[Link] NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theregister.com

For DevOps folk, this was tantamount to clickbait: Nix and Docker are different tools for different jobs, and anyway, it's possible to use Nix to build Docker images. The distro, which hit version 21.11 on the last day of November, was built around the purely functional Nix package manager.

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[Link] Malware for Macs Is Getting Bigger, More Dangerous, and It’s Dirt Cheap

Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au

A disturbing element of modern cybercrime is just how easy it is to procure powerful and invasive tools — the kind that can wreak total havoc on an unsuspecting victim’s computer.

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