> The victim is prompted to enable the "Installed community plugins" synchronization feature.
Obsidian has the proper protections in place to prevent this type of attack, and the victims are being convinced to ignore them. This is just a successful social engineering event. I hate to see Obsidian dragged down by this headline, since this attack is not exploiting a vulnerability in it or its plugin system.
I took the time to construct this diagram a while back. Thought I'd post it here since it might be useful to others. AFAIK, it's complete and accurate, though any comments on it would be appreciated. Note that the bash startup process is even more complicated than this diagram indicates if bash is launched with certain command-line options. But trying to cover all those cases would make this diagram uselessly complex.
"dig in your heels when confronted with overwhelming dissent"
Sorry, sticking to this one.
Call me anti-social if you want, but facing overwhelming dissent may indicate you're the lone free-thinker in an echo chamber. Being that one guy who's always prodding the hivemind with a pokey stick has value in my opinion (though you will end up getting stung on occasion).
Reporting around this Claude Code CLI leak is rife with disinformation and hyperbole. Even sources we'd like to trust are getting it wrong. This article explains what was leaked, and why it doesn't really matter much.
mkxp is an open source cross-platform runtime engine for RPGMaker games and supports games made with RPGMaker VX. This is the engine they used to make "To The Moon" platform independent. From what I've read it's pretty easy to move games over to mkxp, but you have to be very careful not to use any RPGMaker-licensed assets in your game even if they are royalty-free because they're only licensed for distribution with the genuine RPGMaker engine.
A spinal cord stimulator was suggested to me several years ago to help treat the neuropathic pain [1] associated with my (complete) spinal cord injury. I'm currently trialing Prialt [2] for this, but if it doesn't work (or the side-effects are too nasty) I might pursue the stimulator.
Paraplegic here, can confirm (for myself anyway). After reading several discussions/polls online on the subject, it seems to me that the general order of importance is:
1. Resolution of neuropathic pain
2. Use of hands
3. Sexual function
4. Bladder and bowel function
5. (a few other things)
6. The ability to walk
I should note that the discussions/polls I've read are mostly from the United States. The U.S. is probably the most accessible country in the world, and as a citizen I don't miss walking so much because I can still do almost anywhere I want to. If the discussion was among people from undeveloped countries, the ability to walk might score much higher.
> One might question why all control codes in the ASCII character set have low values, but the DEL control code has value 127. This is, because this specific character was defined for deleting data on paper tapes. Most paper tapes in that time used 7 holes to code the data. The value 127 represents a binary pattern were all seven bits are high, so when using the DEL character on an existing paper tape, all holes are punched and existing data is erased.
I love this, it shows just how old the roots of ASCII are.
PSA - As an alternative to headphones I came up with "stealth" earplugs. Take regular memory-foam earplugs, cut them down so the outer edge is flush with your ear hole, and color the outside edge black with a sharpie. The cut out the background noise but let enough sound through that you can have a normal conversation with someone next to you. Sometimes I wear them all day.
This is exactly the issue I have in my current open floor plan. Developers are intermixed with project managers and business analysts and anyone else who happens to occupy the empty desk at the end of the row.
However, the worst distraction I have is actually another developer whose voice carries like buckshot out at 12 gauge. He's been asked to keep it down but it seems like he is physically incapable of understanding how loud he talks.
TIL one can embed javascript in SVG. Can it be used to do more than just changing the positions and rotations of objects already defined in the file? (In other words, could someone write Space Invaders entirely in SVG?)
Java, C#, Ruby, and Python are all interpreted/VMed languages. I'm curious why you would liken Go to them. Other than garbage collection, I can't see any significant similarities in their design or usage.
For this very reason I made a pair of "stealth" earplugs. Take a standard "memory foam" type earplug, cut it down so the outer edge is flush with your ear hole, and color the outer surface of it black with a sharpie. I've worn them all day before without anyone noticing. They cut down the distant noise, but still let enough sound through to have a normal conversation with someone nearby.
And yes, I invented these shortly after my work area was converted to an open floor plan.
Obsidian has the proper protections in place to prevent this type of attack, and the victims are being convinced to ignore them. This is just a successful social engineering event. I hate to see Obsidian dragged down by this headline, since this attack is not exploiting a vulnerability in it or its plugin system.