today's leftovers
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: Fedora Operations Report
Happy October folks! In this post you’ll find some information on our F41 and F42 releases, plus a few lines on a couple of topics happening around the project lately. Read on to find out more!
We are nearing the end of the Fedora GNU/Linux 41 release cycle! Our Go/No-Go meeting will happen next Thursday 17th October @ 1700 UTC. To join, you can find the information on the fedocal calendar entry.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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University of Toronto ☛ Our local changes to standard (Ubuntu) installs are easy to forget
We have been progressively replacing a number of old one-off Linux machines with up to date replacements that run Ubuntu and so are based on our standard Ubuntu install. One of those machines has a special feature where a group of people are allowed to use passworded sudo to gain access to a common holding account. After we deployed the updated machine, these people got in touch with us to report that something had gone wrong with the sudo system. This was weird to me, because I'd made sure to faithfully replicate the old system's sudo customizations to the new one. When I did some testing, things got weirder; I discovered that sudo was demanding the root password instead of my password. This was definitely not how things were supposed to work for this sudo access (especially since the people with sudo access don't know the root password for the machine).
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Audiocasts/Shows
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Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Free Software Security Podcast Episode 450 – What’s Wrong With WordPress
Josh and Kurt talk about the current WordPress / WP Engine mess. In what is certainly a supply chain attack, the Advanced Custom Fields forking. This whole saga is weird and filled with chaos and stupidity.
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Unicorn Media ☛ Doctorow and the ‘Enshitternet’ – Live, Online, and Free on Thursday
Cory Doctorow will be giving the closing keynote on the first day of the free online-only The Tech We Want Online Summit.
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Standards/Consortia
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Kivikakk ☛ RSS autodiscovery · kivikakk.ee
At any rate, it does, it’s just not linked anywhere explicitly — but it is supported via RSS autodiscovery, which I just kind of .. assumed everyone used, relied on, knew about? But apparently not!
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