% xz --version
xz (XZ Utils) 5.4.1
liblzma 5.4.1
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I hope so.
bizdelnick
joined 1 year ago
What's your distro and how did you check needed libraries? I guess that liblzma.so can be needed by libzstd.so in your system.
% libtree /usr/bin/zstd
/usr/bin/zstd
├── libz.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
├── liblz4.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
└── liblzma.so.5 [ld.so.conf]
% lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release: 12
Codename: bookworm
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If we assume that GitHub activity occurred during working hours 9:00 – 18:00, then the timezone is UTC+0, not UTC+2. There are only 6 events outside that interval, 5 of which occurred between 18:00 and 19:00 UTC.
It's a window manager feature. I don't know which one is used in Cinnamon by default and if it is able to do so, but you can switch to another one anyway even without changing the complete DE. E. g. xfwm4 provides such a feature. I believe that kwin also does.
I also suggest you to try some tiling WM, you may like it.
Look at what libs zstd is linked to. You'll be surprised.
almost no one lives in Siberia
LOL, seriously? There are ~1 mln people living in Irkutsk, Bratsk and Angarsk (all UTC+8). And there are much bigger cities in UTC+7 like Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk. Of course there are much fewer people than in China but that's not "almost no one".
However I agree that the malicious actor is likely from Europe or Middle East. I also investigated their activitity time but instead of commit timestamps that are easy to fabricate I looked at their GitHub activity time. Unfortunately, the GitHub API only allows to get events for the latest 90 days, but that is enough make some guesses (but not to say if they live in a country with the daylight savings time switchover).
Below are extracted timestamps for those who want to examine them.
timestamps
"2024-03-28T14:59:59Z"
"2024-03-28T13:27:31Z"
"2024-03-26T12:11:30Z"
"2024-03-26T12:09:32Z"
"2024-03-25T17:14:47Z"
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"2024-03-22T14:51:38Z"
"2024-03-22T14:40:30Z"
"2024-03-22T14:40:08Z"
"2024-03-22T12:23:35Z"
"2024-03-22T12:23:23Z"
"2024-03-22T12:15:30Z"
"2024-03-22T11:48:30Z"
"2024-03-22T11:36:21Z"
"2024-03-19T11:47:53Z"
"2024-03-13T16:12:30Z"
"2024-03-13T15:50:19Z"
"2024-03-13T15:27:53Z"
"2024-03-13T14:44:50Z"
"2024-03-11T14:37:02Z"
"2024-03-11T14:37:03Z"
"2024-03-11T12:18:20Z"
"2024-03-09T12:00:46Z"
"2024-03-09T10:46:06Z"
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"2024-03-09T09:51:04Z"
"2024-03-09T09:36:25Z"
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"2024-03-04T17:55:15Z"
"2024-03-04T17:40:09Z"
"2024-03-04T17:14:39Z"
"2024-03-04T16:49:22Z"
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"2024-02-29T16:55:34Z"
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"2024-02-28T16:19:35Z"
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"2024-02-27T16:53:48Z"
"2024-02-27T15:48:22Z"
"2024-02-27T12:29:17Z"
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"2024-02-26T15:36:07Z"
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"2024-02-26T11:49:04Z"
"2024-02-25T13:42:52Z"
"2024-02-25T13:41:06Z"
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"2024-02-23T12:48:54Z"
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"2024-01-31T16:41:08Z"
"2024-01-31T16:24:51Z"
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"2024-01-11T14:05:33Z"
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"2024-01-09T12:46:06Z"
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"2024-01-05T13:17:52Z"
What? Use a bloatware that consumes a lot of resources, slows down the whole system and increases the attack surface instead of regular updates? Are you kidding?
Maybe Devuan or another Debian derivative.
You are lucky. My laptop's fingerprint scanner did not work out of the box. I also had troubles with audio ("subwoofer" was disabled) and WiFi (losing connection). This all was fixed in later Ubuntu updates, but I had to wipe out Dell's spyware manually. So I'd say Dell with preinstalled Ubuntu is the same as any laptop with FreeDOS: you have to install the OS you need instead preinstalled one and troubleshoot all the driver issues. No guarantees that all hardware is Linux compatible.