#IoT #security delivers: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-11/robot-vacuum-yells-racial-slurs-at-family-after-being-hacked/104445408

Spent a fair chunk of the day digging into .deb packaging. Got the thing to build, which to be fair was no small feat in itself, HOWEVER the resulting .debs had no useful files in it - ok that should be an easy fix right?

Great now I'm running into trying to convince the dh (debhelper) system actually install the python wheel that gets built into the right place and actually put those bits into the package - and for the life of me I cannot find a good example and/or docs on this. To say it's frustrating is a bit of an understatement.

To flip this on it's side: I've had RPMs for this particular thing done 3 months ago, and didn't take nearly as long to figure out what it was trying to do.

*sigh*

Do I know any deb maintainers I can ask stupid questions of?

🥳 My #kernel vanilla repositories for #Fedora #Linux[1] started shipping[2] kernels with #realtime aka #PREEMPT_RT support. 🥳

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories
[2] 6.12-pre and later only obviously, as the latest stable series does not support it out-of-the-box

I disregard #Linux Foundation "individual contributor account" because it tries to enforce LinkedIn in the registration. It's either link now or "setup later...". What is this? What if I just plain say: fuck off #LinkedIn, how's that? It tries to imply eventual joining to a forum owned by a large commercial entity.

Please, fix this ASAP. It is ridiculous.

@linuxfoundation #linux

According to the news about #Nordea #Bank, which is one of the large financial institutions in Scandinavia: "Finnish home appliances were used in Nordea's denial-of-service attacks" :-) #infosec #IoT

time to update my #amazon #kindle: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/kindle-color-specs-price-announce

This is Matt (aka Mr #ASIC) who works to make chip design more accessible to students and enthusiasts. The Tiny Tapeout project: https://tinytapeout.com uses a fully open source pipeline to synthesise, verify and layout asic designs and combine them with other projects to amortise the wafer cost and make custom designs possible. #dvcon

went outside my house, and took a selfie for some linkedin "new hire" publication. not even know if i'm able to see it because i don't have a linkedin account.

#tampere #finland #linkedin

3.5 weeks of delay but I switched my job in the middle, finalized setting up my own company and contracts (as I'm a contractor) and learned to hack DWARF, so please aim your stones at me 🙃 🤷 🍄

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20240921120811.1264985-1-jarkko@kernel.org/

#linux #kernel

"Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety"

IMHO also Swift is also worth of a mention in this context given how it has been growing far beyond Apple's ecosystem. I've never even tried it but my friends who do games for consoles, mobile etc. seem to like it (and competition is great).

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/safer-with-google-advancing-memory.html #rust #swift

#KDE Plasma 6.2.1 Improves Support for XWayland Games, Fixes Various Bugs https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-2-1-improves-support-for-xwayland-games-fixes-various-bugs

@kde #Linux #OpenSource

Will be missed. BBS era was the best era of computing IMHO :-)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/

#BBS

Is it true that Google Translate translates from A to B with two phases:

1. A to Eng
2. Eng to B

I like the AI intelligence test that Steve Wozniak proposed as an alternative to Turing test. It goes like this: AI has gained human intelligence if it can go to a house that is unknown for it previously, find coffee, filters, coffee boiler etc. and make some coffee.

I don't think we are there just yet...

Clas Ohlson has the perfect product to separate my 4x Yubikey's from each other:

https://www.clasohlson.com/fi/Avaimenpera/p/31-1646

#yubikey #accessories

I've said how great the Scanner app in #GNOME is when having to scan multi dozen contract papers for instance but also one nice I noticed in Evince: images can be exported by simply right-clicking the image. I've used weird command-line spells and never noticed this before.

Military command-and-control:

1. US: IRC and Matrix
2. Russia: Discord

True story

Personally most important podman command is "podman system reset" because it is only way I know that leaves no garbage to ~/.local/share/containers. #podman #shrug

Speaking of DWARF:

1. Out-of-line instance of an inlined subroutine.
2. Concrete instance of an inlined subroutine.

What is their difference put in some common sense terms? I'm dealing at work with a custom DWARF post-processor and have a hunch that grabbing this would help me to sort out a bug that I'm dealing with.

#DWARF #GCC #LLVM

The whole of my book on Building a Debugger is now available on Early Access!

It teaches you how to write a native code debugger from scratch.

There's lots of cats.

https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger