• Understandably wary employers reflect US prisons’ dystopian state as criminal colleges, in part causing a recidivism feedback loop. Many clever convicts are desperate to break that loop. Jury’s out, but hopefully we’ll do some redeeming in the US for once.

• Articles like these seem like the mirrored, corporate perspective on a thriving tech labor market, flush with advancement opportunities for IT and software professionals. Muster your discipline and ambition, learn some new skills, and carpe diem!

• With an unemployment rate well less than half the national average, skilled IT professionals are in high demand right now as companies scramble to gather the talent necessary to complete planned IT infrastructure modernization projects.

• Knowing how GPUs mounted in PCIe slots work is important for troubleshooting and understanding the logistics of parallel processing. This is a great overview that is well worth the effort, but make sure you understand the OSI model before tackling it.

• Matrix is an open standard for interoperable Instant Messaging and VoIP allowing users with accounts behind Tech Giants’ walls to communicate with whomever they please. The Tech Giants don’t own the standard messaging protocols and they don’t own you.

• Matrix launched a Peer to Peer framework this year to further protect user’s data and give them absolute total autonomy and ownership of their secure conversations.

• If keeping track of all of your passwords is driving you nuts, you need a password manager. For the technically savvy: use your own bitwarden server. If that’s not an option, checkout this article on the best password managers.

• Security alert! GitHub Action’s community workflow spellchecker is exploitable, allowing fulldumps of repo environment variables. Vulnerable assets include temporary tokens, giving attackers all the permissions needed to execute supply-chain attacks.

• Having huge changes, new features, and deprecated APIs, OpenSSL 3.0 will not be backwards compatible. Temporarily, most programs will work correctly despite depreciation warnings - though those APIs will need migration in the future.

DataHoarder users are expressing their annoyance and distrust at Twitter, which is beginning to require users login to view tweets. Given Twitter’s many other data-ethics issues, what should be a minor annoyance compounds into a big issue.

Public enemy no.1 is breaking containment. SEO proprietor Cyrus Shepard explains how Google stifles antitrust suits with “Googlespeak”. Can this dystopian future be stopped before Google IS the internet and all of humanity is either a user or partner?

• Nitter is an alternative Front-End for Twitter that rips off and tosses Twitter’s front-end, insulating your device from whatever new “creepy uncle” licenses Twitter decided it wants to take with your data this week.

Interesting article about the Taliban’s use of the decentralized communication platform WhatsApp to coordinate both their propaganda and their operations as they toppled the Afghan government. Followed with speculation for what this may mean domestically.

A shorter follow-up to Preston Byrnes’ previous article which argues tech centralization and monopolization is to blame, not Section 230. Or rather, that Section 230 is being ignored by vertical monopolies in the tech sector which should be broken up.

Remember: trajectory is more important than position. Reaching your ideals means you should dream bigger. Ideals aren’t intended to be reached, rather they reveal where you can still improve. Tell yourself the truth and the truth will set you free.

What is DevSecOps? Interesting tweak on the DevOps model. Security baked directly into the process, rather than left as a new-development concern.

Few things are more important to your operations than the health of your DevOps Pipelines and Enterprise Applications Infrastructure. This article teaches how to defend this critical infrastructure.

OpenSSL reports discovery of two new security flaws, both buffer overflows, affecting OpenSSL versions 1.1.1k, 1.0.1, 1.0.2y and 3.0 alpha/beta. OpenSSL recommends users update to supported builds 1.1.1l, 1.0.2za. Upcoming security patches for 3.0.

Billions of IOT devices generate random numbers for security using non-varied seeds. Apparently, they are vulnerable to a single point of failure, where the entropy dries up and simple keys are generated.

Q1 winddown of covid-19 hysteria credited with a massive increase in manufacturing technology orders. Gains spread throughout manufacturing industries, notably medical and humble hardware domestic production.

Valve shifts the Linux distro on its upcoming portable hardware from Debian to the Arch. Interesting speculation and indication of a change in design philosophy.