xvlc
Simply excluding this backdoor does not seem to be sufficient. The malicious actor has contributed over 750 commits to xz, all of which could contain further backdoors.
Downgrading to the last version without any contributions from the malicious actor is not possible either, because of new functionalities and other security issues that were fixed in the meantime. Uninstalling xz is also not possible, because half my system depends on it.
I guess it will take some time to sort all of that out. I am very impressed by the fast and coordinated response to this incident by the FOSS community.
Darf ich auf meinem Balkon Brownies essen?
Wen soll das denn triggern? Da stimmen doch alle zu.
Auch ich nutze Bogen, bei dem Weg.
For my phone (almost 7 years old), a thin needle to scrape out all the dust is sufficient. Pressurized air also helps.
Me, a physics educator: “Interesting!” takes note
I am using Librera Reader. Make sure to install the F-Droid version (Librera FD) without Google Play services.
It is primarily an ebook reader that supports a variety of formats, but it is also an excellent PDF viewer. Significantly more feature-rich than any other FOSS PDF viewer for Android that I have found.
I think you are reading too much into this. SpaceX has a rather aggressive test program, and the purpose of the tests is not (only) to verify the functionality of the system, but also to learn about the vehicle and involved technologies. At this stage they are pushing the boundaries of the systems capabilities intentionally up to the point where it might start to fail. So if things don’t fail, it only means that they could have pushed harder and squeezed out more performance.
That does not mean that anyone wants Starship to explode. But the objective is clearly not to do a perfect launch, because SpaceX knows that it’s more efficient to make mistakes a few times times and then succeed, instead of spending excessive amounts of time and money one single perfect test launch. This has been communicated very clearly from the very beginning.
This sumarry is erroneously mixing up events from the first and second flight test.
I was confused for a second asking myself when Kroger was split into Kroger Sued and Kroger Nord.
Again, this is an article about German startups. But you claim that this also applies to established mid-sized (usually family-owned) companies that are the opposite of startups: They have successfully saturated the demand for the niche that they are specialized in and neither potential nor interest in expanding further (within their niche, at least). So far, you have provided no justification for your claim, besides ”surely, no one would refuse a lot of money“.
I assume JAXA ordered a fixed number of HTVs, those were built and then the construction line was closed down, probably before 2018. Just ordering another one was probably not possible.