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lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/3

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

There is no Notepad++ for any Mac, but a vibe-coded port and its sloperator "author" want you to believe otherwise.

Ars Technica, "'Notepad++ for Mac' release is disavowed by the creator of the original": arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

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Taylor - Romanceable NPC

Grilled cheese #ditherinator

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crouton.net is dead. long live crouton.net

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bring back wuhu island

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hello alterspring.org/@maple

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grugo

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Ah, the #copyfail clickbait posts are coming. Here’s my contribution. On your Linux machine add

initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init

to your kernel boot commandline (typically in grub). Reboot. You are now safe until the updated kernel packages become available. For distributions with the `grubby` command this is done as root with

# grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init"

This mitigation comes courtesy of Red Hat. Our engineers keep you safe :)

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@atax1a will take a look when i can, thanks

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@atax1a i suspect if there's anything i could do to fix this at all it would have to be told to me by someone who understands better what's happening, sorry

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@atax1a i'm not sure what i did influenced this at all and it could be something up with the chumby servers, but Duane hasn't said anything about it. FWIW my chumby is displaying the weather channel right now without issue

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@atax1a in that case the widget isn't loading at all, and i wonder if you're having the issue i was having, which i don't know what it is: forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php

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@atax1a could you expand on "the blue screen" then please

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@atax1a hang on, are you talkign about the unsubscribed clock

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@atax1a
get into its ssh: wiki.chumby.com/index.php?titl

then stop the control panel and start it from shell so you can see its output:
wiki.chumby.com/index.php?titl

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@atax1a i'd have to see the trace output to know why it's failing to load info, maybe

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@selectric nothing made me realise the scale of the world quite as much as 14 hour transatlantic flights. and then being in awe that i woke up on the other side of the planet

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stop changing the fucking rules

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i'm too autistic to be ok with terms that already have meaning get used for different meanings

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i don't like that we're calling any small full-featured computer "thin clients" now. that's not what it means

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