Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
OS X is 20 years old now?! I remember that change, seems like it wasn't nearly that long ago.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Possible new icons coming
are they trying to out ewwwww Google?
I like these better than most icons in Linux distros... but that's just me.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
OS X is 20 years old now?! I remember that change, seems like it wasn't nearly that long ago.
No kidding. I remember Mac magazines talking about the upcoming OSX release in late 1999. It wasn't out yet, but everyone was talking about what a game changer it would be. It still feels like the "new kid on the block" even after all of this time. It's still SO much younger than Linux and Windows NT.
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Not sure if it’s “news,” but it’s still interesting
https://blog.system76.com/post/646726872371200000/carl-testimony-hb21-1199mp3
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@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Not sure if it’s “news,” but it’s still interesting
https://blog.system76.com/post/646726872371200000/carl-testimony-hb21-1199mp3
Yeah i've been following all these "Right to Repair" stuff. Would love to see it happen
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@EddieJennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Not sure if it’s “news,” but it’s still interesting
https://blog.system76.com/post/646726872371200000/carl-testimony-hb21-1199mp3
Yeah i've been following all these "Right to Repair" stuff. Would love to see it happen
Now if only their would protect farmers that way.
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New Android malware with full range of spying capabilities has been found
Despite its sophistication, the app can be easy for more experienced users to spot.
Researchers have discovered a new advanced piece of Android malware that finds sensitive information stored on infected devices and sends it to attacker-controlled servers. The app disguises itself as a system update that must be downloaded from a third-party store, researchers from security firm Zimperium said on Friday. In fact, it’s a remote-access trojan that receives and executes commands from a command-and-control server. It provides a full-featured spying platform that performs a wide range of malicious activities. -
Purple Fox Rootkit Can Now Spread Itself to Other Windows Computers
Purple Fox, a Windows malware previously known for infecting machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails, has now added a new technique to its arsenal that gives it worm-like propagation capabilities
The ongoing campaign makes use of a "novel spreading technique via indiscriminate port scanning and exploitation of exposed SMB services with weak passwords and hashes," according to Guardicore researchers, who say the attacks have spiked by about 600% since May 2020. A total of 90,000 incidents have been spotted through the rest of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. First discovered in March 2018, Purple Fox is distributed in the form of malicious ".msi" payloads hosted on nearly 2,000 compromised Windows servers that, in turn, download and execute a component with rootkit capabilities, which enables the threat actors to hide the malware on the machine and make it easy to evade detection. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yeah I'm actually OK with this, since RH has obviously changed course with supplying the killing blow to CentOS them not funding other open source projects doesn't really matter to me.
It's the same argument that many are having about "don't use the community" edition if you're a business. Don't use RH if you care about FOSS.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yeah I'm actually OK with this, since RH has obviously changed course with supplying the killing blow to CentOS them not funding other open source projects doesn't really matter to me.
It's the same argument that many are having about "don't use the community" edition if you're a business. Don't use RH if you care about FOSS.
The CentOS disaster has nothing to do with this. Did you even bother to read more than the headline?
Or at least know who Stallman is if all you did was read the headline?
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yeah I'm actually OK with this, since RH has obviously changed course with supplying the killing blow to CentOS them not funding other open source projects doesn't really matter to me.
It's the same argument that many are having about "don't use the community" edition if you're a business. Don't use RH if you care about FOSS.
The CentOS disaster has nothing to do with this. Did you even bother to read more than the headline?
Or at least know who Stallman is if all you did was read the headline?
I did read it and do know who he is. I get the cancel culture point of this as well.
My point is who cares what RH is doing as they clearly don't care about the rest of the FOSS community and instead care about the perception of this.
They specifically are the cancel culture arm of FOSS.
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'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
‘Fake' accounts claiming to be Amazon workers have been praising their working conditions on Twitter.
Votes are currently being counted in Alabama to decide whether Amazon warehouse workers will form a union. But last night, a series of anti-union tweets were sent from accounts claiming to be staff. Twitter has now suspended many of the accounts, and Amazon has confirmed at least one is fake. Most of the accounts were made just a few days ago, often with only a few tweets, all related to Amazon. “What bothers me most about unions is there’s no ability to opt out of dues,” one user under the handle @AmazonFCDarla tweeted, despite a state law in Alabama which prevents this. -
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Twenty year old Microsoft proxy war on open source rages on....
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/sco-linux-fud-returns-from-the-dead/
