Some background ... 

Prior to my publishing this fix, skype was generating 100,000 lines of errors per day in /var/log/syslog

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/skype-snap-generates-way-too-much-apparmor-violations/24112/7?u=o_o 

After, there were no errors. 

A nice writeup is here: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6119-1-openssl-vulnerabilities/

I wrote before about how the Canonical TOS for Ubuntu Pro was odd. It was disappointing to see the following ad

The way to do it is to add a device to the LXC container of the form

devices:

    <localhsarename>:

          path: <hosting_server_path>

          type: disk

There are two ways to do it. 

1) From the command line. The manual states

Like many security professionals I use automation to watch for issues in systems I maintain.

I'm the IT-guy for my family and all our devices run Ubuntu. Older laptops have become various monitoring devices, or donated to organizations, etc. We have way more than 5 physical devices that I maintain for the family. (This article is not going to discuss the Ubuntu-based cloud, VM and container images I also maintain)

My typical setup was that the laptop and tablet devices were set for autoupdate and let them notify me on issues with upgrades. I could remote in and solve issues, etc....

An interesting integration issue that came up with a client with a Drupal site hosted on Plausible.io with a Gatsby module that tied into Github code which triggered a Vercel deployment into an integrated flat site with 3rd party code.

Drupal is a PHP-based content management server. 

Plausible.io is a javascript-based site-tracking module that (in this case) is managed by npm

Gastby is designed to take an entire Drupal site, flatten it into a node.js implementation. and then package it for delivery. In this case it too was managed by npm

Interesting issue with an integration between a new Salesforce application and a legacy enterprise application. The data from salesforce API was limited to 50 records at once so as a workaround the Salesforce team gave access via a SQL call which could send more records each time. Consuming the data came via GuzzleHTTP which absorbed the data from Salesforce and delivers as an object as a nested associative array. E.g.

A few tricks to optimize backups for QEMU/KVM virtual machines.