by nouman | 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 nouman | 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 nouman | Jul 14, 2026 | aes, aes-ni, intel, Linux, Tutorials
Share Post Share reddit LowEndTalk member @forest shared an interesting technique to enable AES-NI even when the provider doesn’t pass it through. OpenSSL can read an environment setting which will use the host CPU’s AES-NI code, even if the provider presents a...
by nouman | 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...
by nouman | Jul 14, 2026 | Linux, raid, synology, Tutorials
Share Post Share reddit I have a Synology DS418 which I use as a backup for my other Synology NAS boxes. Originally it had 3×12 WD Gold drives in it. I decided to back some other things up, so I added another 12TB drive to the mix. Then I nearly fainted at the...
by nouman | Jul 13, 2026 | Linux
Microsoft has made available downloadable ISO files for Azure Linux 4, a Fedora-derived distribution. This allows users to install and test it outside of Azure for the first time. The ISO files can be found on the project’s GitHub page. Azure Linux 4 is still in...
