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Of course, I can't start a day without being awfully angry about some shit.
So #Gentoo suddenly undoes USE=lzma [and USE=zstd] that used to be enabled by default in 23.0 profiles, apparently based on "consensus" on the mailing lists. The "consensus" boils down to one conspiracy theorist developer complaining, and being supported by 3 users whose Gentoo contributions boil down to having to express their opinions on everything on the mailing list.
This isn't only a problem, because Gentoo is letting itself be controlled by a vocal minority. This is a problem, because we've enabled something that can affect program output, told everyone to upgrade and rebuild their systems, then pulled the carpet from under them.
Wait, did that random app start using LZMA compression now that you've enabled it? Well, bad luck, you won't be able to open your files anymore. Surely, there's no better #security than not being able to do anything!
Unfortunately, sys-apps/kmod had explicit IUSE= lzma by default for a while now, so there's still a risk that you'll be able to boot your system. That's not good for security at all!
#xz

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
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once again pretty annoyed at tinyletter for shutting down & having to spend my sunday sorting out mailing list shit again.

@… Poked around the FFmpeg mailing list a bit recently, and found a couple other items that might be interesting: https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2024-April/141892.html
In FFmpeg Git (RWCT demuxer)
https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/0b342a2f156a5eb8ebbb2c07f1b887ab6fda8fc5 (extract only one type of CC substream)
In FFmpeg 7.0

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
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This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
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I begin to suspect that the general DocBook mailing list(s) are going to have to move. I don't really want to manage them myself. Where should I be looking for a mailing list service that's easy to use, open-source friendly, provides a web-accessible archive, and is unlikely to be enshitified by vulture capitalists at the first opportunity. Bonus if I can point a DNS subdomain at it.

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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Many years ago I made a one-off donation to a charity on behalf of a work fundraiser. I asked not to be added to their mailing list, but they ignored me and started sending me regular give-us-money letters. I started tracking what they were spending in postage, and after about ten years they had spent more than my entire donation trying to fundraise from me.
I’m sure this is a metaphor for something, but I can’t think what.

Teehee, I can't quite work out if this response to a mailing list post is a subtle burn or a compliment: 'over time I have come to recognise that you tend to know what you are talking about'
Are LinkedIn endorsements still a thing?

This is a fascinating glimpse into the *beginning* of the #xz exploit, i.e. the social engineering.
Some users (accomplices of the attacker?) used the dev mailing list to badger and harass the maintainer of the project who was on the verge of burnout, to pressure him to grant co-maintainer status to the attacker.
Whether this was part of the attack or not, it’s a sad glimpse into the toxic pa…

“You've received this email because you've purchased a product from Jordi Bruin.”
BULLSHIT, you sleazy asshole. I can tell by the email address you sent this “newsletter” to that all you did was buy a mailing list from another company.
DIAF

Is there an alternative to Google Groups that has reasonable pricing, unlike Groups.io, and that's exclusively a normal mailing list without bells and whistles?
#AskFedi #MailingLists #Mailman

“…as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market.”
Why does everything have to be a fucking market for fuck’s sake?! https://suma-ev.social/@openwebsearcheu/112360213078810208

OpenWebSearch.eu (@openwebsearcheu@suma-ev.social)
Attached: 1 image 📧 📫 What’s better than no news? Good news! And that we have plenty of! Our communications team is currently prepping our next #newsletter issue with lots of updates on the #OpenWebSearch Index prototype, Third-Party contributions, up-to-date partner profiles, interesting event tips and so much more. Be among the first to learn about opportunities to engage and stay in the loop on relevant progress. 👉 Simply sign up to our mailing list if you haven’t yet. ht…

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lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
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This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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🎵 "Toxic waste and plastic fish, we're digging holes to hide our trash." ♫
Minimalistic music video for "Environmental Anxiety" by #Raye
https://rayeofficial.com/environmental<…

Environmental Anxiety.
RAYE official website. Music, videos, tour dates, mailing list and more!

Fedora Miracle Spin[1]
Will be hard to top that name.
[1] "F41 Change Proposal […] Create an official Fedora Spin shipping the up-and-coming Miracle Window Manager"[2] – https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archiv

How to get your email spammed instead of your mailing list unsubscribed from:

A few weeks ago I asked around for interest in #luddite events here in Berlin.
While everything takes longer than one likes (work and stuff) I did set up a mailing list for announcements/etc. If you want to get an email as soon as things are set up you can add your email address to

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Mailing list subscriber complains that having to receive all list mails is "not modern"
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2024-March/013617.html

On 2024-03-19, two vulnerabilities were announced on #Python #security mailing list: "quoted zip-bomb" and "TemporaryDirectory symlink dereference during cleanup". Both were announced to affect all current #CPython releases.
The same day, security releases were made for Python 3.10, 3.9 and 3.8 branches. So far, so good. However, I found it surprising that there were no releases being made for 3.11 or 3.12.
On 2024-04-02, Python 3.11.9 was tagged. Initially, the signature on source tarball didn't verify. Today, it does verify, but the release still doesn't seem to have been announced. However, what I found the most surprising is the lack of fixes for the security issues announced before! Was the release borked?
So I've checked in more detail… and it turned out that both issues were already fixed in 3.11.8 (and 3.12.2), so the security announcement was wrong. Sigh.
That said, #PyPy is still affected.
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/XELNUX2L3IOHBTFU7RQHCY6OUVEWZ2FG/
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/Q5C6ATFC67K53XFV4KE45325S7NS62LD/
https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-10-14-3-9-19-and-3-8-19-is-now-available/48993
https://bugs.gentoo.org/927299

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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SA development is so slow and trust-based that I can’t imagine us ever getting an ‘over the transom’ submission of LLM-generated code and paying any attention to it.
Rules are a different story, as those just need to prove themselves in QA. We've already got some rules that are algorithmically generated, but no one claims that to be “AI" and a trusted human does the commit before RuleQA gets to put them to the test.

🎵 "Toxic waste and plastic fish, we're digging holes to hide our trash." ♫
Minimalistic music video for "Environmental Anxiety" by #Raye
https://rayeofficial.com/environmental<…

Environmental Anxiety.
RAYE official website. Music, videos, tour dates, mailing list and more!

Fedora Miracle Spin[1]
Will be hard to top that name.
[1] "F41 Change Proposal […] Create an official Fedora Spin shipping the up-and-coming Miracle Window Manager"[2] – https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archiv

I found a mailing list from 2005 where I argued with people about web stuff and I was reading a few threads and notice the URLs in most people sigs are no longer there so maybe I feel justified in where I stood on some of the issues but I was probably just a pedantic asshole like I usually am...

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
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This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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The php-announce@ mailing list is having a day… 🙃

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From Mirek Długosz : Why don’t we replace the testers with AI?: https://mirekdlugosz.com/blog/2024/why-dont-we-replace-the-testers-with-ai/
QUOTE: Every time I see anyone pitching an AI tool, I have a single question - if the tool is so great,…

Why don’t we replace the testers with AI?
The Association for Software Testing is crowd-sourcing a book, Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester. The book is edited by Lee Hawkins, who posts questions on Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky, Twitter, Slack, and the AST mailing list. You don’t have to be a member to give your answer to …

Sigh. A certain thread on a certain mailing list makes me want to make another pessimistic point wrt the xz/sshd hassle.
What ain't going to happen? Long-term increase of donations and support to #OpenSource developers. And by "developers", I mean actual people who need to buy food and pay the bills, not "projects".
What is definitely already happening? Blaming, bright ideas and demands for the developers already suffering from burnout.
#Gentoo

We did it everyone! With our antagonism to ad-tracking and marketing database building, we've managed to reach the state in which marketers don't know if our parents are alive or dead. This forces them to have to send everyone "schrödinger's marketing" emails to offer the option of not being reminded that you can't celebrate an upcoming commercial holiday with Mom. The side-benefit for them that if you're a rube you'll think it means they care and deepen you…

XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-bec42adc-02198b065103ad5d
XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis On March 29, 2024, a single message

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
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lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
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This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
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lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps