Linux, politics, and other interesting things
What Happened On 2026/08/10 at 2:11 am Australian eastern standard time (2026/08/09 16:11 UTC) someone created a post titled Hacked by Chinafans on my documents blog [1]. The person in question created an account named 67965e42a3c3 on that site with the email address 67965e42a3c3@google.com associated with it (I tried emailing that address and it bounced). [ ]
The AMD GPU Problem For a while I ve been having issues with AMD GPUs, video locking up periodically. I blogged about this late last year but I first had noticeable problems early last year [1]. The problems hadn t only concerned my workstation but also my home server which is also used as a workstation. I ve [ ]
In 2008 I wrote a blog post The Problem is Too Many Remote Controls [1] about the issues of controlling a TV and related things. It recently got some comments on Mastodon so I think it s time for an update. The first issue I raised was Now it’s not uncommon to have separate remote controls [ ]
The Corporate Monitor Issue Some time ago I worked in the IT department of a company that had a corporate standard of two 27 FUllHD (either 1920*1080 or 1920*1200) monitors for the desktop. I was pushing to make the standard be one 32 4K monitor or the two cheaper monitors. They ended up making one [ ]
There s yet another Linux kernel exploit based on container functions, here s the result when run as user_t on a SE Linux system: $ ./packet_edit_meme [*] target /bin/su as uid 1000; entry at file offset 0x4340; shellcode 48 bytes unshare: Permission denied [-] page-cache corruption failed Here is the audit log entry for this failure: type=AVC [ ]
Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders wrote a disturbing and informative article about the use of AI by the US government [1]. Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about corporate liability for AI decisions and the German court ruling about Google s AI summaries [2]. Cybersecurity News has an interesting article about how Pliny the [ ]