thesamesam

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

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.

Update: I've disabled comments as of 2025-01-26 to avoid everyone having notifications for something a year on if someone wants to suggest a correction. Folks are free to email to suggest corrections still, of course.

Background

acristoffers

GNOME extension with TypeScript (for autocomplete)

One of the downsides of developing GNOME extensions is not having autocomplete in your editor, which makes life really hard when you don't know where to look for documentation and don't know much about GLib and Gnome Shell. To solve that, we can create our project using TypeScript and the types defined in the ts-for-gir project.

But before that, let's talk about expectations. I'm not going to show how to configure any specific editor. This setup is editor-agnostic and if you have a

GrabbenD

Setup org.freedesktop.secrets the easy way with KeepassXC in Github Desktop

Overview

You might want to quickly authenticate with your Github Account to avoid having to manually configure GIT.

Although if you're using a lightweight distribution you might discover that you have to manually find a provider for org.freedesktop.secrets.

I encountered this problem and wanted to share my thoughts and general pointers from what I've learned!

vegard

Getting started with Linux kernel development

Prerequisites

The Linux kernel is written in C, so you should have at least a basic understanding of C before diving into kernel work. You don't need expert level C knowledge, since you can always pick some things up underway, but it certainly helps to know the language and to have written some userspace C programs already.

It will also help to be a Linux user. If you have never used Linux before, it's probably a good idea to download a distro and get comfortable with it before you start doing kernel work.

Lastly, knowing git is not actually required, but can really help you (since you can dig through changelogs and search for information you'll need). At a minimum you should probably be able to clone the git repository to a local directory.

misuzu

Install NixOS on Oracle Cloud over Ubuntu 18.04 (make sure to use Ubuntu 18.04 or this may not work)

# install useful tools
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y nano mc git

# prepare /boot
sudo umount /boot/efi
sudo mv /boot /boot.bak

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

gauravbarthwal

Download/Copy all related *.zip files in one directory.
Open terminal and change to that directory which has all zip files.
Enter command zip -s- FILE_NAME.zip -O COMBINED_FILE.zip
Enter unzip COMBINED_FILE.zip