Missing dot files in home folder after fresh install

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You never heard of it @oxwrongagain ? It was a stressful event. Google it

If you’re bored, here’s one thread over in the TW forum - some of us showed possibly vulnerable (one reason I quit using TW):

Tumbleweed today - xz security alert and CVE-2024-3094

If you’re using an up-to-date Tumbleweed, please make sure to update as soon as possible your system. The latest versions of “xz” (5.6.0 and 5.6.1) contained malicious code ( refer to CVE-2024-3094 ) and the package in Tumbleweed has been reverted back to version 5.4. After reading this mail, please update your system and ensure you’re downgrading xz to the version *5.6.1.revertto5.4. *This version despite**itsname is version 5.4. Last step is reboot your system. Hopefully we’ll have soon mor…

This is one of my posts in there, showing the timeline of vulnerability:

Tumbleweed today - xz security alert and CVE-2024-3094

Endless reading for me. (it appears there may be some malware side cases, where other apps / libs are included, so this story may not be over yet - but I’ll not delve there). I just checked my two TW desktops, which I last booted on Mar 11: probably vulnerable I’ve removed the ssh-server package and downgraded xz and liblzma. Why was my Mar 11 last-accessed TW vulnerable? See the timeline below, esp the two Tumbleweed acquisition entries of xz I’ve bolded. Timeline quote from an article …