kryllic

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[–] kryllic@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

A lot of healthcare facilities are running EOL operating systems like Windows XP or Windows 7 because the programs they use for billing or other reasons are stuck on that version. You would be shocked at how prominent this is across most "modern" infrastructure. The resistance to change stems from a "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" mentality. Pagers are still the most reliable ways to reach a doctor, which is why they're still used, not because they're necessarily the most secure.

As easy as it is to point blame at "duh boomers" the situation with healthcare in particular is much more nuanced. Though I do agree that any luddites in charge of major hospitals are not helping the situation at all.

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

The tshirt looks really cool

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real ones remember vlemmy.net. One of the first instances post-Reddit migration to go away suddenly

[–] kryllic@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

Just say you don't like Ubuntu lol

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He switched to Debian

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I'm hoping for, got burned in some Blender courses a few years ago when I didn't do some due diligence lol. Thanks!

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Anyone know how current this is? Is there some sort of community that can help troubleshoot if needed?

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Same issue on latest version of LibreWolf

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eventually Linus himself will come and personally re-write your cfg file for you

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You probably shouldn't be accessing a linux distro's website from mobile

I don't think it's good to hand-wave a website's poor user experience and instead blame the user's device. The fact of the matter is that Debian's website is not as responsive as it could (imo, should) be and results in a bad user experience. With mobile traffic being responsible for over 55% of the internet's traffic, it can be generally assumed a user's first experience learning about a distro will be on a mobile device. If that first impression is bad, that can spell bad news for that distro's adoption/onboarding.

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In a nutshell, a backdoor was intentionally planted by a malicious actor in xz Utils, an open-source data compression utility widely used in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. This discovery was made by Andres Freund, a developer and engineer working on Microsoft’s PostgreSQL offerings. He was troubleshooting performance problems on a Debian system. Specifically, SSH logins were consuming excessive CPU cycles and generating errors with Valgrind, a memory debugging tool. Through sheer luck and Freund’s careful eye, he eventually discovered that these issues were the result of updates made to xz Utils. Upon closer inspection, he found that updates to xz Utils were the result of a maliciously inserted backdoor. The backdoor, present in xz Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, manipulated the sshd executable, allowing anyone with a predetermined encryption key to upload and execute arbitrary code on affected devices.

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