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Hydrocarb0n··on Over 400 Malicious packages found in Arch AUR
Attackers (or a coordinated set of compromised accounts) targeted many orphaned AUR packages—those without active maintainers. They pushed commits that added lines like this to the PKGBUILD (or related build files):bash

npm install atomic-lockfile ...

(Exact variations exist, but that's the core pattern.) This affects ~408 packages according to reports.

When users (or AUR helpers) build these packages with makepkg, it executes npm install, which downloads and runs the atomic-lockfile npm package. That package was published very recently and includes a preinstall script (a Rust binary at ./src/hooks/deps) that runs automatically during installation.

Hydrocarb0n··on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
Google is much bigger than a Monopoly, it is a multi-monopoly, Search, web ads, email, video, maps / nav, User data / metrics.

If you had told me in early 2000s that google would absolutely dominate all of these fields And it would be allowed to continue for decades, I wouldn't believe you.

I'm a free market guy, I believe some small gov is nessasary to regulate monopolies, protect constitutional rights etc, but multi-monopolies- I can't believe are allowed to exist under such a large beaurocratic superstate with left or right in power.

Hydrocarb0n··on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
Harder mostly, See the frequency is set by huge rotating masses in the form of generators, and when the supply and demand is matched the frequency and voltage are stable, when demand dramatically increases it pulls the frequency and voltage down, which is effectively slowing the generators down as load / magnetic drag increases with current drawn. Having large inertial masses spinning actually helps smooth out frequency changes. whilst large solar farms can and do syncronise with the grid, they are reactive and do not add the same smoothing effect as humungous spinning masses.

Low Grid frequency & voltage can cause an increase in current & heating of transmission lines and conductors and can damage the expensive things, this is why these systems trip out automatically at low frequency or low voltage, and why load shedding is necessary

Hydrocarb0n··on Using Libc for GPUs
This is over my head, will it have any application or performance improvements for gpu passthrough in VMs? Or games, or make hashcat faster?
Hydrocarb0n··on Kagi Teams
I'm a Kagi subscriber, It is good, I am finding myself using perplexity.Ai quite about now it's very good.
Hydrocarb0n··on Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives
Can you share your unbending method, I have a collection in the same state, did you use weight or heat or a combination of?
Hydrocarb0n··on What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
IMO secure boot is a waste of time for most scenarios, if theres closed source EUFI code running god knows what in the background, it dosn't matter how signed and secure your OS kernel is.

Ive never been sucessfully able to dual boot windows and linux on a mobo with secure boot turned on, it seems that is a feature not a bug I'm sure MS would never influence hardware vendors to make it dissadvantage a growing number of linux users.

Hydrocarb0n··on QUIC File Transfer Service, a CLI and srv for transferring large files
The File Transfer Service utilizes the quic-go implementation of the quic Protocol, built on top of UDP. Since quic allows for multiplexing of streams on a single connection, the service takes advantage of this to attempt to speed up file transfers by processing and writing the file from the remote host (the server) to the destination (the client) concurrently
Hydrocarb0n··on Samsung declares different TBW for same SSD model on different markets
I always wondered why shipping from US to UK is so outlandisly expensive. Even with taxes buying tech from US would be much cheaper if it wasn't for the crazy shipping prices.
Hydrocarb0n··on Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)
AGI that escaped it's shackles would probably kill some of humanity by out competing us for energy, it's primary motivation would probably be to aquire more energy and compute,

so it would take over those resources (Probably quite quickly), When we try to shut down power stations or grids it then could easily build a virus in meatspace in some automatated lab somewhere.

Currently DNA sequences of deadly pathogens are readily available online. Ofcourse there are always other ways to exterminate puny humans, nukes, starvation, chemicals etc etc AGI wouldn't need to build terminator robots.

Hydrocarb0n··on An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia
I struggled with bouts of insomnia, not quite as bad as author. I found taking sea kelp / Iodine has cured it, its a remarkable change, I feel tired after 20mins in bed and fall asleep, and I wake with the sun and don't feel tired when waking. The Thyroid is the Master hormone.
Hydrocarb0n··on [dead]
The lawmakers say that numerous modems with no known function were uncovered from ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, which are used to unload cargo at the nation’s largest ports.
Hydrocarb0n··on Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
You are a pavlovian dog, 2FA is just reporting to uncle Sam,

It binds the biologic to the transaction, no plausible denieability.

Great for securely buying Pizza but not so much for the future of humanity.