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Housekeeping
Howdy, y'all. I've now been maintaining this garden for about 6 months, and I've definitely found a rhythm!
Trump v. Anderson got a decision, and it's about what I expected. I'm not a Supreme Court scholar (I just moonlight as a reactionary haha), so here's someone who is to explain the catastropic effects. Unfortunately on Substack, Steve Vladeck's One First: The Shoddy Politics of Trump v. Anderson
Turns out liblzma and xz had a backdoor from xz-utils (affected versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1) that took years to set up. The circumstances that allowed it to go unnoticed are a product of problems with open-source culture that I don't feel qualified to write on. Technical write-up by a Gentoo dev is here.
- When the backdoor got discovered, I was on a weekend trip to LA. The scramble to find ssh keys and downgrade my servers'
xzpackages was pretty funny. Imagine someone back from a night out, somewhat inebriated, and rummaging through laundry in their hotel room for a Yubikey to ssh into the servers from their phone.
I'm also trying to improve my writing style, because I struggle with conveying high-tech, informed entertainment for all audiences. Suggestions appreciated, so please consider my more verbose opinions on tech in this garden a continuing work-in-progress until I find a voice I'm happy with.
Pages
- Making significant headway on the AI infringement essay. Status 80%, I might just publish soon after some heavy edits to curb verbosity.
- Seedling: Resources/law-students (extracted from Essays/law-school, new section added)
- Seedling: Projects/vfio-pci
- New(?): Projects/windows-archive
- Content update: Projects/rss-foss
- Content update: Essays/on-linux
- Content update (which breaks readability a little): Essays/plagiarism
- Content update (small): Essays/no-ai-fraud-act
Status Updates
- Fixed the license on the repo, it mistakenly identified my written content as MIT-licensed.
- Added RSS feeds to the homepage's metadata, which should allow better integration with auto-discovery tools such as RSS Is Dead.