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Coming up in this episode

• Does it do Passkeys tho?


• So What Happened to Xz anyway?


• How do we fix the internet?

The Video Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bN3PRmHJY

Timestamps

0:00 Cold Open

1:36 Amazingly Self-Hosted

34:13 The History of Xz and the Hack*!

49:58 How to Fix Open Source

1:15:56 Next Time

1:20:42 Stinger

💻Self Hosting and Passkeys🔑

• Audiobookshelf


• Immich


• Tailscale


• What are Passkeys - Tom's Guide


• Passkeys - FIDO Alliance

📣Announcements📣

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📖The History of XZ🦜

• LZMA


• Andrey Markov


• LZ77 and LZ78


• 7zip history


• Slackels


• LZMA in the form of the GCC compiled LZMA SDK


• Tukanni Linux Project was officially gone


• LZMA Utils was left behind in favor of the similarly LZMA-backed Xz Utils.


• version 5.0 is the transition from LZMA to XZ.


• Some distributions would eventually migrate to using Z Standard compression, including Arch in 2019 and Fedora and Ubuntu would make the switch in 2020.


• A new face, Jigar Kumar, shows up.


• January 7th, 2023, Jia Tan was finally able to merge their own commits to Xz on Github.


• Jia tries to convince the OSS-Fuzz team to accept a patch that disabled Indrect Function.


• Adding the test files which weren't test files at all.


• Andres Freund's Mastodon post


• On April 2nd, 2024, Collin adds a page to his tukaani.org domain.

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⚒️How To Fix Open Source🛠️

• Heartbleed


• I'm not a supplier


• XKCD 2347

🔭Next Time🔭

We plan to explore your feedback and some other topics. Our final history episode of the season will be Gentoo.

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