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A IT-Sec Christmas / New Year again? 🤔
Is this: "Large ZIP files trigger spurious possible zip bomb errors" − https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/unzip/-/issues/3
…this again −

The design and reconstructible history of the Mayan eclipse table of the Dresden Codex: #Maya eclipse tables: #eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.

Archaeologists Unearth Wall Section at Important Silk Road City Which Traded in ‘Heavenly Horses’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/archaeologists-unearth-wall-section-at-important-silk-road-city-which-traded-in-heavenl…

Archaeologists Unearth Wall Section at Important Silk Road City Which Traded in 'Heavenly Horses'
The Silk Roads were lined with successful trading outposts, which during times when the trade was prosperous grew to become princely city-states.

A fragment of a Chinese rocket stage - 2024-173L - 'landed' in Western Australia on 18 October: #SpaceJunk

Aerosol pollution found to thicken fog over Northern India—especially at night #India…

Aerosol pollution found to thicken fog over Northern India—especially at night
Frequent, thick winter fog events are a common nuisance in Northern India, exacerbated by heavy air pollution and dense aerosol concentrations. Because these fog events often cause major disruptions to transportation and the economy, a better understanding of how aerosols influence the vertical structure and thickness of the fog is necessary for mitigation.

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
ORAC: No definite records exist. I have however found an obscure archeological treatise which suggests the ancestors of the present inhabitants may have called their planet Kezarn.
VILA: Wonderful. I'm going to die on a planet that hasn't even got a name any more.
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I have an MSI Prestige A16 laptop that only runs #Archlinux. Speakers stopped working suddenly last week, but headphones plugged in worked fine (Bluetooth audio - all the stuff up a wire plumber's rear end). Tried a few kernel versions to no avail (firmware package wasn't updated recently).
Flashbacked to the days of the Toshiba Swanky Chromebook and the audio issues I had on…

Wir stecken an einem #Bahnhof fest, weil unser Anschlusszug mittlerweile über eine Stunde #Verspätung hat. Grund: "Unbefugte Personen auf der Strecke." Und mein Herzmensch furztrocken: "Wieso prügeln die Bullen solche Arschlöcher nicht einfach von der Strecke, wie sie es sonst mit linken Demonstranten machen?"
Wahre Worte wurden gesprochen.

I am delighted that we now have a short summary video of our research lab (#ArsElectronica2025 online:

Digidow

The arch wiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org has got to be one of the best open source documentation resources; detailed with examples on most admin commands, and mostly applicable to all distros not just to arch (with minor tweaking). And I don't even use Arch!