I’ve made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux “installer” I used for this workstation, along with covering some bugs I found during my adventure.
Source: Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer, an article by Bradley Taunt.
Upgrading to new software versions is work, and work that doesn’t benefit your software’s users. Users care about features and bug fixes, not how up-to-date you are.
So it’s perhaps not surprising how many people still use Python 3.7. As of December 2022, almost 30% of packages downloaded from PyPI were for Python 3.7. This includes automated downloads as part of CI runs, so it doesn’t mean 3.7 is used in 30% of applications, but that’s still a lot of people using an old version of Python.
Still, there is only so much time you can delay upgrading, and for Python 3.7, the time to upgrade is over the next few months. Python 3.7 is reaching its end of life as of June 2023.
Source: It’s time to stop using Python 3.7, an article by Itamar Turner-Trauring.
Digital signatures are used anywhere on the internet and beyond: Whether to protect your browser traffic via TLS certificates, authenticate your Emails, or secure your Bitcoins. They come in many flavors, but most schemes involve advanced cryptographic concepts like Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
Source: Hash-based digital signatures (almost) from scratch, an article by Georg Wiese.
A small team of U.S. soldiers battles against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
In the evening I watched The Outpost. I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10.