HTTPS for all: Let’s Encrypt reaches one billion certificates issued

The ISRG's Let's Encrypt is putting the S in HTTPS on a massive scale.
Let's Encrypt, the Internet Security Research Group's free certificate signing authority, issued its first certificate a little over four years ago. Today, it issued its billionth. The ISRG's goal for Let's Encrypt is to bring the Web up to a 100% encryption rate. When Let's Encrypt launched in 2015, the idea was pretty outré—at that time, a bit more than a third of all Web traffic was encrypted, with the rest being plain text HTTP. There were significant barriers to HTTPS adoption—for one thing, it cost money. But more importantly, it cost a significant amount of time and human effort, both of which are in limited supply.

LinuxCareer.com looks at how you can go about finding a Linux job that allows you to work from home. Pretty much the holy grail of work.

@Sparkum said:

@Minion-Queen

Or XMPP I suppose.

We're looking for a quicker launch not a large project (only wish to get 20 people initially going)

There is just one answer for XMPP: OpenFire

Perfect day for this to pop up. A comparison of zPanel, WebMin and others.

We live among the most connected, most social, least alone generation of all time:

X11 is very long in the tooth and there has been a lot of talk of replacing it. Google has leapfrogged most of the Linux field and done so with their own X11 replacement named Freon that they are already implementing in ChromeOS! Freon should offer better performance and better battery life than X11.

XModulo has a How To Send Email Alert Through GMail SMTP from Linux guide. Probably a pretty useful one as many people use Linux at home and would like to get reliable emails sent out from it.

Even with all of the "new" scripting languages that have cropped up, BASH is still very relevant on UNIX. BASH still has an important place, especially in the world of UNIX systems administration.

Venture Beat reports that the open source content management system WordPress is now powering 25% of websites!

From CloudatCost:

03/19/2015 10:30 AM
CloudAtCost will be performing storage maintenance starting tonight. This maintenance will be for the purpose of adding additional storage at our Kitchener datacenter to accommodate our overwhelming growth. This maintenance will resolve disk io performance, occasional power on issues, server hangs and other performance issues.

We will begin tonight at 8PM EST and will continue through the weekend.

NOTE: No downtime will be expected.

Red Hat has released RHEL 7.1 today and CentOS could be available as early as tomorrow, Friday the 20th. Beyond normal patching, the big update is Group Policy support!

Yes, it's a real thing. A new startup is looking to launch datacenters, powered by Xen, into space where those needed satellite based computing resources can run VMs as needed in orbit. Yes, literally a cloud in the clouds (or above them.) Making the term cloud computing that much more confusing while also apropos.

Announcement from Digital Ocean:

The new German region is open for business!

We’re thrilled to announce the opening of our new FRA1 facility, located in Frankfurt, Germany.

FRA1 features our fastest-ever SSDs, 40GbE networking on each hypervisor and the full range of DigitalOcean features including Metadata, CoreOS, and IPv6.

You can deploy a server to our Frankfurt region now from the Droplet create page.

http://www.storagecraft.com/blog/linux-users-rejoice-storagecraft-shadowprotect-spx-hits-market/

StorageCraft now is able to back up Linux machines.

Chrome 43 is in beta and the big, new feature that is being talked about is WebMIDI. Yes, just like it sounds, that is MIDI for the web!

OpenSource.com takes a look at two popular web development languages that are key candidates for modern web application design, but oddly leaves out now popular Node.js which would have been good to see compared as well. Comparing Python and Ruby for Web Development.

It is of littler surprise that the European Union has filed formal antitrust charges against Google, but what does potentially come as a surprise is that they are now investigating not just Google Search but looking into Google's Android product as well.

Not tech, but interesting archaeology.

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/archeologists-uncover-genghis-khan-s-lost-mongolian-fortress