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That vulnerability is called "LogoFAIL". Here's the (very technical) article from the researchers that discovered it: https://www.binarly.io/blog/finding-logofail-the-dangers-of-image-parsing-during-system-boot The short of it is that many UEFI firmware manufacturers were caught red handed...

Macros for what, for where, which app?

At times the SpotChat network, on which the Mint IRC channels are located, blocks mibbit. That means you can't use a web based IRC client. You will have to use an actual IRC client app. Like HexChat, that comes preinstalled with Linux Mint. On Linux Mint simply start it to connect to the Mint IRC ch...

Do you drive a delorean maybe :) Or what's a "time fuse". From time of year I guess you mean DST is in effect. The problem is you have set Windows to use local time for the hardware clock and Linux to use UTC (universal) time. Because Windows and Linux read the hardware clock differently, ...

To the best of my understanding Flathub does not and did not ship xz with malware. [Open source] apps from Flathub are safe. For apps that require xz Flathub uses the Freedesktop runtime. That already downgraded xz to 5.4.6 but even before downgrading it did not include the malware because it downlo...

Ennnn hoe los ik dat op? :) De handmatige manier is in het /etc/fstab bestand. Maar het kan ook met het Disks programma, dat is eenvoudiger als je niet bekend bent met /etc/fstab. Ik weet de Nederlandse benamingen niet dus noem het in het Engels 1. Open het Disks (gnome-disks) programma en klik op ...

Waarschijnlijk omdat je de tweede HD gebruikt alsof het een externe schijf is, alsof het een USB stickie is. Dus dat je niet hebt gezorgd dat deze automatisch gemount wordt tijdens het opstarten van de computer maar dat deze pas gemount wordt nadat je de tweede schijf in je bestandsbeheerder opent. ...

You can browse the contents of the Linux Mint repositories online here: http://packages.linuxmint.com/. On your system you can run apt policy packagename to see where a package was installed from. Firefox and Chromium are snap packages on Ubuntu 22.04, the package base for Linux Mint 21.x. Linux Min...

That's what organizations like the Sovereign Tech Fund are working towards improving: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/foss-maintainer-fellowship-survey The Sovereign Tech Fund is [designing] the pilot program for a paid fellowship to support critical digital infrastructure. […] With this pilot...

libarchive developers are going through every commit of JiaT75: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2103

You can use any random image host for sharing huge images. Like imgur.com or imgbb.com. I tried it on Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon with Firefox 124.0.1. I can click on the A S R M cells in both tables to make those letters appear in the clicked cells. It also works with Firefox browser security set to t...

Thanks for sharing that t42.

JiaT75 on GitHub: https://github.com/JiaT75. In case he erases his account I've made a (ugly, but with working links) copy of their GitHub activity log. He contributed at least to libarchive and to Google's oss-fuzz, the latter maybe to make that not detect his xz malware. For libarchive somebody re...

The full write-up from the PostgreSQL developer that found this: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 As far as I've kept up with the news past 24 hours: the malware is attributed to the lead maintainer of xz, who has had that role for 2 years, who made similar contributions to o...

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Dat kan. Tijdens de installatie kan je het installatie type kiezen: Ubuntu naast Linux Mint installeren of de hele schijf gebruiken voor Ubuntu. Als je naast Linux Mint (of ander geïnstalleerd besturingssysteem) installeert krijg je een schuifje om mee te bepalen welk gedeelte van de schijf vrij te ...

Can you remove the package?
apt purge context

Ah. Seems I was ill informed by somebody else.

Instead of pressing the Escape key repeatedly after powering on the computer, press the down arrow key repeatedly after powering on the computer. That should get you into the menu instead of the useless grub> prompt.

Moved this to the software & applications forum. This isn't about getting help with script your are writing. If Mullvad doesn't integrate well with the Linux desktop that is something to maybe get help with in this forum first.

How and why are you compiling Python code? Python is an interpreted language so normally there is no compile step, you just run your program after making edits.

In Geany simply click the run button.