RE: https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/asurm19nnaa90e20
Issue: Remote Code Execution in UEFI firmware.
Affects: Everything using UEFI.
Who found it: AI bros. (Anthropic and Google)
Disclosure date: January 2027
Who broke embargo: AMI, via https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/13200
Short term solution: Disable PXE booting
Long term solution: Ditch UEFI in favor of OpenFirmware (you will not regret booting your computer to a FORTH interpreter in ROM)
Well this is interesting re: php2shell
According to this https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/22/php2shell-exploit-bypasses-protections-designed-to-stop-remote-code-execution/5304883 the whole reason so many of these so-called PoC exploits didn't work was because they were stopped by ASLR. Which means these were developed for intentionally broken targets, lmao
and then someone made an ASLR bypass and actually created a real, weaponized exploit, with teeth
Q: How to make a completely slop-free Linux system now that so much stuff is contaminated by slop?
A: Find an old binary Linux distribution CD to install as the bootstrap. After installing that, get the newest possible Linux From Scratch that you can build using that distro and start building that, then keep building newer LFS setups until you hit the last known clean versions of software. Fork all the code from those clean versions. Package it up. Congrats you just cleaned up a superfund site and got a working operating system as a result.
I have made a permanent, accessible archive for storing my writings! You can go to https://ey.holenet.info/ and see all my modern installments of Education Yourself in simple-ass HTML. Except for the logo. The logo stays.
Serious and important question to all #Linux users, in particular #Fedora users (in particular #Fedora44 if this makes any difference)
It looks like I will be needing to swap back to using an Nvidia graphics card (RTX 2060). Is it still a miserable experience with drivers? And if so, how do I make it not so miserable that I get PTSD?
RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/117444375030553412
:blobfoxgooglyholdingitsheadinitshands: what the absolute fuck is this timeline
because they are full of ASBESTOS https://www.gov.uk/product-safety-alerts-reports-recalls/product-recall-primark-halloween-gonks-2610-0004
They had to recall all the gonks
GNOME: We're considering banning AI
🐺: What? GNOME is earning a W? This is hard to believe!
GNOME: As well as the LGBT members
🐺: ...and that isn't. uggghhhhhh -_-
FYI: if you or a loved one are using Firefox on CDE, please make sure to DISABLE tabs combined with the title bar. Dtwm gets uncomfortable when that happens and you lose the ability to move or resize the window.
This toast brought to you by @gemini0 running face-first into this brick wall while getting CDE running on Arch
This is going to take a while. 81GB of files? Not too bad. But over 2 MILLION FILES? Jesus this is going to take a while :blobfoxgooglyholdingitsheadinitshands: (for the record this is my collection of cloned git repos)
Looks like the current solution is going to be something like:
-Backup EVERYTHING from Storage Barn (my bigass hoarding drive)
-Reformat that to be ZFS
-Move everything back into place
-Backup my Linux root into Storage Barn
-Install NetBSD onto new SSD
I was hoping to try and do something more in-place-y for converting that drive? But when I looked up docs it appears that ZFS wants the entire disk to itself for its pool, so my original plan of "shrink BTRFS volume -> make ZFS volume -> move everything to the ZFS volume -> remove BTRFS volume to reclaim space" wasn't going to work (or if it could have worked, THERE'S NO DOCS FOR IT)
"Techo how serious are you about this migration?" I just got home from Walmart with the 2TB NVMe SSD that will become the NetBSD boot disk.
"Wait WHAT" Yeah I'm just as surprised as you are that you can just walk into a Walmart and buy computer hardware now! Only thing they are missing are motherboards
A friend has (in followers only toots??) stated that LKL might work as-is in NetBSD, but doesn't have any BTRFS partitions to test with. If anyone else reading this thread can give it a shot and cook up usage documentation, we might finally have a solution. And the solution would be that Rick and Morty meme:
🐧What is my purpose?
🐺BTRFS driver
🐧Oh, my God
Alright, serious question for #NetBSD experts: is there any way to mount and access a BTRFS partition in NetBSD?
I have been looking and looking and LOOKING for information about this, but keep finding crappy dead ends. I need some means of being able to mount two BTRFS partitions so that I can migrate the data to something that both Linux and NetBSD will use. Here is what I have found:
1) https://github.com/adam900710/btrfs-fuse A read-only FUSE driver for BTRFS. Appears to be Linux only?
2) https://github.com/rustutils/btrfsutils Buried in here is another read-only FUSE driver for BTRFS. Again, seems to be aimed at Linux only.
3) https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs WinBtrfs, Windows-oriented... but is willing to relicense to make it BSD-friendly. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs/issues/531
4) https://github.com/lkl/linux/ Linux Kernel Library, aka LKL, which allows for using the Linux kernel as a FUSE driver. There is a version for FreeBSD: https://www.freshports.org/filesystems/lkl/ but even I, a complete newbie to the world of the BSD Boys, knows that FreeBSD and NetBSD are completely different operating systems, so I have no idea how portable this is to NetBSD. However if this DOES work with NetBSD, then this would be an excellent solution...
I'm going to transcribe the intro of the first chapter of the first book because oh my God
"Congratulations! After slaving behind the computer for months, fighting a deadline that seemed impossible to meet, you've finished your software product and it's a big hit. The critics love it, you're in the money, and everyone, including your mother, is buying your new product. Just as everything seems to be going your way, your worst nightmare comes true: your mother calls and asks you how to use it."
Alright, what did you two drag in this time?
...oh, okay we can keep them
To people wanting to help make software written by humans: have you considered helping out CDE? https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
There's a calendar program and an email client that are in dire need of love. Why not contribute to making them better? :blobfoxfloofcute:
MPEG-4 is finally patent free :O https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired
EDIT: Well, specifically Part 2. So, DivX and Xvid, not H.264
