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ke7yxz

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Washington (state), USA. #Outdoors, #photography, #travel, #technology, #computing, #cycling, and #wine and #food. Retired #computer weenie. Bitcoins are a Ponzi scam.
he/him - omnivore - eternal student

The header is the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Avatar is a burning pile of tree trimmings. No message - I just like the images.

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scy, to random
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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

ke7yxz,
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@scy Is it not sufficient to review the older commits by the questionable actor rather than roll back?

BrianJopek, to random
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Another take on Elon Musk’s brilliant solution to the Key bridge disaster in Baltimore.

ke7yxz,
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@BrianJopek is this why you never see damaged Tesla cars after a crash? The old parts get recycled into new Teslas?

MissingThePt, to random
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skinner am I so out of touch meme. “Am I so bad at math?” “No, it’s the calculator that is wrong.”

ke7yxz,
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@MissingThePt That feeling when Xitter does your job for you.... 👌

rebeccawatson, to random
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This is super weird...today I noticed my video about Richard Dawkins had zero comments (previously it had hundreds) and digging into the settings, YouTube turned off comments somehow. I've turned them back on but did the algorithm just fuck me over? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PWRZPi67Mc

ke7yxz,
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@rebeccawatson I apologize if I am being argumentative, but your wording is stronger: “but did the algorithm just fuck me over?” I do not think I am being thin-skinned or puritanical.

But back to my point, I suggest it is an inept programmer acting under deadlines rather than a focused attempt to fuck over or protect any individual. I have no data to support this beyond anecdotal experience.

ke7yxz,
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@rebeccawatson “Never assign to malice what mere incompetence can explain” - does that apply here?

nixCraft, to random
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Modern software development be like: I wrote 10 lines of code to call an API that calls another API, which calls yet another API that finally turns on a lightbulb. Pray that Cloudflare or AWS will not be down during this operation; otherwise, there will be no light for you.

ke7yxz,
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@nixCraft Those 10 limes of code compile down to 52.9 megabytes of executable and you have to reboot the operating system after installing the app.

nixCraft, to random
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UNIX was created back in the day when we couldn't afford vowels, and many consonants. So common commands had to be shortened a little bit:
"Copy" becomes "cp"
"List" becomes "ls"
"Rename" becomes "mv" and so on.

But fear not. Soon systemd will restore the balance with long command names again. This is 2024 and 70's okay?

ke7yxz,
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@nixCraft I was told that {Brian|Dennis} was asked in an interview if he would change anything on the UNIX design. He thought a moment and replied, "I would spell 'creat' with an 'e'". Source: unknown.

gbhnews, to random
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bonus q: should the T have googly eyes 👀?

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ke7yxz,
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@gbhnews The trains are going to need names, like on Sodor.

chris, to spain
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The Bombing of Guernica happened today in 1937. It was a new and horrible cooperation between fascists states (Francoist Spain, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy) to bomb civilians and ultimately lay the blame for the mass casualties on "guerrillas”, “terrorists”... in this case “Reds”.

https://euskalkazeta.com/bombing-of-guernica-the-number-of-dead-revised/?mc_cid=190edb545d&mc_eid=1bc0052ab5

ke7yxz,
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@thepoliticalcat @chris this?

https://youtu.be/BjRqj_STFFM?si=TKVOdnBQrdO-G-OD

ke7yxz, to Ukraine
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Musk admits he has entered the war as a participant, as an ally of Russia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264

stshank, to random
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WashPo reports on California's duck curve: too much solar energy production in the middle of the day has over the years depressed electricity prices, sometimes below $0. (California's net metering incentivizes solar + battery for that reason.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/

ke7yxz,
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@stshank I do not see the problem. California is not an island. There is a large national grid. Sell the excess to the cloudy places. Charge electric cars. If anything, this is not a solar problem but a transmission problem with a storage annotation.

LRRRonEarth, to random
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I FED A CYBERTRUCK AFTER MIDNIGHT AND, UH, WE GOT PROBLEMS Y'ALL.

ke7yxz,
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@LRRRonEarth @trochee
A cybertruck eeds to be destroyed? Have you thrown a rock at it? Have you run it through a carwash?
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-no-match-for-car-wash-1851417011

nixCraft, to random
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Debugging code in production ...

Old Silent film clip: The man is sitting infront of a railway engine. He sees a wooden log on the track and he tries to remove the log from the track.

ke7yxz,
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@nixCraft Agile, innit?

ai6yr, to random
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Strange how large companies have a "corporate pecking order" -- almost like castes. 🤷

ke7yxz,
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@ai6yr Lords, barons, earls, marquises, and the like.

It is like a two-story outhouse with the Peers on the top and the Pee-Ons on the bottom.

ke7yxz,
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@ai6yr I am out of it now, but I spent nearly 50 years in the corporate world on the engineering and engr-management side. Besides all the stuff going on in the other departments, engineers loved to pull the caste structures into their own lives with layers and layers of titles. At Bell Labs (decades ago), the MTS Member of Tech Staff title included people from newly graduated to Nobel Laureates. Other companies had titles that encompassed 5% salary deltas. Goofy gradations.

QasimRashid, to random
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    ke7yxz,
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    @QasimRashid Done!

    Forest_Jungle_Collective, to random
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    with the Alignements Lagtjar, Brittany

    my goodness Brittany seems a long time ago now 😔 am about 5 years overdue for another visit

    ke7yxz,
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    @Forest_Jungle_Collective We will be there in about two weeks. Any highlights to recommend? We visited several sites in Portugal last December. Walking in the steps of deep history….

    ke7yxz, to TeslaMotors
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    How is this different from exporting arms or money to Russia?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264

    ke7yxz, to Geology
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    Shawn Willsey is a geology professor who does interesting and engaging videos on YouTube. here he is flying a drone over the recent Icelandic lava flows.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIHMyiy9TsQ

    ChrisPirillo, to random
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    sorry, i'm looking for the other kind

    ke7yxz,
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    @ChrisPirillo Ice9 ?

    ke7yxz, to politics
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    I was just thinking back to the Agnew case. For many people, it was hidden behind the flames of Watergate, this lost from our collective memory. But it has strong echoes for today's Trump clown show. Podcasts Bagman or American Scandal will refresh your memory. A nail-biter at the time.

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    Haberman does fancy herself the Trump whisperer, interpreting the state of his eyelids:
    "But right now, he has partially closed his eyes--something he tends to do in court when he seems to be trying to keep from lashing out."
    https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/18/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial/b536e55a-486f-51c5-bb9d-0d113192ef6d?smid=url-share

    ke7yxz,
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    @jeffjarvis Two words I expect I will never use in a sentence are "self-control" and "Trump".

    Green_Footballs, to random
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    reuters Live Feed: Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial Begins https://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/53570_reuters_Live_Feed-_Donald_Trumps_Criminal_Trial_Begins

    ke7yxz,
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    @Green_Footballs That is the most neutral photo of SD that Reuters could find? Not very complimentary. How about a similar photo for Don?

    ChrisPirillo, to random
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    who needs the stress of visitors

    ke7yxz,
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    @ChrisPirillo Everybody is on zoom, right? So all you need to clean is the space in front of your backdrop curtain.

    ChrisPirillo, to random
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    gmail turns 20 years old tomorrow

    ke7yxz,
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    @ChrisPirillo And to think I still have some unread messages from that initial week. On my to-do list….

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