If you’re not storing on a filesystem that calculates and checks erasure codes then you can always generate PAR2 files yourself.

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I didn’t even mention Github, I just quoted from the video description.

a really odd way of using Git

Git was literally designed for kernel development.

Is Hyprland violating someone’s copyright?

These are not Drew’s words, he is quoting something said by the project dev. The context that the previous commenter ommitted is:

Following my email conversation with Vaxry, he appeared on a podcast to discuss toxicity in the Hyprland community. This quote from the interview clearly illustrates the attitude of the leadership:

[A trans person] joined the Discord server and made a big deal out of their pronouns […] because they put their pronouns in their nickname and made a big deal out of them because people were referring to them as “he” [misgendering them], which, on the Internet, let’s be real, is the default. And so, one of the moderators changed the pronouns in their nickname to “who/cares”. […] Let’s be real, this isn’t like, calling someone the N-word or something.

KSMBD is also important in that placing such core server functionality right inside the kernel represents a significant potential attack surface for crackers. As one comment on Hacker News said “Unless this is formally proven or rewritten in a safer language, you’ll have to pay me in solid gold to use such a CVE factory waiting to happen.”

Words to live by.

Postel’s Law is relevant here. Conservative in what you send (simplify the schema of the data on the wire) and liberal in what you receive (put the complexity for interpreting that data in the client).

I started the video thinking “huh, that’s neat I guess” and then I was more and more impressed as the video went on. This would be pretty revolutionary in how it could change your workflow. It’s the kind of feature that would get me to switch from Gnome to KDE if it was only supported fully in the latter.

The key thing to know is that a client can do an HTTP HEAD request to get just the Content-Length of the file, and then perform GET requests with the Range request header to fetch a specific chunk of a file.

This mechanism was introduced in HTTP 1.1 (byte-serving).

and it could abusing the bandwitdh limitations of the source site by using multiple parallel connections that pulled on different file chunks

Also for files which had multiple different mirror sites you could download chunks from multiple mirrors concurrently which would allow you to max out your bandwidth even if individual mirrors were limiting download speeds.

Yeah I agree, sorry about that. I thought that the body-text field was mandatory to fill in, so I used the introductory paragraph from the article so as not to editorialize.

The article mentions how to check for infection:

If you have installed the Linux version of the Free Download Manager between 2020 and 2022, you should check and see if the malicious version was installed.

To do this, look for the following files dropped by the malware, and if found, delete them:

/etc/cron.d/collect
/var/tmp/crond
/var/tmp/bs

… based on Debian, yes.

What kernel version are you running? I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure that Windows and Linux handle Ryzen power states differently, as there have been some changes to the kernel recently to improve power state handling on AMD. I don’t know whether the latest kernel would fix the issue but might be worth a try to rule that out.

Yeah. RISC is good.

The translation feature is based on the Bergamot project to provide users with a privacy-aware translation engine where the translation is done locally using machine learning, it’s never sent to a third party, and it’s optimized for consumer hardware.

Neat!

Debian is upstream from Ubuntu, so Canonical shenanigans will not affect Debian users.

My version of VirtualBox is a few years old so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was lacking some features.

Thanks, it gets a bit further, but this time fails with:

grub-install: warning: Cannot set EFI variable Boot0003.
grub-install: warning: efivarfs_set_variable: writing to fd 6 failed: Read-only file system.
grub-install: warning: _efi_set_variable_mode: ops->set_variable() failed: Read-only file system.
grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Read-only file system.
panic: Failed to run grub-install: exit status 1