On 2018-05-12 20:35:17 +0000, Stephen Hoffman said:

> FWIW... Some interesting topics, and some topics related to recent
> discussions here in the comp.os.vms newsgroup. Some relevant to
> OpenVMS. Some not.

How to write shared libraries (Unix). There isn't really a version of
this for OpenVMS and shareable images, though parts of that how-to do
get posted here and there.

https://akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf

Server-side SQLite, and an SQLite file system:

https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
https://fly.io/blog/introducing-litefs/

How private is my VPN?

https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2021/08/12/how-private-is-my-vpn

Why you shouldn't still be using MD5:

https://github.com/corkami/collisions/blob/master/unicoll.md

La Terminal for iPhone and iPad:

https://xibbon.com/terminal/2022/09/21/welcome-to-la-terminal.html

libbsd, a portable library useful for anyone porting BSD apps around
(fodder for OpenVMS?):

https://libbsd.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Portable microemacs clone:

https://github.com/hboetes/mg

Some of the wrinkles inherent in C parsing, including the ever-popular
dangling else:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01633123/document

Need to backport a newer C compiler, or backport newer C apps, to C99?
(attn: Simon)

https://github.com/thradams/cake

New USB cable logos:

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usb_type-c_cable_power_rating_logo_usage_guidelines_020222.pdf

Push notification 2FA considered harmful:

https://xeiaso.net/blog/push-2fa-considered-harmful

Securing the Supply Chain of Nothing:

https://swagitda.com/blog/posts/securing-the-supply-chain-of-nothing/

Quantum Computing, per an Oxford Quantum Physicist:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/oxford-physicist-unloads-quantum-computing

Passkeys overview:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213305
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2022/07/04/passkeys.html

(repost) fwupd, fodder for those needing to update your x86-64 system
firmware via UEFI:

https://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/kernel/2022-August/320331.html

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On 2022-10-01, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh@hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> libbsd, a portable library useful for anyone porting BSD apps around
> (fodder for OpenVMS?):
>
> https://libbsd.freedesktop.org/wiki/
>

Interesting, but from what I can see from a brief look is that it still
appears to require an underlying Unix-like environment.

>
> Need to backport a newer C compiler, or backport newer C apps, to C99?
> (attn: Simon)
>
> https://github.com/thradams/cake
>

Interesting. Thanks Stephen.

Would be nice BTW if there were more options other than libFirm when
to comes to lightweight native code generators.

Simon.

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