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"End-to-end fraud" with hard drives: Seagate finds counterfeit workshop in Asia in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

If Seagate's FARM is really unforgeable as the article says, then you can check it with smartctl -l farm /dev/sda.

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Arch Linux services unavailable - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org (lists.archlinux.org)
 

Hello,

As you might be aware some of our services (AUR 0, Forums 1, main
website 2) are currently affected by a DDoS attack. We are aware of
the issue and are actively working on mitigation efforts. We are working
with our data center operator and various network security providers,
and we are aware of the community offers to help.

We appreciate your patience and will provide periodic keeping technical
detail internal for security reasons.

Thanks,
The Arch Linux DevOps Team

Five Belgian Banks Join EPI to Bring Wero to Even More European Customers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Still limited to very few countries.

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[SECURITY] firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin and zen-browser-patched-bin AUR packages contain malware - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org (lists.archlinux.org)
 

On the 16th of July, at around 8pm UTC+2, a malicious AUR package was
uploaded to the AUR. Two other malicious packages were uploaded by the
same user a few hours later. These packages were installing a script
coming from the same GitHub repository that was identified as a Remote
Access Trojan (RAT).

The affected malicious packages are:

  • librewolf-fix-bin
  • firefox-patch-bin
  • zen-browser-patched-bin

The Arch Linux team addressed the issue as soon as they became aware of
the situation. As of today, 18th of July, at around 6pm UTC+2, the
offending packages have been deleted from the AUR.

We strongly encourage users that may have installed one of these
packages to remove them from their system and to take the necessary
measures in order to ensure they were not compromised.

FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At its size it could fit a proper SSD instead of a flash drive.

Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: "We'll Be Parting Ways" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If you can stomach Phoronix comments, around page 10 there are comments from Kent Overstreet and Theodore Ts'o.

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Scheduled maintenance for gitlab.archlinux.org - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org (lists.archlinux.org)
 

there will be a scheduled downtime window on the 9th July 2025 starting on 10:00 GMT+2 until 14:00 GMT+2

What's the future of the Linux ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Greg Kroah-Hartman will take up the role then. He has filled in for Linus in the past.

For anyone having trouble updating their system in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This affects everyone who has linux-firmware installed not just people with a NVIDIA GPU.

Arch Linux - News: Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Still X11. We'll see what happens when (or if) it gets replaced with KDE's fork.

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Arch Linux - News: Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11 (archlinux.org)
 

On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.

With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn't be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every
one using Plasma.

tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still using x11

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Arch Linux - News: Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging (archlinux.org)
 

We are transitioning the wine and wine-staging package to a pure wow64 build. This change removes the dependency on the multilib repository for wine and wine-staging.

The main reason for this is to align with upstream Wine development, which simplifies packaging and the dependency chain.

Potential Issues:

  • OpenGL Performance: A known limitation of the new WoW64 mode is reduced performance for 32-bit applications that use OpenGL directly
  • Breaking Changes: Existing 32-bit prefixes needs to be recreated

If you are facing issues with 32 bit prefixes, please recreate these and reinstall the application.

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion. in c/privacy
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In the phones I've had, you could deactivate it even if it can't be uninstalled.