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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

This script will create an audio file for each page of a PDF, reading it trought Fastspeech2 using fairseq framework. Perfect for creating audiobooks. It also reads the PDF table of contents and groups the files by the top level charapters. Finally it creates a playlist.

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.1 and Python 3.10.6

Usage

$ pdfToAudio.py --pdf <your pdf file here>

Requeriments

You should have the conmand pdftotext from poppler-utils installed:

Python Versus Nim: Async

No performance benchmark.
Python ⟿ PEP-8
Nim ⟿ NEP1
Python ⟿ 3.7
Nim ⟿ 0.19
No Ofuscation, no Code-Golf.

This is to compare elegant, simple, expressive code.

	# https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
	# https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html
	---
	Language: Cpp
	AlignAfterOpenBracket: Align
	AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false # although we like it, it creates churn
	AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
	AlignEscapedNewlinesLeft: true
	AlignOperands: true
	AlignTrailingComments: false # churn

	package com.blazingmammothgames.util;

	#if neko
	import neko.vm.Thread;
	import neko.vm.Mutex;
	#elseif cpp
	import cpp.vm.Thread;
	import cpp.vm.Mutex;
	#end