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from the do-you-have-update-for-my-boothole? dept.
Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches:
Early this morning, an urgent bug showed up at Red Hat's bugzilla bug tracker—a user discovered that the RHSA_2020:3216 grub2 security update and RHSA-2020:3218 kernel security update rendered an RHEL 8.2 system unbootable.
[...] The patches were intended to close a newly discovered vulnerability in the GRUB2 boot manager called BootHole.
[...] Unfortunately, Red Hat's patch to GRUB2 and the kernel, once applied, are leaving patched systems unbootable. The issue is confirmed to affect RHEL 7.8 and RHEL 8.2, and it may affect RHEL 8.1 and 7.9 as well. RHEL-derivative distribution CentOS is also affected.
Red Hat is currently advising users not to apply the GRUB2 security patches (RHSA-2020:3216 or RHSA-2020:3217) until these issues have been resolved.
Ubuntu and Debian are also apparently affected.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday August 02 2020, @06:12PM (1 child)
But censorship is not the correct response for a 'distraction'. Who decides what is acceptable - a religious extremist, a politician, the Chinese government, the most wealthy, a tinpot dictator, white supremacists? With moderation - WE, the community, decide what is acceptable on our site.
APK's posts might be easily recognisable as Spam, but who gets to decide the cases that aren't as obvious?
Yes, many of the posts piss me off too, but the USA has a principle of freedom of speech. We chose to host this site in the USA to take advantage of that very fact amongst others. I used to have to browse at 0 as an active editor, but I found that scrolling past unwanted comments and moderating up the comments worth reading was a small price to pay to keep that freedom.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday August 08 2020, @04:12AM
I share the view that some other Soylentils have expressed recently (and TMB appears to share) which is that once the same text is being posted multiple times at close intervals (or text which appears to differ only to evade a spam filter), blocking or removing the redundant comments don't impinge upon freedom of speech in any meaningful way in the context of this discussion forum, provided the original comment is left intact.
The community, of course. Part of the reason APK's posts caused so much discussion is they were widely perceived to have crossed a line, suggesting that they should perhaps be dealt with differently to the less obvious cases. TMB talked about the prospect of implementing filters to block them, for example.
One suggestion I would make is to have an option to move all posts below a certain score to the bottom of the page, or better still, to a separate page that's not even downloaded to the client unless you open the link. That would have stopped the Spam filling up the page and making the other comments harder to read and it's still not censorship because you're not deleting it and all users can still read it if they want to.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?