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Eleven Links of Note - January 6th, 2025

Published: Tue 06 January 2026
By rilindo

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tags: ai nature illinois security kubernetes artifactstore helm filesystems linux unix hpux vscode zed pop3 google reddit

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  • Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die: People are already susceptible to mass influence from bots for years. Not a surprise that AI would take things a step further and drive people insane.
  • Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years, a crucial step for conservation and Indigenous connection: Awesome. I never seen Buffalo in person. I may take a trip, since it is only an hour away from Chicago.
  • The Story of a Perfect Exploit Chain: Six Bugs That Looked Harmless Until They Became Pre-Auth RCE in a Security Appliance: You think you can ignore minor vulnerabilities, but they do add up.
  • Deploying Harbor on Kubernetes using Helm: Harbor is what you use to scan artifacts that is used for deploying into Kubernetes. This is how you would deploy it easily with Helm.
  • Introduction to the BtrFS Filesystem: A primer on BtrFS.
  • A Year of Clean Energy Milestones: In spite of some roll backs, clean energy is here to stay.
  • Singularity - POC of Stealthy Linux Kernel Rootkit: This bypass even on SELinux-enabled systems, which is very hard to do.
  • I switched from VSCode to Zed: I want to like zed. I really do. But it is hard to change editors as you have to create a new workflow for the new editor. It took Atom being deprecated before I finally moved to VSCode.
  • The last supported version of HP-UX is no more: All the Unices are going away, leaving just. . . MacOS.
  • Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching: I am surprised that people still use pop3 these days.
  • That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam: Beginning and ending with AI deception.
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