cli – Jupiter Broadcasting

Notes from when Dan was experimenting with this: Only work if ~ is the first character you type; typing something, then backspace, then ~ will not invoke the escape sequence. Must be the first character after ENTER.

Kaspersky Confirms It Downloaded Classified Docs, Blames NSA Contractor’s Dumb Mistake

According to Kaspersky, the fault rests of the shoulders of the NSA contractor, who allegedly brought home government surveillance tools and then decided to activate their consumer antivirus software
The analyst’s computer was infected with malware while Kaspersky’s product was disabled
When Kaspersky’s product was re-enabled, the user apparently scanned their system multiple times
A 7-zip archive of documents was retrieved for analysis because the user had set the software to send reports of malicious detections.

‘I Forgot My PIN’: An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin

Spent $3,000 to buy 7.4 bitcoins. Saved them to Trezor hardware wallet. Wrote down a 24-word recovery key. Saved a PIN.
Paper went missing
Could not remember PIN
Tried many times.
Tried an exploit…..

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Round Up:

grafana – Datasources as configuration
curl statistics made simple: davecheney/httpstat (written in GO) refers to reorx/httpstat (written in Python) which is in FreeBSD Ports as net/py-httpstat – Dan tweeted his test case
Gentoo system ransomware’d
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2017
A flaw in Google’s bug database exposed private security vulnerability reports – original blog post
Staging Best Practices
Protocol standards not publicly available
Oracle ZFS man calls for Big Red to let filesystem upstream into Linux – sounds like Oracle wants to get ZFS into Linux
Things You Can Do on the Dark Web That Aren’t Illegal

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FUD for Thought | LINUX Unplugged 24

chris — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:29:24 +0000

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The battle lines have been drawn and the assault against upstart is in full force. We’ll discuss the heat being put on Canonical, the CLA, and upstart with our virtual LUG.

Then we’ll bust some Linux switching FUD that’s been popping up with more and more Windows users fleeing the sinking ship.

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Nest always thought of itself as a robotics company; the robot is just hidden inside this sleek Appleish case.

Look at who the company brought in as its VP of technology: Yoky Matsuoka, a roboticist and artificial intelligence expert from the University of Washington.

The Innovative Little Guy Results

The War Against Upstart

Linus Torvalds: Any CLA is fundamentally broken

\”To be fair, people just like hating on Canonical. The FSF and Apache Foundation CLA\’s are pretty much equally broken. And they may not be broken because of any relicencing, but because the copyright assignment paperwork ends up basically killing the community. Basically, with a CLA, you don\’t get the kind of \”long tail\” that the kernel has of random drive-by patches. And since that\’s how lots of people try the waters, any CLA at all — changing the license or not — is fundamentally broken.\”

Matthew Garrett: Not all CLAs are equal

So why do people object so much when Canonical do it? I\’ve written about this in the context of Mir before, but it\’s worth expanding on the general case. The FSF\’s copyright assignment ensures that contributions to GPLed software will only be distributed under GPL-style licenses. The Apache CLA permits the ASF to relicense a contribution under a proprietary license, but the Apache license allows anyone to do that anyway.

In contrast, Canonical ship software under the GPLv3 family of licenses (GPL, AGPL and LGPL) but require that contributors sign an agreement that permits Canonical to relicense their contributions under a proprietary license. This is a fundamentally different situation to almost all widely accepted CLAs, and it\’s disingenuous for Canonical to defend their CLA by pointing out the broad community uptake of, for instance, the Apache CLA.

Lennart Poettering – Google+ – Shutting down is hard.

Shutting down is hard.

I am sorry for piling on, but here\’s an interesting aspect of Upstart I\’d like to shed some light on. Not necessarily because it is hard to fix, but simply because it is quite interesting.

Upstart (as it stands now) will eat your file system.

Lennart Poettering – Google+ – So it appears that the Debian ctte discussions are now…

The existance of mountall on Upstart, and the non-integration of /etc/fstab into the Upstart rule set, results in a lot of additional shortcomings: mountall is a one-time thing for the boot process, all context of file systems, devices and mounts is lost, after it ran, and the file system state is henceforth assumed static. Which of course is not how systems work these days…

This design flaw is one of the things we noticed when we looked into Upstart in detail before we decided to start systemd. 4 years later, nothing has changed, the Upstart design still cannot cover this…

FUD Busting:

fm87 comments on Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’

Linux is not a replacement for Windows for 99.999% of users

Blame FUD for Microsoft\’s Dominance in Schools

\”It might even be illegal for us to remove Microsoft Office or Windows from previously purchased computers, due to the vendor agreement the school district signed with Microsoft.\”

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Perfect Linux Server | LAS | s24e02

chris — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:43:00 +0000

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The amazing open source projects we love that will take your Linux box to the next level! It’s our tips, tricks, and software we love that make our Home Linux server perfect!

Plus: Is Mark Shuttleworth moving Ubuntu’s future development behind closed doors? The fundamental issues between Nvidia and the Kernel devs, the big features coming to Gnome 3.8…

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Perfect Linux Home Server:

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What makes for a good server OS? A few important things to look for:

A deep repository of packages, that are reasonably current.
Good online support/community for howto’s and guides.
Good security.

I was not happy with my big storage options for Linux, I want a native kernel level implementation of ZFS, but I want the cutting edge software options of Linux.

I bought a FreeNAS Mini from iXsystems that I use as my backend storage apliance. In front of that I have an Ubuntu 12.04 that has an NFS mount to the ZFS storage on the FreeNAS Mini box.