🚨 ⚠️ Emergency PSA: A critical security exploit was discovered in the xz package recently, used for compression and decompression on nearly all Linux distributions.

Rawhide users ARE impacted and should immediately STOP using Rawhide until the package update is fully rolled back. (1/3)

Security Advisory: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Security #Privacy

Urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Fedora Rawhide users

Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.

^{, (Red Hat)}

#Jami est un #logiciel #opensource qui se pose en alternative libre aux solutions de #visioconférence plus traditionnelles comme Skype, WhatsApp, Zoom, ou Teams. Il a été développé par les Canadiens de Savoir-faire Linux spécialisés dans les logiciels open source.

Source : @Fidel
https://outilscollaboratifs.com/2024/03/jami-visioconference-open-source/

Jami - Visioconférence sécurisée et respectueuse de la vie privée

Découvrez Jami, une solution open-source de visioconférence. Une alternative fiable à Zoom et autres Teams.

^{Fidel Navamuel (Les Outils Collaboratifs)}

Well, I'd argue that they represent pretty well #OpenSource, that was exactly designed to marginalize #FreeSoftware (a political movement of hackers) and to serve corporate interests: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler

What you'd expect from an organization ethic-washing #Google, #Microsoft and so on?
https://www.softwareheritage.org/support/sponsors/

@swheritage @Codeberg

The Meme Hustler

While the brightest minds of Silicon Valley are “disrupting” whatever industry is too crippled to fend off their advances, something odd is happening to our…

^{The Baffler}

Wait, it's even worse. The dataset is based on @swheritage's archive, containing way more than just GitHub (e.g. @Codeberg is archived, too).

I assumed they were somewhat neutral, but they're praising the LLM usage of this unlicensed code:

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/02/28/responsible-ai-with-starcoder2/

Also, they're refusing to remove deadnames, even outright ignoring GDPR demands for it:

https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5169338-the-software-heritag

I can only conclude that they're a bad actor and should be considered harmful by the #OpenSource community.

The Software Heritage Archive wants to deadname me forever: part 3

Part 1 [https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/4968198-the-software-heritag] - Part 2 [https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5052044-the-software-heritag] The Software Heritage Archive (SWH) doesn't want to think of themselves as transphobic.

^{arborelia on cohost}

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This survey is part of a research project at ASU and is completely voluntary. If you have any questions about participation, please reach out to me here.

#OpenSource #FOSS #OpenScience #OpenData #PublicInterestTech #FreeSoftware

I just saw that Mozilla is retiring the Mozilla Location Service which provides an open, crowdsourced alternative to proprietary location services from Google and other vendors. 😰

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

This is used by GNOME and thus Fedora, Ubuntu, Endless OS, etc. to help provide OS-level location services without requiring every app to implement its own. And apparently a patent troll is part of the reason Mozilla stopped investing in it. 🙃

#OpenSource #Linux #GNOME #Mozilla

Retiring the Mozilla Location Service · Issue #2065 · mozilla/ichnaea

The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service. I...

^GitHub

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#GParted 1.6 Open-Source Partition Editor Improves exFAT Support and Fixes Bugs https://9to5linux.com/gparted-1-6-open-source-partition-editor-improves-exfat-support-and-fixes-bugs

#OpenSource #Linux #FreeSoftware