Well the rationale is that they were announcing live to the world (and therefore also the website owner) that “all your base are belong to us”. So instead of giving the website owner time to fix their flawed IT security they just deleted all the infected systems at the end of the talk (including some backups and admin accounts).
Well that’s probably true. I mean lots of stuff was obviously hacked and deleted, and if you trust the script output in the stream mostly from whitedate. child and deal are later off-shoots it seems, but date had like 6k users, some paying, the main project basically. And it’s still offline. And whitedeal shows a 2019 copyright notice. :D
There was an interactive map of the user profiles hosted by the hacker at https://okstupid.lol/ but it seems to be down right now. And the journalists who participated in the talk (and pointedly left before the script was run) announced there will be more articles released soon.
Could be the site owner is in the process of restoring access, the talk (and thus the deletion) happened on 29th of December.
Are they? For me the website has a Cloudflare captcha leading into a 404: https://whitedate.net/
After the talk it had a rick-roll embed for some time. :D
Der zweite Link oben hat den Zeitstempel.
There are quite a lot of packages running it through wine, on AUR, as snap/flatpak, and probably more I didn’t see in my cursory search. So the question is does this exploit work on wine I guess.
Many popular projects written in Rust, including the UUtils core utils rewrite, are MIT licensed as Rust is. There have been people that purposely confuse things by saying that “the Rust community” is undermining the GPL.
How would that ever be a problem in any case? I mean I’m not that versed in licensing stuff, but MIT explicitly allows sublicensing, so if in doubt just slap a GPL-sticker on the MIT code and you are good, no?
Oh yeah, not saying that anybody using the word is a racist. Just ignorant, you shouldn’t use it if you are aware of its historical context.
Ah I see, yeah I guess something like that would be possible. On the other hand it would be trivial to prove this happened even in the future as long as the government keeps a unedited copy of this repo.
While true, a git history is also easily protected against fabrication. Require cryptographically signed commits and prevent contributors from force-pushing to the public repo and you should be good.
In Germany there is a legally recognised form of volunteering called Ehrenamt (honorary office), mostly used by non-profit organisations. It has benefits for taxes, gaining public funding, and such. E.g. if you are the primary caretaker of an elderly family member you can get unemployment benefits without having to look for work, since it is recognised as a public good.
The petition aims to recognise work on Open Source software as such an honorary office.
Thus using “race” is biologically ambiguous and “ethnic groups” should be preferred, however it is still very well socially defined.
“Ethnic group” is an anthropological category, not a biological one. The correct biological term is “subspecies”, which Wikipedia defines as “populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.”
Using “race” in a social context makes sense and is far from being racist.
Given the history of its usage in that context, I have to vehemently disagree. Plus it is so ill defined that it is a useless term anyway. From Wikipedia again: “[…] various definitions exist. Sometimes it is used to denote a level below that of subspecies, while at other times it is used as a synonym for subspecies.”
Using it invokes all the Social Darwinism and whatnot that the Nazis and others abused it for. So where is the sense in using it exactly?
Bash shell uses readline for this, which I would guess is the namesake of PSReadLine:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Readline
https://man.archlinux.org/man/readline.3#DEFAULT_KEY_BINDINGS
Benedetta Scuderi, an Italian member of the European Parliament for the leftist Greens-European Free Alliance group who has joined the flotilla, told Italian public radio RAI that drones had dropped stun grenades.
Well this is why probably. Can’t let one of your MPs get attacked, bit of a prestige issue when you just let that happen. Other quotes seem to go in that direction at least:
Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in a statement the sea convoy had been targeted by “currently unidentified perpetrators”. He expressed the “strongest condemnation” of the incident.
He added the Italian multi-purpose frigate Fasan, previously sailing north of Crete, was “already on route” towards the flotilla “for possible rescue operations.”
An Italian official said the navy had been mobilised primarily to help Italians on board.
Note how they specifically avoid saying the boat is there to protect the flotilla.
To preempt the common interpretation of hackers as criminals.
a low latency kernel (whatever that means. I’ll get there to figure it out eventually)
It’s a kernel with real-time process scheduling enabled by default.
In normal kernels a process can theoretically block all other processes from running for up to several seconds, which is obviously bad for time sensitive things like audio recordings or controlling a CNC-machine for example.
In real-time scheduling all processes are guaranteed time slices in more regular intervals. This is good for time sensitive things like audio recording, but since there is some scheduling overhead it’s bad for single resource intensive processes or process trees like video games.
You can read more about the difference between a real time and low latency kernel here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/RealTimeKernel
The “hackers” (specialists who had been hired by the train owner) presented their findings and the manufacturers reaction on the last two chaos communication congresses if you want to hear their side of the story directly:
Again the git history does not seem to agree with this. If you compare the history of analog_controller.cpp for example in duckstation and swanstation you will find that the in-file license header was added 3 years ago while the latest common change between the files is from 4 years ago. In other words swanstation is using a version of the source code from before the license change, not removing the license change.
If you have any source for these accusations please post it, because as you have relayed them so far they seem to be untrue.
That’s simply untrue, duckstation changed license from GPL3 to CC on September 1st 2024, while swanstation retains the original GPL3 license from September 11th 2019.
So the beef is that they kept using the code as they were before the license change, which is their right under the original GPL3 license.
If anything is legally questionable here it is the duckstation re-licensing to CC because the author of duckstation is not the author of PRs made before the change to CC, thus they might not have the legal right to change the license to those parts of the code without the assent of the individual PR authors (in most jurisdictions I’m aware of at least). I didn’t see any Contributor License Agreement in the repo, which would be the usual way to acquire this assent.
Edit: Context somebody posted upthread. They rewrote parts of the code and got some contributors to agree to the license change. Remains unclear if that covers everything even to the author apparently, but fair enough I guess.
Because they are fascists and the US fascists have been envisioning this expansion since at least 1940:
This lines up pretty much exactly with the all the territorial threats and claims Trump has made:
All on there. Not sure if I missed any, he threatened so many over the last year.
But yeah, they essentially envision an American continent dominated by the US in a Monroe doctrine on steroids, which Trump unironically called the “Donroe doctrine” the other day. They are telling you they are fascists to your face in every way short of actually saying the word out loud. It’s about resources and territory.