Episode 4:18: Open Source Isn't Safe!

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Coming up in this episode

• Does it do Passkeys tho?
• So What Happened to Xz anyway?
• How do we fix the internet?

The Video Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bN3PRmHJY

Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:36 Amazingly Self-Hosted
34:13 The History of Xz and the Hack*!
49:58 How to Fix Open Source
1:15:56 Next Time
1:20:42 Stinger

💻Self Hosting and Passkeys🔑

• Audiobookshelf
• Immich
• Tailscale
• What are Passkeys - Tom's Guide
• Passkeys - FIDO Alliance

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📖The History of XZ🦜

• LZMA
• Andrey Markov
• LZ77 and LZ78
• 7zip history
• Slackels
• LZMA in the form of the GCC compiled LZMA SDK
• Tukanni Linux Project was officially gone
• LZMA Utils was left behind in favor of the similarly LZMA-backed Xz Utils.
• version 5.0 is the transition from LZMA to XZ.
• Some distributions would eventually migrate to using Z Standard compression, including Arch in 2019 and Fedora and Ubuntu would make the switch in 2020.
• A new face, Jigar Kumar, shows up.
• January 7th, 2023, Jia Tan was finally able to merge their own commits to Xz on Github.
• Jia tries to convince the OSS-Fuzz team to accept a patch that disabled Indrect Function.
• Adding the test files which weren't test files at all.
• Andres Freund's Mastodon post
• On April 2nd, 2024, Collin adds a page to his tukaani.org domain.

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⚒️How To Fix Open Source🛠️

• Heartbleed
• I'm not a supplier
• XKCD 2347

🔭Next Time🔭

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