AMD will patch some old Ryzens against SinkClose now, but their benchmarking methods for newer CPUs didn’t live up to everyday reality. Plus Bcachefs devs annoy Linus Torvalds, the US government sues a college over compliance issues, and Jim disappoints a patron.

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AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs to get SinkClose patch after all

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Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs

After cybersecurity lab wouldn’t use AV software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud

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Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual boot, Google quietly drops support for Chrome on old Ubuntu, the Apple tax hits Patreon, and an exciting new Raspberry Pi.

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OggCamp

Linux is 33 years old

Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser

Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131

“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 235

Chrome dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 but it’ll be back

Patreon warns content makers that Apple wants to be paid

Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

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Kevin and Andy talk about their project extremes: the oldest and newest projects they’ve worked on, the biggest and smallest codebases, the ugliest hack, the most elegant, the most popular, the most trivial, and the most important.

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git-what

IGCC

Box Stacker

Rightwaves

Eat Apples Quick!

Smolpxl Games

Rabbit Escape Android Game

element-web

matrix-rust-sdk

FreeGuide

i-dunno

Announcing I-DUNNO 1.0 and web-i-dunno

qdsync

Kevin’s links

clap

clog-cli

clog-lib

typed-oid

usbwatch-rs

baseline

iptables_exporter

wireguard_exporter

CLI2048

violin

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Insecure SSH implementations and a weak key that let a researcher control 200 MW of electrical capacity reignites the debate about versioned protocols vs pluggable protocols, follow-up on sharing files from your LAN with people on the Internet, and the pros and cons of encrypted backups.

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Researchers find insecure SSH implementations everywhere

512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant”

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Syncthing

Resilio

Send

OnionShare

Warp

Immich

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The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details about OggCamp, and whether FOSS people are all old.

Discoveries

IPv6 for IPv4 admins

bashsimplecurses

Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000

taskfinder

OggCamp

Gary tells us about the upcoming free culture event in Manchester, UK.

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Call for papers

OggCamp on Mastodon

Are FOSS people all old?

The graying open source community needs fresh blood

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We once recorded an episode about GNOME that was so negative that we decided to delete our recordings and not publish it. Our opinions of GNOME have changed significantly since then so we explain why.

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Forcing Windows to undo updates and a separate IPv6 vulnerability, hardware bugs in AMD and Intel CPUs, and using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.

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Your victim’s Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and exploit away

CVE-2024-38063 – Security Update Guide – Microsoft – Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips

SMM LOCK BYPASS

Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs: all the news and updates

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We were asked about using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.

map acl inherit = yes

Setting up a Share Using Windows ACLs

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What celebrities we look like, what books we are into and how we read them, and whether we can separate an artist’s work from their character. With Aaron from Hybrid Cloud Show, and Mark and Martin from Linux Matters.

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