EP4 FalseTrue Digest

Welcome to EP-4 of FalseTrue Digest, - newsletter or journal, or maybe even e-zine, but right now let’s stick to the name digest. I’ll write weekly based summaries about software development, programming world and software itself.

News

• VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than 45,000 Downloads https://blog.checkpoint.com/securing-the-cloud/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-more-than-45k-downloads-steal-pii-and-enable-backdoors/

• Apple Patches 3 Zero-Days Possibly Already Exploited https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/apple-patches-3-zero-days-possibly-already-exploited

• Bruce Schneier discuss for .zip and .mov domains https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/05/security-risks-of-new-zip-and-mov-domains.html

• Bruce Schneier on patching Microsoft Secure Boot Bughttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/05/microsoft-secure-boot-bug.html which Microsoft is patching now https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-patches-secure-boot-flaw-but-wont-enable-fix-by-default-until-early-2024/

• Millions Of Android TVs And Phones Come With Malware

https://packetstormsecurity.com/news/view/34636/Millions-Of-Android-TVs-And-Phones-Come-With-Malware.html

Repositories and projects

• PrivateGPT - Ask questions to your documents without an internet connection https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT

• Github Readme generator - https://gprm.itsvg.in/

• Internet History Podcast - https://www.internethistorypodcast.com/

How-to’s and guides

• All algorythms implemented in Rust https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Rust

Weekly Linux desktop

• GnuCash - one of the great GNU Software for professional Accounting https://www.gnucash.org/, fresh take on GnuCash https://lwn.net/Articles/731126/
• Mindustry - You probably heard of Factorio, here is a different approach of the same mechanics called Mindustry https://mindustrygame.github.io/ take a look significant amount of game mechanics implemented in Java

Mentions and utils

Today mention is Lynx, - a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of 2023, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained,[6] having started in 1992. Each of you GNU/Linux users used it at least ones in a life.

Authors: Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe, Charles Rezac

Links to LyNX:

• https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots
• https://lynx.invisible-island.net/index.html

While search info for Lynx I’ve found that site https://hiddenheroes.netguru.com/, its a project to basically doing same as this section, mentioning people who shaped technology

Authors note

This format will be like this,

• I’ll share various links, and experiences on a weekly base.
• Interesting persons on Internet and their stuff.
• Various software which you don’t even know.

If you like what you see here please comment and share, this helps me gain some consistency on this.

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