Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

XZ Vulnerability: "Original Maintainer burns out, and only the Attacker offers to help ... so Attacker inherits trust built up by the Original Maintainer" (#OpenSource)

https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/

https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/ #xz

And if you are curious about the #xz #compromise, a little update on the #Debian site:

As already written, the archive processing is currently off (nothing new coming to testing/unstable/experimental, no mirror updates pushed out).

Automated build daemons for the affected architectures have been stopped, and only two of them regenerated with a clean #stable environment. They are building for the security archive only, nothing else, right now. That part is safe.

Members of the Release, FTP, Security, Build-Daemon and Sysadmin team are discussing what the next steps are. There are multiple different ways that can be taken, with different drawbacks and amounts of work involved.

Also, it is not yet fully known what the malicious code all could do, so there might be much more that needs to be done later - or not. Unknown as of now, needs the analysis of it to finish, which is not easy nor fast.

@debian

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @audhd

Remember, Autistic people are monotropic, our brains prefer singular, detailed attention tunnels. If there is too much pressure on our monotropic brains, monotropiv split happens.

Too much monotropic split can result in Autistic burnout.

Headlines, one day apart

#FreePalestine

They don't want homeless people concentrating, forming communities, and establishing themselves in one area, because that starts looking less like isolated "bums" and more like a capitalist refugee camp.

This is some serious cyberpunk dystopia shit, where poor people live below ground and the rich up high.

Israel Accused of a “pattern of genocidal conduct” Against the People of #Gaza

People in Orkney will again gather on the steps of St Magnus Cathedral between 1 and 2pm on Saturday 13th of January calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The International Court of Justice has been hearing the case brought by the Republic of South Africa against the state of Israel of committing genocide on the people of Gaza. The South African legal team has told the International Court of…

https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/01/13/israel-accused-of-a-pattern-of-genocidal-conduct-against-the-people-of-gaza/

A Guernica Palestina pode estar sendo pior que a Guerra Civil Espanhola, mas, em ambos casos, a imagem retrata a dor dos sobreviventes e o horror da barbárie.
@palestine

How VPN works

He argued with his brother for days for the biggest pumpkin just to produce this.

free! ebook! from verso!

about the immense, powerful and oppressive surveillance technology built by israel (which gets tested out on Palestinians and then sold to whatever regime also fancies oppressive surveillance and control)

Remember Pegasus? Cellebrite? both exports from Israel's high tech military industrial complex

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2684-the-palestine-laboratory

New parliamentary inquiry: The capability of law enforcement to respond to cybercrime https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Law_Enforcement/LECybercrime47

We’ve wasted a lot of time delaying climate action. As the damage becomes ever clearer, it’s time to accelerate the transition.
https://theconversation.com/net-zero-by-2050-too-late-australia-must-aim-for-2035-213973?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1695273274

#HISTODONS NEW ON THE BLOG
Don’t Mourn, Digitise! Evan Smith on building a list of radical online archives https://sslh.org.uk/2023/09/19/dont-mourn-digitise-building-a-list-of-radical-online-archives/

Torrents of Antarctic meltwater are slowing the currents that drive our vital ocean ‘overturning’ – and threaten its collapse.

Australian scientists warn that the Southern Ocean’s deep “overturning” circulation is slowing and headed for collapse.

This poses real problems for vital currents which circulate nutrients + oxygen.

#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange #Nature #Research #News #science #Australia

https://theconversation.com/torrents-of-antarctic-meltwater-are-slowing-the-currents-that-drive-our-vital-ocean-overturning-and-threaten-its-collapse-202108?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1680131112

Antarctica holds 90 per cent of the world’s ice. Complete melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet would cause a global sea level increase of 3.3 metres

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting. And this is bad news for humanity
https://theconversation.com/the-antarctic-ice-sheet-is-melting-and-this-is-bad-news-for-humanity-200972