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OTC CatchUp #145
Date: 19-08-2023
Duration: 3 hrs 30 mins
Topics Discussed
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Jaden Furtado told us that he will be speaking at NullCon Goa 2023 on The Curious Case Of The Rogue SOAR.
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Readings suggested by Anil Harwani
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The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen.
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Anil praised the simplicity of the blog which demonstrates how well the author understands concepts and also told us about his consistency of writing blogs, which was mind boggling!
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Anil suggested reading The Mythical Man-Month once again, to understand how project requirements work with regards to clarifying the needs and goals, and figuring out how much time it needs and how many people it needs.
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Harsh Kapadia added that he had read a few and that his favourite note is EWD1305: Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering
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Videos suggested by Anil Harwani
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We talked about the LTT Screwdriver and tools from iFixit and Wera Tools.
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Anil Harwani told us about the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate, which was an argument where Tanenbaum was trying to prove why a Microkernel architecture (Tanenbaum’s OS Minix had that architecture.) is better than a Monolithic Kernel architecture that Torvald’s Linux has.
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Kernel architectures
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Minix
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Tanenbaum initially created the Minix Operating System for educational purposes.
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Anil also told us how Minix was found inside the Intel Management Engine, which was a big deal, as Minix, whose goal was never to have military-grade security, was being used on billions of machines at a privilege level that is higher than the kernel, and that made billions of machines vulnerable. Also, this implies that Minix is the most used OS on the planet.
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Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux
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The first 12 minutes of this video is sufficient to understand how vulnerable systems are.
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What is MINIX? The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel
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Tanenbaum also wrote An Open Letter to Intel.
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Harsh Kapadia and Jaden Furtado discussed their liking for Asciidoctor, a Static Site Generator that Kartik Soneji got them hooked onto.
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Cloudflare issues
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We talked about how Google was DDoSing Root DNS servers.
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Hussein Nasser and Arpit Bhayani were suggested for good Systems content.
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Prathamesh Karambelkar told us that he was using Formik at work to build forms in React.js.
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Kaustubh Khavnekar talked about his work and how he deals with burn out.
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Harsh Kapadia talked about his Dotfiles repository.
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We discussed how everyone uses documentation, articles, blogs and YouTube videos to learn new things.
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We talked about the Linus Tech Tips fiasco.
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