Dropped Bits — Issue #7
Welcome to issue #7 of Dropped Bits, the humble tech newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox. I hope you find here some interesting readings.
Let’s dive in!
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🇺🇦 Supporting the Ukrainian people
Update: Softorino and Readdle have recently issued their statements about.
First things first. I support the Ukrainian people involved in a war nobody deserve. I invite you to do the same, please donate to trustworthy organizations trying to defend and take care of the Ukrainian people.
Thank you.
International Committee of Red Cross
🔝 Top News
In Light Of Spectre BHI, The Performance Impact For Retpolines On Modern Intel CPUs — Phoronix — www.phoronix.com
Made public on Tuesday was BHI / Spectre-BHB as the newest offshoot from Spectre V2.
DevOps.js conference is coming tomorrow! Details below.
Juarez Barbosa Junior talks and workshops at GitNation portal — devopsjsconf.com
DevOps.js Conference is a 2-day conference for developers and architects who are involved in building infrastructure, setting up pipelines and deployments for JavaScript applications. March 24–25, 2022
iPadOS 15.4 has been released with a goodie feature from the iPad Mini.
iPadOS now lets any iPad match the new iPad mini volume button orientation feature — 9to5mac.com
This walkthrough with images covers how to change iPad volume buttons to match its orientation for a more intuitive experience.
How a macOS bug could have allowed for a serious phishing attack against users | Rambo Codes — rambo.codes
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
This week we got some rumors about iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro about only the latter getting the new chip and the former staying on iPhone 13 A15 chip. My opinion about it in the linked twitter thread.
🔧 Tool of the week
The tool of this week is code-server, your self-hosted VS Code instance, which has been recently update to v4.2.0. Check it below.
Release v4.2.0 · coder/code-server · GitHub — github.com
VS Code in the browser. Contribute to coder/code-server development by creating an account on GitHub.
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