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Emma Widebäck har skrivit en artikel i ETC om brottslighetens utveckling under första halvåret 2024. Det är en okunnig artikel om brottslighet av en journalist som inte ens tycks begripa de enklaste sambanden när det gäller brottslighet. Det är en blåögd artikel om brottslighet.

blog.zaramis.se/2024/07/23/oku…


in reply to Ketata Mohamed

Yeah, I know it happened in the past. I also know that the kernel now has an ABI that Crowdstrike uses and prevents this kind of stuff from happening, at least when it comes to Falcon Sensor.

in reply to F-Droid

I think 6 months was an exaggeration.

I remember Mull taking very long and skipping multiple updates. K-9 Mail, now under the Mozilla Namespace, also took long, even though I am not sure if the updates are prereleases yet.

The same for the Fossify Apps, which took like a month or so longer to appear?

This may all be wanted or inherent because of submission and build delays.

in reply to boredsquirrel

Fennec/Mull are huge tasks to clean up, delays are expected but are measured in weeks. K-9 pre-releases are coming as they appear, but you need to enable Beta updates in app details menu. Fossify apps were included when ready.


Fediversum är framtidens internet. Det har jag skrivit flera gånger. Men en del andra skribenter skriver om andra alternativ. Alternativ till Fediversum. Ett sådant är Bluesky som använder ett protokoll som kallas AT. Ett annat alternativ som jag ofta stöter på är Nostr.

blog.zaramis.se/2024/07/21/alt…



CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed


A widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows PCs disrupted operations across various sectors, notably impacting airlines, banks, and healthcare providers. The issue was caused by a problematic channel file delivered via an update from the popular cybersecurity service provider, CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike confirmed that this crash did not impact Mac or Linux PCs.

It turns out that similar problems have been occurring for months without much awareness, despite the fact that many may view this as an isolated incident. Users of Debian and Rocky Linux also experienced significant disruptions as a result of CrowdStrike updates, raising serious concerns about the company's software update and testing procedures. These occurrences highlight potential risks for customers who rely on their products daily.

in reply to Ketata Mohamed

From people in the know about this kind of issue:

“KP Singh wrote a kernel security module that lets EDR implementations load ebpf into the kernel to monitor and act on security hooks and Crowdstrike now uses that rather than requiring its own kernel module that would otherwise absolutely have allowed this to happen"




Street-Complete, like Pokemon Go but for good.


I first learned of Street-Complete here and I really like it.

It's satisfying to walk around, complete little tasks, and get prizes, scratching a similar itch to Pokemon Go.

Stuck waiting for someone? Add opening hours for a few local businesses.

Have a long walk ahead of you? See if you can add/check house addresses as fast as you can walk.

Want to walk off a few beers before heading home? Complete some tasks in the bar street.

Its a very constructive way to "be right" on the internet.

in reply to vatlark

StreetComplete is godsend. Editing OSM in JOSM, iD, etc, is not trivial and involves reading a lot of documentation and forum posts (if you care to do things right), which of course isn't anywhere near practical for small devices when you're on the go, surveying.

This app changed my whole routine. The interface is really solid and helps the community target important tasks, rewarding it with little prizes. Althewhile, the gamification is kept at a very healthy level, to avoid attracting leaderboard seekers and whatnot, which would certainly lower the quality of contributions.

I think the contribution day grid (akin to GitHub's thing) as well as the dynamic category explorer, the badges and the OSM-related projects it reveals to you bit by bit really being everything together.
It's an incredible tool!

For the experienced (and this is not said lightly), there is the expert version, which adds more advanced editing features for those looking for a bit more control in regular SC.



I en artikel i ETC utgjuter sig Lotta Ilona Häyrynen om turister, turism, sommargäster och badgäster. De sliter på turistorternas resurser och turistorterna förvandlas till kulisser för deras behöv och nöjen. Detta utan att betala skatt i de kommuner de turistar i eller har sitt sommarhus i.

blog.zaramis.se/2024/07/21/fel…



Sedan 2020 har Next Generation Internet-program (NGI), som en del av Europeiska kommissionens Horizon-program, finansierat fri programvara i Europa med hjälp av en kaskadfinansieringsmekanism (se till exempel NLnets ansökningar). I år, enligt Horizon Europes arbetsutkast som beskriver finansieringsprogram för 2025, är inte Next Generation Internet en del av […]

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#EU #nlnet #ngi



ARM64 Updates Submitted For The Linux 6.11 Kernel


in reply to testman

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Due to the ARM64 maintainer for the Linux kernel going on holiday, the ARM64 port updates have been submitted ahead of the opening of the Linux 6.11 merge window that will likely be on Monday or otherwise the following week depending upon if a 6.10-rc8 is warranted.

When it comes to the ARM64 (AArch64) changes for this next kernel version, there's been a lot of work on virtual CPU hotplug handling so that it should now be properly working on ARM64 ACPI-enabled systems.

Another change with Linux 6.11 ARM64 is expanding the speculative SSBS workaround to more CPU cores.

Arm's Speculative Store Bypass handling is now being extended for additional affected CPU cores of he A710, A720, X2, X3, X925, N2, and V2.

There are also ARM64 ACPI updates, GICv3 optimizations, perf updates for more hardware, and other smaller changes.

See this merge request for all the ARM64 feature patches slated for Linux 6.11.


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The Death of Decentralized Email


Interesting history and analysis of SMTP's history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?
in reply to Wave

My sending got blocked from dynamic IPs, maybe things have changed though


New Release OBS Studio 30.2


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A codec is a module that encodes and decodes (COder/DECoder...CoDec) information into a format. That format might be H.264 or VP9 or whatever.

So yes. NvEnc is a codec, or at least, it is when partnered with the hardware decoding also. It's a codec for multiple formats.

in reply to boredsquirrel

A ~~good~~ fast video codec that is ~~free~~ included with some video cards!

You've certainly paid for it, and it's focus is on giving acceptable quality at high speed. For example, for streaming.


in reply to sag

To retain the look and feel of the original game, we use the original game data for graphics and audio. This means it is required for players to have installed their own copy of Locomotion for OpenLoco to work. It can be bought on e.g. Steam or GOG.com.


Will OpenLoco ever become a standalone and independent game?

in reply to pedka

In theory they (or someone else) could just bundle an open source copy of the assets no different to having a different texture pack in a game.



GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director | Holly Million stepping down after 10 months


GNOME announced an interim director of Richard Littauer, who joined last week.

Holly's resignation appears to be personal, as she intends to pursue a PhD in Psychology.

in reply to merthyr1831

I'm looking to begin reading for a PhD, but I'll just take a random high-profile open source job that people expect commitment to, without actually committing.

That's not a personal related resignation, a bereavement, cancer diagnosis, family issues is a personal resignation.

I don't mean to criticise OP, they're just relating news.

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in reply to makeasnek

As I pointed out elsewhere, if she was a warm body to fill a position and was completely hands-off, and that allowed everybody else to do what was needed, then it was overall a positive. However, a good leader can definitely help propel the group more than one who is just there.

Both examples are positive, but they aren't equally positive outcomes.



What's new in Fuzzel 1.10, a Rofi alternative for Wayland


in reply to markstos

Love fuzzel! Glad to see some much anticipated features!
in reply to markstos

Nice, I implemented the script to rename the workspace in Sway on my PC! I suggest to also write the option --width 50 to fuzzel, so the text field is large enough to see what you are writing.


P2P Messaging and State Management: Todo List Demo.


a decentralized P2P todo list app to to demo the P2P framework used in the chat app.

github.com/positive-intentions…

It is a wrapper around peerjs. peerjs is good, but it can become complicated to use on bigger projects. This implementation is an attempt to create something like a framework/guideline for decentralized messaging and state management.

positive-intentions.github.io/…

how it works:
1. crypto-random ids are generated and used to connect to peerjs-server (to broker a webrtc connection)
2. peer1 shares this ID to another browser/tab/person (use the storybook props)
3. peers are then automatically connected.
4. add todo item
5. edit todo item

There are several things here to improve like:
- general cleanup throughout (its early stage for this project and missing all the nice things like good-code and unit-tests)
- adding extra encryption keys for messages comming in and going out (webrtc mandates encryption already)
- handling message callbacks
- key rotation

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Transcend Wifi SD Card Is A Tiny Linux Server


in reply to mesamune

Transcend Wifi SD Card ~~Is~~ Was A Tiny Linux Server.


8 years ago, this article is from 2016. I wonder what progress was made if any, both security wise and performance wise.

in reply to jwt

It's come quite a way...
O.MG Cable

Just a cable... complete with wifi man-in-the-middle abilities

in reply to mesamune

I had the FlashAir which is more or less the same thing. Loved it. Used it for quickly retrieving underwater photography without unsealing the camera as well as backing up dashcams, security cameras, and other such quality of life, never have to touch it kind of applications. I would totally buy more if they come back in fashion. Micro SD is probably impossible, but a girl can dream, can't he?


LibreOffice design, UX and UI updates – TDF’s Annual Report 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog


in reply to MonkderDritte

LibreOffice uses its own widget toolkit. It works similarly to wxWidgets, basically just maps to whatever toolkit is native on the current platform. It uses Win32 on Windows, Cocoa on macOS, Qt on KDE, GTK on GNOME and a few others.

That said, their current approach to dark themes is pretty bad. It can very easily conflict with the dark theme from the host toolkit and cause issues if misconfigured, which has caused a lot of people to think it just doesn't work. It does work, but it can be confusing as hell to configure correctly.

For instance, LibreOffice has a setting you can use to change the application colors. It barely works and you should never touch it. Just let it get the colors from your toolkit.

There's also the fact that LibreOffice doesn't use FDO icons and has its own icon setting which doesn't automatically follow dark/light theme. If you're using a dark theme, you have to manually switch the icon set to one that isn't impossible to see on a dark background.

Oh and if you want your documents to use a dark palette that's also a separate setting. Like I said, confusing.

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in reply to leopold

Thanks for the view behind the curtains!

And yeah, dark in the document is another pain point, especially in IDE's/editors and if you switch between dark and light for day/night. They should just all have color/icon settings for dark/light separately.

What is FDO icons?

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