Notices by popey (popey@ubuntu.social)

A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.

This is a rather long blog post to accompany @linuxmatters episode 23.

https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/

#linux #ubuntu #snapcraft

@niccolove @simon Still giving him the oxygen of publicity. As someone who is very aware of his constant grifts, public anti-trans behaviour and other problematic issues, this is completely unwise on your behalf.

@evan 524ft :)

In my experience, so far at #fosdem it’s been the Apple laptops which have projector issues and #Linux ones seem fine. How the turns have tabled!

@vkc @killyourfm I do miss my iRiver IHP-140 mp3 player running RockBox... don't make me go and get on on ebay!

One thing USA has that we don't in the UK, is 'thrift stores' with decent selections of electronics.
Here, every high street has a bunch of charity shops, which are mostly full of clothes, china, books and DVDs.
Every "thrifting" YouTube video I see from retro gamers in the US, has tons of options. Way more than we do in the UK.

Well, that doesn’t look right.

@clacke No. In a pinned tab. It's always open.

Hey, Matrix users! What's the magic incantation to make this popup stop appearing? I verified with another device, but this won't go away. I'm using Element in a browser tab.

@evan One window for personal, one for work, and a whole bunch of PWA windows for individual web applications I use all day.

@freedosproject GWBASIC in ROM on an IBM PC. When at college we learned to code on IBM XT class computers with twin floppy drives. We would often arrive before the lecturer, who held onto the class floppy disks. I would boot to GWBASIC and fiddle around making fun little demos. They'd all be immediately lost when the power was cut. Booting to a programming language in ROM is the epitome of "finished' software.

@cwebber federation: Lots of distributed data rather than one centralised hub containing all the accounts and data.
activitypub: the message protocol used between federated servers - like mastodon, and soon threads. (maybe)

@GreenSkyOverMe I did not. They are common parlance.

I'm completely sick of saying (and hearing) Chat-gee-pee-tee said out loud in conversation.

I have a solution 💡

We have prior art for modern abbreviations:

👑 Platty Jubes - Platinum Jubilee
📉 Cozzie Livs - Cost of Living crisis
🗳️ Genny Lex - General Election

So I propose Chatty Jeeps for ChatGPT 💬

Going forward, I will be using this, and actively, pedantically, correcting people.

"Uh, I think you mean Chatty Jeeps 💅"
#ChattyJeeps

@mjg59 I switched from rsnapshot (rsync in trenchcoats) to Borg. Loving it. I do hourly backups which take a few mins on each machine, to a central backup server over an encrypted connection. WFM YMMV

@devpanda big style

@devpanda

StackExchange are terminating their commitment to publicly archiving data. So they can sell it to AI vendors as training data. https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/

CAPS LOCK BEHAVIOUR DISABLED IN GNOME
https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/caps-lock-behaviour-disabled-in-gnome/

🚨 FRIDAY QUIZ TIME 🚨
I have just provisioned a new dedicated #Linux server. It's been deployed running #Ubuntu 22.04.3. I SSH'ed in as root, given the provided credentials. 🤓
QUESTION: What's the very first command I typed after logging in? 🤔