Biggles @Biggles@social.cleverlibre.org

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The best advice I got about Mastodon is that it’s for things you love, not hate

A new study shows a whopping 87% of games released prior to 2010 are no longer available for sale or download by any means other than the second-hand market and archival/"piracy": http://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Proof if you ever needed it that the community is doing the work that corporate interests won't do to preserve gaming history and the slice of culture it represents.

We are living in an age when it is so astonishingly cheap to keep copies of things around and yet the perverse incentives exist for companies to memory-hole anything that doesn't perform well or that might compete with newer offerings.

IMO, in the big picture this is what legislation is for, correcting a horrible tendency that the market will have if left to its own devices, and there should absolutely be legislation protecting archivists of content that's no longer available for sale, or even requiring that content creation companies keep content available in SOME form. Until then, we depend on each other to do this.

@scalzi

Evolution requires variety. Twitter exploding into a mass of writhing tentacles and dying spectacularly may be bad for Twitter and annoying for its users, but it kinda needed to die to make space for new growth.

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Interesting links of the week:

* https://github.com/vlang/vinix - a fresh new UNIX, written in V
* https://github.com/c-skills/vala-vala-hey - a nice bug from https://twitter.com/steaIth
* https://soez.github.io/posts/no-cve-for-this.-It-has-never-been-in-the-official-kernel/ - exploiting a never before seen kernel bug
* https://github.com/lrh2000/StackRot - another nice shiny kernel bug
* https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2023/07/03/ibm-i-dde-vulnerability-cve-2023-30990/ - the oldies are best, someone just popped System i again
* https://x64.sh/posts/ServiceNow-Insecure-access-control-to-admin/ - exploiting access control in SNow
* https://labs.hakaioffsec.com/nginx-alias-traversal/ - insecure aliases in Nginx
* https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/linux-lateral-movement-more-than-ssh - alternate forms of lateral movement on Linux (and UNIX :))
* https://github.com/apkc/CVE-2023-35829-poc - backdoored PoC for CVE-2023-35829, check aclocal.m4
* https://twitter.com/xnand_/status/1676336329985077249 - original reporting of bugdoor ^
* https://github.com/cr0nx/awesome-linux-attack-forensics-purplelabs - @cr0nym Linux forensics guide
* https://github.com/CiscoCXSecurity/presentations/raw/master/Hello%20-%20I%20bring%20you%20announcements%20from%20other%20Autonomous%20Systems%20v1%20(Public%20form).pdf - hunting in telcos
* https://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Industry%20and%20finance/C%20telecoms%20security%20framework%20consultation%202023.pdf - Jersey looks over the water at UK telco security standards

#security, #research

people leaving Twitter... ... for Threads

#twitter #threads #fediverse #meme

There was recently a poll asking the ages of Fediverse citizens that bundled everyone over 40. And yes, we are a more grown crowd here.

But there was a poll a couple months back that had more gradations, and the response was heavily Gen X.

I don't think this is a coincidence. We're the DIY generation, so a self-structured social media experience probably suits us better. The joke that it's "Amish Twitter" is apt for that reason.

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

This is REALLY important.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Let that sink in. It costs less than accepting homelessness.

#Finland #Helsinki #homeless #cities #homes
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/