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Instructions: Encrypt home directories under Linux with Gocryptfs  Market Research Telecast

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to unit test code that performs HTTP requests. In other words, you'll see the art of API unit testing in Python.

Unit tests are meant to test a single unit of behavior. In testing, a well-known rule of thumb is to isolate code that reaches external dependencies.

For instance, when testing a code that performs HTTP requests, it's recommended to replace the real call with a fake call during test time. This way, you can unit test it without performing a real HTTP request every time you run the test.

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4 most popular IoT Linux distros: Which is best for you?  TechGenix

Running containers on your Mac can be a challenge. After all, containers are based on Linux-specific technologies like cgroups and namespaces.

Luckily, macOS has a built-in hypervisor, allowing virtual machines (VMs) on the Mac. The hypervisor is a low-level kernel feature, not a user-facing one.

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Tuesday: Chip shortage, Skoda hybrid, Chernobyl test, Linux virus & 787 problem  Market Research Telecast

Tuesday: Chip shortage, Skoda hybrid, Chernobyl test, Linux virus & 787 problem  Market Research Telecast

Software artifacts help you reuse your code—saving you time, energy and money. Read our breakdown of how the artifact repository JFrog works with Red Hat Satellite to manage content across your enterprise.

In addition to AMD's increasing Linux kernel contributions, they are also contributing more improvements in user-space too thanks to their super-computing wins and other big enterprise deployments that are Linux-based. One of the areas talked about this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference with the GNU Tools track is how they are working to extend the DWARF debug format to better handle GPU debugging...

Runs under WSL: First Linux malware appeared in Windows  Market Research Telecast

Linux X86 Assembly – How To Test Custom Shellcode Using a C Payload Tester  Security Boulevard

Check the network interface of your Linux system with ethtool  Floridanewstimes.com

Looking at your Linux system's network interface with ethtool  Network World

Linux Foundation and edX Report Reveals 50% of Companies Accelerated Hiring as Talent Shortage Persists  PRNewswire

Linux Foundation and edX Report Reveals 50% of Companies Accelerated Hiring as Talent Shortage Persists  thepress.net

While Intel is normally quite good with their new hardware support being in good shape well ahead of launch, their new code for supporting the ENQCMD functionality for the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) with Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" has been an exception. This summer the mainline Linux kernel disabled ENQCMD support since the code was "broken beyond repair" while now Intel engineers have sent out a new series looking to get it re-enabled...

An Open Printing micro-conference took place today during the Linux Plumbers Conference 2021 week. While it's hard to get excited about printers in 2021, it is exciting the renewed effort around CUPS with it now being back to effectively led by the community and CUPS founder Michael Sweet who left Apple. CUPS 2.4 is coming as the first feature release in quite a while and then CUPS 2.5 followed by CUPS 3.0 are already being talked about with features being discussed...

OpenVPN has been implementing a kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to enhance the performance of this virtual private network system...

OpenVPN DCO Linux Kernel Module Aims To Offer Faster VPN Performance  Phoronix

How to ZIP a Folder in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Windows admins running Linux warned of threat  IT World Canada