What about “bastard” and “penguin”?

TLDR:

The new flaws are CVE-2025-6018 and CVE-2025-6019.

The first is a vulnerability in PAM. The second is in libblockdev.

The PAM vulnerability only affects SUSE Linux systems, other distros are not affected.

Vulnerable versions of libblockdev are 2.25-2 and 2.28-2, newer updates have it fixed.

If the secret’s out, she has no leverage! Shout it from the rooftops!

Is that Homsar?

Is that a Rainwing?

Run dmesg -w or dmesg --follow, press control-L to clear the screen (all of that stuff is irrelevant), then plug in and unplug the drive a few times. If you get messages, then the kernel can recognize the drive. Press control-C when you’re done.

Don’t press X, it’s insecure to SSH attacks. Press Wayland instead.

1. Boot live USB
2. Find the correct partitions using lsblk (you may only need the root partition)
3. Mount them (root goes on /mnt, others go within the root)
4. chroot /mnt (if permission denied, run it with sudo)
5. Search the logs or journals for the error (journald was the first to fail, maybe check its logs first)

If you get errors like “no proc filesystem mounted”, then you also need to mount special filesystems before entering the chroot. Run these commands as root:

mount /proc -t proc /mnt/proc
mount /sys -t sysfs /mnt/sys
mount /dev -t devtmpfs /mnt/dev

If your distro has systemd by default, do not change it. Only hassle lies that way.

If your only alternative is sysvinit/System V, then pick systemd because sysvinit is slower and less advanced.

IIRC, MX Linux uses systemd and sysvinit only.

That seems like the correct answer, since the spate of no-results pages coincided with the rise of the AI-pocalypse.

Amateurs. I can search for fixes while my computer is still broken!

(ctrl-alt-F1, ctrl-alt-F2, etc to switch to TTY, then lynx ddg.gg to get to DuckDuckGo)

It’s still around. The latest release (8.0) is free-as-in-beer for non-commercial use. It’s still proprietary though.

Gentoo users be like: Your system is underperformant and unoptimized. Have you tried Gentoo, and compiling all the packages?

Other users be like:
Have you tried Slackware?
Have you tried Damn Small Linux?
Have you tried Linux From Scratch?
Have you tried hand-optimizing a 386BSD system with a Mach kernel? OOPS, that’s too far!

I have submitted.

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https://sh.itjust.works/post/38938259

Roger doesn’t do push ups, he pushes the earth down

The problem isn’t that I’m getting generic results or irrelevant results, I’m getting no results at all.

To reiterate: My problem is not with SEO, or spam, or AI-generated websites, or irrelevant results. My problem is getting no results much more frequently than in the past.

Unless you’re already using explosives

The exploration/discovery aspect, as in, exploring unknown, barren territory and discovering that you’re lost.

This engine is a massive downgrade, whenever I enter an even slightly weird query, or put too large a phrase in quotes, I get no results at all.

Which, ironically, is the problem with standard search engines that induced me to make this post.