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Malicious bots make up nearly three-quarters of Internet traffic

December 2nd, 2023

AI definitely increased the number of bots over the past year.

https://www.techspot.com/news/101016-malicious-bots-make-up-nearly-three-quarters-internet.html

AnKing made a video about FSRS algorithm

December 2nd, 2023

My new Arch Linux installation

December 1st, 2023

I plan to use it longterm

Linus Torvalds Reviews The Bcachefs File-System Code

December 1st, 2023

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whaFz0uyBB79qcEh-7q=wUOAbGHaMPofJfxGqguiKzFyQ@mail.gmail.com/

Critical zero-day in Chrome

December 1st, 2023

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/google-researchers-report-critical-zero-days-in-chrome-and-all-apple-oses/

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html

FreeBSD 14 Errata Notices (EN)

December 1st, 2023

With the new month, 2 ENs were announced today: one concerning the notorious ZFS issue and the other about sanitizers.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:16.openzfs.asc

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:15.sanitizer.asc

Ed Maste about FreeBSD 14

November 30th, 2023

“FreeBSD keeps Unix-like OS alive, boosts security and performance with v14”

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/analysis/freebsd-keeps-unix-like-os-alive-boosts-security-and-performance-with-v14/2023/11/

November 30th, 2023

Git commit about suicide prevention

November 29th, 2023

Glen Barber, member of the FreeBSD Project as the FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead, pushed the following commit about his struggles with alchohol abuse.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/commit/c8dd24d3c66ac65b30a295dca885e4bbb83f6b17

KDE’s 6th Megarelease – Beta 1

November 29th, 2023

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-Beta

Oh God no !!!

November 28th, 2023

It gets even worse. Trust no one folks …

https://www.adslgr.com/forum/threads/1265948-%CE%A4%CE%BF-Google-Drive-%CF%86%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%AD%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CF%87%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CF%87%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8E%CE%BD

November 28th, 2023

November 28th, 2023

November 27th, 2023

So this ZFS data corruption issue caused me being insecure about my data safety and to check my system for bit rot with btrfs scrubbing…

Scrub is a pass over all filesystem data and metadata and verifying the checksums. Basically, it reads all data on the disk, recomputes its checksum, and compares the recomputed checksum to the stored one. When the stored and recomputed checksums don’t match, the system knows there’s corruption.