Ansible won my heart and I must admit that I’m constantly impressed with what can be done with this tool. It’s a huge release yet again, but there are no major changes — which is good. It […]

I’ve been playing Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom for a while now and I still think it’s the best RPG I played in years. I’m also a big fan of Studio Ghibli and while NNKII wasn’t done in collaboration, the style and inspiration is clear. Some time ago I received as a gift Ni […]

There were three vulnerabilities discovered by Netflix in NGINX: CVE-2019-9511, CVE-2019-9513 and CVE-2019-9516. Both current stable and mainline were patched and point releases had been issued. As I mentioned in my NGINX Extended post I was not going to work on 1.14.x branch any more with the exception of security updates. Canonical backported patches to […]