today's leftovers
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Unicorn Media ☛ ‘All Things Open’ Revives the OpenSource.com Community Abandoned by Red Hat
The All Things Open organization is pickling up the baton abandoned by Red Bait when it quit publishing OpenSource.com.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Raspberry Pi Pico drives a custom Simon color sequence memory game
The case is made from an old Ubiquiti access point. FlorinCProjects gutted the hardware out and drilled some holes for the four arcade buttons and 12 LEDs. Inside the Raspberry Pi Pico is mounted and wired to the button and LEDs along with a handful of resistors. The end result is a nice round shell that makes for a clean-looking Simon game. In the middle, a seven-segment display is used for showing the score and game-over message.
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Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
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University of Toronto ☛ Forced MFA is effectively an annoying, harder to deal with second password
Suppose, not hypothetically, that some random web site you use is forcing you to enable MFA on your account, possibly an account that in practice you use only to do unimportant things like report issues on other people's open source software. I've written before how MFA is both 'simple' and non-trivial work, but that entry half assumed that you might actually care about the extra security benefits of MFA. If some random unimportant (to you) website is forcing you to get MFA, this goes out the window.
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Windows TCO
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The Verge ☛ The Internet Archive hackers still have access to its internal emailing tools
The Internet Archive has been slowly coming back online after the attacks and has resumed some services, including its website archive called the Wayback Machine. But its vast inventory of data, which is comprised of countless books, software, images, videos, audio, and even the digital archives of the island nation of Aruba, remains inaccessible.
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The Washington Post ☛ The Internet Archive is under siege by hackers - and fighting back
Last week, the DDoS attacks resumed. But things escalated quickly. On Oct. 9, in a separate, more critical security breach, hackers inserted a message on the Internet Archive’s main page bragging they had stolen information from 31 million of its users. Have I Been Pwned, a service that checks for leaked emails and passwords online, confirmed that it received a database of email addresses and passwords and verified that they were stolen from the Internet Archive, cybersecurity [sic] news site BleepingComputer reported.
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