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.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

TrillCyborg

Mastodon Docker Setup

Setting up

Clone Mastodon's repository.

# Clone mastodon to ~/live directory
git clone https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon.git live
# Change directory to ~/live

cd ~/live

LukeSmithxyz

Following Terminal Links with URLview

Link handling

Specify what you want urlview to open your links with in ~/.urlview after COMMAND. I.e. the line below will make urlview open all urls in Firefox.

COMMAND firefox