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MostlyHarmless, 1 month ago to random

jmwright, 1 month ago to space

Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth again. #Voyager1 #space

https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

governa, 1 month ago to linux

12 Best Free Command Line Games for #Linux Users

https://www.tecmint.com/best-linux-terminal-console-games/

danielalbu, 1 month ago to random

Happy 27th anniversary to Winamp!

⚡🦙⚡
The first version of ⚡Winamp⚡ was released as freeware on April 21st, 1997!
⚡🦙⚡

Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass!

pafurijaz, 1 month ago to opensource

#Artificial_Intelligence needs to be #OpenSource!
https://opensource.org/deepdive

fsf, 1 month ago to random

We have recently made updates to the benefits that organizational Patrons receive, including additional donation tiers and more benefits. See all the tiers and current benefits at: https://u.fsf.org/3u2 #FSFPatrons

ukscone, 2 months ago to random

nergahak, 2 months ago to programming

Open Watcom V2 - This is the v2 fork of the Open Watcom suite of compilers and tools.
https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2

#OpenWatcom #Programming #Development

ilumium, 2 months ago to Skydiving

Holy shit, I thought I knew how evil the #SurveillanceAds industry was but here we are:

Two-thirds of European websites just ignore your #cookie choice and track you anyways, researchers from #ETHzurich found. 🤯

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-107-bouhoula.pdf

#privacy #TrackingFreeAds #consent #gdpr #ePrivacy #BanSurveillanceAdvertising

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, 2 months ago to random

jsr, 2 months ago to random

You would be surprised at how much I would pay for this, if it actually existed.

thunderbird, 2 months ago to android

When Thunderbird for Android is ready for release, what will the upgrade path from K-9 Mail look like? Will both apps co-exist? Where does Mozilla Sync fit in?

Alex answers some of your burning questions about our Android plans in this short clip from our recent Community Office Hours session.

https://tilvids.com/w/wGoySntAhuVxpnniETxaJG

#Android #Thunderbird #K9Mail

mina, 2 months ago to random

Still need inspiration for Easter decoration?

Look no further than towards this super cute steampunk bunny by artist Sue Beatrice:

jwildeboer, 2 months ago to random

I know the next 3-7 days will be filled with exaggeration and doomsday talk, but IMHO the #xz backdoor, though seemingly meticulously planned for a long time, failed miserably as it was caught at a stage where it wasn't widely deployed but only in testing/prerelease distros. Yes, it made it quite far in the supply chain but it ultimately failed. The mess is being cleaned up, no cases of actual use of the exploit in the wild are known thus far. The immune system of FOSS has worked. Again.

MikeTelahun, 2 months ago to random

To everyone losing their shit over the xz/liblzma debacle: This is how Open Source is supposed to work: many eyes looking over work-in-progress to make sure it works as intended. Sometimes it’s reviewing source code commits and other times it’s looking over the behavior of pre-release software, noticing anomalous behavior and chasing down the commit that caused it. This is preciselywhy we have debian-testing and FreeBSD-Current. If anything this is validation that Open Source works
#xz #liblzma

GossiTheDog, 2 months ago to random

HT to @wdormann here - somebody has backdoored the open source project XZ which has downstream impacts.

For example, although OpenSSH doesn’t use XZ, Debian patch OpenSSH and introduced a dependency which translates as the XZ changes introducing a sshd authentication bypass backdoor it appears.

One dude bothered to investigate in his free time about why ssh was running slow, so it was caught fairly early - i.e. hopefully before distros started bundling it.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

governa, 2 months ago to linux

Easy-to-use make-me-root exploit lands for recent #Linux kernels. Get patching.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/03/29/linux_kernel_flaw/

• This exploit need local access to the machine.
• "It was patched at the end of January, updates have been rolling out since then", straight from the article.

scy, 2 months ago to random

Eek. Apparently liblzma (part of the xz package) has a backdoor in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, causing SSH to be compromised.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

This might even have been done on purpose by the upstream devs.

Developing story, please take with a grain of salt.

The 5.6 versions are somewhat recent, depending on how bleeding edge your distro is you might not be affected.

#liblzma #xz #lzma #backdoor #ITsecurity #OpenSSH #SSH

per_sonne, 2 months ago to random Portuguese

Quick reminder that the XZ backdoor discovery and patching would take a lot longer and make many more victims along the way, if the code was proprietary and closed-source.

• slapping the laptop with an open hand *

muzej, 2 months ago to Slovenia

In 1983, Atari Corporation unveiled the Atari 800XL, a home computer boasting enhanced graphics and memory capacities. Renowned for its versatility, expandability, and an extensive array of software 🎮, it swiftly became a darling among enthusiasts and gamers alike during the golden era of home computing in the 1980s. What fond memories do you associate with this iconic machine?

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #museo #retrocomputing #videogiochi #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

brunomiguel, 2 months ago to random

the xz repo on github was disabled by the platform

hackaday, 2 months ago to random

The recently discovered backdoor in the Linux xz package shows a remarkable level of sophistication. While the number of known compromised systems is relatively low right now, this may only be the tip of the iceberg.

https://hackaday.com/2024/03/29/security-alert-potential-ssh-backdoor-via-liblzma/

LinuxActual, 2 months ago to linux

Cuando me dice ¿Alguien realmente usa #Linux 😂