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Episode 4:18: Open Source Isn't Safe!

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Show Notes

Coming up in this episode

Does it do Passkeys tho?

So What Happened to Xz anyway?

How do we fix the internet?

The Video Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bN3PRmHJY

Timestamps

0:00 Cold Open

1:36 Amazingly Self-Hosted

34:13 The History of Xz and the Hack*!

49:58 How to Fix Open Source

1:15:56 Next Time

1:20:42 Stinger

💻Self Hosting and Passkeys🔑

Audiobookshelf

Immich

Tailscale

What are Passkeys - Tom's Guide

Passkeys - FIDO Alliance

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📖The History of XZ🦜

LZMA

Andrey Markov

LZ77 and LZ78

7zip history

Slackels

LZMA in the form of the GCC compiled LZMA SDK

Tukanni Linux Project was officially gone

LZMA Utils was left behind in favor of the similarly LZMA-backed Xz Utils.

version 5.0 is the transition from LZMA to XZ.

Some distributions would eventually migrate to using Z Standard compression, including Arch in 2019 and Fedora and Ubuntu would make the switch in 2020.

A new face, Jigar Kumar, shows up.

January 7th, 2023, Jia Tan was finally able to merge their own commits to Xz on Github.

Jia tries to convince the OSS-Fuzz team to accept a patch that disabled Indrect Function.

Adding the test files which weren't test files at all.

Andres Freund's Mastodon post

On April 2nd, 2024, Collin adds a page to his tukaani.org domain.

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⚒️How To Fix Open Source🛠️

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I'm not a supplier

XKCD 2347

🔭Next Time🔭

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