How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home — and Postgres Observability

Issue #219 — November 12, 2020

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How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home securitylab.github.com \| points: 820 \| comments: 245

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Postgres Observability pgstats.dev \| points: 345 \| comments: 37

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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021 theverge.com \| points: 343 \| comments: 372

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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (2019) blog.discord.com \| points: 318 \| comments: 64

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$200k in sales from a $6k advertisement wifidabba.com \| points: 317 \| comments: 93

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Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python pabloinsente.github.io \| points: 301 \| comments: 39

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Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history github.com \| points: 295 \| comments: 85

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iFixit tools in Apple’s lab twitter.com \| points: 265 \| comments: 95

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Apple’s Shifting Differentiation stratechery.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 252

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Will R Work on Apple Silicon? developer.r-project.org \| points: 207 \| comments: 168

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Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications github.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 46

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Advanced System-on-Chip Design Lecture Notes iis-people.ee.ethz.ch \| points: 188 \| comments: 12

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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013) blogs.lse.ac.uk \| points: 180 \| comments: 118

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Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation washingtonpost.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 85

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Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language github.com \| points: 171 \| comments: 34

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Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative etebase.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 39

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Doomsday prepping – Disaster planning for less crazy folk (2016) lcamtuf.coredump.cx \| points: 159 \| comments: 106

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Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019) github.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 49

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Cell Signaling Technologies – Detailed 3D model of human cells digizyme.com \| points: 156 \| comments: 48

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Disaster prepping is mainstream again nationalgeographic.com \| points: 138 \| comments: 290

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