Episode 577: Summer Kernel Corn Roast

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Sixty vulnerabilities and exposures disclosed in one week sounds like a lot. We'll explain why it's just business as usual.Support Core ContributorLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Toronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024 Berlin with Brent — September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 Check out Alex’s “Building a Colo Server” video Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs — The cause: an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a 2-year-old vulnerability in GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices. What the f*** is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care — This update was not supposed to apply to dual-boot systems, but did anyway. SBAT Revocations: Boot Process - Ubuntu Community Hub “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September - Phoronix SRU Mailing List Annoucement Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases Kernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases - Kernel - Ubuntu Community Hub Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs — The bcachefs patches have become these kinds of "lots of development during the release cycles rather than before it", to the point where I'm starting to regret merging bcachefs. Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc5 - Linus Torvalds — No one is being jerks here, Linus and I are just sitting in different places with different perspectives. He has a resonsibility as someone managing a huge project to enforce rules as he sees best, while I have a responsibility to support users with working code, and to do that to the best of my abilities. LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole. Linux is a CNA — As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CNA as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux. The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don't stress. Do this instead What is a "good" Linux Kernel bug? Keynote: Linux Kernel Security Demystified - Greg Kroah-Hartman - YouTube Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime! added pihole nix module by Tdback · Pull Request #3 · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — Recently, I wanted to start 'nixifying' some of my docker-compose setup. I've created a simple module for spinning up a podman container running pihole as a systemd service, so that way I can just stick it on any NixOS machine and easily make it my DNS server. NetworkManager cli (nmci) wrapper to easily create a new network connection Distrohopper Wheel No idea where to distrohop next? Let the ultimate distrohopper decide for you! Proxmox Virtual Environment - NixOS Wiki Pick: SaunaFS is a distributed file system — A robust distributed POSIX file system meticulously designed to revolutionize your storage solutions by offering unmatched efficiency, security, and redundancy. At its core, SaunaFS is a distributed file system primarily written in C++, inspired by the pioneering concepts introduced by Google File System. Google File System - Wikipedia saunafs/INSTALL.md

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