@molly0xfff have some more crypto scams that I've encountered this weekend. Details in thread, but it's for a token called NSO and another called FLT
@edmundo just a note, FreeBSD does have a compatibility layer for Linux where you can run Linux applications. For CLI apps it works great but for more complicated apps I've had some trouble getting them to work, so it's not for the faint of heart. It's a great OS and it's always getting better but some stuff like the Slack desktop client, haven't figured out how to get it running yet so it's not 100%. A high 95% right now
@edmundo ZFS filesystem, has really great documentation (The FreeBSD handbook) and I really hate how `journalctl` on Linux ruined logging
@alexmath @skyfaller I never have the time to migrate my configuration to neovim.
So I keep using MacVim/gVim.
I'm sure neovim is great I just don't have the time to migrate
@xgerman yep I tried using WSL2 for stuff and it was okay for some stuff but for day to day tasks I need my mutt and irssi which don't benefit from being containerized.
Would love to grab a drink and catch up.
@skyfaller literally for everything else, I'm doing visual mode with click and drag highlighting via gVim.
@skyfaller honestly I don't go crazy with modal editing anyway. The big thing for me is `cw` and `dw`, `jw` and `bw`. The main thing that is an advantage is that if you want to stay on the home row, you can. It's really just the motion keys that are a lifesaver.
I'll still keep a Windows partition for gaming, but everything else is migrated over to FreeBSD. I don't play a lot of games so who knows how often it'll actually get used.
I tried to run a Frankenstein cygwin setup on Windows so I didn't have to dual boot, but honestly it was a shitshow. I was trying to optimize for boot and startup (because Windows is so bad about that), and had forgotten how fast a FreeBSD or Linux desktop can boot.
I have finally gotten fed up with Windows 10/11 and moved to running FreeBSD 14 as my main OS on the gaming rig. It is incredible how bad Windows is, because the FreeBSD/KDE5 experience is NIGHT AND DAY. So much faster and snappy.
As you probably know, F5 closed Moscow office in 2022, and I no longer work for F5 since then. Still, we’ve reached an agreement that I will maintain my role in nginx development as a volunteer. And for almost two years I was working on improving nginx and making it better for everyone, for free.
Unfortunately, some new non-technical management at F5 recently decided that they know better how to run open source projects. In particular, they decided to interfere with security policy nginx uses for years, ignoring both the policy and developers’ position.
That’s quite understandable: they own the project, and can do anything with it, including doing marketing-motivated actions, ignoring developers position and community. Still, this contradicts our agreement. And, more importantly, I no longer able to control which changes are made in nginx within F5, and no longer see nginx as a free and open source project developed and maintained for the public good.
As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities:
The goal is to keep nginx development free from arbitrary corporate actions. Help and contributions are welcome. Hope it will be beneficial for everyone."
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Maxim Dounin
http://freenginx.org/
Leslie Lamport, of LaTeX fame, is a very accomplished mathematician and computer scientist with a Turing award for his work on “fundamental contributions to the theory and
practice of distributed and concurrent systems”. He just published a draft of his new book:
"A science of concurrent programs"
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science.pdf
True to his pedagogic approach to everything he does, "The book assumes only that you know the math one learns before entering a university." Even the appendices are fantastic. Can only wish I'll remain this lucid at his 82 years old.
Well, at least this monstrosity is too expensive to become ubiquitous. Although I'm sure it will help influence more horrific F150s in the future.
@aaronesilvers ideally, right to repair means we crack the devices and unlock, but as I'm sure you're aware they're fighting against that
"As you watch the American media go through every possible contortion to avoid giving a dead Palestinian even a fraction of the worth of a live Zionist, ask yourself: Is that a properly functioning world?
Don’t you get a sinking feeling that some central aspect of our society is deeply broken?"
@nat just fooled all of us long enough to win the primary, since Lamb had already taken the "establishment" lane. Turns out it's all bullshit, as soon as he got to DC boom, settles in to the Democratic party establishment.
On December 7, 2005, the FBI carried out a crackdown on environmental activists that became known as the Green Scare.
Even after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the FBI focused on ecological activists as their #1 priority. As catastrophic climate change intensifies, remember—people tried to resist the destruction of the environment, but they forced this nightmare on us at the end of a gun.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/green-scared
This zine explores the lessons of that wave of repression.
https://medium.com/@danielmcgowannyc/my-own-pearl-harbor-232b11321499
In this text, one of the arrestees describes his first day in custody.
Information security experts are leaving Twitter in droves, demonstrating that it's entirely possible to leave a toxic platform and stop supporting its extremist owner.
A lot of them are here.
https://www.cyentia.com/the-death-of-infosec-twitter/
(As a commenter pointed out, this is from earlier this year.)