A few days ago, I made a tongue-in-cheek comment in the #slackware forum on LQ about the behaviour of some regulars being suspiciously similar to that of Jia Tan towards the xz maintainer. Some people took it seriously and I had to clear out the misunderstanding.
But, to be honest, I was only half-joking. The people I was referring to were pushy and dismissive of others' ideas and opinions. They still are.
The thing is, I was reading the forum today and saw them gatekeeping like they owned the place (“If you don't like Slackware as it is, you don't have to use it.” Dude, you never liked it as it was. You've been pushing for your own agenda for years), and I thought that maybe I was on to something.
Nos gustaría tener un programa de tecnologías y software libre.
¿Conocéis algún divulgador que pueda estar interesado?
Direct action is the logical, consistent method of anarchism.
-- Emma Goldman
"Hertfordshire sweet shop owner Phyllis Arrandale originally bought a computer to help out with her accounts, but was so impressed with it that she began programming software of her own. Now, she is attempting to make a printed circuit board, with the ultimate aim of making her own computer from scratch."
From the 1983 BBC bit "Meet the computer addicts"
Can't help but think this lady would've kicked ass in tech!
All about for the #BarcelonaDeclaration official launch webinar!
My company has just announced that there will be a round of layoffs soon. They just laid off a bunch of C-levels. They're giving us the opportunity to "opt in" to "workforce reduction" with a promise of three months severance.
It's been pretty tumultuous here, lately, to be honest, and I'm considering it.
But, I've got a wife and four kids to take care of, and I've never willingly left a job when I didn't have another one already lined up. And we've got good benefits (healthcare and dental) right now, so I really don't want to give that up.
Maybe if I had something lined up with similar pay and benefits, I could do it.
So, I'm looking for any recommendations. I'm a #PHP developer (of roughly twenty years), who has been doing a lot of #golang for the past year, and I've gotten very proficient at that as well.
I'm looking for a US-based company, and a Principal/Staff/Senior Developer role.
Anybody have any good leads? My website is at https://danielrayjones.com, and I can be emailed at dan@danielrayjones.com.
#FediHire #FullStack #Programming #WebDevelopment #BoostsWelcome #PleaseBoost
Buenos días.
Connie Converse -Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f3f4h1Bd9eU&si=vxEeE5OYtA8w3bR3
THE PHILOSOPHER'S BLOSSOMS
The Path of Philosophy runs between Nanzen-ji and Ginkaku-ji.
It came to prominence after the philosophers and Kyōto University professors Nishida Kitarō (西田幾多郎 1870-1945) and Tanabe Hajime (田辺元 1885-1962) used the trail as an exercise route.
#PhilosophersPath #PhilosophersWalk #Kyoto #Japan #sakura #cherryblossoms #桜 #京都 #哲学の道
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?
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!”
Excitement!