Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)

@ryantownsend UI developers, especially web UI developers, need to hear this even more.

@Suiseiseki s/commit message/vcs commit/

@Suiseiseki you don't have to explain blobs to me, I know the general problem.

I was just hoping you'd provide a link to an announcement or commit message so that I can figure out for myself which proproetary software they distribute and when they started to do so / when they stopped supplying the blob-free version of the installer.

@Suiseiseki hate to break it to you, but a lot of people do.

@Suiseiseki also, what's the deal with debian installer being proprietary?

@Suiseiseki do you use Debian?

@lanodan why would they be packed into an archive in their installed form?

The only way I've seen those used is a) extracting them with ar, and b) passing them to a linker

Also, it's not about python/perl interpreter itself, it's about the libraries written in those languages.

@lanodan
> I guess that's due to the large amount of files libraries have due to not packing into something like a .a file.

This sentence does not parse to me.

Anyway, the point is to `print(sys.path)` and then figure out which .py files are^W might be being used. And I guess python interpreter never mmaps them, just opens the file, reads while parsing, and then closes the FD.

@lanodan I think it's neat that it tries to find non-compiled / bytecode libraries that were updated.

But when reading how it goes about this in case of Python:
- read processe's PYTHONPATH - ok so far so good
- put it in your own env - uh, are you sure you know what you're...
- fork+exec /proc/$pid/exe - YOU WHAT MATE?

Just found out about a few Local Privilege Escalations in needrestart(8) that were announced last tuesday:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1

I gotta say they're quite hilarious,.

@quad also it shows that they have no sense of humor, or they would've made it $365

@hj @quad yes, but who else is in a position to use this leverage?
Facebook, ByteDance... anyone else?

@hj @quad
wait a sec

Chrome probably doesn't make money...
I'm guessing it's actually a huge money sink.

Who's gonna want to buy it?
Microsoft? Facebook?

@domi @lanodan have you hit their image pull rate limit yet?

@ayo out of curiosity: what happened there?

Did rust release a new version that cannot be compiled with the previous version?

If so, how did they compile it in the first place?

@cpsdqs @piggo
Imagine if the effort Google spents on breaking youtube-dl was instead spent on breaking SEO

@sashag do you really need the parentheses when your factorial has an opening and closing mark?

@TruthSandwich @ChemicalTribe @breizh @BobCollins
For fucks sake, did either of you read the OP? Do you have any intention of understanding each other's ppsition, or are you just here to throw mud at each other?

@ChemicalTribe @TruthSandwich @breizh @BobCollins
define socialism

@ChemicalTribe @TruthSandwich @breizh @BobCollins
> TruthSandwich has been erased from my view

Yeah that happens when someone blocks you (as opposed to just muting)

> working class owning means of the production

Individually or collectively?
When a trucker owns his truck, does that count towards that goal?