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Mastodon: @misk@lewacki.space

Opinions exclusively of my own and of voices in my head.

Autism, communism, arthitism, cannabism.

  • New RefluXFS Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges

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  • I’m seriously behind times because I’m reading RHEL switched to XFS as a default in 2013 and SUSE did that even earlier :o

    I don’t even need an LLM to be confidently wrong, sorry.

  • New RefluXFS Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges

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  • Why would you use XFS for those partitions in the first place? It’s not what it was designed for or used in real life and that’s likely reason this wasn’t discovered before. What I’m getting from a lot of those AI-assisted security findings is that they’re not concerned with a real vector of attack before making big claims in the media. You’ll probably be able to vandalise things with this exploit but „root privileges” is pushing it.

  • New RefluXFS Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges

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  • Those root privileges being able to edit a root-owned file if it’s in a directory that allows writes by all users. How common is that?

    Saeed Abbasi, the head of Qualys' Threat Research Unit, says the discovery emerged from a research initiative between Qualys and Anthropic, in which researchers integrated the AI model Claude Mythos Preview into their manual audit workflow.

    Ah, an ad.

  • Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK - Marco Nett

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  • Not sure about you but my blinking is not synced to display refresh rate, I do it every couple of seconds on my own. BFI is used to improved motion clarity, not latency.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite

    andrewkelley.me /post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html

  • Thrust into an AI role

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  • I’m in like 3 AI design forums for some reason but whenever I want to start measuring productivity gains I’m ignored so try that for the least amount of effort required.

  • Is this just Linux propaganda, or how much of it is true?

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  • Last I checked it’s true that you can get framerate in the area of or even exceeding that of Windows. What’s rarely mentioned however is that frame pacing can suck (119 frames in 1 second then 1 frame in 1 second averages to 60 frames per second to give an over exaggerated example) and will contribute to stuttery feel despite adequate framerates.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR

    www.phoronix.com /news/Arch-Linux-AUR-Russian-Spam

  • If you had/have enough disposable income, what would drive you to donate to opensource software?

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  • I support very few open source projects because ultimately charity is not a sustainable way of financing things. It makes me feel like it’s up to me, an individual, to carry the weight of the world and ultimately too depressing. Fostering open source should be handled by governments, same as other stuff that’s done due to common interest, like schools and hospitals.

  • Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs

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  • I’ve seen it enough times to see a pattern. This post is riddled with tech bro language, there’s no denying it. More of it is coming with everything that entails.

    Thankfully there’s still openrsync. I didn’t even realise I was already using it so I’m not invested into arguing further. To all vanilla rsync users, Godspeed.

  • Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs

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  • Lol, I’m not a court of law, I’m a person. I can make my own judgments based on what someone said and how they said it.

  • Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs

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  • You can look at the tone of the whole post to understand where the author is mentally. You can also make an educated guess about who will want to work on a project that’s being coded with LLMs. If I’m wrong remind me and I’ll own it. But I don’t think I am.

  • Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs

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  • Also, nobody actually knows if human intelligence is just finer grained stochastic prediction as well.

    I think some people are stochastic parrots and some are not. I think most of our true understanding of things comes from escaping our limitations. Why so many people want to become a stochastic parrot is beyond me though.

    Now to the future, because we’re not done yet by a long shot. The security reports keep rolling in. I’m working on a bunch of CVEs right now. Luckily I’ve been joined by some other very good developers with great systems development skills and security knowledge. Some of these people came to my attention partly because of all the rage happening at the moment, so I get some rage storm clouds have silver linings. Watch out for some credits for some great new rsync developers in the next release.

    The project is being taken over by vibe coders, yay.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough

    blog.tjll.net /you-dont-love-systemd-timers-enough/

  • France has ditched Windows 11 for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs

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  • Title makes it sound like a done deal but so far there’s a promise that there will be a plan in a few months.

    The shift to Linux is happening and every French government ministry is required to put its migration plan in place by the fall of 2026, including considering complementary software such as antivirus, collaborative tools, and so on.

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund

    www.phoronix.com /news/KDE-1M-EUR-Investment
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

    www.jeffgeerling.com /blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

  • PS5 Linux project released, turning some PlayStation 5 consoles into Linux PCs

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  • PS3s had native Sony-sanctioned Linux support at the time - it was marketing for computational prowess of Cell processor. Funnily enough removing it as an anti-piracy measure was what prompted community to jailbreak PS3. Steam Machine doesn’t offer anything nearly as attractive, it’s just a PC and inference requires way more VRAM than it offers (8GB which is pretty awful for modern games too).

  • PS5 Linux project released, turning some PlayStation 5 consoles into Linux PCs

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  • These things run on rather specialised SoCs so it’s not like somebody is going to buy them wholesale to train machine learning models. Valve already monopolised PC gaming market so there’s nowhere to run with that hardware really.

  • PS5 Linux project released, turning some PlayStation 5 consoles into Linux PCs

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  • That’s how modchips work in general but after many years of failures PlayStation security mechanisms are quite sophisticated. Jailbreaks in such cases involve chains of multiple exploits of different kinds. Hardware is often involved but software based exploits will be the most sought after as they’re easiest to for the end user.

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  • It was patched and blocked in 2022. The most common way to jailbreak stuff these days is to stash it offline for an extended period of time while waiting for a public exploit.

  • PS5 Linux project released, turning some PlayStation 5 consoles into Linux PCs

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  • It might be cheaper than either given that Sony subsidises their hardware and PS5 comes with 16GB of GDDR6. Getting PS5 on firmware old enough makes this a very niche thing though.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    PS5 Linux project released, turning some PlayStation 5 consoles into Linux PCs

    videocardz.com /newz/ps5-linux-project-released-turning-some-playstation-5-consoles-into-linux-pcs

  • Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year

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  • They put out LTS releases which are nice for a home server where you need relatively recent packages and a couple of years of support so that you don’t have to babysit it too much. On a server it’s much closer to Debian experience as you don’t have to deal with snap, flatpak and all that weirdness.

  • Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year

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  • I used Ubuntu back then too but I’m a Gnome person so I missed out on this innovation from Canonical.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year

    www.phoronix.com /news/Ubuntu-AI-Features-2026
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Little Snitch comes to Linux to expose what your software is really doing

    nerds.xyz /2026/04/little-snitch-linux/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions

    www.baldurbjarnason.com /2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    In Memory of Hans de Graaff

    www.gentoo.org /news/2026/02/26/in-memory-of-hans-de-graaff.html
  • Space @mander.xyz
    misk @piefed.social

    The Quest to Build a Radio Telescope That Can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages

    spectrum.ieee.org /lunar-radio-telescope
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Linux ThinkPad Driver Ready For Reporting Damage Device - Starting With Bad USB-C Ports

    www.phoronix.com /news/ThinkPad-Damaged-Device-Ready
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

    www.androidauthority.com /aosp-source-code-schedule-3630018/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    GitHub Disables Rockchip’s Linux MPP Repository After DMCA Request

    hackaday.com /2026/01/05/github-disables-rockchips-linux-mpp-repository-after-dmca-request/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    The Stallman Paradox: How Web3 Became the Ultimate Open Source Theater | Regis Chapman

    paragraph.com /@holonic-horizons/the-stallman-paradox-how-web3-became-the-ultimate-open-source-theater
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
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    $96.5 million for Nadella. Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs

    www.windowscentral.com /microsoft/satya-nadella-microsoft-ceo-2025-compensation-layoffs-ai
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
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    New noninvasive endometriosis tests are on the rise

    www.technologyreview.com /2025/10/21/1125327/endometriosis-tests-noninvasive/
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
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    These nonprofits lobbied to regulate OpenAI — then the subpoenas came

    www.theverge.com /ai-artificial-intelligence/801994/openai-subpoenas-intimidation-tactics-nonprofits-elon-musk-restructuring
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    How Ruby Went Off the Rails

    www.404media.co /how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/