boreq @boreq@chaos.social
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Joined Aug 2019
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8 years of milliways challenge coins.
From the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 over the toorcamps, emfcamps, dutch hacker camps till 36c3.
For a long time this has been the collection of milliways challenge coins. But the break of over 2 years is over.
A new milliways challenge coin is coming.
EMF CAMP!!!!!1111
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ESA relased an image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy! Wow.
"The data we collect is anonymous" claims Valve Hardware Survey offered to all Steam users.
The survey is not anonymous as it transmits PII, namely the full name of your local user account, which is very often equal to your full name. Not sure what their lawyers meant by this.
>This. If there is one thing we know about doge, it's that it's a stable store of value that is honored around the world. You can never go wrong investing in doge.
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#SolarWinds wrote a blog post a in 2019 about how #FLOSS is dangerous because anyone can push malicious code to FLOSS projects:
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Geek-Speak-Blogs/The-Pros-and-Cons-of-Open-source-Tools/ba-p/478665
The irony could not be sweeter.
#InfoSec #IronySec #SupplyChainAttacks
/via @cguess
This is not the kind of service I am not paying for!
A follow up on Github being down often: their fix was to remove the historical data from their status page so that you can't see how often it has been down during the last 90 days.
Recommended way of installing calibre:
>Please do not use your distribution provided calibre package, as those are often buggy/outdated. Instead use the Binary install described below.
sudo -v && wget --no-check-certificate -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin
Github doesn't seem very reliable recently, does it? I wonder what is going on.
"so we kinda broke it, but not really, don't worry about it. also don't update manually, update automatically. oh you are on linux? no idea what that means then haha! why remove the addon? why not wait with the release? stop asking questions silly! well, good luck using our software!"
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