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  • Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

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  • Yes, but people are forgetting how it was discovered.

    It was discovered because there was a visible performance impact by running benchmark tests on other, time-critical software.

    Do you know how it was not discovered? By maintainers looking through changes of the software and looking through the code, exactly the way that the commenter and you and others are saying things would be caught.

    If the attacker hadn't been so eager and only set it to start working after a time delay a year later or multiple updates later? It would have infected almost every server in the world, even if it got noticed immediately, it would have been a giant problem that would have reaped the benefits for the malicious party before it could be regressed and changed.

  • How to install software using GUI

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  • KDE Discover also is good if you want to see/be notified that you have updated things and be able to uninstall/reinstall apps without the GUI bugging out.

  • Switched my cloud storage to Koofr.eu yesterday, everything went smoothly. What are your latest EU changes?

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  • Switching my electronic component choices for PCBs to STM, NXP, Nordic & ublox (these 3 have the best MCUs), Wurth, and Infineon. Then as second choice Rohm, Toshiba, Panasonic, JST.

    Sadly, only american companies currently make new AFEs, especially biomedical.

  • Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement

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  • Opencloud is a fork from Owncloud Infinite Scale just as nextcloud was a fork from the old Owncloud version.

    Apparently much much simpler and more performant than nextcloud in almost every way. It also has a secure file sharing link feature.

    They are also based in Germany.

    I am about to spin up opencloud behind traefik and authelia hopefully this week or weekend.

  • Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

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  • But who is seriously looking at the sudo code at every update. I would bet a lot of money that the vast majority simply trust him and gloss over it maximum.

    The chain of trust has to exist otherwise distrobox maintainers would spend 24 hours a day reviewing code changes and only update once every 6 months.

  • Coworker wants to try Linux with gaming, Bazzite or Mint?

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  • Oh yeah I was quite annoyed with bazzite initially with embedded toolchains... The default arch distrobox also runs vscode variants horribly with tons of freezing for some reason. I had to create a new arch distrobox.

    Also Saleae Logic2 has a Fedora bug where it takes between 2 and 10 minutes just to open because of logfiles and errordumping and timeouts that is very annoying.

    Also menu shortcuts for distrobox only work like for 20% of programs (luckily code-oss is one of them)

    And don't get me started on running a VM that can see the local network...

    After you get a setup going though, then it is breezy though.

  • Fairphone 6 review: cheaper, repairable and longer-lasting Android

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  • TPM chips are not a mythical thing that only Google makes.

    STM makes the ST33 series of TPM that I would trust a hell of a lot more than google to not have a dozen government backdoors.

    Microchip, Analog Devices, Infineon, NXP, and onsemi also make TPM chips of varying security levels. Infineon is the premium TPM maker with the highest security if I remember right, a German company.

    The issue is they are 3-10€ for the chip alone, which is a significant BOM cost, and it takes a lot of very specific knowledge in firmware and software to actually implement and google probably keeps the android integration methods very hidden. It is very much an intentional vendor lock out.

  • German email provider Posteo doubles storage space to 4 GB for all users

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  • It is literally no more secure than any other email. Almost all emails support E2E encryption with passphrase, and any email that can use IMAP can through clients too.

    The problem is that 99.99% of emails (not counting deltachat) have no way of utilizing that, so it is just as insecure on Tuta as anything else, just better marketed.

  • Whats something new thats actually good?

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  • So I am in the designing of the circuit and PCB stage right now.

    The usecase is for Meshtastic/Meshcore nodes because those sit outside in a tree or in a high place outside year-round and are solar charged. I am designing it as a RAKwireless Wisblock power module that will be charged by 2, 5V, 200mA small solar panels in series. The whole project will be released on Codeberg like all of my home projects.

    Later I can copy the circuit over to other PCBs for more general formats. One of my future projects is going to be an 8S pack BMS for driving a 12V water pump for off-grid rainwater collection barrels.

    I am targeting 2S systems now because then the entire sodium cell can discharge if the system voltage is set to 3V and I don't need any buck/boost, just a buck which is significantly cheaper and easier on the batteries.

    I am using an STM32C011 as a custom BMS + buck charger because my original idea of using a very cheap, small mixed signal FPGA (greenpak SLG47105) wouldn't work well for sodium because it didn't have enough comparators to have a soft constant voltage region (gradually increasing CV voltage from 3.8V per cell to 4V along with the natural current decrease to prolong charge cycle life), it will have overvoltage/over current protections, 1A or 2A max current, resistive battery balancing, and some safety features and an I2C readout.

    (Sorry, wall of text)

  • Whats something new thats actually good?

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  • I agree.

    Also, Health Connect now is integrated as of 2026 which is absolutely huge for actually allowing app interoperability.

  • Whats something new thats actually good?

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  • We have heat pumps at my job for our factory.

    They are literally useless around of below freezing in the experience here.

    They exchange heat so they blow out air colder than outside air, then their entire radiator gets completely covered in ice, then it has to switch off and then the entire factory cools off while they have to turn on the resistive heaters to defrost themselves, then they turn themselves back on and because they are covered in water from defrosting, very quickly freeze again and the whole cycle repeats while the factory is very marginally warmed up during the cycle.

  • Whats something new thats actually good?

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  • Alright I can answer this because with all the shit there have also been a ton of cool tech that isn't fascist, and ton of instances of the community building something awesome:

    **Commercial things: **

    • Sodium Batteries (I have a 18650 shipment on the way for my custom charger)
    • Solar panels have dropped in price so dramatically that they are viable for hundreds of millions of people
    • Prusa and Bambu have made 3d printing not just a hobby, but very functional and practical. Now people themselves can replace broken parts, create new functional parts and tools without having to make their entire hobby and personality trying to fix and optimize their 3D printer
    • MCUs have blasted off the past 10 years. nRF has revolutionized the Bluetooth space with nRF52 and newer. ESP has brought WiFi to literally everyone in any device they want with whatever processor strength with no antenna design. STM is very friendly to hobbyists and has everything for motors, and NXP makes performance beasts (and all non-US companies doing the great things of course) and they have all become so much more dramatically efficient.
    • Multiple MCU companies have switched to open source toolchains that are inter-compatible, more portable, and transparent, making embedded development much less relying on shitty half-baked manufacturer libraries that are incomplete for different offerings.
    • FOC motor control and bringing it to the masses have created a huge step in motors and have made implementing efficient servos actually viable for open source projects
    • RLCD is an up and comer that gives epaper-like reduced eye strain and outdoor visibility while having an update rate of an LCD.

    Maybe older, but still great:

    • open source hardware companies like adafruit, sparkfun, olimex, etc... Have made electronics so much more accessible to actually do useful things with.
    • epaper displays being widely available for power savings in small devices

    **Community Projects: **

    • HomeAssistant has gone from an enthusiast system 10 years ago, to literally the best, and easily customizable automation system that supports every
    • Meshtastic and Meshcore bringing community location services and communication to everyone for a very cheap price
    • Docker and Podman. They have revolutionized the server space.
    • The leaps and bounds made in self hosting software in general is incredible and taken self hosting from a quite risky and very very complicated technical endeavor to do safely to a medium difficulty hobby project that is 100x less of a time sink. Not only that, but commercial software has genuinely good replacements Traefik/caddt, crowdsec, docker, immich, paperless-ngx, jellyfin, mealie, syncthing, nextcloud/opencloud, *arr suite, etc...
    • The fediverse, still in early stages, but I don't need to explain the impact
    • Gadgetbridge, turning smart wearables spying on you and selling your biometric data to insurance companies to just plain useful local devices for looking after yourself

    There is more, but this is already long

  • Whats something new thats actually good?

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  • Sodium companies closing is incredibly painful because also if you look at the reasons, outside of Northvolt, it is literally all startups where their investors pulled out and screwed them because lithium prices dropped and they wanted to recoup their costs with 30% market share on week 1 of launch (exaggeration of course)

    Proving yet again that rich fucks are complete and total idiots who can't look any further at all than 4-8 quarters.

    China sodium is luckily going strong, so we have a fallback when lithium prices inevitably spike yet again.

  • Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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  • I don't know, that is about all Mistral can do too.

    That and python scipy is like a 50/50 for relevant code snippits.

    It had never once output compilable embedded code, even when I have tried to directly lead it there.

  • Here's the most played games on Steam Deck for January 2026

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  • I'm quite surprised by Fallout NV. It is older and also not geared towards the deck right?

    Maybe because of the fallout show? But it is definitely an old game that I didn't think was as popular as Fallout 3 (even though it is much better in my opinion).

  • Can anyone explain why?

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  • Also, THC drinks are all over the US now and very popular. Most of my (young millennial) friends there barely drink alcohol and have swapped them with gummies and seltzers.

  • SmartTube — an Open-Source Alternative to the Official YouTube App on Android TV (Security Update Included)

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  • I don't have a deck, so maybe this is a dumb question, but why doesn't Firefox/zen/etc... With ublock origin work? I have used that for a decade on my desktop with no problems

  • Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

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  • No because she evidence is stille their, they just don't have access to it (legally if they use certain tools, apparently all phones outsider of the newest pixel and most grapheneOS are exploitable and unlockable).

    So that is the reason, that they would kever have access tot it when erased, as opposed to possibly getting a court order for the data in the future or nowadays just paying for an unlock tool illegally (depending on location)

  • What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?

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  • It's technically possible by water fasting for 2 months, but that is pretty dangerous for so long and you would need a strict vitamin and salt intake to even have a chance of doing it safely.

    Definitely not a good idea, certainly not without doctor supervision.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Can someone sanity check my NOR memory structure for me?

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Where to buy Canning Jars?

  • networking @sh.itjust.works
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    It is so confusing in europe having a Cca required rating vs CCA cable makeup.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Immich

    What is the "proper" way to navigate migration from another service (all photos are already on the server)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Headless server hardware transcoding without X or Wayland?