Mastodawn

This is the first time I'm posting anything here but I figured this may be the right audience.

I've never run into something like this and I don't quite know what to make of it. I'm the author and maintainer of libgpiod. The official git repository is the one at kernel.org[1]. There's also a github mirror[2] as well as a documentation page[3] at readthedocs that I maintain.

I noticed (purely by chance) that there's a new website at libgpiod.com that's been created recently. I have nothing to do with it. It's clearly AI-generated but it redirects to my github. It's a 2 month old domain, anonymized registrar, protected by Cloudflare and NeoProtect and a Swedish host behind that.

Clearly someone went to great lengths to stay anonymous. I'm afraid of falling victim to some new elaborate supply chain attack. What should I do about it (if anything)? Has anyone else experienced something similar?

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libgpiod/libgpiod.git/
[2] https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod
[3] https://libgpiod.readthedocs.io/

Libgpiod - Modern C Library for Linux GPIO Hardware Control

Libgpiod is a modern C library for Linux GPIO control, enabling efficient hardware access for embedded and system developers. #Libgpiod

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myrmepropagandist Jun 14

I've created a search on iNaturalist that lets you look at all of the different kinds of nests that ants construct.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=ant-architecture-the-nests-and-constructions-of-ants&verifiable=any&place_id=any

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vy May 15

US tech is still showing up in Russian missiles that are used to attack Ukranian civilians
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3mlvxdjgywk2e

#ukraine #technology #russianinvasion

NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com)

Russian Kh-101 cruise missiles that struck Kyiv contained more than 100 Western-made components, FT reported. Ukrainian experts found the assessed missiles were built in Q2 2026 and carried chips from Texas Instruments, AMD, Kyocera AVX, Harting and Nexperia. #Ukraine

Bluesky Social

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War in Iran and PCBs
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@itgrrl @ricci also, this reminds me of a story I recently learned about and had been meaning to post about. Did you know that Margaret Hamilton used to bring her daughter to the lab when she was working nights and weekends, and let her play with the AGC simulator?

Her daughter crashed the simulator by accidentally invoking program 01 and resetting the guidance system to believe it was back on the launch pad.

Hamilton felt that was a pretty serious bug but was told "no, there's no way a trained astronaut would accidentally do that."

A trained astronaut did, in fact, do precisely that while Apollo 8 was on the way back from the moon.

She was allowed to fix it for Apollo 9.

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Project Maven and the bombing of the girls school in Iran
https://substack.com/home/post/p-191689642

#palantir #ai #sensorfusion

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On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

Artificial Bureaucracy

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Breaking, new, by me: Iran-backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker

A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker's largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers there today. Meanwhile, a voicemail message at Stryker's main U.S. headquarters says the company is currently experiencing a building emergency.

From the story:

"Wiper attacks usually involve malicious software designed to overwrite any existing data on infected devices. But a trusted source with knowledge of the attack who spoke on condition of anonymity told KrebsOnSecurity the perpetrators in this case appear to have used a Microsoft service called Microsoft Intune to issue a ‘remote wipe’ command against all connected devices."

"Intune is a cloud-based solution built for IT teams to enforce security and data compliance policies, and it provides a single, web-based administrative console to monitor and control devices regardless of location. The Intune connection is supported by this Reddit discussion on the Stryker outage, where several users who claimed to be Stryker employees said they were told to uninstall Intune urgently."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/

#stryker #handala #intune #wiper #cybersecurity

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From ACM communications a sign of the current state of software and #systems #osresearch #docker
https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/

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Tobin Baker Jan 15

Yet another example of how single-writer can make or break some lock-free algorithms: it's trivial to maintain a lock-free hierarchical bitmap if you set bits top-down and clear bits bottom-up (where a set bit above the bottom level is just a hint, i.e. could be a false positive), but it seems impossible to make this work with multiple writers.

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https://www.yodaiken.com/2022/05/07/process-algebra-and-automata-theory/

Libgpiod - Modern C Library for Linux GPIO Hardware Control

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