Internet Discoveries between 9 February and 16 February

  • devsecflow/cnamm
  • splunk/DECEIVE
  • Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
  • Did Semgrep Just Get A Lot More Interesting?
  • Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS 
  • Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
  • Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?
  • Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
  • Secret scanning detects Base64-encoded GitHub tokens
  • 5 reasons Full Calendar is a third-party Obsidian plugin I can’t live without
  • Open Sue! OBS Studio Threatens Fedora With Legal Action

Interesting details

devsecflow/cnamm - Our mission is to provide organizations with an effective and measurable way to evaluate and enhance their Cloud Native security posture.

splunk/DECEIVE - DECEIVE, the DECeption with Evaluative Integrated Validation Engine, is a high-interaction, low-effort honeypot system. Unlike most high-interaction honeypots, DECEIVE doesn’t provide attackers with access to any actual system.

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji - With ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences you could in theory encode an unlimited amount of data in a single emoji. Is it really possible to encode arbitrary data in a single emoji?

Did Semgrep Just Get A Lot More Interesting? - This bit by Geoffrey Huntley is super interesting to me and, despite calling out that LLM-driven development agents like Cursor have something like a 40% success rate at actually building anything that passes acceptance criteria, makes me think that more of the future of our field belongs to people

Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS  - Canonical’s Kubernetes LTS (Long Term Support) will support FedRAMP compliance and receive at least 12 years of committed security maintenance and enterprise support on bare metal, public clouds, OpenStack, Canonical MicroCloud and VMware.

Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model - Zed is built for speed. We’ve always strived for an editing experience that feels instant. But what’s faster than instant? A tool that anticipates your next move. That’s why we’re introducing edit prediction in Zed, powered by Zeta, our new open source model.

Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier? - FOSDEM 2025 Getting involved with open source projects is a great way to build experience in development, documentation, internationalization, and more – but it’s not as easy as it should be. Last year, our own Steven J.

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website - 404 Media is an independent website whose work is written, reported, and owned by human journalists and whose intended audience is real people, not AI scrapers, bots, or a search algorithm. Become a paid subscriber here for access to all of our articles ad-free and bonus content. The doge.

Secret scanning detects Base64-encoded GitHub tokens - What is changing? Currently in your homepage activity Feed, you may see content from other users, content we recommended in “Suggested for you” modules, or trending developers/repositories. The sorting algorithm may place these items out of chronological sequence.

<a name=’5 reasons Full Calendar is a third-party Obsidian plugin I can’t live without’>5 reasons Full Calendar is a third-party Obsidian plugin I can’t live without</a> - Thanks to its powerful and flexible way of connecting ideas and building a personal wiki, Obsidian has quickly become a favorite for personal knowledge management (PKM) enthusiasts.

Open Sue! OBS Studio Threatens Fedora With Legal Action - Fedora is known for consistently providing a reliable Linux desktop experience, while also shipping with the latest packages and offering multiple editions to cater to a wide range of users.

All this was saved to my GetPocket over the week