An excellent video giving strong arguments why every single country should have a @sovtechfund like organization. Or better, an EU agency, in our case.

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?si=vbfi9geBAgsj97EF

#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #Sustainability #Linux #GNU #openssh #xz

Animated xkcd 2347.

I originally made this after the backdooring attempt of the XZ Utils repo by some entity named Jia Tan was discovered, but without sound. Finally, it is available in stereo, headphones recommended.
Damned, the whole thing was discovered in march 2024! The relevance of this clip might be like a sine wave, hopefully not, but we'll see :P

#b3d #blender3D #npr #xkcd #xkcd2347 #xz #backdoor #infrastructure

Animated xkcd 2347.

I originally made this after the backdooring attempt of the XZ Utils repo by some entity named Jia Tan was discovered, but without sound. Finally, it is available in stereo, headphones recommended.
Damned, the whole thing was discovered in march 2024! The relevance of this clip might be like a sine wave, hopefully not, but we'll see :P

#b3d #blender3D #npr #xkcd #xkcd2347 #xz #backdoor #infrastructure

Dear People attending #FOSDEM

The maintainer of #XZ is still in need of true support after they were abused by someone who tried to viciously introduce a backdoor to potentially millions of servers and computers.

They opened a Liberapay account here: https://liberapay.com/Larhzu.
They only receive 13,55€/week for now… (EDIT: 39,46€/month by thr end of April 2025)

You know XZ is crucial for lots of critical systems. Please tip them generously.and boost this message!

(Discovery borrowed from @Sylvhem)

NOTE : due to the local laws, as a Finnish, Larhzu cannot accept money from Finnish people.