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/
Very dangerous since every newcomer into programming uses it today
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
There is a funny comment on that about .com domains which is executable file extension too and was widely used in 90's
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
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
, 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:
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.