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  • Episode 2: Thanksgiving, NPM and Malware in Free Software

    In their second episode, Serge and Chris return from Thanksgiving thinking about malware in Free Software, specifically the NPM bitcoin attack found in event-streamer

    Show links:

    • Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy)
    • Backdoor in event-stream library dependency (hacker news)
    • The event-stream bug report (github)
    • Statement about the event-stream vulerability (bitpay)
    • npm's statement on the event-stream incident
    • Bug Report on ESLint (github)
    • Malware in Linux kernel (lwn)
    • Don't Download Software from Sourceforge (howtogeek.com)
    • Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella (dustycloud.org)
    • Reflections on Trusting Trust - aka the "Thompson attack" mentioned in the episode, a way of embedding malicious code in a compiler that embeds it into the next compiled version of the compiler
    • Zooko's Tweet (twitter)
    • Linus's Law (wikipedia)
    • Ka-Ping Yee's dissertation (zesty.ca)
    -Securing EcmaScript, presentation to Node Security (youtube)
  • Mandatory Access Control (wikipedia)
  • SE Linux Project (github)
  • AppArmor (ubuntu)
  • Docker For Development (medium)
  • The Qubes Operating System (qubes)
  • Android Application Sandboxing
  • Chris's talk at Northeastern on December 5th - Chris gave the wrong date in the episode, it's on Wednesday... oops!

    • Chris mentioned that they changed their org-mode configuration inspired

    by the chat from our
    first episode
    to incorporate a priorities-based workflow.
    Maybe you want to look at Chris's updated org-mode configuration!
    It looks like so:

    ;; (c) 2018 by Christopher Lemmer Webber
    ;; Under GPLv3 or later as published by the FSF
    ;; We want the lowest and "default" priority to be D. That way
    ;; when we calculate the agenda, any task that isn't specifically
    ;; marked with a priority or SCHEDULED/DEADLINE won't show up.
    (setq org-default-priority ?D)
    (setq org-lowest-priority ?D)
    ;; Custom agenda dispatch commands which allow you to look at
    ;; priorities while still being able to see when deadlines, appointments
    ;; are coming up. Very often you'll just be looking at the A or B tasks,
    ;; and when you clear off enough of those or have some time you might
    ;; look also at the C tasks
    ;;
    ;; Hit "C-c a" then one of the following key sequences...
    ;; - a for the A priority items, plus the agenda below it
    ;; - b for A-B priority items, plus the agenda below it
    ;; - c for A-C priority items, plus the agenda below it
    ;; - A for just the agenda
    ;; - t for just the A-C priority TODOs
    (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
    '(("a" "Agenda plus A items"
    ((tags-todo
    "+PRIORITY=\"A\""
    ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))
    (agenda "")))
    ("b" "Agenda plus A+B items"
    ((tags-todo
    "+PRIORITY=\"A\"|+PRIORITY=\"B\""
    ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))
    (agenda "")))
    ("c" "Agenda plus A+B+C items"
    ((tags-todo
    "+PRIORITY=\"A\"|+PRIORITY=\"B\"|+PRIORITY=\"C\""
    ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))
    (agenda "")))
    ("A" "Agenda"
    ((agenda "")))
    ("t" "Just TODO items"
    ((tags-todo
    "+PRIORITY=\"A\"|+PRIORITY=\"B\"|+PRIORITY=\"C\""
    ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))))))
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  • Episode 2: Thanksgiving, NPM and Malware in Free Software

    In their second episode, Serge and Chris return from Thanksgiving thinking about malware in Free Software, specifically the NPM bitcoin attack found in event-streamer

    Show links:

    • Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy)
    • Backdoor in event-stream library dependency (hacker news)
    • The event-stream bug report (github)
    • Statement about the event-stream vulerability (bitpay)
    • npm's statement on the event-stream incident
    • Bug Report on ESLint (github)
    • Malware in Linux kernel (lwn)
    • Don't Download Software from Sourceforge (howtogeek.com)
    • Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella (dustycloud.org)
    • Reflections on Trusting Trust - aka the "Thompson attack" mentioned in the episode, a way of embedding malicious code in a compiler that embeds it into the next compiled version of the compiler
    • Zooko's Tweet (twitter)
    • Linus's Law (wikipedia)
    • Ka-Ping Yee's dissertation (zesty.ca)
    -Securing EcmaScript, presentation to Node Security (youtube)
  • Mandatory Access Control (wikipedia)
  • SE Linux Project (github)
  • AppArmor (ubuntu)
  • Docker For Development (medium)
  • The Qubes Operating System (qubes)
  • Android Application Sandboxing
  • Chris's talk at Northeastern on December 5th - Chris gave the wrong date in the episode, it's on Wednesday... oops!

    • Chris mentioned that they changed their org-mode configuration inspired

    by the chat from our
    first episode
    to incorporate a priorities-based workflow.
    Maybe you want to look at Chris's updated org-mode configuration!
    It looks like so:

    ;; (c) 2018 by Christopher Lemmer Webber
    ;; Under GPLv3 or later as published by the FSF
    ;; We want the lowest and "default" priority to be D. That way
    ;; when we calculate the agenda, any task that isn't specifically
    ;; marked with a priority or SCHEDULED/DEADLINE won't show up.
    (setq org-default-priority ?D)
    (setq org-lowest-priority ?D)
    ;; Custom agenda dispatch commands which allow you to look at
    ;; priorities while still being able to see when deadlines, appointments
    ;; are coming up. Very often you'll just be looking at the A or B tasks,
    ;; and when you clear off enough of those or have some time you might
    ;; look also at the C tasks
    ;;
    ;; Hit "C-c a" then one of the following key sequences...
    ;; - a for the A priority items, plus the agenda below it
    ;; - b for A-B priority items, plus the agenda below it
    ;; - c for A-C priority items, plus the agenda below it
    ;; - A for just the agenda
    ;; - t for just the A-C priority TODOs
    (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
    '(("a" "Agenda plus A items"
    ((tags-todo
    "+PRIORITY=\"A\""
    ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))
    (agenda "")))
    ("b" "Agenda plus A+B items"
    ((tags-todo
    "+PRIORITY=\"A\"|+PRIORITY=\"B\""
    ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))
    (agenda "")))
    ("c" "Agenda plus A+B+C items"
    ((tags-todo
    "+PRIORITY=\"A\"|+PRIORITY=\"B\"|+PRIORITY=\"C\""
    ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))
    (agenda "")))
    ("A" "Agenda"
    ((agenda "")))
    ("t" "Just TODO items"
    ((tags-todo
    "+PRIORITY=\"A\"|+PRIORITY=\"B\"|+PRIORITY=\"C\""
    ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))))))
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  • Episode 1: Corporate control, org-mode, mobile phones and PDAs

    In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.

    Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!

    Links to some of the things discussed in the show

    • Linux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in general
    • The Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"
    • Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing Couchsurfing
    • On Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open Source
    • How I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'
    • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movement
    • F-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platform
    • Replicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phones
    • LineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devices
    • LibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soon
    • OpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took off
    • Org Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through Emacs
    • Orgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for Android
    • The Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDA
    • Time Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managament
    • Rudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)
    • The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital Assistant
    • Sharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDA
    • Emacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs
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  • Episode 1: Corporate control, org-mode, mobile phones and PDAs

    In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.

    Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!

    Links to some of the things discussed in the show

    • Linux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in general
    • The Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"
    • Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing Couchsurfing
    • On Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open Source
    • How I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'
    • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movement
    • F-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platform
    • Replicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phones
    • LineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devices
    • LibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soon
    • OpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took off
    • Org Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through Emacs
    • Orgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for Android
    • The Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDA
    • Time Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managament
    • Rudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)
    • The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital Assistant
    • Sharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDA
    • Emacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs
    0 min
  • Episode 1: Corporate control, org-mode, mobile phones and PDAs

    In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.

    Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!

    Links to some of the things discussed in the show

    • Linux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in general
    • The Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"
    • Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing Couchsurfing
    • On Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open Source
    • How I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'
    • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movement
    • F-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platform
    • Replicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phones
    • LineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devices
    • LibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soon
    • OpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took off
    • Org Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through Emacs
    • Orgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for Android
    • The Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDA
    • Time Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managament
    • Rudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)
    • The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital Assistant
    • Sharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDA
    • Emacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs
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  • 39: MNT Reform with Lukas Hartmann

    The MNT Reform is a Free Hardware laptop that entirely changes the way laptops are desgined and used. Come with us as we talk with the inventor, Lukas Hartmann about his journey into Free Software, the MNT's development and what the future holds on this episode of Libre Lounge!

    Links

    • MNT Reform Crowdsupply (get your own!)
    • MNT Reform
    • Genode Operating System
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