“I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s all been downhill from there” - Linus Torvalds (www.yarchive.net)
An awk implementation in C99 (www.raygard.net)
This week in KDE: real modifier-only shortcuts and cropping in Spectacle (pointieststick.com)
A screenshot of KDE’s spectacle application showing the reintroduced cropping tool
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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (www.nytimes.com)
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Ubuntu 24.04 Improves Power Efficiency on Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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FFmpeg 7.0 Brings Experimental VVC Decoder and IAMF Support (linuxiac.com) Spanish
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Desktop Linux Market Share: April 2024 (itsfoss.com)
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When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian (www.theguardian.com) Spanish
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The Other Players Who Helped (Almost) Make the World’s Biggest Backdoor Hack (theintercept.com)
Same story, but this one adds some more details and other links.
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Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux | Animesh Sahu (animeshz.github.io)
German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094) (gist.github.com)
A lot of comments there. Found this one via a search engine.
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X.Org & XWayland Hit By Four Security Issues (lists.x.org)
The XZ Utils backdoor is a symptom of a larger problem (ariadne.space)
Found in this huge list : security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-3094
XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams (web.archive.org)
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind (web.archive.org)
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare (www.phoronix.com)
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Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression (9to5linux.com)
Linux Firmware Update Utility Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression for Future Releases...
fwupd and xz metadata (blogs.gnome.org)
ZFS for Dummies (ikrima.dev)
reflections on distrusting xz - joeyh blog (joeyh.name)
Podcast -- A chat about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it - Risky Business (risky.biz)
Aesthetics matter (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
Qt 6.7 released (www.qt.io)
Qt 6.7 is out with lots of large and small improvements for all of us who like to have fun when building modern applications and user experiences. Several additions are released as technology previews, and we are looking forward to your feedback so that we can get everything ready for the next LTS release!
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