cm0002

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submitted 1 month ago by cm0002 to c/world@quokk.au
 

A well written article containing some well researched articles of "The good stuff". I certainly found the leading piece about trachoma genuinely inspiring - a horrible eye disease that's been plagueing humans since the ice age that's seen huge steps very recently in almost complete eradication.

Yet this went completely unreported all all major news outlets in 2025.

There is something wrong about that, I think.

 
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security and blobs (blog.lx.oliva.nom.br)
 

Linux-libre turned 18 recently, and I'm told there are still some people who try to pass as security experts who disapprove of the refusal to load binary blobs that claim to fix security problems.

I kind of understand the appeal of security bug fixes, but delivering them in the form of binary blobs mean that the one who accepts them has to trust them blindly and to give up any pretense of security from the vendor, and that seems to be a problem that many pretense security conscious minds seem to disregard, for whatever reason

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