> TL;DR > > I booted Debian Linux on a 4-bit intel microprocessor from 1971 - the first microprocessor in the world - the 4004. It is not fast, but it is a real Linux kernel with a Debian rootfs on a real board whose only CPU is a real intel 4004 from the 1970s. The video is sped up at variable rates to demonstrate this without boring you. The clock and calendar in the video are accurate. A constant-rate video is linked below.

Tails 6.6 2024-08-13

Changes and updates

Update Tor Browser to 13.5.2.

Update Thunderbird to 115.14.0.

Update many firmware packages. This improves the support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.

Fixed problems Persistent Storage

Increase the maximum waiting time to 4 minutes when unlocking the Persistent Storage before returning an error. (#20475)

Made the creation of the Persistent Storage more robust after starting a Tails USB stick for the first time. (#20451)

Prevent the Persistent Storage settings from freezing after opening a link to the documentation. (#20438)

Prevent Additional Software from crashing when installing virtual packages. (#20477)

Networking

Fix connecting to the Tor network using default bridges. (#20467)

Allow enabling multiple network interfaces again. (#20128)

Tails Cloner

Remove 30 seconds of waiting time when installing by cloning. (#20131)

For more details, read our changelog.

F-Droid core

It’s no secret that F-Droid continues to live and thrive thanks in part to you, the users that donate, but also in part thanks to different grants we’ve received along these 14 years of existence. Our recent post covered the endangered NGI program and its importance.

The Guardian Project has been a long time supporter of F-Droid, pouring in not only grant money but also human resources. They are now looking for a part-time Grant Administrator so if you find the list of their achievements tempting and your skills match the bullet points, don’t be shy and get in contact. Who knows, maybe you can be featured here next. 😛

Back in May we’ve highlighted the work contributors around F-Droid have done in order to shine a light onto the app downloads stats. The Divested (thanks!) hosted page just got an update, covering the weeks since then: https://divestos.org/pages/fdroid_stats

/PS: if you are involved with the project(s) that download Termux packages 300.000 times per week, two advices: first, do get in contact with us because we’re curious about your work, and second please try to setup a round robin script of sorts that downloads from mirrors instead since we have plenty of those and it’s not in anyone’s benefit that you download 25-30Tb of data from our servers each and every week. 😐

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/14981035

But as I and others looked closer, and thought about it more deeply, things became concerning.

These logs include:

Your precise GPS locations (which are also sent to their servers). Your WiFi network name. The IDs of nearby cell towers (even with no SIM card inserted, also sent to their servers). Your internet-facing IP address. The user token used by the device to authenticate with Rabbit's back-end API. Base64-encoded MP3s of everything the Rabbit has ever spoken to you (and the text transcript thereof).

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/163062

> Last year Danny Mekić wrote this article : https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance which was published in a newspaper and then the author got shadow-banned on X. Today the same Dutch newspaper reported that Mekić won two court-cases about this. > > * Dutch article about the verdict - paywall : https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/x-mag-gebruikers-niet-meer-zomaar-shadowbannen-oordeelt-amsterdamse-rechter\~befb7fd0/ > * Archived copy : https://archive.ph/ckW2a > > * tl;dr English translation : > > X is not allowed to shadow-ban users easily the judge said. Only during the court-case X explained why the account of Meki was shadow-banned : He had shared an article about the CSAM law on X. "I still > do not understand why X this only said in the court hall, rather than telling me right away when I > asked about it" Mekić said. > > * Mekić on Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@DannyMekic > * The author's username on X : DannyMekic > * Article from last year by WIRED : https://www.wired.com/story/csar-chat-scan-proposal-european-commission-ads/

Comment by drewg123 on July 25, 2019

> I met Linus at the Linux BOF at the 1994 Boston USENIX. Very ironically, I have Linus to thank for a long career using FreeBSD. It sounds like a cheap shot, but please hear me out: > >I was sysadmin'ing a university stats department at the time, and NFS use was very important. I had been trying to use Linux on 486's, but performance of xdvi (with NFS mounted fonts) was abysmal. A 486 would take minutes to render the same page that a wimpy DECStation could render in a second. From tcpdump, I figured out it was because Linux did not do any sort of NFS caching at the time, and xdvi wandered around font files one byte at a time. > >I asked Linus at the BOF when they planned to implement NFS. He told me NFS was unimportant, nobody used it, and so on. > >I then attended the FreeBSD BOF where a clean shaven guy in a collared shirt was giving a power point presentation. I asked about NFS there, and was told it should work fine. When I got home from the conference, I switched the 486 to FreeBSD, and it worked just fine. > >I eventually did OS research on FreeBSD, was one of a few people to port FreeBSD to the DEC Alpha, and I now do kernel performance work for a large CDN, where we run FreeBSD.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716

> > This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > > > >📬 Help / Discussions > > > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > > > Thanks > This project has received support from NLNet.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716

> > This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > > > >📬 Help / Discussions > > > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > > > Thanks > This project has received support from NLNet.

> This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > >📬 Help / Discussions > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21064022

> Hello, Hatsu is a self-hosted Fediverse bridge for static websites. > > I recently released version 0.2 with the following features: > > Improved RSS compatibility > > RSS compatibility was terrible at 0.1.x due to some bugs - should now work with most valid Atom / RSS feeds. > > Receive likes & reposts > > Hatsu now receives likes and retweets for local posts and outputs them via a mastodon-compatible API. > > New comment component > > KKna is a new comment component (also written by me) that has Hatsu preset that automatically infer URL. > > You can check the integration instructions in the documentation: > > https://hatsu.cli.rs/users/backfeed-based-on-kkna.html > > (It's still unstable) > > Nix Package > > Are you using NixOS / Nix? I am, so I packaged it into NUR and Nixpkgs. > > There is no documentation on this at the moment, I will update it later.

Meet the new projects

Trustworthy hardware and manufacturing

Collection of Verified multi-platform Gatewares — Comprehensive repository of open source gateware designs Flashkeeper — Write Protection on SOIC-8 flash chips without soldering foaHandler — Reverse engineer the OpenAccess file format FPGA-ISP-UVM-USB2 — Open hardware FPGA-based USB webcam MEGA65 Phone Modular MVP — OSHW mobile device with form-factor of hand-held game consoles nextpnr for GW-5 — Add support to nextpnr for Gowin GW-5 FPGA family VexiiRiscv — Next generation of the VexRiscv in-order FPGA softcore

Network infrastructure incl. routing, P2P and VPN

Movedata — Privacy-preserving, energy efficient data replication and verification NixBox — Nix integration with netbox OpenHarbors — Dynamic Tunneling of WPA over IP/L2TP Toward a Fully-Verified SCION Router — Formal verification of the reference open source SCION Router

Software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs

Diesel — Safe and performant query builder and ORM written in Rust lib1305 — Microlibrary for Poly1305 hashing libvips — Add animated PNG and enhanced JPEG XL support to libvips MailBox renewal — Performance upgrade of MailBox mail modules PTT — Unikernel Mailing list server in OCAML Support for OpenPGP v6 in rPGP — Implement draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh in rPGP Tracing and rebuilding packages — Improved metadata/provenance for build artifacts UnifiedPush — Decentralized and open-source push notification protocol

Operating Systems, firmware and virtualisation

Arcan-A12 Directory — Server side scripting API for Arcan's directory server Arcan-A12 Tools — A12 clients for different platforms and devices such as drawing tablets postmarketOS daemons — Add modern service daemons to postmarketOS Redox OS Unix-style Signals — Add Unix-style signal handling to Redox Operating System TrenchBoot as Anti Evil Maid - UEFI boot mode support — Add UEFI to the Qubes integration of Trenchboot with AEM tslib — Better configuration and callibration of touchscreen devices Wayland input method support — Better specification for Wayland input methods

Measurement, monitoring, analysis and abuse handling

Back2Source next — Better matching of binaries with source code Enhance the vulnerability database — Enhance the VulnerableCode vulnerability database LANShield — Constrain local network access for mobile devices OWASP dep-scan — Security and risk audit tool

Middleware and identity

Client Proof-of-Work in TLS — Mitigation against DoS amplification on the TLS handshake

Data and AI

LabPlot — Scientific and engineering data analysis and visualisation

Services + Applications (e.g. email, instant messaging, video chat, collaboration)

bluetuith — Bluetooth connection/device manager for the terminal Draupnir — Moderation bot for Matrix servers Gancio — Shared agenda for local communities that supports Activity Pub Miru — Multi-track video editing and real-time AR effects Openfire IPv6 support — Add IPv6 support to the Openfire XMPP server

Vertical use cases, Search, Community

COCOLIGHT — Lightweight version of Communecter OpenCarLink — Security tooling for vehicle ODB2 ports

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