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wdym "sickos.net (dark)"? I use a dark theme here already, and it looks Just Fine :p

(side note: I almost submitted this having typoed "sickos.net" as "dickos.net"…wonder if that domain is up for grabs? 🤔 (not that I'm brave enough to check lol))

ngl a BSD tilde would perhaps be an interesting break from the norm…I would say tilde.town could switch to it if vil et al. feel like Linux is being shown up as too flaky to reasonably support a pubnix-type environment, but I do wonder how much townies rely on Linux-isms in their little town-bespoke ...

same

uh, big doubt, what are they gonna do, hunt down someone who god forbid wrote code and put it up online?


I suspect it'll manifest in no longer being able to legally disclaim liability/warranty the way many open-source licenses do or something to that effect. Get Your Software Right or be sued ...

We have finally reached a point where "hardly anyone uses Linux lol" is no longer an excuse for vulns, I'm afraid...

A significant chunk of the population run it in their pocket, and the web has been built on it since time immemorial, so no longer can us nerds hide behind the excuse of it being a ...

WELP

Big props to vilmibm et al. for making efforts to keep town going even in the face of all this kernel exploit stuff; tbh if I were in charge of such a thing I'd probably have given up by now x.x;

Also FWIW the "oh no" message on attempting to log in is cute

I can still access ~town websites, so it looks like the server isn’t fully down


Yeah, clearly they've just temporarily revoked all ssh keys except for admins until the kernel can be updated with a version that patches the latest vuln

…as an aside, I certainly hope this doesn't keep happening ...

already missing town IRC proper :(

web forums are great and all, and it's neat seeing this place used more, but periodically refreshing the "Unread posts" page just isn't the saaaaaame D:

https://www.acdw.net/desk/2026-03-12.png

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I like the slight yellow tint on the emacs window; very Post-It-like

From what I've gathered about this latest one, it's a local privilege escalation, so someone would have to either have direct access (either physically or via ssh or the like), or they'd have to get you to run their exploit, so it's mostly relevant to public ssh servers like town, perhaps less so to ...