Debian, on the server, the laptop, the desktop, and the gaming machine. Debian.

I started with Slackware many years ago. Eventually switched to Kubuntu on my desktop and laptop machines, then later the server switched to Debian. The desktop and laptop switched later.

I thought he did do a proof of concept, but I could be wrong. It’s been a while (many years) since I’ve read up on it.

My first Linux install was also Slackware, albeit Slackware 3.x, in the late 90s, while avoiding grad school work. I don’t remember what kernel it used at that time. So if you’re grampa, I guess I’m your son. :)

Yeah, I watched that. I mostly already knew the story, but it was a great video anyway. And…extremely disturbing. Whoever it was will learn from the mistakes of this attempt…

It can be frustrating, but Debian’s policy against binary blobs was a smart decision. I’ve run into it for glances web interface, and it’s easy enough to decide I’m okay with installing it (and hopefully glances revises their release to address the issue), but removing them by default is smart.

I think you are thinking of this.

But, more recently, this should make anyone who is concerned about security shudder. And it was only discovered because some guy in Germany noticed ssh logins were taking a bit longer than in previous versions.

Aww I didn’t know that. I used Slackware for many years and had the DVD subscription. I got tired of worrying about dependencies and moved to Debian, but I still have a soft spot for Slackware.

I do remember one time Slashdot had an article about a new Slackware release, and he was like, “Do I get first post?” lol What a time that was.

Ah that would do it. Disappointing. But thanks for the suggestions and finding that.

Yeah 3.0 on Trixie.

Sounds like that gimp-data-extras package shouldn’t apply to 3.x. So maybe that’s the fundamental problem.

Unfortunately, the message in the terminal isn’t helpful:

scriptfu-Message: 19:50:36.837: Error while executing script-fu-alien-glow-logo:

That’s it. There’s no additional info.

I just downloaded the Gimp appimage, but it doesn’t have the logo generation scripts in it. I feel like they’ve been abandoned and no one noticed.

I tried editing one of them to change the -1 in the gimp-text-fontname call to None, then Null. Restarted GIMP after each change, but I’m still getting the error.

But it sounds like it’s an error in the GIMP distribution…

Really? With the drive letters? I’ve seen people who were running out of letters to use.

I assume you don’t mean the path names, since that’s more Unixy.

I use DHCP for everything, even my server, with a reserved IP address in the router for the server and my desktop and a few other things I don’t want to move around (printers, some IoT things, Home Assistant, etc.).

I think the issue is the bridge interface I have to set up for Home Assistant.

This reminds me… My server demands to be known as hostname.local on my network. The other machines just respond to just hostname. I really should figure out why that is.

That has to be some kind of special exception in IE6 that they were doing for debugging, and they failed to remove it. Crazy.

Yeah that’s my problem with this story - I can’t figure out what he thinks happened to see if it happened on my machine as well. I’m pretty sure it hasn’t, but you never know.

I don’t even know which dll was the malicious one. And how it got installed. I have trouble believing some remote hack that would work on windows would also work on wine. I know it’s not impossible, but it just seems really far fetched.

It would have had to have happened while he was running the software; as far as I know, wine isn’t sitting there running all the time like a service, and it shouldn’t be answering requests from the internet. Maybe he does run the program all day, though, which opens up some sort of vulnerability.

But it’s so confusing, I can’t even come up with another theory. They deleted all his files in retaliation for discovering the hack? Possible, yes, but like someone else said they would have had to be watching, unless he hit some trip wire. And a separate windows system had the same hack?

In any case, at the least, it’s a reminder to have a good firewall, especially on an untrusted network, and backups.

I’m getting close to that point. I started playing with it in 1997 or 1998, trying to avoid grad school work… Daily driver at home for many, many years.

he is just reading lines with the same facial expression all the time. If you havent noticed, try rewatching with that in mind… :)

That’s basically Duchovny’s whole range, as far as I can tell.

I think he was in some non-X-Files related movie. I never saw it, but I remember the commercial for it. Duchovny’s character: “Are you here to kill me?” “Yes, are you worried?” “Just trying to plan my day.” All deadpan.

I got so tired of X-Files stringing me along. It reminded me of some women that I tried to date. I gave up after the first movie (yeah, the one everyone forgets about) - no answers there, either!

Pretty?

In my mind, I equate Gnome with OS X, while KDE is more like Windows.

I can use both competently, but I prefer KDE. Back when I used Ubuntu, I’d always use Kubuntu.

That’s interesting. I didn’t know about blends at all.

I like the home server idea, but it looks like it would install software I wouldn’t use, plus my home server is general purpose - file server, web server, database server, etc. I do need to look more into nextcloud though.

I’ve been using Linux almost exclusively at home since the late 1990s.

I have very few issues with it. I think Debian’s tendency to break my Nvidia drivers on my gaming machine is probably the worst, but that’s just a matter of running the installer again. It’s not really Debian’s fault, it’s just updating the kernel.

I wish WINE would let me use Bluetooth or even ANT+ connections to my smart bicycle trainer, but connecting via the phone works quite well most of the time (unless my wife starts the car and it grabs my Bluetooth phone connection). So that is my biggest wish. Well actually I wish Zwift ran natively on Linux. That’d be even better.

Twitter was useful for getting updates about sports during games - for example, an update on whether a player who was injured might return to the game, or sometimes, more detail on something weird that happened (you’d be shocked at how poorly informed people in the arena are, compared to those watching on TV). A lot of this depends on who is feeding the info, though, and the more recent beat reporters for our favorite hockey team haven’t been as active on Twitter, so I closed my account after Musk bought it. Haven’t really missed it.

But even today, every article about something that happened in a game will embed a Twitter link for video. Like there’s no other possibility - just Twitter.

I’m not defending this, just saying that sports use it extremely heavily.

I worked for a company that did this, thousands of users on Citrix.

Management didn’t believe us when we told them how slow it was, especially for data analysis, which was literally the job for many of us. It turned out management above a certain level were on a separate Citrix server, with relatively few users, and they weren’t doing heavy duty analyses like we were, so they had no issues at all. Middle management and below were on servers with too many users.

After a few years, they went back to “thick” clients. Laptops, finally. The virtual desktop setup was still available when I left, for a few specific things, but in general everyone used a laptop.