Today I Learned

So thanks to OpenWRT (it's a fork but still..), we have a Banana Pi Wifi 6 router for just 35 dollars/euros.

I have used many many distros in the past, from Debian to Gentoo, from Ubuntu to Arch, etc. etc.. But I need a system that works and does the job well, hence I'm using Linux Mint for the past few years. Linux Mint XFCE Edition to be precise....

I used to work with Photoshop for years (industry standard, I thought). Moving to Linux, GIMP was the next to go logical step. I was never good in manually drawing vectors or embracing the vector image manipulation tooling in general which I regret now that I didn't move to Inkscape from day one. Yes, I used Inkscape back and...

Ledger Live, the most popular crypto hardware wallet software, is tracking and transmitting sensitive user data to third parties.

If you are running big applications on top of PostgreSQL or having a lot of queries your performance might be impacted. By default the default PostgreSQL configuration is to say the least, less than ideal. Same is true for MariaDB but that is out of scope now....

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Some people might think you can only use or set environment variable of the service in docker compose eg.:...

When you want to cherry pick a specific commit from another remote, you do NOT need to manually copy files or fetch a patch. It's git after all......

To all instance owners. If you are using Nginx and use the following security header:...

Yes, I also saw the popup today. Youtube trying to block me because of ublock origin. I will move away from youtube if I can't use ad blocker anymore.

Today Bun v1.0.3 has been released. But it's still not ready for production in most cases. Eg. cluster module is not implemented yet....

The new AMD vulnerability discovered by @taviso and his team makes all AMD zen2 processors vulnerable. Also known has Zenbleed....

Officially HTTP/3 is already released since 2022, but Nginx still didn't created a stable release with HTTP/3 and QUIC support....

Today I got CI/CD pipeline of Codeberg Actions working on the Codeberg kbin project. Which is based on GitHub Actions actually....

DO NOT OPEN THE “LEGAL” PAGE — lemmy.world is a victim of an XSS attack right now and the hacker simply injected a JavaScript redirection into the sidebar. It appears the Lemmy backend does not escape HTML in the main sidebar. Not sure if this is also true for community sidebars....

Lemmy was/is vulnerable for XSS attacks....

Without proper CI/CD workflow jobs, errors are easily made without noticing it (or noticed too late). Especially when multiple developers are contributing towards your code base. Maybe your project is open-source?...

Kbin moderation tools are still in the making. In the meanwhile Kbin admins should not be afraid of PostgreSQL.......

One of the main instances of Lemmy (lemmy.ml) is blocking 'kbinbot' user agent requests on their instance. Basically, they are blocking kbin instances. This is not a bug, but on purpose....

The Cáin Adomnáin, also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents), was promulgated amongst a gathering of Irish, Dál Riatan and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr in 697. It is called the “Geneva Accords” of the ancient Irish and Europe’s first human rights treaty, for its protection of women and...