{"id":5008,"date":"2020-10-08T08:24:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T07:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2020-10-08T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T07:30:24","slug":"shoutouts-oct-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/linux-bsd\/shoutouts-oct-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoutouts &#8211; Oct 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick shoutouts to various interesting stuff I came across these past few weeks. Thought I should capture them somewhere.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=goclfp6a2IQ&amp;t=5s\">This<\/a> series of Ansible 101 YouTube sessions by Jeff Geerling.<\/li>\n<li>A Japanese\/ British TV show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/title\/80190519\">Giri\/Haji<\/a> which is primarily in Japanese so you got to follow along with subtitles, but is worth it.\n<ul>\n<li>The first time I tried watching a foreign language movie with subtitles was the original version of &#8220;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&#8221;. I gave up after 10 or so minutes. Recently I saw &#8220;Parasite&#8221; and loved it, so I have now been trying to watch more Korean\/ Asian stuff with subtitles. I realized I am now ok with subtitles. Another great Korean TV show is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6611916\/\">Kingdom<\/a>. This is a zombie show set in a Korean kingdom (in the Joseon period if that means anything to you) and is amazing.<\/li>\n<li>As the director of Parasite Bong Joon Ho said &#8220;<span class=\"quote\">Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.<\/span>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twit.tv\/shows\/this-week-in-tech\/episodes\/791?autostart=false\">This<\/a> 791st episode of TWIT. A great panel and a very funny episode. Lots of laughs!<\/li>\n<li>I discovered Tailscale and have now started using it. You too should discover it. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/tailscale.com\/blog\/how-tailscale-works\/\">this page<\/a> on how Tailscale works and this one where they explain <a href=\"https:\/\/tailscale.com\/blog\/how-nat-traversal-works\/\">NAT traversal<\/a>. Even if you don&#8217;t use it the pages are worth a read as they explain things very clearly. Think Cloudflare blog posts&#8230; I have learnt so much stuff from their (Cloudflare&#8217;s) posts where they explain SSL and such.\n<ul>\n<li>I am assuming everyone knows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wireguard.com\/\">Wireguard<\/a>, the new VPN protocol that has been around for a while and was recently added to the Linux kernel (and is also part of OpenBSD now if I remember correctly). Tailscale builds upon Wireguard. While traditional VPNs are of a hub-spoke nature &#8211; i.e. all clients connect to a hub &#8211; Tailscale changes it into a mesh network with all clients connecting to one another. So that means if you have 5 machines spread over the Internet you can create Wireguard VPN tunnels between them so they talk to each other directly rather than through a central hub. That&#8217;s the problem Tailscale solves beautifully!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/111\/1111241\/how-to-hide-an-empire\/9781784703912.html\">Hiding an Empire<\/a> by Daniel Immerwahr. I mentioned this book in a previous post and I&#8217;ll do so again. I have learnt so much from this book. It&#8217;s basically two books in one. The first part is historical and the second part changes to show the benefits the world has had from the American empire. I love both parts, and especially the second part &#8230; while reading a recent chapter on standards and such that were introduced due to the second World War you can&#8217;t but help think some goodness too has come out of all these wars. Highly recommended book if you are into a bit of history!\n<ul>\n<li>One thing I hadn&#8217;t realized about until I read this book was maps. I always thought Antarctica as this huge continent that stretched the entirety of the world, and that Greenland was a pretty big country. While reading the book I realized these are because of the challenges of showing a 3-dimensional world in 2D. While looking at a 2D world map we brought for my daughter recently I now noticed how its shows the North and South poles separately in addition to the 2D layout &#8211; just to try and workaround the above limitations. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.co.uk\/pin\/93238654755840021\/\">link<\/a> to a North and South pole map on Pinterest to give you an idea. When look at that you get a better idea of Antarctica&#8217;s size and why they had to show it all stretched out on a 2D map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t checked these out but thought I should mention. <a href=\"https:\/\/coredns.io\/\">CoreDNS<\/a> is a DNS server written in Go. Seems interesting. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nextdhcp\/nextdhcp\">NextDHCP<\/a> is similar but for DHCP. And of course there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/caddyserver.com\/\">Caddy<\/a>, a web server written in Go. You get the idea&#8230; Go Lola Go!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick shoutouts to various interesting stuff I came across these past few weeks. Thought I should capture them somewhere. This series of Ansible 101 YouTube sessions by Jeff Geerling. A Japanese\/ British TV show Giri\/Haji which is primarily in Japanese so you got to follow along with subtitles, but is worth it. The first time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/linux-bsd\/shoutouts-oct-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shoutouts &#8211; Oct 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[145,333,76,228,143],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}