Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Debian/Linux users beware:

Due to an issue in ext4 with data corruption in kernel 6.1.64-1, we are a pausing the 12.3 image release for today while we attend to fixes. Please do not update any systems at this time, we urge caution for users with UnattendeUpgrades configured.

Please see bug #1057843:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843

#debian #linux #ext4

Annoyed that a website is doing something custom on right-click?
Did you expect the browser's context menu (Back, Reload, Save Page As, View Source etc.)?

Just hold the ⇧Shift key while clicking and Firefox will show the built-in context menu.

The fascinating snow globe effect of a soap bubble freezing.

Video credit: Lorie Shaull / CC BY 2.0
Further reading: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/freezing-soap-bubbles/

Last night I set a new record for the length of time it took me to find a specific cybercriminal in real life. This one only took ten years, and hundreds of hours of research -- almost all of it in the wrong direction. I'm ecstatic, but also kind of mad at myself for missing key pieces of the puzzle that it turns out I had IN MY INBOX all along.

Anyway, the person in question is a big fish, and this going to be quite the story when it's ready. So, if I'm unresponsive to nudges etc for the next, er...week probably, you know why.

If you use a Windows or Linux device, it's vulnerable to a new post-exploit attack that can remotely install an undetectable backdoor at the UEFI level. Updates from just about every vendor available today. Impressive work from @matrosov and the rest of Binarly.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/just-about-every-windows-and-linux-device-vulnerable-to-new-logofail-firmware-attack/

Want to experience #Zelda #TearsoftheKingdom from a first person perspective? Learn how you can use a glitch to do just that in our video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uPeljNuS14

Germany-based email provider Tuta says Microsoft Outlook is blocking all emails from tutanota.com.

https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk

Feeding dive of a yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) in Otago Peninsula, New Zealand.

Video Credit: Tawaki Project / CC BY 3.0
Source and full video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-eyed_penguin

Hey folks, I come to you, hat in hand, looking for support. Financial support for #Fosstodon has dropped off recently and I totally get it - inflation is up and #Chistmas is around the corner. We all have more important things to spend our money on.

At the moment our outgoings are larger than our income, so our slush fund is dwindling away. Anything you can do to support us would be GREATLY appreciated. Here’s all the ways you can help:

https://hub.fosstodon.org/support/

One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer?

#Plasma6 #wallpaper #desktop

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Have a nice & possibly atmospheric weekend!

Linux community (and GNU) often know how to party

#Linux #GNU #Torvalds #Stallman #Finland #USA

Can't read my #howtogeek article without making an account. This is new. For as long as I can remember I could just read the articles by clicking on the mail links. Since they turned orange I was going to quit but the articles are really good. I have just reached 300 passwords in my password manager and I don't want anothet account. Anyone else get this? Other links don't ask for logon but won't scroll down.

In 2019, I broke the news that First American Title Insurance Co, the country's second-largest title insurer, had leaked on its public website hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/first-american-financial-corp-leaked-hundreds-of-millions-of-title-insurance-records/

According to a report today from Newsday, First American has agreed to pay New York state $1 million for violating the state's cybersecurity regulation.

Not sure how the regulators reached $1m as an appropriate fine, but it seems small to me.

https://www.newsday.com/business/first-american-title-insurance-settlement-new-york-xh6x1gj0

PC Mag - February 1996
https://books.google.com/books?id=WVbZSlyrT5kC&lpg=PA125&pg=PA125#v=onepage&f=false

Can someone recommend a #pixelfed instance that provides the following?

long captions
no adult content (not just no untagged, but verboten)
open to registration
well-moderated to avoid bad actors

A day passing on planet Earth seen from 36,000 kilometers (22,000 miles) by the satellite Himawari-8.