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linuxandyarn@infosec.exchange ("Rachel Rawlings") wrote:

The #WebP buffer overflow bug that caused all the major browsers to issue patches earlier this week (e.g. #Firefox 117.0.1) also affects applications built with Electron. #1Password issued an update today for their Mac build.

The CVE affects the underlying webp library, not just web browsers, so this will be an ongoing issue.

#CVE20234863

"Who uses #libwebp?
"There are a lot of applications that use libwebp to render WebP images, I already mentioned a few of them, but some of the others that I know include: #Affinity (the design software), #Gimp, Inkscape [not according to Martin Owens, see comment below], #LibreOffice, #Telegram, #Thunderbird (now patched), #ffmpeg, and many, many #Android applications as well as cross-platform apps built with #Flutter."

https://stackdiary.com/critical-vulnerability-in-webp-codec-cve-2023-4863/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

320x200@post.lurk.org ("ultrageranium") wrote:

Practising Permacomputing: Call for workshop participants

"This autumn is dedicated to Practising Permacomputing; a concept and a nascent community of practice-oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology derived, among others, from permaculture principles. As part of this community, space is offered to makers and thinkers in digital culture (and other connected areas) to put the fundamentals and applications of #permacomputing into practice through a series of workshops, a meetup, and a concluding day of public presentations with guests. Join us to explore permacomputing futures!"

https://www.fiber-space.nl/project/permacomputing/

#workshop #selfhosting #datacenter #recycling #electronics #plants #amsterdam

Attachments:

• Rewilding Computation: Practising Permacomputing Flyer of the workshop series and event. It's a duotone image dominantly green with some some plants, a chip, and a transistor. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ouch

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Spanish/Portuguese cognate that I only just now noticed:
Latin: palus
Spanish: palo
Portuguese: pau

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

LATimes: “In the lawsuit, Yu claims Gascón’s botched prosecution led nearly half of Konnech’s clients to end their contracts with the company and cost him roughly $80 million. The Yu family has also been the subject of a litany of violent threats, according to the lawsuit, which claims someone also left dead animals outside the family’s home after news of his arrest broke.

The L.A. County Registrar-Recorder’s office — which would have been the victim in the case brought by L.A. County prosecutors — never cut ties with Konnech. Mike Sanchez, a spokesman for the office, told The Times last year it had received no evidence that anyone’s information had been compromised.”

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New #TesseracT single from the upcoming War of Being album dropped and it's pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZXTmPnMso

#nowplaying #np

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Seems like we have a little too much "super fast ways to build things with React and Tailwind" and not enough "wait, why am I just speedrunning making the exact same thing everybody else is, flaws and all?"

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I must be close minded, since I definitely need glasses.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/14/i-still-need-glasses-and-my-eyes-get-worse-every-year/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUB-tORITk

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

In Sw/Sh, the event raids often had raised shiny odds and were also (until the DLC) the only way to get Gigantamax pokemon. Gen 9: most event raids are against a super-strong enemy that you can catch only once. More fun but also little incentive to do more than 1 raid per event.

Also the event raids are almost always shiny locked and the shiny odds for regular raids are actually LOWER than on the overworld.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

This kinda points back to a problem I've had with the tera raid system: individual raids are more fun and strategic than in gen 8 but the extrinsic rewards aren't as good.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

cwebber@octodon.social ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Blender Studio's "Wing It!" short film is fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9lj-c29dxI

And the source files have been released on Blender Cloud too, as well as some curated shots https://studio.blender.org/films/wing-it/

It's really impressive how much of a 2d look they achieved using 3d models etc. I wouldn't have known! Really cool achievement.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

oh right, there are also charms that give you extra XP and extra tera shards. The XP charm isn't that useful if you're already in the end game and mostly using xp candy to raise new monsters. The tera charm is also of kinda limited usefulness because giving your fighters a zany teratype is rarely worthwhile if you're just doing raids.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

I propose a day, once a quarter, where the team maintaining an open source project sits down with a new user and silently watches them try to compile it, using only the instructions on the website.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I finished off the Pokemon DLC last night. It was cute but it feels like it has less reason to exist than the Sw/Sh one. We'll see what the 2nd half is like.

A lot of the benefits to the DLC update are available even if you don't get the DLC: a bunch of older pokemon + dramatic performance improvements to the pokemon storage system. The only thing you're fully missing out on right now by not having it is the 4 legendaries (+1 unique form of Ursaluna) and a bunch of neat little places to wander.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I am so glad I never moved off of dot social.

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wellingtonrock ("Denis Buckley") wrote:

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• teacher: 'Where is the Capital of England?' Young pupil: 'In the Offshore bank accounts of the 1%'

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this should be interesting

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/us/trump-chesebro-powell-trial-georgia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

almost successful:

On Sep 14, 1874: White Militia Wages Coup Against Integrated Louisiana Government

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/sep/14

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

These are pretty cheap-ass fake alien corpses, you know.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/14/these-aliens-wouldnt-be-out-of-place-in-a-roadside-museum/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NgLNO0cSw

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Satellite images show damage to Russian naval vessels struck in Ukraine attack

ouch, let us say *former* “Russian landing ship and submarine”

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/satellite-images-show-damage-russian-naval-vessels-struck-ukraine-attack-2023-09-14/

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pikuma@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

If you're programming a game where a boat moves through water, you might be tempted (as I would) to change the V-shape angle of the waves behind the boat based on how fast the boat was moving!

What if I told you that that V-shaped angle is always 19.47°, regardless of how fast the boat is travelling? 😱

This pattern even holds true for a duck traversing a pond. 🦆

The envelope of these waves stands at a fixed angle, and the wake has a characteristic feathered pattern.

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• Kelvin wake wave pattern (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

A tragedy in one line.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/14/he-should-have-stopped-with-the-first-line/

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• Real Time is coming back, unfortunately, sans writers or writing. It has been five months, and it is time to bring people back to work. The writers have important issues that I sympathize with, and hope they are addressed to their satisfaction, but they are not the only people with issues, problems, and concerns. Despite some assistance from me, much of the staff is struggling mightily. We all were hopeful this would come to an end after Labor Day, but that day has come and gone, and there still seems to be nothing happening. I love my writers, I am one of them, but I’m not prepared to lose an entire year and see so many below-the-line people suffer so much. I will honor the spirit of the strike by not doing a monologue, desk piece, New Rules or editorial, the written pieces that I am so proud of on Real Time. And I’ll say it upfront to the audience: the show I will be doing without my writers will not be as good as our normal show, full stop. But the heart of the show is an off-the-cuff panel discussion that aims to cut through the bullshit and predictable partisanship, and that will continue. The show will not disappoint. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

time to trim some roses

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I saw Meg2. I hand out all the spoilers so you don't need to suffer, too.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/14/this-is-no-way-to-run-a-movie-theater/

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• Meg2 movie poster (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

idiocy

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/climate/sultan-al-jaber-uae-cop28.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

good piece https://www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1199231632/tv-review-other-black-girl-dreaming-whilst-black

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A little snippet ☺️

#vinyl #nowplaying

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• A vinyl record (Futha by Heilung) spinning within a record player (Pro-Ject Debut Carbon).

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

when you perceive politics as a game

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/politics/trump-gop-biden-impeachment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

I like this quote:

“The problem is that electric cars are popular with politicians precisely because they provide an excuse to avoid doing harder things, like rebuilding our cities, or changing the habits of lifetimes. Persuading people to switch from their old gasoline car to a shiny Tesla is much easier than persuading them that they can live without a car. Hence governments are pushing electric cars, often with incentives that make no sense.” - Daniel Knowles, author of Carmageddon

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

drj@typo.social ("David Jones") wrote:

In Python, the list syntax is [1, 2, 3]; in Oxford Python, the list syntax is [1, 2, and 3];

#Python