I take it most have heard about the copy fail vulnerability if you have
local shell?
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/as-the-most-severe-linux-threat-in…
I wonder if you patch the hypervisor when using PV guests if you have to
update the guests too?
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
Age Verification taking over free software. Check this article regarding
Debian.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Undecided-Age-Laws
There is also a bill going through for age verification for social media
that EFF has taken a position against.
https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification
Brian
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Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
Ah, the good old days, when you could be some food for five dollars.
http://linuxmafia.com/coffeenet/
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Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
Some interesting slides, especially considering the recent
back_door/copy_fail, etc.
"Xen Containers: Better way to run Docker Containers"
https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slides/Xen_Containe…
Brian
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Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
I was thinking that this is probably possible and I searched the
interweb to find this article.
Convert your filesystem to Btrfs
https://fedoramagazine.org/convert-your-filesystem-to-btrfs/
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Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
