Dmitry Marakasov @AMDmi3@fosstodon.org

So I'm like a security guy now, submitting CVE metadata fixes to NIST NVD for problems discovered by #repology (thanks to NVD people for being responsive btw). Also I'm now monitoring new CVEs stream to find missing CPE bindings and make sure all new CVEs are reported by Repology as vulnerable package versions. Recent #NXNSATTACK CVEs are, for instance.

This is cool. I feel that the project is uniting more parts of #foss ecosystem.

#Repology now supports reporting package versions with known vulnerabilities

https://repology.org/news#2020-05-17

Just realized how software versions are curious from mathematical point of view - for instance, there's infinite number of non-negative elements which are less than zero (like 0beta1).

Just got an idea that pandemic is similar to Ponzi scheme - you're profitable if you join among the first (e.g. until the health system is overloaded and you get the proper treatment) or don't join at all.

I've always been upset of how russian countryside steadily dies out as people have to move to cities seeking for jobs, while in XXI a lot of jobs may be done remotely, giving people more freedom of where to live. I'd gladly move to a village to forget about smoke, crowds, traffic jams and rapacious estate prices. I hope that the pandemic will help spread the idea of remote work.

Pics: abandoned village in Russia.

#Repology now has an experimental feature of listing #foss projects which were packaged in a lot of repositories recently. This weeks trending projects are libfido2 and lunch or, likely because of openssh 8.2 release.

https://repology.org/experimental/trending

I've always been amazed by cyclopic landscapes of Blame! #manga by Tsutomu Nihei. Just got an idea that this setting could be implemented as a #minetest mod. The engine could even allow working GBE!

TIL you can make other people unfollow you on GitHub by blocking and unblocking them.