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Technology

👾 Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain

Yuga Labs, the web3 company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, disrupted the entire Ethereum blockchain as a flood of users rushed to purchase NFTs representing virtual plots of land in its upcoming metaverse project, Otherside.

👾 Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Tracking. Here’s What It Means for You

If you don’t like marketers (or anyone else) knowing when and where you read your email, Apple’s feature will help you reclaim some privacy.

👾 Heroku resets user passwords after concluding April cyber-attack ran deep

Heroku, the Salesforce-owned cloud application platform, began the forced reset of user passwords on May 4.

👾 Twitter’s decentralized, open-source offshoot just released its first code

Bluesky, Twitter’s open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol.

👾 What Is Web3? The Confusing Term, Explained

The more complicated but more specific way to think about Web3 is an internet owned by users.

Engineering

👾 An unlikely database migration

“So, what database do you use?”

👾 Dockerfiles now Support Multiple Build Contexts

This means you can use files from different local directories as part of your build.

👾 The differences between Docker, containerd, CRI-O and runc

The main standards around containers that you should be aware of.

👾 Virtual Kubernetes clusters: A new model for multitenancy

A virtual cluster is a shared Kubernetes cluster that appears to the tenant as a dedicated cluster.

👾 Pulumi YAML: A Simple Declarative Interface for Pulumi

It is a simple YAML-based interface to the entirety of the Pulumi Infrastructure as Code platform.

👾 Compromising Read-Only Containers with Fileless Malware

By making the file system unable to be altered, it prevents an attacker from writing their malware executable to disk.

Interesting reads

👾 Warren Buffett gives his most expansive explanation for why he doesn’t believe in bitcoin

👾 Top 5 Worst Programming Languages

👾 IBM’s asshole test

👾 Google Docs crashed when fed ‘And. And. And. And. And.’

Crazy star of the week

👾 Totally fungible Ape

Fun

This week’s comic - Dilbert (main character, an engineer), Pointy-haired boss (The oblivious manager)

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