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| schestowitz[TR2] | > I will be around today at xxxxxx. I am at Dayton Ham vention, so | Jun 01 02:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > tomorrow through Sunday about 1:00 p.m. it will probably be noisy where | Jun 01 02:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I am. | Jun 01 02:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Also, would you be willing to discuss on the phone? | Jun 01 02:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Regards, | Jun 01 02:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | PS - I was subjected to sophisticated forging attacks lately. | Jun 01 02:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I'll wait for a better time then. | Jun 01 02:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Meanwhile I want to thank you for your sincerity. | Jun 01 02:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Yes, sadly this is for real. | Jun 01 02:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Thanks for the info, I truly appreciate you reaching out. | Jun 01 02:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I am disappointing this is happening, but I am not totally shocked. | Jun 01 02:46 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Trickle-down insecurity | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Hi Roy, | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Hopefully not too late for the weekend. | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/trickle-down-insecurity | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > very best wishes, | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The article was so good I could not resist reprinting with credit and link to original | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/01/Cybersecurity_is_a_structural_not_behavioural_problem.shtml | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | typos found and amended: | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | lets make > let's | Jun 01 03:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | build around a kiosk > built | Jun 01 03:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cybershow.uk | Cybersecurity is a structural not behavioural problem. | Jun 01 03:33 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Techrights — Cybersecurity is a structural not behavioural problem. | Jun 01 03:33 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Windows Subsystem for Linux plans a settings interface" | Jun 01 11:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/31/windows_subsystem_for_linux_gets/ | Jun 01 11:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Windows Subsystem for Linux plans a settings interface • The Register | Jun 01 11:16 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Thank you very much! | Jun 01 12:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | My sincere and humble gratitude. | Jun 01 12:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This can help people through public visibility and awareness." | Jun 01 12:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | we just got new leaks | Jun 01 12:38 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jun 01 12:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://carlschwan.eu/2024/05/31/kde-apps-initiative/">KDE Apps Initiative</a></h5> | Jun 01 12:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jun 01 12:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>A bit like Nate’s “5 minutes bugs” initiative, I’m announcing a new initiative to improve our applications ecosystem. The goal is to improve the quality and quantity of KDE applications and the number of application contributors. For anybody who knows me, it is not that surprising. Inside KDE, I have been mainly involved in apps for many years. I worked on all areas, from d | Jun 01 12:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | evelopment (maintaining or co-maintaining many apps like NeoChat, Kontrast, MarkNote, Tokodon, and Arianna, and contributing to numerous other apps, but also design, promotion, websites (e.g., apps.kde.org) and even a bit of packaging (Flatpak and to a lesser extent Windows). Hopefully, making this a bit more public and making this an initiative with a bit more coordination will encourage more people to help :) </p> | Jun 01 12:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jun 01 12:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jun 01 12:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-carlschwan.eu | KDE Apps Initiative | Jun 01 12:54 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jun 01 19:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/31/endless_os_6/">Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day</a></h5> | Jun 01 19:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jun 01 19:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>EndlessOS 6 is a toughened and much-simplified immutable Debian 12 with a friendly GNOME-based desktop, aimed at kids, education, and novice users. </p> | Jun 01 19:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> It's the latest version of Endless OS, a radical Linux-based OS and possibly the longest-established immutable distribution around. We looked at Endless OS 5 early last year, and while it was quite different from older versions, the new release seems to be a more modest, incremental update. </p> | Jun 01 19:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jun 01 19:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jun 01 19:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day • The Register | Jun 01 19:25 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/krita-25-years/">25 Years of Krita!</a></h5> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Twenty-five years. A quarter century. That's how long we've been working on Krita. Well, what would become Krita. It started out as KImageShop, but that name was nuked by a now long-dead German lawyer. Then it was renamed to Krayon, and that name was also nuked. Then it was renamed to Krita, and that name stuck. </p> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-krita.org | 25 Years of Krita! | Krita | Jun 01 19:39 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5>[Old] <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/973782/">The KeePassXC kerfuffle</a></h5> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>One of the selling points of KeePassXC, in the age of everything-as-a-service, is that it stores user passwords and secrets locally. It does have a few network features, such as downloading site favicons to display next to passwords for web services and for checking passwords against the "have I been pwned?" service. It also has interprocess communication (IPC) functionality to talk to browsers li | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ke Firefox, Chrome, and others that have KeePassXC browser extensions. The project provides build flags to turn these additional features off, if desired. </p> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jun 01 19:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Jun 01 19:39 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-The KeePassXC kerfuffle [LWN.net] | Jun 01 19:39 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jun 01 19:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://lemire.me/blog/2024/05/30/never-reason-from-the-results-of-a-sampling-profiler/">Never reason from the results of a sampling profiler</a></h5> | Jun 01 19:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jun 01 19:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>While profilers sound like a silver bullet for identifying performance bottlenecks, their usefulness has limitations. They excel at highlighting bottlenecks, but often lack the nuance to pinpoint the root cause. In simpler cases, a profiler’s report might be enough, but relying solely on this data can lead one astray. Misinterpretations of profiling results are a common pitfall I’ve ob | Jun 01 19:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | served amongst programmers. </p> | Jun 01 19:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jun 01 19:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jun 01 19:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2024/05/30/never-reason-from-the-results-of-a-sampling-profiler/ ) | Jun 01 19:42 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Awesome. Thanks for posting. | Jun 01 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > One day I would like to invite Rianne to a Cybershow | Jun 01 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > tech grls with Helen and Kate. | Jun 01 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > best, | Jun 01 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That would be awesome! But Rianne is publicity-shy. Last she wrote in defence of herself (after she had been bullied by Microsofters) they sued her as "revenge". | Jun 01 19:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Microsoft is not a company. It's a cult. | Jun 01 19:45 |
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