Day changed to 2025-07-06
[01:35] nekoluce: happy fourth of july
[03:48] jfw: in pretty epic news I missed, https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/
[03:52] jfw: a multi-pronged supply chain social engineering attack, facilitated by the prevailing and pervasively dreadful software hygiene
[03:53] jfw: "run moar systemd and eat your updates"
[07:28] lru: yeah... the world got lucky on that one
[17:24] jfw: well, not *my* world; my stuff was immune on numerous dimensions. even my recent-ubuntu lubricant box isn't running sshd
[17:29] jfw: just don't trust any unvetted software from after the mid-2010s or so, probably the easiest defense.
[21:27] nekoluce: hello
Day changed to 2025-07-07
[16:06] nekoluce: jack dorsey created a new app called bit chat that uses irc
[16:06] nekoluce: is on iphone for the moment
[16:24] dorion: I don't think it uses irc.. it has irc style interface/commands. it uses.. bluetooth.
[16:31] dorion: "irc vibes"
[23:47] jfw: X11 documentation archived & added to the library collections, after some internal link connectivity fixups. The sources are supposedly all included in the release tarballs but they're a major pain to get at, with elaborate build processes & dependencies to get to html and such.
Day changed to 2025-07-13
[04:18] jfw: ChatGPT Brain Rot Is Real (And Getting Worse) - pretty obvious things that apparently need saying.
Day changed to 2025-07-14
[16:45] nekoluce_phone: jfw: Jacob I'm sorry I love you I don't want to leave you
[17:03] jfw: nekoluce_phone, all is well
[17:09] caai: seems like a private message is in order
[17:26] jfw: caai: there have been private communications too.
[01:35] nekoluce: happy fourth of july
[03:48] jfw: in pretty epic news I missed, https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/
[03:52] jfw: a multi-pronged supply chain social engineering attack, facilitated by the prevailing and pervasively dreadful software hygiene
[03:53] jfw: "run moar systemd and eat your updates"
[07:28] lru: yeah... the world got lucky on that one
[17:24] jfw: well, not *my* world; my stuff was immune on numerous dimensions. even my recent-ubuntu lubricant box isn't running sshd
[17:29] jfw: just don't trust any unvetted software from after the mid-2010s or so, probably the easiest defense.
[21:27] nekoluce: hello
Day changed to 2025-07-07
[16:06] nekoluce: jack dorsey created a new app called bit chat that uses irc
[16:06] nekoluce: is on iphone for the moment
[16:24] dorion: I don't think it uses irc.. it has irc style interface/commands. it uses.. bluetooth.
[16:31] dorion: "irc vibes"
[23:47] jfw: X11 documentation archived & added to the library collections, after some internal link connectivity fixups. The sources are supposedly all included in the release tarballs but they're a major pain to get at, with elaborate build processes & dependencies to get to html and such.
Day changed to 2025-07-13
[04:18] jfw: ChatGPT Brain Rot Is Real (And Getting Worse) - pretty obvious things that apparently need saying.
Day changed to 2025-07-14
[16:45] nekoluce_phone: jfw: Jacob I'm sorry I love you I don't want to leave you
[17:03] jfw: nekoluce_phone, all is well
[17:09] caai: seems like a private message is in order
[17:26] jfw: caai: there have been private communications too.