Josh Ellithorpe

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Two new sudo vulnerabilities, time to patch your systems. https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32462-sudo-host https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32463-sudo-chroot

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Seems the Rails community is in good shape, just a few vulnerabilities. =) https://ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-audit-complete/

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Fun project of the day. A Last.fm docklet for Plank Reloaded. https://github.com/zquestz/lastfm-docklet

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Nice to see more work happening on EXT4 performance! https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-EXT4-Performance

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BGP is the black magic of the internet. So many outages caused by incorrect BGP configurations. https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident

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Been working on improving the Matcha GTK theme. They did some great work, and it has been fun tweaking it. Even extended the Plank theme to support the new theming options in Plank Reloaded. https://github.com/zquestz/Matcha-gtk-theme

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What do you think about the programming features coming to CSS? Should it stay just for styles, or should it include more programming primitives? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apn8ucs7AL0

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Huge fan of the Framework mission, and Nirav has quite the story! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns-rmhAqPN4

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Feels good to have my Encrypted DNS Server back online. https://github.com/DNSCrypt/encrypted-dns-server Plus the dnscrypt-proxy 2.1.10 release is excellent. https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy

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The Go cryptography security audit went very well. Only one low severity item that has already been fixed. Kudos to the crypto package team. https://go.dev/blog/tob-crypto-audit

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AFP had a good run. Sad to see it disappear. https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos-sequoia/tips/apple-filling-protocol-will-soon-disappear-completely-from-macos

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Needing some beta testers and reviewers for my new game Perfect Shot! Been working on this for months now, and it is finally ready for release. Just want to get one last round of testers before I launch it for the entire Warpcast community! If you are interested, please reach out! https://perfectshot.io/

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Been using screen for decades at this point, and this is not a good look. https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/12/screen-security-issues.html

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Redis is open source again, but has trust already been lost? https://blog.abhimanyu-saharan.com/posts/redis-is-open-source-again-but-is-it-too-late

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Love tutorials like this, that way people can actually understand how the web works at a deeper level. https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html

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My friend Rafe Pearlman is playing an intimate session in SF! If you are in the Bay Area you should definitely check it out. https://events.humanitix.com/soulplay-sofa-sessions?hxchl=hex-pfl

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Curl maintainers are sick of AI slop. https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/curl_ai_bug_reports/?td=rt-3a

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Postgres is constantly innovating, now working on async IO. https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io

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Great to see people testing out early versions of Ladybird! This will just make the project better when it finally launches. https://jessie.cafe/posts/pwning-ladybirds-libjs/

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Write-up of a kernel exploit for CVE-2025-21756. Amazing there are still devs reverse engineering kernel patches! https://hoefler.dev/articles/vsock.html

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