I wanted to alert people that I recently received two separate voicemails with a recording advising me to call a phone number back which began with a 248 area code
at my earliest convenience. The message contained no explanation as to the reason for why I should do this and with no information about the company that was making the call. Of course, I instantly recognized it as a scam but decided to investigate further to gather additional information.
This is a classic phone scam, with agents with an Indian accent claiming to either represent Amazon or eBay. They will claim that an order for Apple products was placed using your account. They will want to verify your name. Warning, if you do decide to call back, which I advise against doing, don't call them back with Caller ID enabled as they will have your name and will even ask you to verify your address which they will read to you, which may be the correct address.
I am very familiar with how these scams work and I was not at all fooled by any of this. Those who are unaware of these scam operations who go along with the scam will eventually find themselves being defrauded of money and could also become a victim of identity theft, not to mention the possibility of having their computer’s security becoming compromised. I have since reported this to Amazon via their form at
amazon.com/gp/help/customer/di…

To be clear, this is a scam and these agents do not represent Amazon or eBay.

curl issue #14620 in which we find out that a tiny CDN naming itself "Google Frontend" has a faulty HTTP/2 implementation in regard to 4xx responses.

github.com/curl/curl/issues/14…

curl 8.9.1 reports HTTP/2 stream was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR for 416 · Issue #14620 · curl/curl

I did this $ curl -vvvS --fail-early -Lo go1.23.0.src.tar.gz https://go.dev/dl/go1.23.0.src.tar.gz # whoops, I didn't see if that finished. try again to be sure $ curl -vvvS --fail-early -Lo go1.23...

^GitHub

Mr @icing found a HTTP/2 bug in the #Google frontend webserver.

github.com/curl/curl/issues/14…

curl 8.9.1 reports HTTP/2 stream was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR for 416 · Issue #14620 · curl/curl

I did this $ curl -vvvS --fail-early -Lo go1.23.0.src.tar.gz https://go.dev/dl/go1.23.0.src.tar.gz # whoops, I didn't see if that finished. try again to be sure $ curl -vvvS --fail-early -Lo go1.23...

^GitHub

We are pleased to announce Quicksy for iOS based on Monal!

apps.apple.com/us/app/quicksy/…

Jabber/XMPP with Easy Entry and Easy Discovery

Monal for you. Quicksy for your less tech-savvy friends

Remember you don’t have to be on Quicksy yourself to give your friends an easy way to find your #XMPP address. Instead you can enter your XMPP address-phone number tuple into the Quicksy Directory
quicksy.im/#get-listed

You can also initiate the conversation by adding +123455…@quicksy.im

‎Quicksy

‎Quicksy is a spin off of the popular XMPP client Monal with automatic contact discovery. You sign up with your phone number and Quicksy will automatically — based on the phone numbers in your address book — suggest possible contacts to you.

^{App Store}

Thanks to the @libreoffice Team. I was on #froscon19 last weekend and the representatives there pointed me to the right direction solving my problem concerning keyboard shortcuts! 👍

For everyone else: you can assign a keyboard shortcut for styles, but it you have to go to the specific section down the list. I wasn't aware of that, I just notices the shortcuts stopped working.

#libreoffice

PipeWire 1.2.3 is out! Some bugs were fixed. More details here:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

1.2.3 · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab

PipeWire 1.2.3 (2024-08-22) This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases....

^GitLab

I'd really like to read a well researched article that sums up how Linux distros reacted to the massive influx of #Linux #kernel CVE that started ~half a year – both for their #LinuxKernel packages and their live-patching offerings.

But I guess that is an enormous amount of work that no media outlet in this world is willing to pay anyone for writing. 😕

Slide taken from @gregkh's "Why are there so many kernel CVEs?" talk he gave at OSS China yesterday (social.kernel.org/objects/c997… ) #LinuxKernel

New major release! #LibreOffice 24.8 is the private, free office suite which includes:

✅ Handy "Quick find" deck in the Sidebar
✅ New spreadsheet functions, including XLOOKUP
✅ Better presentation templates

...plus many other new features, fixes and compatibility improvements. Find out more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #news

After long years of maintaining the changelog, commit messages and release notes by hand, we have finally implemented a system where we use the merge request commit title and description as input to customized gitchangelog[1] and there’s only a single source of truth and that’s git. The current round of BIND 9 releases is the first one to use this new process.

1. pypi.org/project/gitchangelog/

gitchangelog

gitchangelog generates a changelog thanks to git log.

^PyPI

Google can’t defend shady Chrome data hoarding as “browser agnostic,” court says

Court reverses Google win in case from Chrome users who chose not to sync data.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Igalia Chats: The Coming Adpocalypse, by @bkardell and @Meyerweb (@igalia):

igalia.com/chats/adpocalypse

Igalia Chats: The Coming Adpocalypse | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions.

^Igalia

and here I get into a discussion about why we don't show off the "OpenSSF scorecard" in #curl

(tldr: it's wrong)

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…

Scorecard integration from Open Source Security Foundation · curl curl · Discussion #12609

Hi, Me and a group of friends want to participate in the "Secure Open Source Rewards (SOS)" program from the Open Source Security Foundation. All of us are newbies in the open source comunity contr...

^GitHub

Thanks to Thilo, developer of @Monal, Quicksy is now available on iOS!

apps.apple.com/us/app/quicksy/…

Jabber/XMPP with Easy Entry and Easy Discovery

Conversations for you. Quicksy for your less tech-savvy friends

Remember you don’t have to be on Quicksy yourself to give your friends an easy way to find your #XMPP address. Instead you can enter your XMPP address-phone number tuple into the Quicksy Directory
quicksy.im/#get-listed

You can also initiate the conversation by adding +123455…@quicksy.im

‎Quicksy

‎Quicksy is a spin off of the popular XMPP client Monal with automatic contact discovery. You sign up with your phone number and Quicksy will automatically — based on the phone numbers in your address book — suggest possible contacts to you.

^{App Store}