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The Doctor

@ drwho @beehaw.org

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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

  • cryptsetup hanging?

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  • That's more than a reasonable period of time to wait.

    Can you run a SMART check on the drive from a liveCD? memtest86?

  • a git cheat sheet - Julia Evans

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  • Madness!

  • Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color

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  • It'll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that's for sure. :/

  • Removed

    Mozilla Firefox 125 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What's New

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  • Exactly. It's still not working. At least, on Linux boxen. It's been broken for the last few releases.

  • Removed

    Mozilla Firefox 125 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What's New

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  • Still not fixed: Video playback temporarily disabling the screensaver.

  • There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux

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  • That is a very important lesson to learn early, because the same applies when you're grown up.

  • Is xz 5.6.1-3+ still dangerous?

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  • It's already burned by being discovered.

    And, never underestimate the utility of a large botnet.

  • Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux | Animesh Sahu

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  • Oh, Internet - thank you for not disappointing me.

  • Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux | Animesh Sahu

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  • Yes, please. I've got plenty of popcorn for everybody.

  • The Other Players Who Helped (Almost) Make the World’s Biggest Backdoor Hack

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  • Ultimately, nothing, unless you built everything yourself from scratch, just about from the silicon up.

    Everything is risk management.

  • Cycle through windows | apps

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  • I use Alt+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab.

  • CLI text processing with GNU Coreutils (head, tail, tr, sort, paste, pr, join, etc)

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  • Cool - thank you!

  • XZ backdoor in a nutshell

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  • Just because somebody picked a vaguely Chinese-sounding handle doesn't mean much about who or where.

  • XZ backdoor in a nutshell

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  • Somebody wrote a PoC for it: https://github.com/amlweems/xzbot#backdoor-demo

    Basically, if you have a patched SSH client with the right ED448 key you can have the gigged sshd on the other side run whatever commands you want. The demo just does id > /tmp/.xz but it could be whatever command you want.

  • XZ backdoor in a nutshell

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  • If we ever do, it'll be 40 or 50 years from now.

  • As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?

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  • Good luck. o/

  • As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?

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  • Gotcha. Very different in the States in this regard.

  • As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?

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  • Not USian, I'm guessing?

  • As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?

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  • Same. Flash the firmware, off and running.