Sakamotoryou

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Best helper! #cat
I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.
Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors, IMHO. The level of transparency is stellar, especially compared to proprietary software companies. What the FOSS world has accomplished in 24 hours after detection of the backdoor code in #xz deserves a moment of humbleness. Instead we have flamewars and armchair experts shouting that we must change everything NOW. Which would introduce even more risks. Progress is made iteratively. Learn, adapt, repeat.

🚨 ⚠️ Emergency PSA: A critical security exploit was discovered in the xz package recently, used for compression and decompression on nearly all Linux distributions.

Rawhide users ARE impacted and should immediately STOP using Rawhide until the package update is fully rolled back. (1/3)

Security Advisory: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Security #Privacy

Urgent security alert for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users

Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.

Recently, I have enjoy reading the books published by Daniel Kahneman.

It's sad to have a great man left in our realm.

Rest In Peace

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-27/daniel-kahneman-psychologist-who-upended-economics-dies-at-90?srnd=economics-v2

#DanielKahneman #Rest_in_Peace #ThinkingFastAndSlow #Noise

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-Winning Psychologist Who Upended Economics, Dies at 90

Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist whose work casting doubt on the rationality of decision-making helped spawn the field of behavioral economics and won him a Nobel Prize, has died. He was 90.

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Cats do it
Dogs do it
Even educated hogs do it
Let’s do it
Let’s sleep most of the day

Hey (for #Firefox users at least):

#YouTube Search Fixer

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/01/developer-spotlight-youtube-search-fixer/

- Remove suggestions like "For you", "People also search for", "Searches related to", "Learn while you're at home", "Related to your search", "People also watched", "Other people are watching" etc. from your feed.
- Remove Shorts from search results
- Hide YouTube mixes and reels suggestions.
- More spaced out collapsed sidebar on homepage with accent color to signify active tab.
- and more.

Developer Spotlight: YouTube Search Fixer

Like a lot of us during the pandemic lockdown, Shubham Bose found himself consuming more YouTube content than ever before. That’s when he started to ...

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Another clanger from Microsoft -

- zero day vulnerability being exploited in Windows OS for six months in the wild by North Korea

- They didn’t tell anybody, took six months to make a patch

- released the patch without saying what happened

- didn’t mark it as a zero day in Microsoft Vulnerability Management

You’d think having the largest market cap in the world and having $2bn a year in revenue from security alone would allow.. uh.. investment.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-kernel-bug-fixed-last-month-exploited-as-zero-day-since-august/

Windows Kernel bug fixed last month exploited as zero-day since August

Microsoft patched a high-severity Windows Kernel privilege escalation vulnerability in February, six months after being informed that the flaw was being exploited as a zero-day.

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