How do people fix Terraform security issues if they’re not security experts?

Summary Fixing Terraform security issues requires a combination of internal documentation, shared modules, code reviews, and automation. Teams can leverage these strategies to ensure that their Terraform configurations are secure and compliant with best practices. Root Cause The root cause of Terraform security issues is often a lack of security expertise among application engineers, leading … Read more

Meta App Review rejects pages_show_list, pages_manage_metadata, instagram_manage_messages and instagram_basic when using Page Access Token flow

Summary A SaaS platform automating Instagram Direct messaging via Meta Graph API was rejected during Meta App Review. Permissions pages_show_list, pages_manage_metadata, instagram_basic, and instagram_manage_messages were denied because reviewers couldn’t verify the submitted use cases or Page connection flow. The core issue: critical permissions were requested without an explicit Facebook Page selection UI, making the token-acquisition … Read more

How to update Apache to the latest version available in XAMPP for Windows (8.2.12)

Summary A developer running the latest XAMPP for Windows (8.2.12) discovered their bundled Apache version (2.4.58) contained vulnerabilities. They sought to manually upgrade Apache to 2.4.66 while keeping their XAMPP installation intact. The core incident here is a dependency mismatch between distribution packaging and upstream security requirements. The resolution involves abandoning XAMPP’s monolithic update mechanism … Read more

Burnikel Ziegler Division

Summary The Burnikel-Ziegler division algorithm is a complex method for performing division on large integers. Key challenges arise when implementing this algorithm, particularly when dealing with specific limb amounts. This article will explore the root cause of these challenges and provide guidance on how to overcome them. Root Cause The root cause of the challenges … Read more

Expose EKS kubernetes dashboard via domain

Summary To expose the EKS Kubernetes dashboard via a domain, you need to configure Route 53 and create an ingress resource. This will allow you to access the dashboard using a subdomain, such as http://kubernetes.mydomain.net, without the need for the kubectl proxy command. Root Cause The root cause of the issue is that the Kubernetes … Read more

Is there an equivalent to F# Async.StartAsTask that returns Async and lets you pass in a cancellation token?

Summary The question revolves around finding an equivalent to F# Async.StartAsTask that returns Async<‘T> and allows passing a cancellation token. This is necessary for canceling a child computation within an async computation expression without affecting the ambient token. Root Cause The root cause of this issue is the lack of a direct method in F# … Read more

(docker, nvidia-ctk) error while loading shared libraries: libcuda.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Summary The issue at hand is the failure to load shared libraries, specifically libcuda.so.1, when running a Docker container with the NVIDIA Container Toolkit (nvidia-ctk) on a remote server with Redhat 9.1. The container is set up to use an NVIDIA A100 GPU and is based on the nvidia/cuda:13.1.0-devel-ubuntu24.04 image. Despite setting environment variables such … Read more

Stepwise Random Forest Classifier – Hack or Bodge

Summary The author describes a stepwise hierarchical classification strategy to handle a highly imbalanced multiclass problem with 81 species. The approach involves training sequential Random Forest models, where each model predicts one species (or genus) versus “the rest,” and feeds its predictions and probabilities as new features into subsequent models. From a production ML engineering … Read more