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Here's what an email from metabase looks like for those affected:

  On Monday, August 3, we discovered  that Metabase Cloud was attacked by someone utilizing an unknown (“0-day”) security vulnerability in versions 1.58 and above. We immediately blocked the endpoints used for the attack, then quickly identified and patched the vulnerability. We notified law enforcement, and we have engaged with a third party forensics firm to conduct an independent investigation.

  Your instance of Metabase was vulnerable to this 0-day. Therefore, to protect your company, we recommend you:

  Rotate the credentials for every database connected to your instance; and
   Review the admin accounts on your instance and remove anything you don't recognize.
   We also discovered that the attacker was able to gain access to your instance.  We created a report on the actions we believe the attacker took on your instance, which includes log files, and which you can get from the Metabase Store at https://store.metabase.com.

  (If you do not have access to the Metabase Store, are having issues accessing the report, or do not want to click on a link in an unexpected email, you can log into your instance directly and reach us at Help > Get help in the grid menu in the upper right hand corner. We'll confirm this message is from us and email you the report.)

  This report is based on our own application logs. We did not query or read the data in your connected databases.

  Depending on the jurisdictions in which you operate and kinds of data your instance connects to, you may have notification obligations under applicable laws. If you have concerns in this regard, we recommend you assess potential notification obligations with your company’s legal or compliance experts.

  We regret any inconvenience this incident may cause you, and we are here to support you. If you have questions, please reply to this email or email us at [email protected], and we'll get back to you as quickly as we can.

  Sameer Al-Sakran
  Founder and CEO
  Metabase

Based on what they shared in terms of logs and summary, the attacker was scanning tables for valuable data. They took the first N rows from various tables in connected DBs, kind of at random it seems. Possibly some kind of regexing. Here's an example timeline:

  | Time | Event |
  | --- | --- |
  | 13:00 | Access gained and authenticated as the administrator account |
  | 13:01 – 13:12 | 54 queries were run through that session |
  | 13:14 | API key was created (key ID `1`) tied to a service account |
  | 13:14 – 13:17 | 19 further queries were run through the API key |
  | 13:17 | API key was deleted |

Linux does though?

  cat /etc/machine-id

I’m not in the EU so I have not, this is based on the technical changes mentioned, and what I’ve heard from people. Feel free to try if you are in the EU: kobo.com/update

Which startech product did you end up getting? One of the hubs or chargers? I have a similar issue with various USB-C rack devices

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That “compact JSON” format reminds me if the special protobufs JSON format that Google uses in their APIs that has very little public documentation. Does anyone happen to know why Google uses that, and to OP, were you inspired by that format?

A nonprofit I help out just moved from Slack to Discord for a very simple reason: Slack pricing was too expensive, and as the amount of people increased, the price continues to climb. Discord is free

Note that Threema has had a recent change in ownership to a German investment firm. Supposedly nothing will change but I can’t help but be wary

Where can I learn more about hardware acceleration of WebP on mobile OSes? I haven’t yet come across a resource that confirms this is actually the case. I know it should theoretically be possible using the VP8 hardware decoders but I thought those were expensive to warm up just for images

I was able to use the (free) app “ReadID Me” to decode passport information months ago

It's somewhat popular for piracy, when you know that your site could never pass the Apple/Google store reviews. I've seen it with, for example, manga aggregators

I disagree regarding the choice of codec. Currently, I have no issues receiving, saving, and viewing H265 streams. Any modern CPU/GPU can handle them natively (I use a 2018 Intel CPU w/ QSV), any modern desktop or mobile device (I use both Android and iOS) can stream it, and the recorded video takes up less space. What are you using that requires transcoding?