Everyone on WebP today: "Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck."

Just days after Apple released iOS 16.6.1 to secure iPhones and iPads against a critical zero-day exploit involving ImageIO, Google has rushed out an emergency security update for Chrome users for a zero-day threat impacting the WebP image format. [...]

Any software that uses the libwebp library is affected by this vulnerability, including Electron-based applications such as 1Password and Signal.

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Absolute table-flip badassery:

The comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain. What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is now owned by everyone, for all time. It's done, and as most experts will tell you, once done it cannot be undone. Take-backs are neither contemplated nor possible. [...]

Since I can't afford to sue DC, to force them to live up to the letter and the spirit of our long-time agreements; since even winning such a suit would take ridiculous amounts of money out of my pocket and years out of my life (I'm 67 years old, and don't have the years to spare), I've decided to take a different approach, and fight them in a different arena, inspired by the principles of asymmetric warfare. The one thing in our contract the DC lawyers can't contest, or reinterpret to their own benefit, is that I am the sole owner of the intellectual property. I can sell it or give it away to whomever I want.

I chose to give it away to everyone. If I couldn't prevent Fables from falling into bad hands, at least this is a way I can arrange that it also falls into many good hands. Since I truly believe there are still more good people in the world than bad ones, I count it as a form of victory.

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The real tragedy here is that we didn't get video of the event. Our neighbor across the street described the sound as a washing machine falling down the stairs. It lifted itself off its mount and tried to go airborne:

You can see some photos of this fan when it was in the first flush of youth in my photos from 2001, during its first flight.

Our regular HVAC guy is out of town, so if you have any recommendations...

A new Mozilla Foundation report concludes that cars, all of them, have terrible data privacy.

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label—making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed.

There’s a lot of details in the report. They’re all bad.

BoingBoing post.

In the video we can see applications seamlessly move between Plasma, Gnome, Weston, Hyprland and Sway as part of the wayland robustness project.

The two most important things about any software project are its logo and mascot. Here is a proposal for both for CapyPDF.

As you can probably tell I'm not a professional artist, but you gotta start somewhere. The original idea was to have a capybara head which is wearing the PDF logo much like a bow tie around its ear. The gist of it should come across, though it did look much better inside my brain. The PDF squiggle logo is hard to mold to the desired shape.

The font is Nimbus Sans, which is one of the original PostScript Core Fonts. More precisely it is a freely licensed metrically compatible version of Helvetica. This combines open source with the history of PDF quite nicely.