keverets @keverets@librem.one

Without full PCAP + emulated router profiles, this would've stayed hidden. Check your ASUS routers for SSH on TCP/53282 NOW.

Technical deep-dive: https://www.labs.greynoise.io//grimoire/2025-03-24-ayysshush/

📊 Executive summary: https://www.greynoise.io/blog/stealthy-backdoor-campaign-affecting-asus-routers
4/4

🚨 BREAKING: GreyNoise discovered a sophisticated backdoor campaign compromising ~9,000 ASUS routers worldwide. Unlike typical malware attacks, this operation uses the router's own legitimate features to create persistent backdoors that survive firmware updates and reboots.
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The End (of Windows 10) is nigh!

On 14 October, #Microsoft will end support for #Win10.

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

Yours may be one of them!

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

Learn more: https://endof10.org/press

Saved a device from the bin? Tell the world with the hashtag: #EndOf10

#Linux #GNU #GNUlinux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Windows

Interesting… Canadian GitHub competitor: https://about.worktree.ca

This is really cool! A paper from Italy https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e005469
has found that people with Long COVID (C and D) can be distinguished from healthy controls (A) and people who had COVID-19 infections but not Long COVID (B) by sticking patients' hands under microscopes and looking at the capillaries in the fingernail! Fast, cheap, easy, and useful!

h/t @tomkindlon

Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of feature work and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.

Signal blocks Recall:

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

Since I discovered that 100% of the 403 and 404 errors Apache was serving up were from malicious scanners, I've started feeding them into fail2ban.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/05/23/counterpoint/

#UN Drops Google for #CryptPad, an Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite

https://fossforce.com/2025/04/un-drops-google-for-cryptpad-an-encrypted-open-source-office-suite/

The Fairphone impact report makes interesting reading. They really are making a difference. I'm enjoying feeling slightly smug as a medium-term fairphone user (since 2018- now I'm on my second, a #Fairphone4). Here's a summary:
https://broadband.yourcoop.coop/help-resources/blog/Fairphone-Impact-Report-2024-Breakdown/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mc&utm_campaign=may25_impactpoint1_telecoms_email

#Fairphone

#Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true.

“Icelandic reports show that productivity has remained stable, and even increased in some sectors. One of the keys to this success lies in improving the mental health of workers, a crucial aspect highlighted by Generation Z. The reduction in stress, combined with a better work-life balance, has had a significant positive impact on employee well-being.

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Icelandic experience is the promotion of greater gender equality. By encouraging men to become more involved in family life, the four-day week has contributed to a better sharing of domestic and parental responsibilities“

https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/10/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-have-come-true/

#wellbeing #4dayweek #genderequality

#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.

This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.

It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).

And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.

This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.

Ever wonder how easy it would be for proprietary software like #WhatsApp to get around the end-to-end encryption? #TeleMessage provides a real world example. This is why there is no replacement for Free Software when it comes to privacy.

https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

#e2ee #FreeSoftware

We are celebrating 10 years of #reproducible builds in #FDroid this year, and we are overhauling the way the build server works.

Thanks to the funding from #NLnet, #NGI #NGIO part of #HorizonEurope, and your donations, our work is intended to power the future of #FDroid for the next ten and more.

Dig deeper for the why and the how in this 15 mins post: https://f-droid.org/2025/05/21/making-reproducible-builds-visible.html

This is classy.

https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge/

#Programming

🚉 🚍 🚲 Transport should be available, accessible, and affordable for all.

We have adopted recommendations to tackle transport poverty, so no one is left behind.

Transport poverty is more than an economic challenge. It is a barrier to social inclusion – potentially blocking people’s access to essential services, such as education or healthcare.

By working together, we can build a more sustainable and inclusive transport system that benefits everyone.

More info: https://europa.eu/!tHdmff

#deltachat Desktop can now run on Firefox and Safari, entirely avoiding Electron and Chromium! It's an intended side-effect of the "porting Desktop to Tauri" effort led by @treefit which aims to provide a non-Electron packaged version of the Desktop. Here is a video and deep dive into what's working on regular browsers now, and what's missing for a full Web version: https://delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-browser-edition

The "move fast and break things" era is over. "Move thoughtfully and fix things" is up.

Right, time for a next step. I sold my car last year and I haven’t really missed it at all. I manage fine with pt and the ocasional taxi or car service but I think I’d like to get a bike. Probably electric and, while not necessarily a cargo bike, something I can carry groceries and other stuff on easily. Now for the hard part, I’m 4 foot 9 inches and that definitely restricts me from lots of makes and models. Would really appreciate feedback from anyone who has experience with electric bikes who has found something that work for super short people! #ElectricBicycle

Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.

Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!

#UnitedNations #UN #Privacy #OpenSource #Forms #Studies FOSS