HMC Weekly Recap

Mariano Uvalle is our server admin. You may reach the author at mariano@handmadecities.com

Hey everyone! For those of you that know me, yes, I’m alive and doing well; it’s nice to write to you again. For those that don’t, nice to e-meet you! I’m Mariano, your server admin. I took over some of our server and infra duties to free up Abner’s time (let’s hope it turns into a steady stream of Terminal Click features), I also occasionally write to you about what’s happening in our community. Without further ado:

We Patched the “Copy Fail” Vulnerability

The recent and notorious CVE-2026-31431 has been patched for our community server. Unfortunately, Handmade Revolt user lunar also flagged some new ones:

y’all will want to mitigate DirtyFrag too. tldr: disable esp4, esp6, and pxrpc kernel modules. It’s CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500.

It’s curious to see this spike in serious CVEs. Let us hope it’s not the new normal… but if it is we’ll be on guard all the same!

Open-Source Contributions

I finally have the ability to invite users to the HMC Gitea (notice the new branding as well!) That means I’ll be onboarding contributors to help with my endless TODO list. If you’re interested in improving our community server, shoot me a message at u.g.a.mariano@gmail.com (my handmadecities alias is temporarily out of commission).

Volunteers for the HMC Library

Abner published an official memo laying out his summer plans for a community library! Please email support@handmadecities.com if you have items to lend or donate for the cause.

Reminder: Linux Spreadsheet

We’re still very interested to know what your Linux setup looks like! Fill out the sheet and give us your deetz: Abner is particularly interested because he intends to host a homelab & modding party later this year (in Seattle and other cities as well.)

Until next time,

your friendly Server Admin