it was also serving the front page as a 404 for the javascript linked from the front page yesterday, which is a very nice level of breakage indeed

gotta give #starlink praise where due, by removing the proprietary web frontend from their starlink terminal, they drive free software development in the space of seeing basic obstruction maps, knowing when your starlink is obstructed or the network is otherwise down, etc

Making even 404 pages the same useless logo as the front page is also a strong choice.

https://github.com/sparky8512/starlink-grpc-tools

Already missing #distribits, hoping we do it again sometime

appimage mounts a clipboard, wtf?

This is my and @mih and Timothy Sanders's result of the #distribits hackathon, design for #gitAnnex special remotes to support storing git repositories. We improved on git-remote-datalad-annex significantly I think and I hope to implement this as part of #gitAnnex.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/git-remote-annex/

generation of the #distribits video archive has started, and since we're using a #gitAnnex repository it's a collaborative public process which will culminate in a redundantly mirrored archive with rich metadata.

Here the day long youtube videos are being cut into clips https://github.com/distribits/distribits-allvideos/pull/2

I woke up refreshed home at last, ran a git-annex get, checked out the clips branch, ran the cut command, and have every talk available to review.

Last sight of Dusseldorf. Great town!

Performed a ceremonial tagging of Datalad 1.0 at the conclusion of #Distribits

"an octopus merge of 40 thousand branches" -- #datalad people are wild #git

Streetcar I caught to the conference this morning.

The NYT today demonstrates they can't comprehend an xkcd cartoon.

Not that I didn't already understand that about their tech reporting.

Slides depicting a massive ecosystem with #gitAnnex somehow central to it is a new thing I'm collecting. Scientists produce great slides like this. (And other great things.)

When you write a software to manage your cat photos and it gets used for brain slicing scans to the tune of 2 petabytes brain/year. #gitAnnex #distribits

looking forward to some strolls along the Rhine now that it's finally stopped torrentially raining

AMAZING day at #distribits !

Here's my talk in the day 1 recording, "git-annex is complete, right?"
https://youtu.be/BwRy3z_hQ70?t=3412

Was also in a panel session 20 minutes after that. And there are many many other great talks in there. Can't wait until tomorrow

#gitannex

new "Plans" section on https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/

"I plan to write an article how the backdoor got into the releases and what can be learned from this. I’m still studying the details.

xz.git needs to be gotten to a state where I’m happy to say I fully approve its contents. It’s possible that the recent commits in master will be rebased to purge the malicious files from the Git history so that people don’t download them in any form when they clone the repo. [...]"

#xz

Jia Tan's history of commits on #xz suggests that every png file in gcc or apache or whatever is a possible attack vector now.

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/reflections_on_distrusting_xz/

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/reflections_on_distrusting_xz/

#xz

in a cafe in germany, wide awake, 16 hours of sleep seems to have beaten jetlag and accumulated xz sleep debt

I can't wait to learn about how a lot of people are using #gitAnnex tomorrow at the Distribits conference!

arrived in Dusseldorf for #distribits

ah europe, been too long.. also this is very very europe

"Selfies please" - gate agent re facial recognition. 2024

Maybe #xz was a state sponsored attack against #aprilfoolsday

Been a while since I read a news article that quoted me as a Debian developer..

Besides that innaccuracy, I think this is a pretty decent article.

https://www.thestack.technology/xz-utils-github-repository-disabled-as-linux-maintainers-assess-blast-radius-of-backdoor-earlier-commits/

special shout out to whoever in the reversing channel is using alias "Jia Tan" ;-)

closing all my social media before I go thru TSA security because it looks like Mr Robot was here