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Happy Patch Tuesday!

I've been inspired by the frogs chirping from the creek by my house.

I'm trying something different for today's patch. Printing on LINEN with GREEN ink.

If you have a favorite shirt that needs a repair, or a bag that needs some flair (see what I did there?) visit my website to add one to your collection!

If you have managed to delete your C:\inetpub folder following the recent #Windows security #patch for #cve202521204 then you can re-create it using the following PowerShell script:

github.com/mmotti/Reset-inetpub

This script recreates this empty folder with the correct TrustedInstaller and SYSTEM privilages.

It does nothing to prevent the creation of HardLinks to this folder of course.

You could remove the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege (via secpol.msc for example) from a user account to prohibit creation of SymLinks but you would need to check in a test envoiroment to see what effects might have that have and what might break 🤔🤷‍♂️

Did you see anytime different patch number when you run uname -a or freebsd-version?

It is not wrong because not all patches are applied to kernel or to userland. uname shows kernel patch.

check results of commands below:
$ freebsd-version -r (for kernel patch number)

$ freebsd-version -u (for userland patch number)

Honestly little bit confusing, but maybe because I do not understand details.

If you haven't done so yet and you are playing with Open Source Operating Systems, read this article about the BSD family

it is very enlightening, and worth every minute of reading it

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD  #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #UNIX #History

it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23

IT NotesOSDay 2025 - Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025
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An alle #Libreoffice Nutzer:innen - dringendes #Update notwendig: Normalerweise werden Links zu ausführbaren Dateien als Security Feature durch die Software blockiert, um nicht zu einer ungewünschten Codeausführung zu gelangen. Durch die #Sicherheitslücke CVE-2025-0514 lässt sich genau dieser Schutzmechanismus umgehen - ein #Patch ist verfügbar:
#cybersecurity

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