by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Editorial & News, Linux, osdev, postgres, postgresql
Share Post Share reddit Recently I saw a news report about how Postgres was translated into Rust. It’s not 100% completed, but it passes 40,000+ tests with the same output as actual Postgres. Of course, the author leaned heavily on LLMs. I’m not convinced that...
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Editorial & News, ginernet, kyc
Share Post Share reddit This is a bizarre and disappointint sequence of events. Ginernet recently revamped their control panel. They sent a notice to their customers that they’ll need to use the new panel to manage their VPS. So far, so good. But here’s the twist:...
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Editorial & News, kvm, Linux, Security
Share Post Share reddit There’s a pretty grisly CVE making the rounds. It’s being marketed as Januscape (CVE-2026-53359). It is a KVM escape vulnerability that lets a guest escape to the host in a KVM/x86 environment. To the best of public knowledge, this is the...
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | AI, ai vps, Editorial & News, solus, solus vm, WebPros
Share Post Share reddit Today we’re presenting a guest post from Webpros in which they discuss the rise of the AI VPS. Check out the SolusVM page on this idea. As AI tools become more ubiquitous, more and more developers are looking for ease of use and preconfigured...
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Editorial & News, supermicro
Share Post Share reddit Supermicro is in trouble with the law again. Fresh on the heels of its previous criminal activity – where its founder was indicted for illegally shipping $2.5 billion worth of GPUs to China – comes news of another GPU-shipping scandal....
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | c, Editorial & News, Linux
Share Post Share reddit This week strncpy(3) was removed from the Linux kernel. It has a bad, and somewhat undeserved, reputation as a source of bugs and vulnerabilities. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s what it looks like: char * strncpy(char * dst, const char...
