ashaman2007

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I believe asdf is a kind of package/version manager, so probably similar. And yes when you install you will see the Proton-GE version as an additional Proton version you can apply in the game options, but it does not overwrite the already installed proton versions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

I recommend installing it via asdf, which is described in the installation section of the github readme

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yea, and I’ve tried this before and had issues (Fedora 39). But seems to work just fine on Tumbleweed, which was a nice surprise!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just to be sure, you should check whether SSHD is enabled: sudo systemctl status sshd.service If you never enabled it and it's disabled+inactive, then no need to reinstall Tumbleweed per the current guidance. Also you can double check your version of xz to make sure it's downgraded, the downgraded version for Tumbleweed should look like this:

sudo zypper search -vi xz
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name | Type    | Version               | Arch   | Repository
---+------+---------+-----------------------+--------+------------------
i+ | xz   | package | 5.6.1.revertto5.4-3.2 | x86_64 | update-tumbleweed
    name: xz
[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Fairly simple explanation by arstechnica: “The malicious versions [of xz], researchers said, intentionally interfere with authentication performed by SSH, a commonly used protocol for connecting remotely to systems. SSH provides robust encryption to ensure that only authorized parties connect to a remote system. The backdoor is designed to allow a malicious actor to break the authentication and, from there, gain unauthorized access to the entire system. The backdoor works by injecting code during a key phase of the login process.”

Also from the article, you should check if your distro is offering a downgrade from the affected 5.6.x packages. Right now the exploit is not fully understood. For example, openSUSE recommends a full reinstall of Tumbleweed if an SSH server was enabled, just to mitigate risk.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/

https://news.opensuse.org/2024/03/29/xz-backdoor/

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

TL;DR It uses the Matrix protocol to make every post E2E encrypted in the same way a Matrix chat is. Except they added more separation between people in the “Circles” functionality. Instead of everyone seeing all content like in a chat room, you have to invite people to follow your timeline. And only those people who have been invited can see your posts, and vice versa. I’m not sure he said it specifically, but it was implied that unless people have invited each other to see their posts, they can’t interact with each other in the same circles (he used an example of two people not liking each other and both being able to see a 3rd person’s timeline, but not each others timeline/posts). So essentially it offers encryption and social media like usage but with a sane privacy stance…aka nobody can find you via stalking your mutuals and nobody can just google and DM you out of the blue. Basic photo and sharing is available, apparently improving those features is what is planned for this year. You can also self host it if you wanted, as it just runs off a Matrix server (although they currently provide a US and Europe matrix server run by the FUTO company that funds the app development). Looks like they plan on charging for storage space (1.99$/month for 10GB is what it says in the app right now), and I’m not sure how much storage you get for free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah thankfully that’s the only part of the metaphor that holds… american evangelicals are about as far from a hardened warrior society as you can get…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Having BTRFS snapshots set up for root: 😀 Elbow on the keyboard issues this command before the sudo timeout: sudo rm -rf ./testdir/cd $HOME RIP home directory 😭 and still figuring out the best way to do snapshots of home without using timeline snapshots and using a ton of space…

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (7 children)

My current tower started out on Windows, and for some reason after a year or so it started crashing out randomly. Load didn’t matter, it would pass benchmark tests and then crash randomly 5mins after boot. However there was not a single useful error I could find. Installed Fedora, and looked at journalctl after a crash. Immediately I see “GPU has fallen on the bus”. Apparently it is relatively common, but I also found a thread that said it actually can be caused by loose connection. Did a complete reinstall on my GPU, haven’t had the problem again (~6mo now, had both 535 and 545 drivers). Sometimes it really might be a descriptive error message 😆

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