Notices by m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one), page 5

@cassidyclown @eidolon @VD15 @FrailLeaf @mint
Same way the toothpaste with solid granules in it it does. You put your moistened toothbrush in it, some of the powder sticks to it and you brush your teeth same as you usually do.
It's a bit old-fashioned, but it's quite nice.

@dcc
I wanted to set up some web mail frontend at some point — so I could access e-mail from my old Lumia phone, but most of them use PHP and unlike with things that just provide you with and endpoint you have to point nginx to, rely on CGI and as it's supposed to be accessible from the outside, you have to worry about not making things that aren't supposed to be — accessible via nginx. I've always been staying away from PHP and I'm reluctant to touch it now TBH 🤔

@romin

@romin
I do, but fetchmail doesn't make it easy to use it on multiple machines — IMAP support in mutt is so-so and always working with e-mail over ssh just isn't comfy.
And sometimes I do want a client with a GUI — so I can e.g. put images into message's text, but so that it's not web mail — I refuse to touch that shit, they might break Thunderbird further, but it would still remain better than web client ever would be 😅

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/18/thunderbird_128_nebula/

New Thunderbird, among other things that I'm not looking forward to — like the revamped UI, is based on the latest Firefox ESR — yep, that one.
Does this mean that it also performs the privacy-preserving (😏) ad measurement?
Oh, yes and comes with non-optional WebPee support! Why does everything have to be so broken?
And then they are wondering why people are, to put it mildly, not eager to install the updates 😩

@p @Jdogg247 @miscbrains
I had the opportunity to use a 2400 baud modem. A friend gave it to me when my faster Sportster got fried, soon after I got myself a Sportster patched to Courier, that thing was amazing!
Later I was also given the iconic 56k external Courier, but my friend took it back, I've never really owned one.
And then ADLS was starting to become common: easily reflashable D-Link thingies, that was actually fun too!

@p @Jdogg247 @miscbrains
I did BBS, I did Fido, early Web, including DOS browsers, such as Arachne, I even had the rare opportunity to use UUCP, (ex-) Soviet countries had this Relcom thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relcom
So when I was reading about it in the books later, it didn't feel like something that only exists in the books, which I think is great.

@dcc @ruin @lunarised
Aren't you more into Zeldas? 🤭

@linuxiac
Looks like an interesting project, but damn… over a thousand (!) crates as dependencies, including pretty unexpected ones, like rodio — a crate for working with audio signals, what it could possible be used for in a text editor? 🤔

@MK2boogaloo
Setting your enemies against each other isn't considered valuing any of them 😏

@Anachron
I use logrotate from void-packages and a config file for using it with nginx I've snatched from my old Debian box and modified slightly to suit my needs.
Kinda overkill just for nginx, but in case the need to handle some other logs outside of socklog facilities arises — I already have it.

@eric
But I did note that I've never used Mk3 myself, Mk2 was a Firewire card: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/motu-828-mkii
I can only guess why they didn't use Thunderbolt for this one: Mk2 was an aging card already and Thunderbolt wasn't widely adopted yet, they decided to play it safe, I'm fairly certain if they revisit this card anytime soon they would go for it. USB did improve, but it always was and will be poor choice for audio 🤷

@newt

@mint @p @Cocoa
Adding an index for bookmarks looks like a good idea though.
Maybe few use them, but I do and I can clearly hear cogs turning with audible screeches in my Pelonmer when I switch to that tab 😂

@mint @p @Cocoa @mint
Wow, that is an impressive number of rollbacks! Were there so many breaking changes to the data structures in Rebased? 🤔
I was always thinking that it should be pretty minor and that most changes were on the frontend side 😆

@mint
> which you shouldn't use anyway on singleuser instances
Why?

@Cocoa

And I don't want to investigate why this shit doesn't work so I'm just downgrading.

Can I have my old computing back please — without all this complexity? When vulnerabilities with such a severity happened once in a few years instead of every other month 😩

Fuck it! I'm just downgrading to OpenSSH_8.4p1, which is supposedly unaffected. Because this newly patched OpenSSH_9.8p1 simply doesn't work on the only one of my systems that should be affected (32-bit, glibc).
It just crashes before any key exchange even starts — what's odd, it works when its binary isn't in /usr/local/sbin — it doesn't depend on whether the binary is stripped or anything else — it's just about the path, 9.1p1 and 8.4p1 built on the same system work, this one doesn't 🤬

@vertka @romin
Nah, tried everything in the book — no success 🤷
It even works when I run binary from the build directory directly, which is extremely odd. This machine might have many… "peculiarities" as I build most stuff myself and it's not as clean as when software is installed with a package manager.
But I'm not motivated enough to investigate it further, besides, 8.4p1 built on the same machine with the same tools and with the same set of libraries works without a hitch — so why bother 😅

@vertka
It is! According to the paper, this CVE happened because important code, which in turn was a fix for similar prior vulnerability, was removed from one of the routines — hence its name: regreSSHion.
This machine was using 9.1p1 and I've downgraded to 8.4p1 instead of upgrading to 9.8p1 — because according to the paper versions above 4.4, but below 8.5p1 shouldn't be affected.
So in a way it's still a fix, just an unusual one 😄

@romin

@p
Oh, for this stuff — sure! I'm currently reading a book, that touches systems programming in examples, and it gets explained how CHIP-8 works, how instructions are decoded, how arithmetics works, how calls work, the author goes on to explain how memory management works, what endian-ness is (for those who don't know it).
Weird shit is — it's a Rust book and all examples feel… AWKWARD to say the least, everything is wrapped in unsafe {}, system calls are used directly, etc 🤪
@realman543 @iska

@p
> I have used both languages for actual work.
Sure, both are viable, but despite not being new it's not like they are becoming household names… ever at this point, they are now "meme" languages, sure choice when you need a marginal language in a joke — that's what I mean by placing them in the same category, despite them being different.
@realman543 @iska