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

tylermorganwall

library(geojsonsf)
library(sf)
library(rayrender)

#Data source: https://github.com/telegeography/www.submarinecablemap.com
cables = geojson_sf("cable-geo.json")

cablescene = list()
counter = 1
for(i in 1:length(cables$geometry)) {

ikhsanalatsary

Using WSL 2

1. Open cmder
2. On the menu, open Settings option and then select Startup > Tasks from the menu tree (or just hit Win + Alt + T)
3. Click the “+” button to add a new task and fill in the fields as follow:
4. Name: {zsh::home}
5. Task Parameters:

   /icon "%CMDER_ROOT%\icons\cmder.ico"
   

danmou

### README
# This Python scripts exports all the OneNote notebooks linked to your Microsoft account to HTML files.

## Output
# The notebooks will each become a subdirectory of the `output` folder, with further subdirectories 
# for the sections within each notebook and the pages within each section. Each page is a directory 
# containing the HTML file `main.html` and two directories `images` and `attachments` (if necessary) 
# for the images and attachments. Any sub-pages will be subdirectories within this one.

## Setup

tovrstra

#!/usr/bin/env python
'''Test program for 'minimum image convention' routines for triclinic cells

   This program is public domain.
   
   Author(s): Toon Verstraelen
   
   The minimum image convention (MIC) is a standard method in molecular
   simulations of periodic systems. The convention states that one can
   approximate the interaction between atom i and all periodic images of atom j

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real