I think that was meant to be a reply to me, so I’ll respond.
Technically, /etc/passwd can have encrypted passwords in it, but as far as I’m aware, no distro has done that in decades, so realistically its not that risky. It does expose the user names though.
Can you share the lines from /etc/passwd for your user and the user your adding? Despite its name, there are no passwords here, that is in /etc/shadow
Edit: can you su to login as the user?
I think it perfectly highlights what can happen when the risk/severity is blown out of proportion. People will latch on to that and waste precious time and energy defending that.
If the original guy had just published “CUPS has a RCE, firewall it if you haven’t already”, the issue would have been patched in the next release, and the world would have kept turning.
It was a really cool bug, and a great find, it didn’t need the hype
Didn’t know that, but makes sense.
if you are from Russia, it is impossible to convince the US that you are not a part of a state-sponsored entity
This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.
Russians can still contribute, they just can’t be direct maintainers.
Nothing will likely change in the short term.
We get drug spam and stock spam, no reason to expect that political spam is any less likely.
Lemmy has a huge amount of hardcore lefty’s. If you can get them to not vote, and especially if you can get them to tell their friends not to vote, that is a big win.
Astroturfing/sockpuppeting is dirty cheap to do, so no reason not to try.
You do see some users here that will post continously on about a certain topic repeatedly, with no other opinions. They might be legit, but I have my suspicions.
If only USA had ranked choice voting, then everyone could do that.
Remember that in online spaces (and IRL in reality), there are astro-turf/sock puppet accounts that will make claims to sway public opinions.
I guess that makes the bird a hero then! o7
With a bit of training could be an invaluable defender: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=00szWWrTNnE
Linux distros are getting mature
I think this is exactly it. Back in the early days of Fedora and Ubuntu a new release often meant major bug fixes, new software, and possibly a significant qol/usability changes and performance changes. Now, its all new versions of stable software, which all behave roughly the same. Which is exactly what you want in a daily driver OS. Stability.
There was a ActivityPub wiki clone, no idea where it got to.
The major upside of IA being built and owned by one central company is trust. We can (so far at least, if I’m wrong please correct me) trust IA to not censor/rewrite history. As soon as every man and his dog can contribute, that gets a lot harder to guarantee.
Edit: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis
Don’t take me linking it as endorsement, I think federated wiki’s for anything other than fandom stuff to be madness.
https://github.com/ytisf/theZoo
Thats a repo of existing malware. Be careful with it. You can use that to start reverse engineering an existing malware. Use a VM that isnt connected to a network.
If you want to write something, go for it. Often malware is tailored to a single OS (Windows), so cross platform is less of a concern.
The hard part of writing malware is doing it in an undetectable way, which will usually require deeper OS knowledge, which you’ll have to acquire over time. YouTube has some good videos if you hunt around.
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If your goal is to interrupt her usage to avoid excessive usage, would a pomodoro timer help?
I dunno if that can be setup to force lock the screen or something, but maybe its helpful? Depends if its easy to override?
For free? Probably not.
Wireguard has been audited by some University groups, maybe contact one of them:
Doesn’t explain OPs task management example. And won’t crash the kernel, just make things unresponsive
How are you crashing your system?! Crashing program sure, but the entire system?
/etc/passwd: you may be able to get to this from the GUI file manager.If not, open a terminal and type:
cat /etc/passwd. Copy the relevant lines.To test the login, from a terminal, type
su otheruser, replace otheruser with the username from/etc/passwd. It should ask for a password, put that in and it should log you in. Typewhoamiand make sure its the same username as you expected. Paste any errors here.