I am a simple man: I see BBT, I downvote.
"It's so funny! Sheldon reminds me of you!"
Yeah, never watched it, but heard this enough to hate the show with a passion.
I heard this for years while the show was running. I refused to watch the show as well. I decided to start watching it recently.
It turns out that what people were referring to when they likened me to Sheldon was my autistic traits. Sheldon incorporates a lot of specific autistic traits in his character and I am autistic. The funny thing is, one of the people that was constantly comparing me to Sheldon was a good friend of mine who was also autistic but I guess she is somewhere else on the spectrum which is why it was easier for her to associate me with Sheldon than herself.
I guess my point is to tell you that sometimes people make uneducated guesses and comparisons that may end up seeming funny when you realize why they made them. Watch the show. Laugh at them for comparing you to an exaggerated TV persona because you were different from what they expect the average person to be.
Some roundabout way of calling you autistic. The show is literal garbage though I tried watching it a few times but it's just akward autistic social interaction with plenty of cringe the tv show. Real life autistic people I know are split between hating it for feeling like they are being made fun of to loving it to the point of memorizing every line word for word and being unable to stop themselves from reciting the lines in time with the episode on the screen which honestly scares the hell out of me.
I rewatched a few season 1 episodes a few years back. I remember them actually being funny aside from the canned laughter. It ran for way longer than it should have though and got tiring pretty quickly
Any reason why ? Else than it being a sitecom (which is my number one reason why I never watched it)
I never stumbled upon someone who's hating the show, kinda curious on the arguments
Generally boils down to misogyny and racism. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2018/08/big-bang-theory-plague-society-we-should-rejoice-its-overdue-end
I'm not op but I hated that fucking show.
They use the 4 male leads to make fun of nerdy, generally neurodivergent coded people. One of the leads is an unrepentant asshole and the show seems to argue that he must be an asshole because he's autistic, though they never explicitly state that.
If you happen to be neurodivergent, and grew up being harassed for expressing some of the same traits represented by those characters, the show leaves an all too familiar, very bitter taste. All the while acknowledging that those characters grew up in exactly the same circumstances the show seeks to recreate for laughs.
If you're a neurodivergent person, the show is saying to you that "you have trouble fitting in in the society you live in, that we've created, and that's funny to us."
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If you use Arch, you aren't really affected. As far as we know, the backdoor only affects SSH if it is linked against liblzma, which is a requirement for libsystemd. However, Arch doesn't use that, so SSH has probably been safe. However, you should still update, because we don't know if the backdoor could've been used in other ways.
Note that if you update, xz 5.6.1-2 will be installed. This is a safe version. However, if you run
xz --version, it will still report version 5.6.1.Arch isn't affected afaik, as it specifically targeted Debian and RPM. Also, sshd isn't linked against liblzma (or something along those lines). And I hope that's true, because otherwise, I had a backdoor on a public system for over a month.
Also, sshd isn't linked against liblzma
Not directly, but it's loaded through libsystemd. It is there.
Edit: except on arch, if you use that. That doesn't use libsystemd
And the packages on most distros should be long updated by now.
Even Termux updated to
5.6.1+really5.4.5just 2 hours after Arch Linux.Yeah but the backdoor does not work on Arch (as far as we currently know). It relies on a linking of libraries that Arch doesnt do by default.
And as https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 says:
"These conditions include targeting only x86-64 linux: [...] Building with gcc and the gnu linker [...] Running as part of a debian or RPM package build:"
I'm not an expert of course.
It's fedora 40 BETA not 41.
both afiak
is this really how I find out my system is compromised
Linux be like
I'm on 5.2.8, so I'm safe (am I?)
As far as I know, yes
Gentoo rolled back to 5.4.2 to have a version without any contributions from the person responsibe for the backdoor. 5.2.8 should be ok I'd say.
Be Slackware. Dont use systemd.
I love this community
Thank you for the warning!
Since when is the package in the repo?
Depends on distro. But the backdoored package has not been around for more than a few weeks. But the malicious developer have been active for years.
