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@lnxw48a1
Take a look here, there are source tarballs available and links that might be in archive.org wayback machine.
Mustard F-Droid Free and Open Source Android App Repository
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mustard.android/
Mustard {MOD} F-Droid Free and Open Source Android App Repository
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mumod.android/
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Tenacity is back! · Discussion 740 · tenacityteam/tenacity-legacy · GitHub
https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity-legacy/discussions/740
>Today marks another point in the project history of Tenacity: development has officially restarted and is now on Codeberg!
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>It all started when @FrostKnight made a comment here. They noticed that Saucedacity was still being maintained and had activity. Long story short, discussions between I and the now previous maintainers of Tenacity had occurred, merges happened, and now we're restarting development with a new codebase (Saucedacity's) on Codeberg, which you can now visit here at https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity!
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tenacityteam/tenacity: Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systems tenacity - Codeberg.org
https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity
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@lnxw48a1
Some more details to read, TLDR: They were in trouble already.
Update: Details emerge on Lane's termination of all employees Furniture Today
https://www.furnituretoday.com/financial/report-lane-shuts-down-all-employees-terminated/
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>In June of this year, the company terminated its CEO, CFO and executive vice president of sales, and named former Standard Furniture President Todd Evans as CEO. The company subsequently restructured its sales organization and named Ruff Thomas and Keith News to sales leadership roles, with Thomas named president, sales for Lane’s domestic division and News named to the role of president, sales for Lane’s import division.
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>One month later, the company laid off 300 employees and closed or repurposed several facilities. This included closing its metal stamping facility in High Point; transitioning a manufacturing factory in Amory, Miss., to a warehousing-only facility; and transitioning a Winston-Salem, N.C., operation to an East Coast distribution center.
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Comedian Gallagher, famous for smashing watermelons, dies at 76
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/comedian-gallagher-famous-for-smashing-watermelons-dies-at-76.html
>American comedian Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr. has died at the age of 76, according to his family.
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>Gallagher passed away from organ failure while in hospice care in his Palm Springs, California home, his son-in-law told NBC News. He had been unwell and suffered multiple heart attacks prior to his death.
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RIP
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Might be better than a hospital visit...
Russian oil executive dies in fall from Moscow hospital window Russia | The Guardian
https://nu.federati.net/url/287667
>A senior Russian oil executive has died after falling from the window of a Moscow hospital, months after his company criticised the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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>Ravil Maganov, the chair of the board of directors of Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil company, “fell from a window at Central clinical hospital,” the Interfax news agency wrote on Thursday, citing a source. “He died from injuries sustained.”
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Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Uhura, Passed Away at Age 89
https://gizmodo.com/nichelle-nichols-star-trek-uhura-actor-obituary-1849353418
>Nichelle Nichols, the original actor of Star Trek’s Nyota Uhura, has passed away on Saturday, July 30. The news broke on the actor’s Instagram account, as announced by her son, Kyle Johnson.
#RIP #LLAP
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Google Asks for Permission to Flood Inboxes With Campaign Spam
https://gizmodo.com/google-gmail-permission-campaign-email-spam-republicans-1849118953
>After years of grumbling from Republicans in Congress, Google has requested that the Federal Election Commission allow a pilot program in which political campaign emails would be exempt from spam filtering.
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NO! JUST NO!
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Not what I was expecting...
Revealed: Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/revealed-thunderbird-on-android-plans-k9/
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>K-9 Mail Joins The Thunderbird Family
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>To that end, we’re thrilled to announce that today, K-9 Mail officially joins the Thunderbird family. And cketti has already joined the full-time Thunderbird staff, bringing along his valuable expertise and experience with mobile platforms.
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>Ultimately, K-9 Mail will transform into Thunderbird on Android.
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>That means the name itself will change and adopt Thunderbird branding. Before that happens, we need to reach certain development milestones that will bring K-9 Mail into alignment with Thunderbird’s feature set and visual appearance.
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>To accomplish that, we’ll devote finances and development time to continually improving K-9 Mail. We’ll be adding brand new features and introducing quality-of-life enhancements.
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>The latest APC Smart-UPS models are controlled through a cloud connection...
Why does everything need to be connected to the cloud?
The most I ever felt was needed was to connect it to a USB port so if during an outage the battery got below 20% it would shut off the server before it lost all power.
>Schneider Electric worked in collaboration with Armis to develop patches for the vulnerabilities, which were distributed to customers and are available on the Schneider Electric website.
So, cloud connected but no auto patching for this kind of thing?
ID10Ts
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Nasty Linux Netfilter Firewall Security Hole Found Slashdot
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/22/03/15/221258/nasty-linux-netfilter-firewall-security-hole-found
>Sophos threat researcher Nick Gregory discovered a hole in Linux's netfilter firewall program that's "exploitable to achieve kernel code execution (via ROP [return-oriented programming]), giving full local privilege escalation, container escape, whatever you want." ZDNet reports:
>Behind almost all Linux firewalls tools such as iptables; its newer version, nftables; firewalld; and ufw, is netfilter, which controls access to and from Linux's network stack. It's an essential Linux security program, so when a security hole is found in it, it's a big deal. [...] This problem exists because netfilter doesn't handle its hardware offload feature correctly. A local, unprivileged attacker can use this to cause a denial-of-service (DoS), execute arbitrary code, and cause general mayhem. Adding insult to injury, this works even if the hardware being attacked doesn't have offload functionality! That's because, as Gregory wrote to a security list, "Despite being in code dealing with hardware offload, this is reachable when targeting network devices that don't have offload functionality (e.g. lo) as the bug is triggered before the rule creation fails."
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>This vulnerability is present in the Linux kernel versions 5.4 through 5.6.10. It's listed as Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE-2022-25636), and with a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 7.8), this is a real badie. How bad? In its advisory, Red Hat said, "This flaw allows a local attacker with a user account on the system to gain access to out-of-bounds memory, leading to a system crash or a privilege escalation threat." So, yes, this is bad. Worse still, it affects recent major distribution releases such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x; Debian Bullseye; Ubuntu Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15.3. While the Linux kernel netfilter patch has been made, the patch isn't available yet in all distribution releases.
The Discovery and Exploitation of CVE-2022-25636 · Nick Gregory
https://nickgregory.me/linux/security/2022/03/12/cve-2022-25636/
Guess I'm one of the lucky ones, Tumbleweed is at 5.16.14.
My servers on the other hand...
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Stolen Nvidia Certificates Used To Hide Malware in Driver Downloads Slashdot
https://nu.federati.net/url/285263
>Last week Nvidia confirmed that it had been the victim of an internal hack, though it claimed no customer information was compromised. Now we're seeing one of the first effects of the hack on end-users: Nvidia GPU driver packages with malware hidden inside. PCWorld:
>While it was always possible for malefactors to host links pretending to be drivers in the hopes of installing viruses, trojans, and other nasty stuff on a user's PC, this situation is more concerning. The hackers appear to have leaked Nvidia's official code signing certificates, a means by which users (and Microsoft) can verify that a downloaded program comes from the publisher it says it's from. That's allowing files containing a host of popular malware suites to be posted and downloaded, bypassing Windows Defender's built-in executable verification and slipping past anti-virus software. BleepingComputer reports that two now-expired (but still usable) verification codes have been compromised and used to deliver remote access trojans. Another example, using the Nvidia verification to sign a fake Windows driver, was also spotted.
Stolen Nvidia certificates used to hide malware in driver downloads PCWorld
https://nu.federati.net/url/285264
Kind of glad I have AMD video now...
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@lnxw48a1
Interesting.
Elon Musk: “High” probability of Russian attacks on Starlink in Ukraine Ars Technica
https://nu.federati.net/url/285181
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>One Twitter user asked Musk if Starlink could face a cyberattack from Russia similar to the one that affected Viasat satellite service. Musk responded, "Almost all Viasat Ukraine user terminals were rendered permanently unusable by a Russian cyberattack on day of invasion, so... yes."
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New Covid variant spreading like wildfire across UK and Scandinavia: BA.2 ‘stealth’ mutation now half of all new coronavirus cases in Denmark and rapidly pushing Omicron aside
https://nu.federati.net/url/284757
>Various media across Scandinavia and the UK are reporting the emergence of a new Covid variant that is so infectious and spreading so fast that nearly half of all cases in Denmark are now the new mutation, named BA.2, with more than 400 confirmed infections across the UK.
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>The new mutation has reportedly also popped up in Norway, Sweden, Singapore and India.
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>Reuters reports that UK health authorities are investigating 426 confirmed cases of BA.2 in Britain, while officials in Denmark said that just over 45 per cent of all new infections in the country are now the new variant.
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>WHO representatives have rushed to Copenhagen to investigate BA.2, nicknamed ‘stealth Omicron’ in Danish media as the mutation seems to be pushing the Omicron variant aside fairly quickly.
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EU Wants To Build Its Own DNS Infrastructure With Built-in Filtering Capabilities Slashdot
https://nu.federati.net/url/284701
>The European Union is interested in building its own recursive DNS service that will be made available to EU institutions and the general public for free. From a report:
>The proposed service, named DNS4EU, is currently in a project planning phase, and the EU is looking for partners to help build a sprawling infrastructure to serve all its current 27 member states. EU officials said they started looking into an EU-based centrally-managed DNS service after observing consolidation in the DNS market around a small handful of non-EU operators. "The deployment of DNS4EU aims to address such consolidation of DNS resolution in the hands of few companies, which renders the resolution process itself vulnerable in case of significant events affecting one major provider," officials said in the DNS4EU infrastructure project revealed last week. But EU officials said that other factors also played a role in their decision to build DNS4EU, including cybersecurity and data privacy.
EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities The Record by Recorded Future
https://nu.federati.net/url/284702
And then when you get on the "bad" list, good luck getting it fixed...
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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access – Krebs on Security
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/irs-will-soon-require-selfies-for-online-access/
>If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device.
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WTAF??
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Study Finds Cannabinoids Prevent COVID-19 Infection Slashdot
https://nu.federati.net/url/284617
>Compounds in cannabis can prevent infection from the virus that causes Covid-19 by blocking its entry into cells, according to a study published this week by researchers affiliated with Oregon State University. A report on the research, "Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants," was published online on Monday by the Journal of Natural Products. The researchers found that two cannabinoid acids commonly found in hemp varietals of cannabis, cannabigerolic acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, also known as CBDA, can bind to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. By binding to the spike protein, the compounds can prevent the virus from entering cells and causing infection, potentially offering new avenues to prevent and treat the disease.
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>"Orally bioavailable and with a long history of safe human use, these cannabinoids, isolated or in hemp extracts, have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection by SARS-CoV-2," the researchers wrote in an abstract of the study. The study was led by Richard van Breemen, a researcher with Oregon State's Global Hemp Innovation Center in the College of Pharmacy and Linus Pauling Institute, in collaboration with scientists at the Oregon Health & Science University. Van Breeman said that the cannabinoids studied are common and readily available. "These cannabinoid acids are abundant in hemp and in many hemp extracts," van Breemen said, as quoted by local media. "They are not controlled substances like THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, and have a good safety profile in humans."
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>Van Breemen added that CBDA and CBGA blocked the action of emerging variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, saying that "our research showed the hemp compounds were equally effective against variants of SARS-CoV-2, including variant B.1.1.7, which was first detected in the United Kingdom, and variant B.1.351, first detected in South Africa." [...] Although further research is needed, van Breemen noted that study shows the cannabinoids could be developed into drugs to prevent or treat Covid-19. CBDA and CBGA are produced by the hemp plant as precursors to CBD and CBG, which are familiar to many consumers. However, they are different from the acids and are not contained in hemp products." Van Breeman also noted that the research showed the cannabinoids were effective against new variants of the virus, which he said are "one of the primary concerns" in the pandemic for health officials and clinicians.
Related Links:
Study Finds Cannabis Compounds Prevent Infection By Covid-19 Virus
https://nu.federati.net/url/284618
Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/
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Betty White, beloved and trailblazing actress, dies at 99 CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/31/entertainment/betty-white-obituary/index.html
>Betty White, the self-described "lucky old broad" whose sweetly sarcastic senior citizen characters were a beloved fixture on TV shows and movies such as "The Golden Girls," "Boston Legal" and "Hot in Cleveland," died Friday, her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas told People magazine in a statement.
>At 99, she was just weeks away from celebrating her 100th birthday on Jan. 17.
#RIP
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Security flaws found in a popular guest Wi-Fi system used in hundreds of hotels TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/17/security-flaws-wifi-gateway-hundreds-hotel/
>A security researcher says an internet gateway used by hundreds of hotels to offer and manage their guest Wi-Fi networks has vulnerabilities that could put the personal information of their guests at risk.
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VPN anybody?
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Widely-Used Kronos Payroll Provider Down for "Weeks" Due to Ransomware Attack; Was Log4Shell Involved CPO Magazine
https://nu.federati.net/url/284043
>A major payroll provider used by thousands of businesses in the United States, including government agencies, is reporting that it expects to be down for “weeks” due to a devastating ransomware attack.
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>Kronos, known to be used by several thousand companies ranging from Tesla to National Public Radio (NPR), had its Private Cloud service go offline on Monday. This element is central to its UKG Workforce Central, UKG TeleStaff, and Banking Scheduling Solutions services used to track employee hours and process paychecks. The company confirmed that it had discovered an ongoing ransomware attack on December 11 and had taken the services hosted in Kronos Private Cloud offline as part of its mitigation measures. Kronos did not give a timetable for recovery but said that it expects it to be at least several days, if not weeks, before the services are fully online again.
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>Though it has not been confirmed, there is speculation that the notorious Log4Shell vulnerability was involved given that the Kronos cloud services are known to be built on Java to a great degree.
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The Monkees star Michael Nesmith dies at 78 BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59606993
>The quartet enjoyed hits like Daydream Believer and I'm A Believer, and starred in their own popular TV sitcom.
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>Nesmith wrote tunes like Mary, Mary; Circle Sky; Listen to the Band; and The Girl I Knew Somewhere.
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>In a statement to US media, his family said he "passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes".
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The Monkees Last Train To Clarksville 1966 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcXpKiY2MXE
#RIP
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