»Over 67,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack:
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a large-scale spam campaign that has flooded the npm registry with thousands of fake packages since early 2024 as part of a likely financially motivated effort.«
How do you check if the JavaScript libraries and their libraries on which they are based are now safe?!??
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{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats
python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…
I did not get to bike to work today due to having to bring a server to work, along with two packages, and rain. I'll get some rain pants this week so at least the rain will be less of an issue. (I was ready to move the server and packages via bike but the addition of rain made me decide not to.)
Maybe a good opportunity to illustrate the purpose of one of the more uncommon packages in #ThingUmbrella: The https://thi.ng/hex package provides hexadecimal formatters for a variety of word sizes (4-64 bits) and also a…
bsdinstall: Mount /dev and /packages after using the shell to partition disks
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/f63a8c0a0915a3eceac179d4d18b2c03b1319fa2> was a few days after FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. For <
UPS Is Destroying Packages Stuck in Trump's Tariff Chaos
https://gizmodo.com/ups-is-destroying-packages-stuck-in-trumps-tariff-chaos-2000671038
@… below, is the apparent mismatch between 580.95.x and 580.105.x likely to cause an actual problem?
Or does it simply _look_ a little strange?
Thanks
New packages to be INSTALLED:
drm-66-kmod: 6.6.25.1500068_8 [FreeBSD-ports-kmods]
egl-wayland: 1.1.20 [FreeBSD-ports]
nvidia-driver: 580.95.05 [FreeBSD-port…