Mistaken dichotomies about dgit
In “Could the XZ backdoor have been detected with better Git and Debian
packaging practices?”,
Otto contrasts “git-buildpackage managed git repositories” with “dgit
managed repositories”, saying that “the dgit managed repositories cannot
incorporate the upstream git history and are thus less useful for auditing
the full software supply-chain in git …
Blog post: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/dgit-dichotomies.html
Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security.
Ein Bekannter hat ein Zeiss DSM 960 A #Rasterelektronenmikroskop abzugeben.
Das Gerät funktioniert noch einwandfrei. Müsste bald in Süddeutschland abgeholt werden. Wer es ernsthaft brauchen kann, darf sich bei mir melden.
#fediGive
Edit: Denke, mein Bekannter hat inzwischen genügend Interessentys, das Gerät wird sicher weiterbetrieben werden. Danke!
Thread (ten posts) making a convincing case for Ukraine winning the war in the next 3-6 months due to an accelerating Russian collapse, caused by … well, that'd be a spoiler.
Go read.
This, happening within months of the AI bubble bursting and taking down the US stock market, is going to make 2025 the pivotal year of the decade. (Forget Trump, he's a side-show.)
https://wargamers.social/@oldladyplays/115365508400226222
<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
#electronics
