568: All Your Silos are Broken
LINUX Unplugged
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Challenges of Online Identity in Free Software Development
The chapter delves into the impact of the XE vulnerability and the importance of trustable identities in open-source projects, exploring solutions like requiring real names on platforms and discussing the risks of false trust in a decentralized system.
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Online identity is a ticking time bomb. Are trustworthy, open-source solutions ready to disarm it? Or will we be stuck with lackluster, proprietary systems?
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- XZ Utils Backdoor Vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094): Comprehensive Guide
- The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
- Who is ‘Jia Tan,’ the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor?
- Reflections on Distrusting xz
- The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons. — The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons.
- Kernel.org Docs on contributions — It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately free software.
- Elon Musk wants to ‘authenticate all real humans’ on Twitter.
- Elon Musk claims alien identity, links human brain function to AI purpose
- Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID
- Elon Musk can show the world how to really do ID
- World ID
- Nostr: All Your Silos Are Broken
- Nostr Iceberg Meme
- NIP-01
- Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers
- Navigating the social graph — In this paper, you will find a definition of the social graph, principles for thinking about it, and practical ideas for using it for DoS prevention, social discovery, anti-impersonation, accurate ratings, and more.
- Highlighter — Highlighter is like Substack & Patreon but on Nostr.
- Satlantis — Satlantis is like Trip Advisor, meets Instagram and Google Places.
- HiveTalk — Free Video Calls, Messaging and Screen Sharing
- zap.stream — Twitch alt powered by value for value and Nostr
- ostrGit — A truly censorship-resistant alternative to GitHub that has a chance of working.
- Blogstack — Write decentralized blogs over relay using nostr w/ ⚡ lightning tips.
- Ditto — Ditto is a Nostr community server. It has a built-in Nostr relay, a web UI, and it implements Mastodon's REST API.
- UseNostr
- awesome-nostr
- Decentralized publishing for the web
- Nostr Apps
- Nosta — New to Nostr? You're in the right place. Here you can easily set up your profile, discover apps, and browse other profiles.
- Amethyst
- amethyst: Nostr client for Android
- yana
- Primal App
- Dan's Nostr Relay
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- SpeechNote — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so.
- rhasspy/piper: — A fast, local neural text to speech system.
- Starship — The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
- starship on GitHub
- ZSH Docs: ZDOTDIR
- distrobox-assemble — distrobox-assemble takes care of creating or destroying containers in batches, based on a manifest file.
- Pick: Gathio — Gathio is a simple, federated, privacy-first event hosting platform.
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