This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.
On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that
Hello! It's been a while since I've done any write-ups, but I thought I'd do one to (hopefully) bring a little clarity to a situation that's been causing a lot of confusion and misinformation.
I'm thinking I'll go through what the problem is and why it happens. So, I guess, let's dive in:
Some people are finding that upon updating to 17.0.0, their consoles are getting a blackscreen and refusing to boot further.
| #include <string> | |
| #include <dlfcn.h> | |
| #include <stdio.h> | |
| #include <sys/mman.h> | |
| #include <unistd.h> | |
| #include <errno.h> | |
| #include <stdlib.h> | |
| using namespace std::literals; |
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # Created by Alan Bixby (10/29/2021) | |
| # Installs a portable version of Visual Studio code in "$/HOME/.bin", since students lack write access to /usr/bin or sudo access to use the get-apt installer. | |
| # TODO: Tested to be functional, but I still need to add functionality to prevent running on an invalid OS, or from attempting to run it multiple times (after it previously working). | |
| SAVE_DIR=".bin" | |
| mkdir $HOME/$SAVE_DIR | |
| wget -O "$HOME/$SAVE_DIR/VSCode-linux-x64.tar.gz" "https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable&os=linux-x64" |
If you share this list, please use this link instead: https://lambdaurora.dev/optifine_alternatives
It may still be only a redirection link, but it will have a better web display of the list soon. And the list being on GitHub/GitHub pages improves load times.
The gist version of this list will stop being updated.
| import time | |
| import psutil | |
| import multiprocessing as mp | |
| from multiprocessing import Process | |
| def f(thread, duty, freq, q): | |
| p = psutil.Process() | |
| p.cpu_affinity([thread]) | |
| while True: |
List of Wine builtin fake executables in Wine installation as of Wine 7.16:
mainline-install-7.16-x86_64/lib/wine/x86_64-windows/openal32.dll
mainline-install-7.16-x86_64/lib/wine/x86_64-windows/opengl32.dll
mainline-install-7.16-x86_64/lib/wine/i386-windows/openal32.dll
Download and install Debugging Tools for Windows. See Links section at the bottom for all download links.
wget https://web.archive.org/web/20190317014905/http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/A/A6AC035D-DA3F-4F0C-ADA4-37C8E5D34E3D/setup/WinSDKDebuggingTools_amd64/dbg_amd64.msi
wine msiexec -i dbg_amd64.msi /quiet /qn /norestart
| /** | |
| * Copyright 2019 Sam Robert Belliveau | |
| * | |
| * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person | |
| * obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation | |
| * files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, | |
| * including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, | |
| * publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, | |
| * and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, | |
| * subject to the following conditions: |