#PrivateBin v1.7.6 released - Several quality-of-life frontend improvements & some backend code cleanup

I think we could now consider switching from the bootstrap 3 to the bootstrap 5 template as the default in the next release. Still need to migrate the templates of the info and directory websites to use bootstrap 5, though, so it all looks the same.

Is changing the look-and-feel of the default template, while keeping all of it's functionality the same, considered a major number change in terms of semantic versioning? We would not remove the old template, so if the old one is configured it would keep looking the same. See for example our template screenshots for a comparison of the two.

Did go see Furiosa tonight, can highly recommend, if you enjoy George Miller's Mad Max series. I'd call this the Rogue One of the series. 🤩

It fills a lot of gaps and backstory of Immortan Joe and the citadel and the other wasteland towns and of course, Furiosa. It ends just before Fury Road hits off and even has short scenes from Fury Road as reminders of how that story went during the end credits. It would be perfect to watch the two back to back as a double feature.

Arguably, Max does briefly show up in this one, but it is only a vague reference via the iconic car and a brief shot of a man standing next to it with his back towards the audience. Bit like in the early Fury Road trailer.

Edit: Removed the CW reg. mild spoilers. Doesn't seem to translate properly to Mastodon, messed up the order of the content and didn't hide anything. Sorry.

Congratulations @Natanael Copa on the release of Alpine Linux 3.20!

I know how much of an effort this one turned out to be and can not thank you enough for all of your efforts to get this one over the line and into our hands.

One does not simply
telnet into Mordor.

One ssh-es in,
using an exploit in a compression library,
shipped to them by their trusted distro in a supply chain attack.

A classic bug for a leap day: At work, colleagues discovered and fixed a bug in a lesser used tool that only occurs on February 29th. It did trip up the tests, so no one got to merge until it got identified and resolved.

The source file in question hadn't been touched in over 4 years. Last leap year, the 29th was on a Saturday, so likely no one noticed.

What was annoying is that the logic had been clearly written with the intent of handling leap years. A leap year check condition was present, validated only on a February > 28th, but had to get inverted.

You may wonder why we wouldn't have used the languages' standard library date functions to validate the date - unfortunately the language in question doesn't have such a sophisticated standard library (language omitted to protect the innocent).

Best #37C3 quote so far:

[...] to observe the international compressor holiday [...]

Context: Newag's train "DRM"

Congratulations to Sergio Benitez on releasing rocket.rs 0.5.0! Thank you for this great framework. 👏

I got to follow rocket's journey to async and stable #rust with the PrivateBin directory service. Coming from Python flask apps, it is really easy to pick up and get going with your webservice, offering static & templated content, easy to create web forms and JSON APIs.

Thanks to rust's strict type system I could focus on the logic and didn't have to waste time double checking and casting data received by clients. If my API accepts an integer in a certain parameter, Rocket will ensure I only receive valid requests in my logic.