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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-12-06 at 17:02

Beware of weird branch names

Sanitize your inputs

Some references for the #ultralytics attack, which saw a crafted branch name inject a crypto miner into a PyPi package via unsanitized Github Actions variables.

https://vielmetti.typepad.com/logbook/2024/12/ultralytics-github-actions-plugin-compromised-by-git-branch-name-shell-injection-attack.html

[#]github #infosec

cc @990000 @neilk

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-11-26 at 00:18

Unfollowing some people who I otherwise really like on Mastodon because they are too noisy and overrun my feed.

I wish the user interface had something more subtle than "mute" or "unfollow" to cope with this, because in truth I do occasionally want to hear from them.

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-11-14 at 07:10

The key observation: the half-life of a toot is measured in minutes, but problems take days or weeks to solve, and interesting things in a narrow field stay interesting for months or years.

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-11-14 at 06:38

The instant publication of a toot is very appealing, with a quick hit of dopamine possible if you happen to get really lucky and write something that triggers a quick response. That's great, in the same way that a rat pressing a lever thinks that getting fed is great.

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-11-09 at 20:44

I am running Home Assistant at home. It kind of works, in a kind of haphazard way as if you had an old-school Lego set with no instructions and you just puttered around building things until you were bored or done.

Is there any organized, methodical, "here is how you do it well" guide to HA? Principles of operation, design guidelines, some reasonably well worked out non-trivial examples, suggestions for what not to do, etc?

I will summarize replies.

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-08-04 at 15:45

Listening to KPSU, "Portland's College Radio", outside the Smith Memorial Student Union on the Portland State University Campus. "Montgomery Plaza" is one block of street that forms a piece of a good-sized pedestrian way.

https://kpsu.org/player/

Yesterday there was a farmers market a block from here, and the FOSSY conference has been here since Thursday.

https://2024.fossy.us

I'll be following the "FOSS Funding and Economics" track today

https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/

[#]fossy #fossy24

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-08-02 at 23:40

Talking to @paigerduty after her #FOSSY24 talk "The Art of Asking" about the old ways of Usenet and "Frequently Asked Questions" we used to carefully tend that got reposted periodically so that when the local news spool got purged after a few weeks there was still continuity in the newsgroup about what people knew and how to get more info.

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-art-of-asking-fossy-2024-pdx-paige-cruz/270708495

It was a great talk, hoping for a longer format version (zine? book?) with some additional examples.

[#]fossy #fossy2024

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-08-02 at 15:37

Also looking forward to @darius talking about community governance for smallish Mastodon servers at #FOSSY

https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/250/

328 | Fri 02 Aug 5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.

"The research sought to identify current server administrators’ most promising models for mitigating those risks and outline the biggest and most important gaps in risk mitigation, with the aim of helping the broader Fediverse level up governance quickly, safely, and collaboratively."

[#]fossy2024 #fossy24

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-08-02 at 15:28

Super looking forward to the talk this afternoon by @paigerduty at #FOSSY on "The Art of Asking"

https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/248/

Room 328 | Fri 02 Aug 3 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

from the abstract

"Between instant messaging platforms, mailing lists, social media accounts, wikis, repos, and meetups there are a lot of ways to connect and engage with an open source community/project and who you ask, when you ask, where and how can all affect the answers you get."

[#]fossy24 #fossy2024

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-07-31 at 15:54

These are recommendations that I have for #fossy near Portland State University

Sesame Donuts

Urban Farmer Donuts

Departure Restaurant & Lounge

Raven's Manor

Tokyo Sando

Pelmeni Pelmeni

Cowbell LLC

Hopscotch Portland

Dough Zone Dumpling House

Duck House Chinese Restaurant

any other suggestions from #pdx locals or travelers?

thanks to a boss of a @workantile coworking coworker for the list

[#]fossy2024 #food

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-07-31 at 14:14

I packed some stickers for #fossy - these come with a story (and a threat of a $10000 municipal fine for unauthorized use)

From 2019, this Ann Arbor Observer story about municipal overreach in trying to copyright things they can't copyright

https://annarborobserver.com/seal-of-disapproval/

[#]a2gov #fossy2024

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-07-31 at 11:41

Detroit, Michigan is in the Eastern time zone.

[#]dtwcarpet

Flight #dl572 #dtw to #pdx for #fossy

Looking forward to seeing folks there. I am speaking on Thursday

https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/195/

[#]fossy2024

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Written by Ed W8EMV on 2024-07-30 at 13:45

Very interested to see testing and support for the new "multicores edition" of #LZ4 compression

https://github.com/lz4/lz4/releases/tag/v1.10.0

Measured speedup on compression is near-linear on 8-core systems, looking forward to testing on 80-core systems to see how far this can be pushed. Also interested to see this picked up by distros.

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