The latest fwupd 1.9.20 firmware update daemon fixes bugs, adds more hardware support, and enhances security for firmware updates. https://linuxiac.com/fwupd-1-9-20-released/
Wie ist denn die Meinung zu Tuxedo Notebooks für #linux? Kumpel fragte mich gerade, ob wie ich ein Infinitybook finde. Rein von den Eckdaten her, sehen die ziemlich gut aus.
@oliver mich stört, dass man die Firmware soweit ich noch nicht über #fwupd aktualisieren kann #tuxedo hat das in Planung, allerdings nun schon sehr lange
#fwupd 1.9.19 released! Lets try listing the main features here rather than just linking to the github page. Let me know which you prefer, one short toot or one less click!
On update to latest #fwupd on #archlinux new error message at the daemon start: "Failed to load daemon: syscall filtering is configured but not working"
Should you accept the mission, your adventure in the new quest shall be amazing ! Enjoy.
A new #fwupd just landed with lots of little bugfixes. We've notably switched the systemd SystemCallFilter from a block-list to an allow-list (to improve security) so please yell if anything breaks.
@pid_eins is it expected a service can do mlock() when it has just allow-listed SystemCallFilter=@system? I couldn't find any docs on what caps system-service actually maps to.
We're trying to move from denying-listing caps to allow-listing in #fwupd. Thanks!
After the recent xz-utils attack, guess what was the response some developers thought of? 9to5 Linux, Phoronix
Instead of helping Lasse Collin, the xz-utils maintainer who was tricked and mentally abused, they jumped ship, because the new solution is "more dependable". Wow, I applaud for this stupidity.
Let's shift our gaze somewhere else a bit. netfilter, the management framework of network operations on Linux that's used by virtually every Linux distribution, effectively only has Pablo Neira Ayuso left to maintain the project after Florian Westphal quit the core team. strace only has Dmitry V. Levin there to keep the cogs running. tcpdump and libpcap have only very few people to maintain the lights. And Bash should probably get abandoned with the few people there to keep everything up. The list goes on and on, because this is the freaking norm!
With the current mindset, support of any form, be it encouragement, financial support or contributing, is way too expensive for anyone to give out. I suggest just don't offer the maintainers the love and help they deserve, and speed up the downfall of the current landscape.
To every FOSS developer out there who has been thanklessly maintaining projects, please accept my deepest gratitude. However, to those who either shifted the blame to the xz-utils project and Lasse Collin, or jumped ship because xz-utils is deemed "unsafe" by you, I have two words most suitable for you: FUCK YOU. 🖕🏼
I'm still annoyed/disappointed that #fwupd does not work properly when /boot is bind mounted and esp partition at /efi. Bugs opened and "fixed" for a long time, new changes to cleanup the uefi capsules override esp setting and now just having the "EspLocation" under "fwupd" to supposedly set it correctly and still does not work. Only solution keeps being to manually umount /boot and force a fwupdmgr refresh/update 😮💨😮💨
Pretty sure it worked for a few days sometime in the past.
Hey Internet. Does anybody know if any of the open source nonprofit foundations a member of the Apple Developer Program? I'd love to sign the #fwupd package for macOS, but don't want to spend $99 every year for the privilege.
I've just tagged a new #fwupd release, which notably unbreaks very old USB devices that explode in a ball of fire* when you request the BOS descriptors. We're now copying the Windows 8 behaviour.