May aprilandjan

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Update: I've disabled comments as of 2025-01-26 to avoid everyone having notifications for something a year on if someone wants to suggest a correction. Folks are free to email to suggest corrections still, of course.

Background

Use _NS_4445425547 or NS🐞 for enables debuggging panel. When enabled it, a ladybug 🐞 menu appears in the app menu bar.

“4445425547” means DEBUG in Unicode table.

0x44=D
0x45=E
0x42=B
0x55=U
0x47=G

Configuring Jest Tests in GitLab CI

1. Add GitLab CI configuration file in the root

In the root of your project, add .gitlab-ci.yml with the configuration below.

image: node:latest

stages:

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

[ Update 2025-03-24: Commenting is disabled permanently. Previous comments are archived at web.archive.org. ]

Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

Resolving missing link to libcrypto openssl on OSX from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38670295/brew-refusing-to-link-openssl

brew update

brew install openssl

ln -s /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/lib/

ln -s /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/lib/

	// Note: this gist is a part of this OSS project that I'm currently working on: https://github.com/steven-tey/dub

	export default async function getTitleFromUrl (url: string) {
	const controller = new AbortController();
	const timeoutId = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), 2000); // timeout if it takes longer than 2 seconds
	const title = await fetch(url, { signal: controller.signal })
	.then((res) => {
	clearTimeout(timeoutId);
	return res.text();
	})

	/*
	Compile:

	gcc -framework Foundation -framework AppKit screenshot.m -o screenshot
	*/

	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
	#import <AppKit/AppKit.h>

	int main(void) {

	// Affix

	// Alert
	export { default as CheckCircleOutline } from '@ant-design/icons/lib/outline/CheckCircleOutline';
	export { default as CloseCircleOutline } from '@ant-design/icons/lib/outline/CloseCircleOutline';
	export { default as CloseOutline } from '@ant-design/icons/lib/outline/CloseOutline';
	export { default as ExclamationCircleOutline } from '@ant-design/icons/lib/outline/ExclamationCircleOutline';
	export { default as InfoCircleOutline } from '@ant-design/icons/lib/outline/InfoCircleOutline';

	// Avatar

	import customModuleLoader = require('module');

	export class CustomModuleLoader {
	public cOptions: any = require('../tsconfig.json').compilerOptions;

	public replacePaths: any = {};

	constructor() {
	Object.keys(this.cOptions.paths).forEach(alias => {
	this.replacePaths[alias.replace(/\.?/, '(.)')] = this.cOptions.paths[alias][0].replace(/\*.?/, '$1');

	variables:
	VERSION_ID: '1.0.$CI_PIPELINE_ID'

	stages:
	- build

	build:
	image: slauta93/electron-builder-win
	stage: build
	artifacts: