So, openssh backdoor through a path applied by some to make it work with systemd, which is vulnerable because of a compromise of the LZMA / xz code.
Quick test on a #Slackware 15 machine:
$ xz --version
xz (XZ Utils) 5.2.5
liblzma 5.2.5
$ sudo /usr/bin/ldd /usr/sbin/sshd | grep -ic lzma
0
And of course no systemd to be found.
I am having a bit of fun trying to (ahem) 'improve' the test script posted on some mailing lists, but I think Slackware is not vulnerable.
@privacybrowser Does Privacy Browser PC support connecting through a proxy?
Quería recomendarle espacios en Madrid, pero todos los que encuentro parecen de ínfima calidad o están abandonados. Si tenéis sugerencias, poneos en contacto con él (y mencionadme a mí para que me entere yo también). Gracias.
Come work with me at the Center for Digital Narrative in Bergen, Norway! A postdoctoral position in computational narrative systems has just been advertised, application deadline May 21
I hate the Fire Emblem series with a passion! In all their games there’s always one battle where difficulty takes a huge exponential leap and I’m sick of it. “Oh, so you’ve managed to keep your whole party alive up until now? Let’’s try this new approach where you have to fight several bosses so powerful that, in sheer desperation, you’ll have to sacrifice your friends if you want to move on.” “Oh, you managed to beat that with only a few losses? And you thought you could go back to base and regroup somehow? Why don’t we take your powers away and have you fight another battle just for the thrill of it? But this time with dragons!”
Regardless of your opinion on its outcome, this is how a referendum should be presented to the people:
Whenever someone tells you: “Why do you need so many partitions? There’s no reason to have more than a root one, another for /boot and a third one for swap. And even that may be overkill.”, just reply: “I know this guy whose ass has been saved many times by having separate /opt, /usr/local, /var/log, /var/www, /root and /home partitions, so, when things went wrong and he was forced to reinstall, the data on those partitions was always safe.”
Seriously, it makes no sense to me to have essentially no partitions. That seems to me like Windows thinking.
Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.
-- David Graeber
Thrown exceptions are just socially acceptable gotos.
Here is a piece of really colorful + fun #elephant #art made by Sunthorn, a local artist who shows his stuff at my friend Muai's studio + gallery; msg me if interested! It's painted with oil paint on canvas 🩷💛🧡💙💚💜❤️ #art #artforsale #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #artist #artists #artmarket #artfinder #artwork #illustration #elephants #supportthearts #supportlivingartists #handmade #artgallery #artgalleries #artforsale #color #colorful #fun #cute #artnet #decor #interiors #interiordecorating
Not a fan of Sean Tilley, and the article has several glaring errors, but I’m glad someone else agrees with me on the Fediverse not being the Utopia many made it out to be. It is the most toxic place I’ve ever been on the Internet. The only reason I’m still around is that there’s good people too, most of them not on Mastodon.
At the beginning of 1985 #microhobby interviewed Paco Suarez, legendary programmer, author of La Pulga (Bugaboo). He started his career as a designer and soon got into the coding world. La Pulga was initially a demo of a parabola trajectory, later converted into a game.
He sent a #BASIC program about astrology along with this game, coded for the #ZX81 , as a filler, to Indescomp, but the company surprisingly chose La Pulga, that had to be converted to the Spectrum.
Today in 1991, 33 years ago: in Los Angeles (United States), an amateur video records the beating of African-American taxi driver Rodney King by white police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department.
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
-- Oscar Wilde
Excitement!