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  Today would have been Aaron Swartz’s birthday. It's a great time to think on everything he did for the open web, digital rights and open access to knowledge. He was a brilliant person who left us way too soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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  From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet: Peer production is responsible for some of the most valuable online resources, challenging the authority of firms, markets, and government bureaucracies. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/from-linux-to-wikipedia-how-volunteers-build-the-internet/

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  The tweet that crashed NASDAQ and AI stocks in the US and Asia. Lmao. I say bring on aggressive regulations for this AI bullshit. The first step must be forcing them to prove they obtained explicit permission for every single word, video, code and image they stole from others. We need to claw back every single penny from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and the rest who stole data to train their shitty AI. They were so happy to see job losses & acting like brats. Fuck all of them

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  so openssh on musl linux (alpine, openwrt, buildroot, yocto, and a lot of the docker images you've pulled) has had a little problem since 2016. accounts that should never take a password at all (root, your key-only deploy user, ldap users, the default user on alpine's aws and azure images) take any password longer than 256 characters. https://sshhole.com/ Apply patches ASAP and see https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-11-05-openssh-password-authentication-bypass/

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  Apple turns iCloud into spy cloud, will start looking at public share links https://support.apple.com/en-us/149168 Via https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/04/apple-turns-icloud-into-spy-cloud-will-start-looking-at-public-share-links/5307681

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117558086131908255 yes. get rid of this data center nonsense and AI stuff. I hope new folks crack down on this AI nonsense and theft of everyone data. I say this as someone who worked in data centers for very long time and this new AI stuff is nothing but power grab and data theft and creating problems like massive job loss and environmental damages. cut their funding, tax these thieves and all tech bros brats.

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  Debian Linux apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution. Apply updates as soon as possible. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00526.html #linux #security #debian

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  @lacochran@universeodon.com nice :)

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  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117551162529996305 Damn. The old rule is still valid: if anyone offers you something for free like money or romance, its a scam. That's teh rule. You have to remember it all time.

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  WTF Ubuntu? https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu In case you missed it: CVE-2026-98432 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) bug in the Linux kernel's TCP code. It's been there since 2016, so virtually every Linux server on the planet has it, and it can be hit remotely. Anthropic says it built a working exploit that gets root on a server. A total takeover. Debian patched it on October 16. Ubuntu still doesn't have a patch more than two weeks later. Every supported release, LTS included, is l...

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  Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3

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  StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month. The end of an era https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph I also want to thank the original SO founders Joel and Jeff, not just for creating a good Q&A site but for keeping it free and giving data dumps too. Even though AI and Google both killed the site, know this: SO was the OG for many IT folks, and they ran it with a certain ethical balance.

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  Yesterday, Anthropic were compromised and Cursor extension used by tens of millions of developers for Claude access was delivering a remote access trojan via an SSH reverse backdoor. The malware allowed hands on and automated remote access to developer laptops and desktops, in a supply chain attack. Anthropic has not informed customers, and the malicious version was silently deleted the backdoored version without telling anybody https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-...

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  Iconic Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died, aged 86. RIP. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq23dve8dgv9t

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  Microsoft offers 60,000 employees a voluntary exit 😱 The AI affecting is real in IT sector. This is company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg. Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible. This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/10/26/introducing-a-voluntary-exit-offer/

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  Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493. And there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector i can’t wait to see how this all goes down between wars, inflation, job losses a...

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  Firefox is now the last known major browser that still supports uBlock Origin Ad blocker. Everyone including Microsoft Edge, Google and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3. Firefox is also the only browser that check and ensure uBlock's code on every update to make sure the devs (or compromised repos) hasn't inserted spyware or malware into the extension code. The list of recommended and monitored or vetted FF extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/...

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  'Roughly 70%' of internet is powered by PHP and BBC asked cyber security expert who is living under rock. Lmao 🤣 BBC please get someone from mastodon and they will explain it. Hahah ;) Joke asides, yes it is real https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckgel5xp2xv9t I spent almost midnight to rebuild all images and push patches. More like just I had to change tag to get fresh stuff and validate it. I am not sure how long one can keep dealing with this security nonsense and stress associated with...

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@php/117479282535299381 Don’t ignore these php upgrades. Apply them asap

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  Oh my this is bad. The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and Chrome root programs and by many downstream trust stores. eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

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  @ralen@social.ralen.top haha. i dont need latest and fancy ;)

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  I am now using the latest version of LibreOffice Calc and it feels like such an upgrade for me. I was using an older version installed via APT (v6.4.7) for so long, but then I noticed the latest version is on Snaps (yeah, I know). So I tried it and now the experience is suddenly so much smoother. Calc is my personal accouting app to keep tab on expenses and savings. It is not very high tech but it gets work done. I mostly keep tab on bill payments and avoid debt traps.

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  Wine Ported to OpenBSD https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175

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  RE: https://mastodon.nz/@nickofnz/117454843811764482 This 💯

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  Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-arch-linux-packages-push-malware-with-root-privileges/

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  Linus Torvalds shares his thoughts on Anti-AI coding rules on Linux mailing list. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/ He is doubling down on AI. This will come back to bite him. He thinks people using LLMs for coding are actually checking their work 😂 Code reviewers are just rubber stamping PRs. Nobody in their right mind can look at 100s of PRs per day &d manually go through them especially since they don't even know if they...

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  Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/anthropic-mythos-bank-of-america-hiring-cost.html Why can't AI patch the flaws it found? Lmao. Who is gonna tell them about the bugs being created to fix these? Also note how they hired contractors and not the employees. They think fixing security is one time job. Oh, my sweet summer child.

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  PSA: Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/ Anyone surprised by this? Every AI and tech company wakes up each day asking the same question. How can we build an even bigger surveillance network, squeeze more profit out of it and turn George Orwell’s 1984 into reality? At this point, they are not predicting the dystopian future. They’re building it and charging its users for...

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  NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818

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  Bots just officially outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time ever. Cloudflare’s latest report shows AI and agentic traffic has grown so fast its now the majority of online traffic. We crossed a line and most people didn’t even notice 😳 https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human Dead internet theory is now becoming a reality