Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org), page 8

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-warns-of-backdoor-in-xz-tools-used-by-most-linux-distros/

#linux #xz #backdoor #security

I've been plugging away at #Returnal since January of last year (with a long-ish Hiatus to play through Baldur's Gate 3 twice), but today I finally beat it. I only died 260 times!

#games #videogames #playstation #ps5

Someone with no public posts and a suspect profile pic has been like-bombing my posts. Is this happening to anyone else?

#humor #trish

On a more positive note I watched Poor Things yesterday and it was fantastic. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I watched Netflix's 3 Body Problem over two days. It was definitely competent enough to be watchable, but the more I think back on it the less I like it. I haven't read the books, so it's hard to separate some of the flaws in the adaptation from flaws in the source material. Since it was adapted by the Game of Thrones team, it's probably safe to assume it was mostly the former.

One of my main criticisms is that it seemed to introduce a lot of different ideas but only very shallowly, which I am going to assume is book -> TV lossiness, but when you do that this aggressively I feel like it makes the whole thing seem like a messy pile of absurdity. Another issue is that it seems like this world-ending threat can only be solved by a small handful of people who just happen to all know each other already, though (paradoxically) several of them basically do nothing productive until the very end, as obvious set-ups for a sequel. The most egregious issue that I can probably safely blame on the book is the whole Panama Canal thing, which seems like an indulgent excuse to use a "neat" sci-fi concept, but is so over the top and absurd that it could only exist in (bad) fiction.

OK, rant over I guess. If you've read the book(s) let me know that you think.

#netflix #threebodyproblem #cixinliu #scifi #tv

https://youtu.be/tXLoP9iSU5Y

#otyken #siberian #music

https://youtu.be/GyxSvZOby54

#hocuspocus #focus #music

I bought a cheap wifi camera that turned out to be kind of garbage, but it did catch a fox snooping around the chicken coop.

#chickens #fox #wildlife #nature #camera #surveillance

I recently started using #ElementX as my matrix client, which required me to set up a separate "syncv3" service alongside synapse on my homeserver. Works great.

It's my understanding that Element X is a re-write that will eventually replace mainline "Element" in the app stores. What happens then to Element users who aren't using a sliding-sync-enabled homserver? Does it just break? Is sliding-sync going to be folded into Synapse/Dendrite? If so will syncv3 be deprecated?

#matrix #synapse #element

#arcanebullshit

Everybody is a-wonderin' what and where
They all came from
Everybody is a-worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go
When the whole thing's done
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me
Think I'll just let the mystery be

https://youtu.be/nlaoR5m4L80
#irisdement #music

Due to a recent password misadventure I briefly switched pods and noticed that a lot of user's profile pics (specifically) are different from the other pod's view. In some cases users who appear to have no profile pic set on my original pod do have one visible elsewhere. This leads me to believe that there's some kind of issue on my end. Is there a cache I can purge or something like that to have profile pics re-imported from their originating pods?

#diaspora #dev #question

https://youtu.be/VGhcSupkNs8

#bobbyfingers #art #performanceart #jeffbezos #pirates

#goats

I'm on fire tonight

I found #cemantle #655 in 20 guesses!
🥳
🥵2️⃣
😎7️⃣
🥶9️⃣
🧊
https://cemantle.certitudes.org/

I found #pedantle #611 in 11 guesses!
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
https://cemantle.certitudes.org/pedantle

#cemantle #pedantle #bam

Finally updated ye olde pod to 0.7.18.2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBL7IoQ8ePQ

#northernboys #uk #rap #music

I was gifted two quarts of dark maple syrup last Christmas for the implied purpose of making maple mead (acerglyn). Now a year later, here it is.

(not pictured: the other 14 bottles)

#mead #wine #booze #alcohol #homebrewing #honey #maple #diy #vermont