today's howtos

• A handy way to add free books to your eReader

• A Perl module for better debugging

• [From Arch] glibc 2.27-2 and pam 1.3.0-2 may require manual intervention

• How to start developing on Java in Fedora

• Use Peek to take quick GIF screencasts

• Deploying to OpenShift – Our latest free eBook

• Managing OPA

• How to Install Log.io Realtime Log Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

• How to patch Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities on FreeBSD

• How To Remove Password From A PDF File in Linux

Security: Updates, IBM, Elytron and Container Vulnerability Scanning

• Security updates for Friday

• IBM Security launches open-source AI

  IBM Security unveiled an open-source toolkit at RSA 2018 that will allow the cyber community to test their AI-based security defenses against a strong and complex opponent in order to help build resilience and dependability into their systems.

• Elytron: A New Security Framework in WildFly/JBoss EAP

  Elytron is a new security framework that ships with WildFly version 10 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.1. This project is a complete replacement of PicketBox and JAAS. Elytron is a single security framework that will be usable for securing management access to the server and for securing applications deployed in WildFly. You can still use the legacy security framework, which is PicketBox, but it is a deprecated module; hence, there is no guarantee that PicketBox will be included in future releases of WildFly. In this article, we will explore the components of Elytron and how to configure them in Wildfly.

• PodCTL #32 – Container Vulnerability Scanning

NetBSD 8.0 RC1 Available, Bringing Initial USB 3.0 Support & Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation

It's a busy month for the BSDs with DragonFlyBSD 5.2 having come along with OpenBSD 6.3 and right before that was TrueOS 18.03. Now there's finally the release candidate of the long-awaited NetBSD 8.0 update. NetBSD 7.0 arrived back in October 2015 while the NetBSD 8.0 release should not be too much further out. Arguably most interesting with NetBSD 8.0 is its finally bring initial USB 3.0 support though the change-log currently just describes it as "some USB 3 support."

FFmpeg 4.0 Released

• FFmpeg 4.0 released

  Version 4.0 of the FFmpeg multimedia toolkit is out. There is a long list of new filters, formats, and more; see the announcement for details.

• April 20th, 2018, FFmpeg 4.0 "Wu"

• FFmpeg 4.0 Released With New Encoders/Decoders, NVIDIA NVDEC Decoding

  FFmpeg 4.0 is now available as the latest major release for this widely-used open-source multimedia encode/decoder library. FFmpeg 4.0 introduces NVIDIA NVDEC GPU-based decoding for H264 / MJPEG / HEVC / MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8, and VP9 formats. This release also adds an Intel QSV accelerated overlay filter, an OpenCL overlay filter, VA-API MJPEG and VP8 decoding support, new VA-API filters, and many other accelerated code path improvements.