Pablo Brasero @pablobm@nitech.online

We've released #PuTTY version 0.81. This is a SECURITY UPDATE, fixing a #vulnerability in ECDSA signing for #SSH.

If you've used a 521-bit ECDSA key (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) with any previous version of PuTTY, consider it compromised! Generate a new key pair, and remove the old public key from authorized_keys files.

Other key types are not affected, even other sizes of ECDSA. In particular, Ed25519 is fine.

This vulnerability has id CVE-2024-31497. Full information is at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

Revolut does not have a UK banking licence.

If you are a victim of fraud you'll be SOL.

Best advice; close your account and move conventional bank elsewhere.

Please boost to make people in the UK aware.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/10/im-a-victim-of-scammers-but-revolut-says-no-to-a-refund

#fraud

I urgently need local advice finding a doctor in central Strasbourg, France, on Monday, 2024-04-08. (If you do not know Strasbourg, could you forward this to anyone who might?)

I need a doctor to treat a severe hand infection. I’m not an EU citizen, but I’d be •very• happy to pay. (Je regrette aussi que mon français soit très limité, but at least I remember the subjunctive!)

This infection first manifested itself on my flight to Europe one week ago. “I must have been bitten by a United Airlines Death Spider,” I joked, but soon it became extraordinarily painful and quite debilitating. I was prescribed amoxicillin after I arrived; it’s reduced the spread of the infection but not its core, and I’ve spent most of the last week flat on my back in bed.

I’m on the Viking Rhine Getaway Cruise, a.k.a. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. We arrive tomorrow morning, Monday 2024-04-08, in Breisach, Germany, across the river from central Strasbourg, France. (Unfortunately, ich spreche kein Deutsch.) I need a doctor to treat me before the boat leaves later that day, and before I exhaust whatever stamina I can muster. I also need a pharmacy selling finger splints and slings. (The boat has nothing of the sort in its first-aid kit. There’s almost no internet connectivity either, but I’m hoping I can post this query… eventually….) Any suggestions on how best to find a doctor to see me? (I’ve already tried the more obvious things, thank you.)

Using the brown M&M's trick on Freecycle
https://po-ru.com/2024/04/06/using-the-brown-mms-trick-on-freecycle
#blog #freecycle

my first thing on Thingiverse

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6565406

One must imagine Sisyphus listening to "Happy"

SQL example: get the time between baby feedings

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/example-baby-feedings/

Today, Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen family.

We welcome the lifting of internal air and sea border checks.

This is a great success for the people of both countries.

It also benefits millions of EU citizens across Europe.

Making the Schengen area even stronger.

Shoutout to Judas for the long weekend!

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

furlong = an eighth of a mile

pint = a half of a quart
= a half of (a quarter gallon)
= an eighth of a gallon

furlongs per pint = (eighths of a mile) per (an eighth of a gallon)

cancelling out like terms we get

furlongs per pint = miles per gallon

I wrote about Railway-Oriented pipelines in Ruby https://ismaelcelis.com/posts/practical-railway-oriented-pipelines-in-ruby/

Sometimes marketing is all about waiting long enough for your audience to forget about the 80s and 90s.

I love how ALDI celebrates this brilliant new design that saves 40% of plastic by removing the plastic lid.

On topic post about the budget. Probably a little spicy https://www.iwader.co.uk/posts/2024/03/i-dont-want-tax-cuts/

Oh and probably time to remind everyone how I had a password rejected because it contained my username. My username was 'r'.

"The licensing group that controls the HDMI standard, the HDMI Forum, has reportedly told AMD that it does not allow an open source implementation of the HDMI 2.1 (or HDMI 2.1+) specification"

Hence, linux users are not able to get the full screen resolution and speed out of HDMI connections.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no-you-cant-make-an-open-source-hdmi-2-1-driver/