I am really considering moving from Arch to Fedora. What's your experience with this?
Is the loss of pacman and AUR that bad?...
Windows Defender Anti-virus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption ( cybersecuritynews.com )
"According to the research published by Hackmosphere, the technique works by avoiding the conventional execution path where applications call Windows API functions through libraries like kernel32.dll, which then forwards requests to ntdll.dll before making the actual system call to the kernel."...
Zuckerberg on the Stand: The Trial to Break Up Facebook Starts Monday ( www.thebignewsletter.com )
AI Priest Fired by Catholic Group After Pitching Gatorade Baptisms - Decrypt ( decrypt.co )
Sort of cross-posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/35988607
Learning React - Need resources
Hey folks!...
Tracing The #!: How The Linux Kernel Handles The Shebang ( hackaday.com )
Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor ( www.eff.org )
A farewell to the ArcoLinux University | ArcoLinux ( www.arcolinux.info )
It’s sad to see such a great project come to a close. I’ve been using ArcoLinux for years and have come to love it....
This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore ( blogs.kde.org )
How Differential Privacy Works ( firewallsdontstopdragons.com )
Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs ( www.cnn.com )
Is there a way to send your phone calls to your laptop?
New to Linux, I am on Ubuntu 24.04....
Elliptical Python Programming ( susam.net )
Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028 ( inews.co.uk )
Programming book recommendations?
A bit different from the audiobook request 2 years ago, as I'm not looking for audiobooks (so it does not have to be nice to listen to, I can see code examples) but regular books you read. Let me know which books helped you out the most, or that you just found fun to read!...
Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs ( www.theverge.com )
Smartphones and computers are now spared from Trump's reciprocal tariffs. ( lite.cnn.com )
FTTH upgrade - getting my LAN multi gig ready
It was recently announced that FTTH will soon (finally) be available in my market. The provider coming to town offers rates up to 8g....
how to investigate unexpected power management behavior
I have a lowend netbook with debian-type linux only (no dualboot). Power management should be via XFCE4's xfce4-power-manager-settings....
AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say ( arstechnica.com )
AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
A new class of supply chain attacks named 'slopsquatting' has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model's tendency to "hallucinate" non-existent package names. [...]
Ireland's data regulator investigates X’s use of European user data to train Grok ( techcrunch.com )
Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram ( www.dropsitenews.com )
A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News....