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In case one wishes to check whether their xz binary is affected by the xz exploit, there's a check at: https://xz.fail/ Upload the xz binary which is usually at /usr/bin/xz in the installed filesystem, and the website checks it out and returns a result like: CLEAN no implantation detected...

Please pardon my ignorance for this post. I noticed today that "Credits" are now the only statistic that appears with forum members names in the left panel to their responses. Previously there were statistics on the number of posts a member had made. What happened? What are credits? How are...

Today google blocked my browser from using youtube because the browser, firefox, has the ghostery extension. Ghostery does adblocking as well as other helpful functions. Since being logged into youtube at the time, when bringing up the youtube site, a notice appeared with a warning to disable...

The following ideas to address the title of this post were written some time ago after some conversation on these matters in a LUG. Since it was discussed by linux enthusiasts, it may be a little advanced for beginners, but they may nevertheless get some benefit from it. HOW TO APPROACH THE...

I acquired a computer running debian bookworm. On running the command "weather" there's a result. I want to find where the executable is on the system to alter it. The problem is that I can't find where it is. Everything I've tried is in the commands below. It's not in the usual /bin, /usr/bin...