"LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"(eldritch.cafe)

405 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 161 comments

A Mastodon post by an author on eldritch.cafe noting that LibreOffice opens old Microsoft Word files better than Word itself does.

Mozilla's Original Sin(jwz.org)

23 points by lleyton 2 years ago | 10 comments

Alamut (Bartol Novel)(en.wikipedia.org)

25 points by lermontov 3 years ago | 6 comments

Simon Riggs has died(m6n.io)

793 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 211 comments

Mastodon post by Josh Berkus reporting that PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs died in a small airplane crash, noting his contributions to replication.

MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO(blog.vonng.com)

200 points by zufallsheld 8 months ago | 72 comments

Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained(gynvael.coldwind.pl)

439 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 90 comments

Gynvael Coldwind's blog post explaining the obfuscation techniques used in the bash stages of the xz/liblzma backdoor that affected OpenSSH.