As a proud member of the open source community since 1995, as being part of the OSS revolution as a #RedHat, #Canonical and #SuSE employee, with regrets I have to admit @geerlingguy is not totally wrong:
oof I really need to make a new release of my JLCPCB Altium libraries. they're really out of date now and many of the basic parts are now "preferred extended". plus I now realise I can build them as IntLib files so you don't need to provide your own footprints manually.
Apparently FreeBSD's tmpfs and Linux's NFS behave one way (returning the file size for SEEK_HOLE at EOF), and every other file system the other way (returning ENXIO). The Linux man page documents the first behaviour.
@evilham@subpop The #FreeBSD base system isn't susceptible to this specific type of attack, because we throw away upstream's build infrastructure and use our own bespoke set of Makefiles. (Same for other BSDs.)
@railmeat Yes, #FreeBSD has bespoke build infrastructure for all of the "contrib" software in the base system (same as other BSDs). It's a lot of work and we didn't choose this path for security considerations, but it does mean we're not susceptible to this kind of attack.
@geerlingguy Sigh. I've mailed The Hon. François-Philippe Champagne expressing my dismay. I expect more from the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry.
@arstechnica@gsuberland's comment was about SPD EEPROMs on memory modules, not in printer cartridges as the article suggests -- it's a comparably small amount of memory. The point is that they have the background to comment on the plausibility of such an attack.
The #FreeBSD Community Survey is closing soon! Whether you're a long-time user of FreeBSD or are giving it a try for the first time we want to hear from you by January 8, 2024.
Anyone have a contact at imunify360.com? They claim "advanced procedures
to detect bots with bad or spoofed user agents" but one of those "advanced procedures" results in returning a 403 Forbidden when the user agent has "amd64" in it (as it does by default on FreeBSD).
The FreeBSD Community Survey is open - whether you use FreeBSD every day as part of your job, try it on occasion as a hobbyist, or anything in between, we want to hear from you!
Any of my followers have experience with video editing software on #FreeBSD (or Linux)? Lists like "10 best open source video editing software packages" don't provide much insight.
I want something that has a powerful scripting capability or API, so that I can take a set of related video streams, load them as tracks, and have some sort of autogenerated cut list (based on some analysis of the individual streams) as a starting point for editing.
At present we have two OCI runtimes for FreeBSD (runj and ocijail) and support from several container engines. From the working group proposal "there is a need to define a FreeBSD-specific section of the runtime-spec to allow support for platform features such as resource limits and fine-grained jail permissions."
Anyone interested in contributing to this effort -- get in touch.
Online RAID-Z Expansion has finally been merged into #OpenZFS!
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Thanks to sponsors @FreeBSDFoundation, iXsystems, and vStack, developers Matt Ahrens, Fedor Uporov, Stuart Maybee, Thorsten Behrens, Fmstrat, and Don Brady, and to reviewers Brian Behlendorf and Mark Maybee!
