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Wed Feb 27 09:42:10 AST 2019
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SPECIAL ALERT: Recently, word has been going around that I wore my hair in a man bun. This is absolutely true. However, it was for the purposes of keeping my hair out of a spinning chainsaw. An Echo CS590. So go fuck yourselves.

My friend the idiot.
So we're driving along at a fairly good clip. The road was somewhat icy but for Canada, it wasn't a big deal. I looked over at Bryce, who seemed to be preparing for something, and then back at the road. We were approaching an intersection.

And then, the craziest thing happened.

Bryce lifted his left foot and aggressively jammed on the emergency break. The truck immediately started spinning. Then, he reached over to the gearshift and jammed it from Drive into Reverse. As the truck shuddered and continued its high speed drift, he floored it. The engine whined and the transmission made some very, very bad sounds. At that point, finally realizing something was wrong, he lifted his foot off of the gas, just in time for the engine to stall. His eyes were wide with terror and he briefly looked over at me as if to say "Oh man what have I done?"

Myself, I was rather calm. You see, this sort of thing was not uncommon with Bryce. One moment, you'd be doing something absolutely mundane. The next second you'd be plunged into some adventure that, moments earlier, you couldn't have even conceived of. Although we were in danger, I felt confident we'd be fine. Bryce, although a tremendous fuckup, had an uncanny ability to escape the consequences of his actions.

Although the engine was out, we were still moving at a fairly fast rate of speed. Eyes bugged out their sockets, Bryce began whipsawing the wheel back and forth, attempting to regain control. His efforts were marginal at best, more like the actions of someone who had once read how to correct from a skid rather than someone who actually understood it. For a Canadian, it was a very poor performance, although he really did try. I actually thought he was going to break the wheel or something. It was only through his natural reserves of "the luck of the idiot" that the truck stayed on the road, and eventually slid to a stop an inch or two from the guardrail.

I looked over at him.

"And just what in the fuck was that all about?"
"I used to drive a five speed. I traded it for an automatic."

Sometimes, it's OK to cry.
Some say it's OK for men to cry; personally, I feel it's really up to the man. It's not a comfortable topic for many, though even the toughest among us have our stories: times we cried and wish we hadn't .. times we didn't cry, but probably should have.

Oh, how I remember the time I cried! I'd just gulped down a very, very large mouthful of whiskey; inexcusably potent stuff, to be sure. Moisture collected at the corner of my eye, and before I could put a stop to it, a brave, lonesome tear ran down my cheek.

I immediately skewered and stabbed out the offending eye, both on general principle and as a warning to the other eye. It hit the ground with a wet floomph, and I stomped it for good measure.

I leaned down, such that it might hear me better. "This is a hard world, and this is for your own good", I told it. It didn't say anything back but, it got the message.

Thu Jan 17 19:17:41 AST 2019
Walkran traffic stats are surging! Legitimate visitors are starting to catch up to bots and search engines. OK that's a big lie, but we're clearly on an upward trajectory. HELLO and WELCOME to all you new people, especially you channel surfers; I hope you enjoy the site and find it useful.

Thanks for visiting, watch this space for more colorful updates, and tell your friends. I mean it. Tell your fuckin' friends. I ultimately want to be an Internet superstar like Kloss, Torvalds or de Raadt, and Walkran.com is my ticket. If you don't do your part it will never happen.

Eventually we are going to be the new reddit/steemit/digg/fark/etc. so get on board now and you can tell your friends that you were telling people about Walkran back in the days when the orange notice was CURRENT!! [ It's not even orange anymore!! It's black! ]

What is Walkran?
Walkran is a news aggregation site. We collect headlines from all over the world, organize them, and display them for you. Walkran was built to deliver low overhead, rapid access to current news headlines. If you find a more efficient way to keep updated on the latest news, let us know. Actually, you can't, as we don't currently have any contact information posted, so just keep it to yourself.
Why is Walkran unique?
We happily aggregate conventional media, alt media, and user forums. We do so to provide an overview of what various groups, often in complete disagreement, have to say about an issue. When you visit many conventional aggregation sites, you only receive the mainstream headlines. Here, you get it all.
We provide a more EXCITING, more CONTROVERSIAL gateway to breaking news, current events and emerging trends. Lesser news aggregation sites provide you with access to only one or two types of propaganda. At Walkran, we provide access to it all. Whether it's Globalist propaganda from the mainstream media, Wikileaks data dumps, Forum Gaslighting from one of the three letter agencies or just snowflakes melting down, we grab it, sort it, and display it for you.
We are the ultimate non-discriminatory news provider: we don't care who says what or whether it's remotely true. We'll print it, regardless.
Know this: we occasionally provide access to wonderful, enlightening content, but more than not, we end up providing access to corporate and state propaganda, misguided user posts, misleading articles, biased content and fake news. Why? Because that's the world we live in.
We don't write the news. We just point you to it. Good luck out there.

Pardon?
So one time, this guy said to me "do you use PHP?" I looked at him (immediately suspicious) and replied: "No. I use PERL." At that point I just wanted the conversation to end. I wanted it to be over. I turned to leave. You know what he says next, virtually fishhooking me in the eye?

"What, is that, like Python?"

I overreacted, I admit, for sure. As the judge said and my own attorney agreed, I showed a 'remarkably disproportionate reaction to a completely benign comment', although I think that statement, while somewhat accurate, evinces stunning ignorance towards the history of interpreted programming languages. I still feel if we had have been clearer on the technical and historical realities of the conversation we would have won the case but in the end I agreed to a plea deal as the legal fees were mounting and I guess I shouldn't have done it. However back to the story.

I cried out like a wounded raven to distract him, and as he looked at me in confusion I advanced quickly and kneed him viciously in the groin. As he crumpled over in pain like a man kneed in the groin, I karate chopped the back of his kneck trying to snap his spine. To his credit he survived the blow and maintained consciousness but he went down hard, literally smashing his face into the literal ground. As his cranium ricocheted off the concrete I was tempted to drop the Randy Savage flying elbow but I thought that was dirty and do what I can to set a good example for the kids. I am no Amish nor Nun but I have certain morals that I follow.

As I savagely kicked him unconscious a cacophony of obscenities poured forth and I let him know in no uncertain terms that PERL deserves a lot more respect than what he was giving and that he'd better watch his P's and Q's in the future. I honestly don't remember most of what was said but I do remember the last few words that came out of me. As the maudlin moonlight glinted softly off of this guys teeth and bloody face and just before the cops got there, I leaned in and yelled at him:

"How do you like those indentations? Everything spaced to your liking, Guv?"

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Packet Storm

macOS Dirty Cow Arbitrary File Write Local Privilege Escalation
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Passion Botnet Cyberattacks Hit Healthcare
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HeadCrab Malware Compromised 1,200 Redis Servers
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Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 Spatial Component Privilege Escalation
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Hate It When That Happens: China Says It's Checking If It Accidentally Sent A Spy Balloon To Montana
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Lenovo Diagnostics Driver Memory Access
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Former Ubiquiti Dev Pleads Guilty In Data Theft And Extortion Case
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5841-1
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F5 Big-IP Create Administrative User
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North Korea Led Biggest Year Ever Of Crypto Hacks
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Google Boosts Bounties For Open Source Flaws Found Via Fuzzing
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Up To 29,000 Unpatched QNAP Storage Devices Are Sitting Ducks To Ransomware
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Zeek 5.0.6
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5839-2
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Debian Security Advisory 5337-1
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Debian Security Advisory 5336-1
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WordPress Quick Restaurant 2.0.2 XSS / CSRF / IDOR / Missing Authorization
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Enter The Hunter Satellites Preparing For Space War
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OpenSSH 9.2p1
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Debian Security Advisory 5338-1
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Security Latest

Googling for Software Downloads Is Extra Risky Right Now
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The Chinese Spy Balloon Shows the Downsides of Spy Balloons
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Congress Has a Lo-Fi Plan to Fix the Classified Documents Mess
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Netflix’s US Password-Sharing Crackdown Isn’t Happening—Yet
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Enter the Hunter Satellites Preparing for Space War
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You Really Need to Update Firefox and Android Right Now
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The Untold Story of a Crippling Ransomware Attack
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A Link to News Site Meduza Can (Technically) Land You in Russian Prison
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ADS-B Exchange, the Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold to Jetnet
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Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges
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The Unrelenting Menace of the LockBit Ransomware Gang
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Flaw in Diksha App Exposed the Data of Millions of Indian Students
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How to Encrypt any File, Folder, or Drive on Your System
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The Biggest US Surveillance Program You Didn’t Know About
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T-Mobile's New Data Breach Shows Its $150 Million Security Investment Isn't Cutting It
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The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism
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Welcome to the Era of Internet Blackouts
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A Sneaky Ad Scam Tore Through 11 Million Phones
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Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
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All the Data Apple Collects About You—and How to Limit It
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SANS

Shopping Online
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Dark Web
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Ransomware
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Got Backups?
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Fake News
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Securing Your Wi-Fi Access Point
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Scamming You Through Social Media
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Careers in Cybersecurity
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CEO Fraud
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Email Auto-Complete
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Unique Passwords
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Personalized Scams
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Identity Theft
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Security Technology Cannot Stop All Attacks
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Virtual Private Networks
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Finding a USB Drive
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Older Generation
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Never Share Your Passwords
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Securely Disposing Mobile Devices
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Search Yourself Online
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Schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Studying the Colossal Squid
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A Hacker’s Mind News
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Manipulating Weights in Face-Recognition AI Systems
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AIs as Computer Hackers
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Passwords Are Terrible (Surprising No One)
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Ransomware Payments Are Down
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NIST Is Updating Its Cybersecurity Framework
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Hydrogel
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Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983
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A Guide to Phishing Attacks
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On Alec Baldwin’s Shooting
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US Cyber Command Operations During the 2022 Midterm Elections
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Bulk Surveillance of Money Transfers
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No-Fly List Exposed
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Publisher’s Weekly Review of A Hacker’s Mind
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Friday Squid Blogging: Another Giant Squid Captured on Video
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Real-World Steganography
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Security Analysis of Threema
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AI and Political Lobbying
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The FBI Identified a Tor User
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Krebs

Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days
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Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty
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New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts
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Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition
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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports
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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!
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The Equifax Breach Settlement Offer is Real, For Now
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Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims
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Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition
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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked
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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine
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Judge Orders U.S. Lawyer in Russian Botnet Case to Pay Google
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ConnectWise Quietly Patches Flaw That Helps Phishers
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U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer
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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys
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Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All
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Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva
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Lawsuit Seeks Food Benefits Stolen By Skimmers
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Slashdot

Carbonyl: a New Graphical Web Browser in Your Linux Terminal
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Scientists Unexpectedly Discover Weird New Form of Ice During Experiment
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'Dinosaur Comics' Celebrates 20th Anniversary with T-Rex Finally Stomping Past Sixth Panel
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Bing Users Claim a ChatGPT-assisted Bing Temporarily Appeared Friday
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Facebook Secretly Killed Users' Batteries, Former Engineer Claims
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Ubisoft's Launcher Broke Its Own Games on Linux and Steam Deck
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'Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past' Reverse-Engineered for Linux, Switch, Mac, and Windows
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Before Chinese Spy Balloon, Classified US Report Highlighted Foreign Aerial Spying
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Apple Watches and iPhones are Placing Dozens of False Distress Calls About Skiers
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US Fighter Jets Shoot Down Spy Balloon With a Single Missile
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79-Year-Old Vint Cerf Receives IEEE Medal of Honor
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AI Models Spit Out Photos of Real People and Copyrighted Images
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After Cracking Another 'Secure' Messaging App, European Police Arrest 42
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Bitcoin's 2023 Price Rise 'Very Suspicious', Says Manipulation Researcher
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Internet Archive Celebrates 1927 Works' Arrival in Public Domain with Short Film Contest
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Proposed Linux Patch Allows Disabling CPU Security Mitigations at Build-Time
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Disney Explores the Sale of More Films and TV Series To Rivals
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Google Is Working On Blink-Based iOS Browser, Contrary To Apple's WebKit Rule
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Blobs of Human Brain Planted In Rats Offer New Treatment Hope
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Australia To Allow Prescription of MDMA and Psilocybin For Medical Use
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The Register - Security

Have we learnt nothing from SolarWinds supply chain attacks? Not yet it appears
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Iran crew stole Charlie Hebdo database, says Microsoft
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HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins
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Guy accused of wrecking crypto exchange now hauled into court
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Fast-evolving Prilex POS malware can block contactless payments
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Chinese surveillance balloon over US causes fearful gasbagging
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Another RAC staffer nabbed for storing, sharing car crash data
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LockBit brags it pumped ION full of ransomware
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Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty in data theft and extortion case
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Malvertising attacks are distributing .NET malware loaders
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Super Bock says 'cyber' nasty 'disrupting computer services'
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Google boosts bounties for open source flaws found via fuzzing
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Microsoft sweeps up after breaking .NET with December security updates
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Attackers abuse Microsoft’s 'verified publisher' status to steal data
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Microsoft upgrades Defender to lock down Linux gear for its own good
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New year, new storage challenge
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Amid FTX's burning wreckage, Japan outpost promises asset withdrawals in February
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South Korea makes crypto crackdown a national justice priority
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The wages of sin aren't that great if you're a developer choosing the dark side
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Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak
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/r/linux

My web-based desktop environment that was first announced here reaches 500,000 alpha users!
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Best Linux applicaions for network/system admins?
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What can I do for Arch Linux?
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Xournal++
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Linux gaming concerns from a potential windows migrant.
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Clifm, the Command Line File Manager 1.10 (Swordmaster), is out!
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First impressions review: Framework with i5-1240p
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memtest86+ 6.10 Released With UEFI Secure Boot Signing, Headless EFI
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Spiral Linux
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Screen share unlimited between two Linux computers
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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf
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ACM, Association for Computing Machinery: Ken Thompson's B'day #luminary #eminent #innovator #inspiration #cut_above_the_rest #brilliance_personified #belllabs #programmer #uncanny #history_maker #hero #UNIX
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How much more productive are Linux based desktop OS's really?
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Servo Web Engine Publishes Its 2023 Roadmap
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Open Technology Fund Announces ‘Free and Open Source Software’ Sustainability Fund
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Guide: How To Become A Packager
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Model 15 Teletype (1930)
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GitHub - kahun/awesome-sysadmin: A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin .
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The Linux upskill challenge
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FOSDEM 2023 - Live Streaming
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/r/freebsd

Fill dish Encryption with UFS
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Much credit, it just works
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I want to move from linux to bsd
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mpm – Meta Package Manager – wraps package managers with a unifying CLI
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Pkg install ffmpeg wants to pull x11/Wayland?
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Nextcloud Jail ZFS Snapshots: Is this possible?
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Failed to create wayland socket, exiting error while trying to configure and run Wayland on FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE
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How to write the shell script to rename a bulk of *.pkgsave files into their original names (removing the pkgsave extension).
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iXsystems is looking for a Performance Engineers in their Tennessee team
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noVNC & bhyve
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FreeBSD on a Macbook Pro (Intel, Mid 2020)?
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"libxxx.so.x" not found while porting linux node program
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New job offer at Klara inc
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how secure are iocage jails
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Invalid line type error while invoking : make -j `sysctl -n hw.ncpu`
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Back on FreeBSD - a few configuration questions
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i can't boot into the usb stick
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devctl: Failed to detach pci0:1:0:0: Device busy / devctl: Failed to set pci0:1:0:0 driver to ppt: Device busy
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Random thoughts about complexity and FreeBSD community
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Can I become a maintainer of a binary package but not the ports package?
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/r/netbsd

pkgsrc.se is no more :(
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MediaTek MT7921 Wireless LAN driver
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Dual booting netbsd and linux on ssd on a orange pi 3
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Is there a way to boot NetBSD off a disk image?
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NetBSD aarch64 Multilib?
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What are your daily used tools as a NetBSD developer/user ?
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NetBSD ASCII flag for the bootloader
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blkid equivalent in NetBSD
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Mach64 DRI Support on NetBSD 9.3
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HAMMER2 file system for NetBSD
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Running NetBSD on Free Oracle Cloud Ampere
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NetBSD-friendly hosts?
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I feel for the NetBSD community
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Any interest in having a Microsoft surface pro 9 arm donated?
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Install NetBSD 10 BETA and KDE apps in QEMU tutorial
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Rust support in the NetBSD kernel
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NetBSD at Reproducible Builds Summit Venice 2022
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pkgsrc-2022Q4 branch released
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Audio Realtek ALC257
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Why does NetBSD port Linux's driver stack several versions behind other open source BSD's?
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Latest Headlines
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My web-based desktop environment that was first announced here reaches 500,000 alpha users!

/r/linux

Best Linux applicaions for network/system admins?

/r/linux

Carbonyl: a New Graphical Web Browser in Your Linux Terminal