Technetium
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- Technetium parenthttps://github.com/fnr1r is currently working on a reproducible open build system. If you wish to help the process, direct your attention there! You can see progress on the issues of their repos, as well as in this now (appropriately) locked issue: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
- That would be quite an overblown reaction. There is currently no proof of malicious activity.
- I found a postmortem which seems to be well written: https://www.mbgsec.com/posts/2025-07-24-constructing-a-timel...
- Caching linked on the left: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/cache/ The index of the Concepts section says: "Looking for a quick introduction to features? See the guides instead."
Maybe there should instead be a link to the Concepts section for people who want more details, but I feel it's fine as it is.
- The firmware repo was archived Apr 12, 2025. I don't think it's going to be revived or be feature-competitive.
- Unfun fact: that setting is often re-enabled after updates.
- Can't ever trust a free VPN. If it's free, then you are the product being sold!
- https://x.com/sleepinyourhat/status/1925626079043104830
"I deleted the earlier tweet on whistleblowing as it was being pulled out of context.
TBC: This isn't a new Claude feature and it's not possible in normal usage. It shows up in testing environments where we give it unusually free access to tools and very unusual instructions."
- News sure moves fast... "Amazon denies it planned to disclose cost of US tariffs on its website" - April 29, 2025 12:01 PM EDT: [1]
"Trump complained to Bezos before Amazon said it scrapped idea to display tariff cost" - April 29 2025 9:01 AM EDT: [2]
"Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile and political"" - April 29, 2025 12:01 PM EDT: [3]
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/white-house... [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/white-house-blasts-amazon-ov... [3] https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/tariffs-amazon-prime-day-se...
- You can trigger an admin lock with one tap on Android using this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iglint.and...
- I looked around to get confirmation, and I did find some related issues. Seems like it works properly when context is defined explicitly. There also appears to be a warning logged about "truncating input prompt", so it isn't an entirely silent failure. https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/2653 + https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/4967 + https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/7043 + https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8144
- Here is the official FAQ: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... For some context, I currently have 393,405 network filters ＋ 385,476 cosmetic filters. "The current limit imposed by the various implementations is a guaranteed 30K. It is possible for an extension to use more rules, but anything above the global limit will not be enforced. Currently, the global limit in Chromium is 330K static rules."
- Do not click the links or allow images to load, and you will remain safe. View the full raw email and look at the headers. Search who is registered for the domain in question. Contact their hosting provider.
- 4. No, it is not good. "Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent" https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=37932754
- AI is not the answer for most things, but it's especially not the answer for this. Basic packet filtering is all there should ever be.
- Yes, it has been a security threat for years. It's a shame it took this long. In case you missed some of the myriad stories, here's just a few. Sure seems like the onus is on TikTok to prove they aren't being evil at this point, because all the evidence so far isn't implying anything good. https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=23634138 https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=29592103 https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=34109771 https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=31920756 https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=28199588 https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=33280176 https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=21076459 https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=33302591 https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=34098132
- When I paid, it was with the expectation of supporting something open source. That's why I came to Bitwarden from Lastpass. This is really twisting the dagger in my back. They're probably preparing for an acquisition, since they have hit the same financial inflection point that CEO Michael Crandell was at previously when selling RightScale: https://bitwarden.com/blog/accelerating-value-for-bitwarden-...
- The title of this issue is: "Notorious namesquatter is threatening legal action" https://github.com/openai/swarm/issues/50
- This feels like clickbait, and also may be a duplicate.
- It would be nice to have a description added.
- O&O ShutUp10++ is a requirement for me. It is my preference because every debloat script tends to legitimately break the OS. I have had to do clean installs multiple times this year after customers ran them. MS provides registry keys that can be configured, but they do consistently move them around. Without an application which can easily revert automated changes, it'd be nearly impossible to keep track of it all, let alone notice changes. Upside is not having a broken system, downside is needing to open it once every week or two. I agree with the other comments that LTSC would be better, but there's no reasonably legal way to obtain it, and nobody wants to have the BSA knock on their door asking for a quarter million USD per license violation. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
- Timeshift is not exclusive to Mint. It's important to note that it was archived in 2022, and therefore will not see fixes or improvements. I'm a big fan of Snapper as a replacement, and encourage everyone to explore it. https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper
- 2 days ago: "Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions" https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=41757178
- Author has removed the article.
- They proclaim "privacy-respecting" but all your keystrokes go to OpenAI. Horrific and genuinely upsetting.
Edit: The author replied to another comment that there is an intent to add local AI. If that is the plan, then fix the wording until it can actually be considered privacy-respecting: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=41579144
- "Once your components are ready, you can mix and match them to create entire web applications. Even this entire website is written in Rio."
- A commonly disregarded possibility is that it is self-inflicted while asleep: https://sleep.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41606-019-...
- Confirming this is the case. OVH closed all my non-US accounts approximately 1 year ago.
- I appreciate the attempted correction, but I do mean organic. I don't know about you, but I definitely do not have many people in my daily life that would ever link or post about such a thing. Not only that, but I've had a YouTube feed that is 30% non-technical garbage for a couple of years despite my best efforts, thereby making an organic discovery even more unlikely. If I had been searching systematically, there's a good chance I could have found it, however I haven't really tried to hunt down many personal channels for such people.