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Technetiumon AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit

They were orphaned, so anyone could adopt them. There are 15k other orphans at the moment.

https://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

Technetiumon About the BLOBs in Ventoy

That would be quite an overblown reaction. There is currently no proof of malicious activity.

Technetiumon AWS merges malicious PR into Amazon Q

I found a postmortem which seems to be well written: https://www.mbgsec.com/posts/2025-07-24-constructing-a-timel...

Technetiumon Uv: Running a script with dependencies

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.

Technetiumon Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone

The firmware repo was archived Apr 12, 2025. I don't think it's going to be revived or be feature-competitive.

Technetiumon ASUSpicious Flaw – Users' Information Exposed Since 2022

Unfun fact: that setting is often re-enabled after updates.

Technetiumon VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV

Can't ever trust a free VPN. If it's free, then you are the product being sold!

Technetiumon Claude 4

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."

Technetiumon Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers

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...

Technetiumon EFF Border Search Pocket Guide

You can trigger an admin lock with one tap on Android using this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iglint.and...

Technetiumon Gemma3 – The current strongest model that fits on a single GPU

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

Technetiumon Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

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."

Technetiumon Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data

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.

Technetiumon Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

4. No, it is not good. "Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932754

Technetiumon Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise

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.

Technetiumon TikTok goes dark in the US

Technetiumon New iMac with M4

Seems not: https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2968

Technetiumon Bitwarden is no longer free software

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-...

Technetiumon Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI

The title of this issue is: "Notorious namesquatter is threatening legal action" https://github.com/openai/swarm/issues/50

Technetiumon Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

This feels like clickbait, and also may be a duplicate.

Technetiumon Scuda – Virtual GPU over IP

It would be nice to have a description added.

Technetiumon Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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

Technetiumon Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake

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

Technetiumon Rewrite cname uncloaking code to account for new ipaddress= option

2 days ago: "Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178

Technetiumon What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?

Author has removed the article.

Technetiumon Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579144

Technetiumon Rio: Web apps in pure Python

"Once your components are ready, you can mix and match them to create entire web applications. Even this entire website is written in Rio."

Technetiumon NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion

A commonly disregarded possibility is that it is self-inflicted while asleep: https://sleep.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41606-019-...

Technetiumon Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax

Confirming this is the case. OVH closed all my non-US accounts approximately 1 year ago.