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Currently working on The Next Big Thing™️ in the Linux community.
Free tech tip: turn off auto updates on your servers so that you always run proven and stable software :3c
jia_tan
Oh god, round two already?
round two
Uuhhhh… 👀 yeah… two
What?
Jia Tan was the username used by a group
probably a state intelligence agency
on GitHub to try to attack the xz open source package. The effort aimed at trying to take over the project, and lasted for years. They managed to get a compromised package briefly into the unstable versions of some major Linux distros that created a backdoor in the openssh daemon and came close to being widely deployed across Linux servers, which would have been a very severe compromise of a huge range of systems. The account vanished when the compromise was discovered.
The user here is, as a joke, using the same name.
EDIT:
When they said they were "working on the next big thing in linux", the tip and the username they have, i thought:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
In February 2024, a malicious backdoor was introduced to the Linux build of the xz utility within the liblzma library in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 by an account using the name "Jia Tan".
Oh, I thought you were calling me out for spam because I posted yesterday or two days ago.
I have to appreciate linux and the people who actually make changes in open source code.
As always, I do image processing. I'm a G'MIC filter developer. Recently, did some code changes to my combinatorics tools to be insensitive to multi-threaded strategy.
I use the G'MIC plugin for GIMP, it's really good
Ah.. GIMP. I love GIMP I use it myself to draw sprites and UI for my games and I've used it for my social media recently!
pretty cool!
I have no idea what that means but I think it sounds pretty cool! Anything about image processing is always fascinating to me. Especially these days when AI has become more popular and it can even draw images. It's cool how technology evolves!
Trying to write a solver for Fortune's Foundation tarot solitaire in Python
Something tells me I'm going to abandon it not even halfway in, like most "projects" I do
I get the feeling when you abandon all of your projects. It's cool to come across another Python dev nowadays since everybody(including me) has moved on to game engines such as unity. But when I still made my games in python it was pretty fun, but the glamour of 3D developing pulled me to the mighty Unity. Python is amazing and fun language!
I'm learning the ropes of concepts like JWT, postgres, axum and webdev in general by building a federated forum. I'll probably never finish it but i've learned a lot of good stuff from it, but i'm still working on the user implementation, authentication and creations galore. (in rust, too.)
Sadly i work very slowly, and i've been working (passively) for two months and i'm not even done with the user stuff lol. At this rate i'll be finished in 6 years xd
I also just need an excuse to read the AP spec and learn HTML/CSS somewhat :p
Web development is cool!