A shame one of the alternatives mentioned in the article is down but available via wayback machine. They wrote their own reply after being linked to:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250905155850/https://belkadan.com/blog/2023/11/GitMounter/

A few days ago Julia Evans posted this:

has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit?

the idea is that you could just run cd COMMIT_ID and poke around instead of checking out the commit

and maybe the branches could be symbolic links to the commit folders?

And I did in fact do something very like that, back when I was playing with FUSE! But I never put it up anywhere cause it had an annoying build process, and didn’t seem to add much, and—

Well, in any case, Evans asked to see it, so here it is, cleaned up to be a plain old SwiftPM package. It should work on macOS and on Linux as long as you have FUSE (macFUSE or libfuse-dev), libgit2, pkg-config, and Swift installed; on Linux you’ll have to create the mount directory first. (If you run the command and it fails it’ll tell you what path it tried to use.)

% swift run mount-git /path/to/checkout

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By the way, if you don’t know who Julia Evans is, they make blog posts and zines exploring all sorts of software in a way accessible to newbies and veterans alike, all with a lovely sense of discovery and enjoyment. This follow-up post to the original prompt really underscores their approach:

guys this is such a fun idea I cannot believe people are in the replies trying to explain to me why they think it is impractical

the whole point of computers is to do impractical things and see what happens

You should definitely follow them and/or subscribe to their newsfeed. :-)

Same experience as quoted - I used to use it. Once you have it ‘trained’ it’s good to know the bad stuff is not getting through but it’s a pain to maintain and for every new site you visit it takes experimentation to get the right setup.

You really want to share the pain of setup with other privacy people which is how ublock works with its lists I think.

Grateful the SFC has got users’ backs!

404 Media seem to be doing a great job, support independent media!

…[the group] has claimed responsibility for similar DDoS attacks on the likes of eBay’s Japan and US divisions, as well as BlueSky in just the past month alone.

Why the group is targeting London-based Canonical remains unclear and no reason was given via its Telegram channel. It is presumably because Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distros.

This is the meat of the headline:

For example, the Anthropic-claimed 181 Firefox exploits ran with the browser sandbox turned off and the FreeBSD exploit transcript “shows substantial human guidance, not autonomy.”

Additionally, the “‘thousands of severe vulnerabilities’ extrapolates from 198 manually reviewed reports. The Linux kernel bug was found by Opus 4.6, the public model, not Mythos,” Devansh said.

Another researcher, Davi Ottenheimer, pointed out that the security section (Section 3, pages 47-53) of Anthropic’s 244-page documentation “contains no count of zero-days at all. With no CVE list, no CVSS distribution, no severity bucket, no disclosure timeline, no vendor-confirmed-novel table, no false-positive rate.”

Ottenheimer likens it to “the ending of the Wizard of Oz, a sorry disappointment about a model weaponizing two bugs that a different model found, in software the vendor had already patched, in a test environment with the browser sandbox and defense-in-depth mitigations stripped out.”

Canenter, Canentrance, Can’entree?

I mention https://lemmy.ca/c/linuxphones in case you’ve not found it already. It’s not like an authoritive, central forum where everyone goes but maybe it’s a start.