Welcome to my first big impact vulnerability writeup! I like good stories, so let me describe some background first. I recently had a ‘great’ idea (I know, I know, I should stop having these) to set up a sr.ht instance that would pay people for hosting their projects. You can find it shamelessly plugged in the timeline section, in case you want to try it or flame me for it on socials. ...
Alt search I recently discovered all the trend around alternative search engines. First Kagi, then Uruky, then Marginalia. The latter is even AGPL! That’s something. But it turns out they are quite big projects. I was surprised to learn that Marginalia runs Java, which is quite a huge piece of software itself already, to then learn that most such projects run on Apache Hadoop, which I don’t even want to know what it is, certainly something even bigger. ...
Hi fellow archivists and retro-computing enthusiasts! If you have, like me, liked 2010-era Nokia smartphones (because they were smartphones!), you probably heard of Symbian S60, their OS. There was a cool app called ActiveFile, made by Alie Tan. Its source was hosted on code.google.com, but has unfortunately disappeared since. If any of you, my dear readers, have a copy of the sources on an old disk somewhere, I will pay you the bounty in any form you want (can be a donation in your name, can be a bank transfer, I can even mail cash to you, any currency or item I can reasonably get hold of), up to 50 (fifty) € (EUR euros), and publicly announce the winner. ...
I recently came across dérive, one of the few Linux distros distributing static binaries, and the one most actively maintained (maybe because the contributors are young and have plenty of free time; I hope that the project stays as active in a couple years). And it is heavily inspired by plan9 (something the community calls 9larping). I think this is a great idea overall. Anyway, let’s get to the guide part. Prerequisites a 3-button mouse, or a 2-button + scrollwheel mouse, internet (if you are reading this, you are probably good to go), a physical mouse, seriously go grab a mouse, if you only have a touchpad, you will be unable to do anything once the GUI starts. Launching You can download the iso from their official website, or directly from their repository. ...
The popular fallacy, repeated by economy textbooks, is that people invented money to replace burdensome barter (exchanging goods for other goods) with something simpler. This is not true, or not the whole story at least. The missing piece is debt. Proto-money At first, there were nice looking things that took some time to collect or process. Shells, metals, pretty stones. Some thought ‘anyone can go pick up some shells, and we all want pretty necklaces, knives and sculptures, but this is pretty time-consuming and I had better grow some food; let me grow some extra to feed these kids who collect the pretty shells’. ...