Tesla spills bright green chemical into Palo Alto creek
Tesla spills bright green chemical into Palo Alto creek
Cleanup efforts continue after Tesla dumped a bright green chemical into a storm drain last week from its Palo Alto offices, officials say.Michael McLaughlin (The San Francisco Standard)
A deep dive into Linux’s new mseal syscall
If you love exploit mitigations, you may have heard of a new system call named mseal landing into the Linux kernel’s 6.10 release, providing a protection called “memory sealing.” Beyond notes from the authors, very little information about this mitigation exists. In this blog post, we’ll explain what this syscall is, including how it’s different from prior memory protection schemes and how it works in the kernel to protect virtual memory. We’ll also describe the particular exploit scenarios that mseal helps stop in Linux userspace, such as stopping malicious permissions tampering and preventing memory unmapping attacks.Memory sealing allows developers to make memory regions immutable from illicit modifications during program runtime. When a virtual memory address (VMA) range is sealed, an attacker with a code execution primitive cannot perform subsequent virtual memory operations to change the VMA’s permissions or modify how it is laid out for their benefit.
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mseal digresses from prior memory protection schemes on Linux because it is a syscall tailored specifically for exploit mitigation against remote attackers seeking code execution rather than potentially local ones looking to exfiltrate sensitive secrets in-memory.
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From the disallowed operations, we can discern two particular exploit scenarios that memory sealing will prevent:
- Tampering with a VMA’s permissions. Notably, not allowing executable permissions to be set can stop the revival of shellcode-based attacks.
- “Hole-punching” through arbitrary unmapping/remapping of a memory region, mitigating data-only exploits that take advantage of refilling memory regions with attacker-controlled data.
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There are likely many other use cases and scenarios that we didn’t cover. After all, mseal is the newest kid on the block in the Linux kernel! As the glibc integration completes and matures, we expect to see improved iterations for the syscall to meet particular demands, including fleshing out the ultimate use of the flags parameter.
A deep dive into Linux’s new mseal syscall
By Alan Cao If you love exploit mitigations, you may have heard of a new system call named mseal landing into the Linux kernel’s 6.10 release, providing a protection called “memory sealing.” Beyond…Trail of Bits Blog
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New Scientific Report Confirms World Leaders Failing to Meet Climate Goals, with Rich Nations Causing Greatest Harms
New Scientific Report Confirms World Leaders Failing to Meet Climate Goals, With Rich Nations Causing Greatest Harms
Statement by Rachel Cleetus at the Union of Concerned Scientistsnewswireeditor (Common Dreams)
SF ads call out tech firms for not paying for open source
Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don't cough up for the open source code that they use.The signs are the work of the Open Source Pledge – a group that launched earlier this month. It asks businesses that make use of open source code to pledge $2,000 per developer to support projects that develop the code. So far, 25 companies have signed up – but project co-founder Chad Whitacre wants bigger firms to pay their dues, too.
San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source
Puts Chief Tightwad Officers on noticeIain Thomson (The Register)
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Palestine Action Probably just Caused a Global Panic for a Pro-Israel Lobbying Firm
Palestine Action target APCO again after September's chaos
Activists from Palestine Action blockaded 'APCO Worldwide', registered political lobbyists for Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons firmSteve Topple (The Canary)
Donald Trump Could ‘Make History’ by Winning Popular Vote, CNN Data Reporter Harry Enten Says
Trump Could ‘Make History’ by Winning Popular Vote: CNN
Major national polls have the race in a dead heat days out from the presidential election.Liam Archacki (The Daily Beast)
Maybe but I'm pretty skeptical. If he wins the popular vote he's going to win upward of 35 states. New York and California should be worth like 2 to 3x the EC votes they get. It's hard to overstate how much just those two states skew the popular vote for dems.
The only republican to win the popular vote in my lifetime was Bush still coasting off of 9/11 jingoism.
I will say that if he wins the popular vote that should be the end of the current form of the democratic party, if you can't convince the majority of people you're a better candidate than the guy who audibly shits himself on national television while slowly staying back and forth to 3 different version of Ave Maria I think it's time to admit you're cooked.
But then again losing easily winnable elections to republicans has been the dems entire strategy for decades now.
One of 3 judges weighing request for ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and others is replaced
The court published a decision Friday granting a request by Romanian judge Iulia Motoc to be taken off the case “based on medical grounds and the need to safeguard the proper administration of justice.”
The ruling did not elaborate or disclose further details, saying that “the personal medical situation of Judge Motoc is entitled to medical confidentiality.”
The decision is likely to further delay a decision on the request by the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
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Long-Overlooked Painting Reveals Genius of a Forgotten Black Polymath
Long-Overlooked Painting Reveals the Genius of a Forgotten Black Polymath
Long considered a satirical painting, new research shows Francis Williams was celebrating recording the arrival of Halley's comet in 1759.Richard Whiddington (Artnet News)
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I wonder if the stars were brighter in the painting when it was new or if they come across more strongly in person or something... It would be an awful lot of effort to make such an accurate night sky and then not make it visible.
And if the comet is what the painting is celebrating, why not make that brighter too?
What about Sudan? The new talking point to distract from Israel's Gaza horrors
As Israel drags the whole of the Middle East into its war, and the genocidal campaign in Gaza grows even more brutal, these arguments have migrated to liberals in the West. For Israel's desperate defenders, pointing to other unspeakably awful situations – first among them the war in Sudan – becomes an irresistible last resort.
Chief among them is the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, who deployed the same tactic of deflection in a recent article headlined, "Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster - but almost nobody cares."
Freedland, once described by the New York Times as a “leading British liberal Zionist”, waded into a topic he had never written about by asserting that the war in Sudan, now almost 18-months-old, is barely covered by the media and that “activists and progressives” are not interested in it.
Freedland concludes that the "crude ‘anti colonialism’" of the left has seen it divide the world into "goodies and baddies", meaning that it is confused when it comes to Sudan and stridently partisan when it comes to Israel-Palestine, which he sees as a clash of "two just causes".
It's hard not to discern a certain amount of projection at work in these accusations. But for those of us in the West, the issue to take up with our governments is not active complicity, as it is with Israel, but confused inaction.
What about Sudan? The new talking point to distract from Israel's Gaza horrors
For Israel's desperate defenders, pointing to another unspeakably awful situation becomes an irresistible last resortMiddle East Eye
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You know what? The atrocities in Ethiopia don’t get coverage either, nor the ones in Myanmar, and nobody’s talking about the Uyghurs anymore, and even discussion on Ukraine is muted. Same goes for Burkina Faso, the Mexican cartel crisis, continuing fighting in Syria, Mali, DR Congo, Yemen, Haiti, Pakistan, and Colombia.
Each one of those has claimed more casualties than Palestine, although only a few of them are as focused on genocide.
Saudi Arabia especially gets a lot of free passes because of western liberals' laser focus on Israel and unwillingness to criticize any Islamic country due to a fear of being labeled as Islamophobic despite these countries being the most illiberal places on Earth. Saudi has a lot to answer for with their genocide in Yemen and sypport for various terror groups and we, the United States sell them a metric fuck ton of weapons and military equipment. We also do not have them on our list of state sponsors of terrorism like we do Iran, Sudan, Syria, and of all places, Cuba.
China and Myanmar also don't get enough flak for their abuse of the Uighur and Rohingya ethnic groups respectively.
And of course everyone has forgotten about how the Taliban now rule Afghanistan and are inching closer day by day to being recognized a legitimate sovereign state despite literally being a terrorist organization that deprives its own citizens of basic rights every day. But the funny thing to me is that Saudi does a lot of the same shit but the west looks the other way because they have money. I mean it was considered a major reform in their society a couple years back when women were first allowed to drive cars at all.
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Note that this article is from 2022, albeit with an update in 2024.
I was confused when they mentioned they upgraded from Debian bullseye, were using an old Firefox version, and had to explicitly enable Wayland for Firefox. I then saw the date of the post.
While I migrated to sway on my desktop, I couldn't on my laptop due to sway not seeing my laptop keyboard as a valid input source.
libinput debug-events shows the keyboard and the inputs sent to it on the keyboard which is Wayland's keyboard input library (so i can say its not caused by Wayland), but when i type swaymsg -t get_inputs it does not. I couldn't find a single solution for this so, I'm using i3wm on it until i can fix it.
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Wow:
::: spoiler Oleksiy Protas
P.S. "Don't feed the trolls"
Don't you worry. Our friend here tried to reply to this message, he did so twice in fact with slightly different wording, but it was full of political rage and tu quoque so I assume he fell victim to the spam filter thanks to you special counter-baiting operation so to speak.
That aside, I did a very superficial search and it seems that the original author had already had a pull being rejected on the grounds it was coming straight from his Baikal credentials. It's a real pity that an apparently very able engineer is just playing pretend despite knowing full well why is it so that LF migh not want to be associated with Baikal in any way.
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::: spoiler Serge Semin
Hello Linux-kernel community,I am sure you have already heard the news caused by the recent Greg' commit
6e90b675cf942e ("MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance
requirements."). As you may have noticed the change concerned some of the
Ru-related developers removal from the list of the official kernel maintainers,
including me.The community members rightly noted that the quite short commit log contained
very vague terms with no explicit change justification. No matter how hard I
tried to get more details about the reason, alas the senior maintainer I was
discussing the matter with haven't given an explanation to what compliance
requirements that was. I won't cite the exact emails text since it was a private
messaging, but the key words are "sanctions", "sorry", "nothing I can do", "talk
to your (company) lawyer"... I can't say for all the guys affected by the
change, but my work for the community has been purely volunteer for more than
a year now (and less than half of it had been payable before that). For that
reason I have no any (company) lawyer to talk to, and honestly after the way the
patch has been merged in I don't really want to now. Silently, behind everyone's
back, bypassing the standard patch-review process, with no affected
developers/subsystem notified - it's indeed the worse way to do what has been
done. No gratitude, no credits to the developers for all these years of the
devoted work for the community. No matter the reason of the situation but
haven't we deserved more than that? Adding to the GREDITS file at least, no?..I can't believe the kernel senior maintainers didn't consider that the patch
wouldn't go unnoticed, and the situation might get out of control with
unpredictable results for the community, if not straight away then in the middle
or long term perspective. I am sure there have been plenty ways to solve the
problem less harmfully, but they decided to take the easiest path. Alas what's
done is done. A bifurcation point slightly initiated a year ago has just been
fully implemented. The reason of the situation is obviously in the political
ground which in this case surely shatters a basement the community has been built
on in the first place. If so then God knows what might be next (who else might
be sanctioned...), but the implemented move clearly sends a bad signal to the
Linux community new comers, to the already working volunteers and hobbyists like
me.Thus even if it was still possible for me to send patches or perform some
reviews, after what has been done my motivation to do that as a volunteer has
simply vanished. (I might be doing a commercial upstreaming in future though).
But before saying goodbye I'd like to express my gratitude to all the community
members I have been lucky to work with during all these years. Specifically:NTB-folks, Jon, Dave, Allen. NTB was my starting point in the kernel upstream
work. Thanks for the initial advices and despite of very-very-very tough reviews
with several complete patchset refactorings, I learned a lot back then. That
experience helped me afterwards. Thanks a lot for that. BTW since then I've got
several thank-you letters for the IDT NTB and IDT EEPROM drivers. If not for you
it wouldn't have been possible.Andy, it's hard to remember who else would have given me more on my Linux kernel
journey as you have. We first met in the I2C subsystem review of my DW I2C
driver patches. Afterwards we've got to be frequently meeting here and there -
GPIO, SPI, TTY, DMA, NET, etc, clean/fixes/features patch(set)s. Quite heat
discussions in your first reviews drove me crazy really. But all the time we
managed to come up with some consensus somehow. And you never quit the
discussions calmly explaining your point over and over. You never refused to
provide more detailed justification to your requests/comments even though you
didn't have to. Thanks to that I learned how to be patient to reviewers
and reviewees. And of course thank you for the Linux-kernel knowledges and all
the tips and tricks you shared.
- Andy, please note due to the situation I am not going to work on my DW DMAC
fixes patchset anymore. So if you ever wish to have DW UART stably working with the
DW DMA-engine driver, then feel free to pick the series up:
Link: lore.kernel.org/dmaengine/2024…Linus (Walleij), after you merged one of my pretty much heavy patchset in you
suggested to me to continue the DW APB GPIO driver maintaining. It was a first
time I was asked to maintain a not-my driver. Thank you for the trust. I'll
never forget that.Mark, thank you very much for entrusting the DW APB SSI driver maintenance to
me. I've put a lot of efforts into making it more generic and less errors-prune,
especially when it comes working under a DMA-engine control or working in the
mem-ops mode. I am sure the results have been beneficial to a lot of DW
SPI-controller users since then.Damien, our first and last meeting was at my generic AHCI-platform and DW AHCI
SATA driver patches review. You didn't make it a quick and easy path. But still
all the reviews comments were purely on the technical basis, and the patches
were eventually merged in. Thank you for your time and experience I've got from
the reviews.Paul, Thomas, Arnd, Jiaxun, we met several times in the mailing list during my
MIPS P5600 patches and just generic MIPS patches review. It was always a
pleasure to discuss the matters with such brilliant experts in the field. Alas
I've spent too much time working on the patches for another subsystems and
failed to submit all the MIPS-related bits. Sorry I didn't keep my promise, but
as you can see the circumstances have suddenly drawn its own deadline.Bjorn, Mani, we were working quite a lot with you in the framework of the DW
PCIe RC drivers. You reviewed my patches. I helped you to review another patches
for some time. Despite of some arguing it was always a pleasure to work with
you. Mani, special thanks for the cooperative DW eDMA driver maintenance. I
think we were doing a great work together.Paolo, Jakub, David, Andrew, Vladimir, Russell. The network subsystem and
particularly the STMMAC driver (no doubt the driver sucks) have turned to be a
kind of obstacle on which my current Linux-kernel activity has stopped. I really
hope that at least in some way my help with the incoming STMMAC and DW XPCS
patches reviews lightened up your maintainance duty. I know Russell might
disagree, but I honestly think that all our discussions were useful after all,
at least for me. I also think we did a great work working together with Russell
on the DW GMAC/QoS ETH PCS patches. Hopefully you'll find a time to finish it up
after all.Rob, Krzysztof, from your reviews I've learned a lot about the most hardwary part
of the kernel - DT sources and DT-bindings. All your comments have been laconic
and straight to the point. That made reviews quick and easy. Thank you very
much for that.Guenter, special thanks for reviewing and accepting my patches to the hwmon and
watchdog subsystems. It was pleasure to be working with you.Borislav, we disagreed and argued a lot. So my DW uMCTL2 DDRC EDAC patches even
got stuck in limbo for quite a long time. Anyway thank you for the time
you spent reviewing my patches and trying to explain your point.
- Borislav, it looks like I won't be able to work on my Synopsys EDAC patchsets
anymore. If you or somebody else could pick them up and finish up the work it
would be great (you can find it in the lore archive). The patches convert the
mainly Zynq(MP)-specific Synopsys EDAC driver to supporting the generic DW
uMCTL2 DDRC. It would be very beneficial for each platform based on that
controller.Greg, we met several times in the mailing lists. You reviewed my patches sent
for the USB and TTY subsystems, and all the time the process was straight,
highly professional, and simpler than in the most of my other case.
Thank you very much for that.Yoshihiro, Keguang, Yanteng, Kory, Cai and everybody I was lucky to meet in the
kernel mailing lists, but forgot to mention here. Thank you for the time spent
for our cooperative work on making the Linux kernel better. It was a pleasure to
meet you here.I also wish to say huge thanks to the community members trying to
defend the kicked off maintainers and for support you expressed in
these days. It means a lot.A little bit statics of my kernel-work at the end:
Signed-off patches: 518
Reviewed and Acked patches: 253
Tested patches: 80...
Best Regards,
-Serge(y)
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Then they should try to free themselves from it.
And governments should wise up and exempt them from any kind of petty stuff.
I thought you were joking, but yup they actually started quizzing eachother on WW2.
It's not the end of Linux by any means, but that's gonna be hard to work together afterwards
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At least I keep my most unhinged shit on a semi-anonymous platform.
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This is not something that needs balance.
And they have quite different kinds of petty:
When Linus gets petty, then there's a proper rant, somebody gets red in the face (but you don't get to see the pics), and some news interns can write headlines.
When politicians get petty, then people in foreign countries are killed.
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I'm optimistic, since technical arguments can be pretty heated yet they end like this:
What were Linus comments that precipitated this?
The rage comes
from LF actions
and Linus words. All they had to do was to say: Thank you people for
your contribution
but we have no other choice, this is the law.
But they did quite the opposite and Linus showed his true ugly
white western supremacy face for all to see.
That is the cause of the rage.
phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torval…
tl;dr: anyone who disagrees is a russian troll or a useful idiot, according to the linux man
Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.\
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It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything.\
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And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.\
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If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam.\
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As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.
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No clue how all this shakes out. Not real invested in this ideological/bureaucratic slap fight.
It's always entertaining when Linus flames off.
Ehh. IDK if that would be bad or good for Linux. More choices against the possibility of weaker teams/poorer code. Even if things did fragment for a while, one version likely comes out on top and everyone migrates slowly back together.
Interwebs and tech seems to route around this sort of thing.
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I know of the seriousness of the issue and I do not mean to belittle it at all, and yet - every time I read “white supremacy” in an online argument I can’t help but think a moron wrote it.
Case in point, Linus is not entitled to personal agency and cannot be held accountable for his choice of words - no, it’s his skin color that explains everything.
A bunch of Brits and Iberians slaughtered and enslaved people in the 1600s, therefore a Finn in 2024 is cursed because he shares the skin tone with said people. I see no problem there.
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Sad times...
Just so odd how they went about the whole thing. Such an uncalculated way to do things.
Why not wait until you have all your explanations in order backed by lawyers before doing the release? Why did they shit on the carpet first and then explained their reasons afterwards after lots of horrible attempts at justifications that completely missed the point.
Funny fucking thing to say considering why Russia is under sanction.
This isn't a real comment, is it?
Anyway, the Linux kernel team are not about to fight the US government, particularly not to defend Russia. If you're so concerned about warmongering then leave Russia. Solves all the problems here. You don't gotta go to the US, even.
The US sanctions anyone that isn't under their complete control, it's not a serious country.
And I'm truly sorry you're too much of a brainwashed nationalist to understand why free software shouldn't be affected by petty politics.
Jackass says most war mongering ignoring the actual country invading another.
Typical.
I'm sorry, even if you go back to the original Russian empire, no entity or arbitrary collection of entities containing a "Russia" has invaded more countries or killed more civilians than the US.
That's the plain fact of the matter. Invading more than 70 countries does that.
Russia bad, the US is and will always be worse.
Jackass forgets that the US invaded and occupied another country for most of the 21st century.
Typical.
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Getting whiplash between "haha Russian invaders and bots get fucked!!!! Finland!!!! Wooooo Finland!!!!!!" and "ah, we take no pleasure in doing this, our hands are tied"
Maybe the professional communications and Mastodon bubble Linus has been posting in led him to believe everyone in the world hates Russians now and that would be really well received
Theodore T'so especially:
first comment:
The question of why a particular country has decided to sanction
Russia and not Ukraine, and why a country has decided to support one
country versus another, whether it's Germany, France, and Poland
sending tanks and armored vehicles to Ukraine, or North Korea sending
artillary shells to Russia, is not up to the Linux development
commuity.
next comment:
Sanctions are imposed by Governments --- for example, the US,
European, Japan, Switzerland, Norway, etc. Not Linux developers, nor
Russian troll farms, nor Russia's useful idiots on the internet. It's
not up to anyone on this mail thread.
If you think BSDs are devoid of drama you’re in for a cold shower…
Switch to OpenBSD if you have to, at least the drama there is super funny
Damn there are a surprising number of maintainers that are comrades and not taking this lying down from the western supremacist cohort.
Linus opened up a massive can of worms and turned this into a geopolitical conflict by acting like a baby.
This comment by Hantong Chen is great:
Hi James,Here's what Linus has said, and it's more than just "sanction."
Moreover, we have to remove any maintainers who come from the following countries or regions, as they are listed in Countries of Particular Concern and are subject to impending sanctions:
- Burma, People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
- Algeria, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Comoros, and Vietnam.
For People’s Republic of China, there are about 500 entities that are on the U.S. OFAC SDN / non-SDN lists, especially HUAWEI, which is one of the most active employers from versions 5.16 through 6.1, according to statistics. This is unacceptable, and we must take immediate action to address it, with the same reason.
Wasn't Huawei trying to put a Backdoor into linux?
If yes, I see why they finally want to restrict maintainers to countries they can trust
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Wasn’t Huawei trying to put a Backdoor into linux?
as far as i know, that has not happened.
what makes you think it did?
Articles back in the days.
I found a random one now. Maybe I got just clickbaited with titles back then. I dunno
Funny that blog calls it a "failed attempt at a backdoor" while neglecting to mention that the grsec post (which it does link to and acknowledges is the source of the story) had been updated months prior to explicitly refute that characterization:
5/22/2020 Update: This kind of update should not have been necessary, but due to irresponsible journalists and the nature of social media, it is important to make some things perfectly clear:Nowhere did we claim this was anything more than a trivially exploitable vulnerability. It is not a backdoor or an attempted backdoor, the term does not appear elsewhere in this blog at all; any suggestion of the sort was fabricated by irresponsible journalists who did not contact us and do not speak for us.
There is no chance this code would have passed review and be merged. No one can push or force code upstream.
This code is not characteristic of the quality of other code contributed upstream by Huawei. Contrary to baseless assertions from some journalists, this is not Huawei's first attempt at contributing to the kernel, in fact they've been a frequent contributor for some time.
Linus Torvalds has been sold out to big tech companies like Google and Microsoft. He himself is a billionaire and no longer writes any code.
I can't take that seriously
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Taiwan isn’t a country, it’s part of China
This is not a hot take, it's the official position of the United States of America and 90% of the population of the world. Those who say Taiwan is its own country are radical fringe separatists.
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I was thinking that I would have to switch to bsd.
Finally the year of Hurd on the desktop?
I’m afraid that if the sanctions will continue to be a go-to method of dealing with geopolitical rivals, we may end up with a few divergent forks. One for US and “the west” block, one for [...]
Considering that that this idea of making a Linux for the US vs a Linux for "the rest of the world" was what made me ditch Fedora for Debian, it'd be a shame to have it happen to Linux as well. Like, sure, an alternative will emerge, but where does one go while that progresses to be daily-driver? Haiku?
Not even Taiwan claims to be a country though. They claim to be the sole legitimate government of China, hence their actual name, The Republic Of China,
Isn't that, by definition, calling yourself a country?
PKK claims attack on Turkish defence company near Ankara that killed five
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Turkish state-run defence company near the capital, Ankara, that killed five people and wounded 22.
The “act of sacrifice” in Ankara “was carried out by a team of the immortals battalion” of the PKK, the group said on the Telegram messaging app on Friday.
On Friday, the Reuters news agency quoted security sources as saying Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) had hit a total of 120 PKK targets in Iraq and Syria since the attack near Ankara.
Turkish drone strikes killed 27 civilians in north and east Syria in a 24-hour military escalation following the deadly attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said on Friday.
It said it documented 45 drone strikes and four by fighter jets targeting infrastructure including water and power networks and gas stations. The Turkish army rejects claims it hits civilian targets.
PKK claims attack on Turkish defence company near Ankara that killed five
Defence Ministry says it hit 34 targets of the outlawed group in north Iraq as Turkey arrests 176 suspects over assault.Al Jazeera
Rider and WebStorm are now free for non-commercial use
WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use | The JetBrains Blog
WebStorm and Rider, JetBrains IDEs, are now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.The JetBrains Blog
Evil, which provides vim keybindings in Emacs. I switched from vim to Emacs, because I wanted to use org-mode, but I prefer vim keybindings.
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In contrast, after illegally invading and occupying the country for two decades, the US confiscated Afghanistan’s wealth.
The assets freeze led to economic collapse, high unemployment, and widespread hunger. According to Save the Children, 50% population faces extreme hunger.
We’re the good guys in the new cold war we’ve started with China, though.
“Forward-defense ring,” a perfectly normal turn of phrase and not at all Orwellian Newspeak.
Lemmy Bot Blog Post And Asking For Blog Advice
I hope this isn't too spammy, but I wanted to share a blog post and ask some questions.
On Bots I saw the bot issue a little back and I am kind of surprised it wasn't talked about more on the fediverse. It's something that think is worth discussing so I wanted to share my take on it.
Important note, the .world fediverse community locked threads. I respect there decision and am not sharing it there but please please please don't start a flamewar here too. Bots effect everybody.
I also wanted to ask about the blog. I created a pen name and a blog to share my thoughts and found it fun so I might continue. I wanted feedback on the blog. Is there anything missing or that needs fixing? It's bare bones for now but if I keep posting that would hopefully change.
And with ActivityPub turned on in WordPress does that mean I can integrate it with Lemmy? Make my own community and share posts automatically or something?
About a month ago, Admiral Patrick from dubvee.org investigated a thing and made a discovery: there appear to be bots on Lemmy manipulating votes. While the full extent of this issue remains murky, several key points stand out:* The bots have randomly generated usernames, most of which are exactly eight characters long.
* None of these accounts have commented, posted, or set up avatars or bios.
* They predominantly upvote and downvote a specific group of users involved in U.S. politics and news.
* The bots are distributed across various instances, primarily on those that do not require manual approval for signups.
* Instance administrators have confirmed that many of these accounts were created using disposable email addresses.
Although these bots are quite basic, their discovery was somewhat accidental.
At first, I thought this would turn into a major story. While bots are common on the internet, that doesn’t necessarily mean Lemmy has issues exclusive to Lemmy; however, it’s still a potential problem for the community. Unfortunately, as is often the case, the situation escalated into a flame war.
The conversation appears to dissipated quickly, and I’ve only heard it referenced once since the original thread was closed. I don’t hold it against the mods; political discussions are challenging enough for users, let alone for those trying to manage them. Still, I’m surprised that my post is the first instance I’ve seen of it being mentioned outside the community. So, I figured I’d create a blog and talk about it myself. Maybe somebody will find it useful or it will be an excuse to stick around and blog in the future.The Opinion Corner
Bots are ubiquitous, so it’s no surprise they’ve made their way to Lemmy as well. Their presence was only noticed by chance, as they were clearly identifiable as bots. I have a few theories about their existence.Firstly, Lemmy may have reached a size that makes it a target for adversaries in the West. While it might not be a full-scale bot invasion, maybe it could be enough to prompt some bot activity by the usual bot makers’ intern. These adversaries benefit from fostering isolation and echo chambers among users.
Alternatively, Lemmy users might have created bots to manage the growth of the platform’s user base. Some admins and users hold very specific views, and they may want to ensure their opinions remain prominent despite the influx of new members.
Another possibility is that big tech is involved. They might be trying to deter newcomers by scaring them off the platform, and getting hit by downvote bots could scare wide parts of the political spectrum away.
I wish I had a solution for the bot issue, but unfortunately, I don’t. In any case, let’s take a moment to appreciate the admins; they not only have to deal with us but now also contend with bots.
Sources:
Original Thread on Lemmy: dubvee.org/post/dubvee.org/187…
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the wordpress ap plug-in just means fediverse users can subscribe to your content. Not much more than that.. not sure they can even reply.
might get more interaction on microblog capable platforms like mastodon, mbin
youre welcome to test over at moist.catsweat.com. low moderation, no defederation
‘Poo milkshake’ boosts the microbiome of c-section babies
Feeding a baby born by caesarean section milk containing a tiny bit of their mother’s poo introduces beneficial microbes to their gut, according to a clinical trial. The approach might one day help to prevent diseases during childhood and later in life.Some studies show that babies born by c-section, rather than vaginal birth, have a higher risk of asthma, inflammation of the digestive system and other diseases associated with a dysfunctional immune system... Experiments have attempted to compensate for that by swabbing babies born by c-section with microbes from their mother’s vagina or giving them these microbes orally, a practice known as ‘vaginal seeding’. But this technique has had limited success, because vaginal microbes, scientists have learnt, cannot effectively colonize infants’ guts...
Helve and his colleagues have been pioneers in testing whether faecal transplants can instead improve the health of a baby’s microbiome. In their latest trial, which recruited women scheduled for a c-section at the Helsinki University Hospital, the researchers mixed a fluid containing 3.5 milligrams of a mother’s poo into milk and gave the concoction to the corresponding baby. They did this for 15 babies during their first feed. Another 16 babies received a placebo.
An important next step in the field, Shao says, would be to pinpoint the specific maternal gut microbes that are most likely to transmit to and colonize their babies’ guts. Shao asks: “If these species do exist across human populations, wouldn’t it be more effective and safer” to give newborns a laboratory-made transplant that’s guaranteed to be pathogen-free?
"This is the shit"
But seriously don't try this at home. Fecal matters can contain pathogens, in fact 54 of the 90 women screened were excluded because of detected pathogens. If this goes well maybe ppl can make some type of lab-made probiotics for C-section babies or stuff
The abstract presented at IDWeek 2024: idweek2024.eventscribe.net/ind…
This is the study they were referring to: doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2015.07…
C-section babies have slightly higher risks of several diseases related to immune system function, and the hypothesis is that it is because these babies have slightly less developed immune systems
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I clearly didn't drink enough coffee for this before posting
My bad, the original news article did a good job at explaining the missing link... I misunderstood what you were asking
* C-section babies seem to have more immune system-related diseases (doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2015.07…), so scientists think they would benefit from special treatment
* Scientists tried to fix this by giving the babies vagina-derived bacteria (doi.org/10.1038/nm.4039); couldn't find any more reports on this but it seems like these don't work super well?
* This is a proof-of-concept by the lab highlighted in the news (doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.08…), they tried using fecal matter and it worked
* The abstract featured in the news is now a clinical trial that is in progress
I think that's pretty much it
The summary from the last link connected the dots for me.
Thanks for the insights. Enjoy your coffee :).
Different study:
Early-life microbiota seeding and subsequent development is crucial to future health. Cesarean-section (CS) birth, as opposed to vaginal delivery, affects early mother-to-infant transmission of microbes. Here, we assess mother-to-infant microbiota seeding and early-life microbiota development across six maternal and four infant niches over the first 30 days of life in 120 mother-infant pairs. Across all infants, we estimate that on average 58.5% of the infant microbiota composition can be attributed to any of the maternal source communities. All maternal source communities seed multiple infant niches. We identify shared and niche-specific host/environmental factors shaping the infant microbiota. In CS-born infants, we report reduced seeding of infant fecal microbiota by maternal fecal microbes, whereas colonization with breastmilk microbiota is increased when compared with vaginally born infants. Therefore, our data suggest auxiliary routes of mother-to-infant microbial seeding, which may compensate for one another, ensuring that essential microbes/microbial functions are transferred irrespective of disrupted transmission routes. cell.com/cell-host-microbe/ful…
As someone who was extracted via C-section and has lifelong chronic respiratory and digestive issues, I find this fascinating.
Gonna hit my moms up for some dookie when we chat on Sunday
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Oh thank god. Now I don't have to talk to her
I don't think I know any healthy people though
Even if some women use it to avoid the excruciating pain of vaginal birth, that's still a very very very valid reason.
The only "convenience" I'll assume you're talking about is for the doctor. I was told my only options for birth was a C-section or induced labor, because the doctor "didnt like surprises." I'm still upset that I did not know how to advocate for myself as a young adult because I was forced into an induction and several other unexpected medical nightmares due to hospital/staff/doctor negligence.
Vaginal birth isn’t always excruciatingly painful. It depends on the mother’s body type and health but it can also be improved with a proper birth position. Humans weren’t evolved to give birth laying on our back like in the movies, we were meant to give birth in a squatting position.
Some women have even claimed that their vaginal birth was intensely pleasurable, causing them to achieve orgasm. Of course no one wants to hear this, as clashes with all sorts of taboos against women’s sexuality and giving birth in general!
Of course no one wants to hear this, as clashes with all sorts of taboos against women’s sexuality and giving birth in general!
Buddy. I don't have time to get into that rn. But ok.
The non-painful births do exist, absolutely, but they are outliers. I'm sure "pleasurable" births exist, as well, but, again, those are outliers.
Never in my life have I met a woman who gave birth with low pain without the use of drugs.
I'd assume because with the wording you've used, it may seem like you are blaming women for getting C-sections.
(for the record, I did not downvote you)
Also good to remember that after a C-section, any child after that is recommended to also be C-section. Something like 25% of vaginal births after C-sections end in complications that will require a C-section anyhow.
Bodies are complicated. It's good to have treatment to ensure better health for the baby, regardless of what kind of birth was had.
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Israeli Military Joins In on Settlers’ War to Displace Palestinian Bedouins
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21774418
Dalia Hatuqa
October 20 2024, 6:00 a.m.
Israeli Military Joins In on Settlers’ War to Displace Palestinian Bedouins
With the Israeli military standing by or, increasingly, joining settler attacks, Bedouin communities are especially vulnerable.Dalia Hatuqa (The Intercept)
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •No one has to pay anyone because its Open Source. Demanding it, calling out after usage is the wrong move. If someone does not want others to use the code without paying, then they need to use a license that does not allow that without a contract.
I'm all for Open Source and not against paying. But this move here seems to be wrong to me. Maybe create an eco system to pay for the software to use it, if that is what bothers you (as the one who writes and maintains the code).
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •Whitacre affirmed that request, and pointed out the firm "spends ten million on something anyway."
Apparently Chad Whitacre is either a moody 15 year old or a fucking moron.
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •This is why lots of software has started adopting SSPL license which doesn't actually fix the problem and isn't a FOSS license.
I still think a new license scheme should be considered though. Giants like AWS and Google have been profiteering off of FOSS for way too long now.
AGPL has been deemed generally successful in this regard because it has been upheld in court cases and forced companies to comply, which it seems to work pretty great for SaaS.
The problem is these giants will usually just choose a more permissive alternative anyway. Both MongoDB and Redis have forks that they can use, and GPL itself is permissive enough for private forking being legal.
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Unknown parent • • •Why does asking for money not align with the licenses?
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in reply to TheButtonJustSpins • • •Do you have an example? I am pretty sure that a FOSS license which requires companies to pay is impossible.
Open Source guarantees that anyone can give the software to a company for free:
And it guarantees that the company can then use it freely:
Quotes from the Open Source Definition.
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Unknown parent • • •Yes you have. Please explain to me the additional context. I seem to not grasp it.
What else are they doing then asking? Doing some marketing around it? If you get pressured by that you should not lead a company.