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Google Chrome syncing problem

October 5th, 2023

The stable version of Chomium does not allow me to sync my data across devices, while beta functions as supposed to be.

“Version 117.0.5938.149 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit)” vs “Version 118.0.5993.54 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)”

UPDATE: The problem is related with the limited Private API availability and is present from March 15 2021. Unfortunately the Stackoverflow instructions were unsuccessful

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67459316/enabling-chromium-to-sync-with-google-account
FreeBSD Wallpapers

October 5th, 2023

Vermaden shared some cool Unix wallpapers in his blog

FreeBSD UNIX Wallpapers

Download link: https://github.com/vermaden/scripts/blob/master/distfiles/wallpapers-freebsd.tar.gz
FreeBSD and glibc vulnerability

October 4th, 2023

“A nasty vulnerability has been made public today concerning Glibc’s dynamic loader that can lead to full root privileges being obtained by local users. This affects Linux distributions of the past two years”

FreeBSD does not use glibc and has it’s own libc system that is not affected by this vulnerability.

Even the Linux Binary Compatibility package emulators/linux_base-c7 should be safe according to https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-4911

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-LD-Nasty-Root-Bug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_standard_library#BSD_libc
Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer

October 4th, 2023

“Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.”

https://stallman.org/
Xorg vulnerability dating back to 1988

October 4th, 2023

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2023-October/061506.html

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XOrg-Vulnerabilities-Since-1988
FreeBSD October security advisories

October 4th, 2023

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-23:14.smccc.asc

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-23:13.capsicum.asc

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-23:12.msdosfs.asc
Anki 23.10 Beta 4 released

October 4th, 2023

https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases

https://github.com/ankitects/anki/compare/23.10beta3…23.10beta4
September 30th, 2023
FreeBSD 14.0-BETA4 Now Available

September 30th, 2023
A summary of changes since 14.0-BETA3 includes:
1. A fix for a pnwerpc-related panic.
2. Console output on Raspberry Pi 3B+ and 4B have been silenced at boot.
3. A fix to freebsd=update(8) had been implemented to avoid restarting sshd(8) when updating the basedir.
4. Support for hidraw(4) has been added.
5. Several ZFS-related fixes.
6. Several VFS-related fixes.
7. Several miscellaneous fixes and driver updates.
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/
Meme of the day

September 29th, 2023
Quiz of the day and some fun facts about Anki

September 28th, 2023
1. Anki comes from the Japanese word for “memorization” (暗記)
2. The oldest mention of Anki that the developer Damien Elmes could find in 2011 was dated 5 October 2006, which was thus declared Anki’s birthdate.
Raspberry Pi 5 launched

September 28th, 2023
Designed to deliver a 2~3x performance improvement over the Raspberry Pi 4.

Now with:
1. 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU
2. 4Kp60 HEVC decoder
“The Raspberry Pi 5 4GB board will cost $60 while the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB single board computer is $80, a $5 increase over the stock Raspberry Pi 4 pricing.”

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/

https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks
I just donated to the KDE Project

September 27th, 2023

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Anki 23.10 Beta 3 released

September 27th, 2023
Primarily focused on FSRS usability. Some important changes
1. Desired retention range is now 0.7-0.97
2. Fixed incorrect FSRS scheduling in filtered decks !!!
3. More sensible FSRS progress indicator precision
4. Weight generation now handles outliers
https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases
How to generate random passwords using OpenSSL

September 26th, 2023

run the command:

openssl rand -base64 16

rand denotes randomness, base64 denotes readable format and 16 the password length

the output: 4twmIodX5QwjWP+OsTePLg==