Posts by chroot 57 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2018
From the Archlinux website:
Regarding sshd authentication bypass/code execution
From the upstream report (one):
openssh does not directly use liblzma. However debian and several other distributions patch openssh to support systemd notification, and libsystemd does depend on lzma.
Arch does not directly link openssh to liblzma, and thus this attack vector is not possible. You can confirm this by issuing the following command:
ldd "$(command …
I absolutely love Gnome 3. A massive improvement of Gnome 2. I'm glad Archlinux supported it from the start and that I didn't have to wait for some distro release.
Waste clock cycles? I myself am happy to dedicate some clock cycles to be happier using a computer and get things done quicker.
BTW: If you want to save *a lot* of energy, just don't buy Intel, but AMD.
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We can now have more than 2 email addresses per contact! And a whole lot of other stuff. This closes bug 118665 that was opened 21 years ago. Finally.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118665
BTW: I've been using Thunderbird since it was called Netscape.
BTW2: Happily using it on Archlinux: it is "thunderbird-bin" in the AUR.
Or also because Apple and Google have removed many apps because they don't comply with their policies or because of security issues?
The report writes:
> One in seven of the developers reported having removed an app from the market due to new requirements and costs, and one in eleven reported choosing not to launch a developed app.13
And footnote 13:
> 13 One of our survey respondents wrote ‘Removed several small apps completely in order to minimize the risk and because of the uncertain as well as non-transparent legal situation.’
Wow. One respondent!
In addition: Zstandard (zstd) is also from Facebook and is known for being fast. It compresses and decompresses really fast, unless you use the higher level compressions, beyond 15, more or less. Default compression level is only 3.
I highly recommend it as a replacement for gzip. I use it to compress 16 GB files at level 6 with multithreading (-T0).
If you're running Archlinux and building packages yourself, you may want to lower the default compression level and enable multithreading in your /etc/makepkg.conf with:
COMPRESSZST=(zstd -czv -T0 -9)
"Gnome 3 is shite, and many have complained."
Don't forget that YOU think it is shite. You know, an opinion. I actually love Gnome 3. I don't want to stay stuck in the past. I want a modern computer to have a modern desktop that takes advantage of modern technologies.
It is logical that every major step forward gets a negative response from some. That is unavoidable.
On my Archlinux installation I already have Gnome 40! :-)
Don't forget that apparenlty most of you are used to the Adobe interface and not to the Gimp interface. If it were the other way around, I guess you would be complaining about Adobe.
Personally I have no problem at all with Gimp. Marvellous piece of software. Congratulations!
It does not have to be a third *party*, if that is what you mean by "independent", but there must be a way to verify the keys, by means of fingerprints, hashes, ascii-art, such as used by SSH for example. A different (independent) communcation channel is required for that.
So what are those features that were removed and so important?
I had to say goodbye to Morning Coffee when Firefox made the extensions more secure. Do I miss it? Not at all.
I like the steps that Mozilla is taking with Firefox the last years. Hey, even Pocket plays nicely with my Kobo e-reader. Should it have been a core function? Well, Mozilla bought it, so I don't blame them. If you don't like it, hide the button. Does anyone complain about their car having an ash tray? Didn't think so. And you can't even hide it.
> Want to find something specific where the general public misuses a term completely incorrectly? You won't find a thing with BING because their "vectors" keep steering you back to what "everyone else" is talking about.
And Google does not do that?
For these things I go directly to Wikipedia; no need for a web search engine.
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