Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

April 4, 2024

German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice
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Well done LibreOffice! I'd love to see many more announcements like this one.

OSQI

Definitely a good idea, we'd need several such institutes across the world. Would governments be willing to try this?

Improvements to static analysis in the GCC 14 compiler | Red Hat Developer
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Improved static analysis for C straight from GCC. This is definitely welcome.

Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability
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You think the xz vulnerability was a one time event? Think again, this kind of bullying with ulterior motives happen regularly to critical projects.

KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit Galore | SUSE Security Team Blog

Interesting article, shows quite well the complexities of D-Bus and Polkit. Unsurprisingly such complexity easily leads to mistakes which can compromise security. This then hints to interesting things to keep in mind when you have to deal with D-Bus and Polkit.

Programming Apprenticeships

Funny experiment. This shows what you can achieve in terms of teaching and learning during pair programming setups. Shadowing someone is a powerful approach.