so Chrome 94 will be released on 09/21 and Firefox 94 on 10/05 .. what a coincidence, seems like 'my version number is bigger then yours' is still a thing in 2021 ;)
anyways, I like having these aligned - one number less to keep track of
Maybe we'll see versioning ala Ubuntu in the future, "Firefox 21.03.04" for todays release. Append more digits if you start doing more than one per day.
The security superiority of Linux in contrast to Windows is rooted in its server/headless form - all of that changes as soon as you start good old X
Wayland is supposed to fix most of those legacy shortcomings enabling proper app-level sandboxing. It took a while, but its implementations are more or less usable as daily drivers these days - if you're interested in desktop security, help to push Wayland to become a hassle free replacement of X is appreciated a lot
On the other hand, has Wayland figured out how to allow screen shots, screen sharing in video meetings, live streaming your screen and such things yet?
Yep, those things work (though both GNOME and KDE still have unstable compsitors, so take that as you will).
There is also pipewire going somewhat stable (I had issues with bluetooth but otherwise it worked perfectly), that would enable all these things without applications having to worry about the compository at all.
For the longest time we've been unable to get ActivityWatch [1] (an open-source automated time-tracker) to work reliably on Wayland due to the inability in many Wayland DEs to retrieve the title and app name of the active window.
Things have improved recently (in part due to our own efforts to submit PRs to DEs), but we still need one implementation per DE more or less, since many don't implement the "common" Wayland protocol to accomplish this (Gnome, KDE).
The issue is that you still need to sandbox your apps, if you sandbox your apps you could probably create a sandbox around X too. So far most wayland+flatpack apps are not secure but the GUIS advertise them as sandboxed.
thanks a lot for the curated collection! I've been tinkering a bit with milkdrop visualization on the raspberry pi 4 using projectM [1] and found the amount of mediocre presets in the full collection quite high :/ will certainly be using your curated list as a new starting point for finding my own favourites
This seems like a good idea... until your self-hosted DNS server starts getting DoS attacked. I've had seemingly innocent servers practically taken off the Internet with UDP/53 floods- very easy for any 12-year-old to execute.
'Twitter for racists' is too easy. I'm a big fan of free speech and against censorship. Lots of pretty red blooded and objectionable discussion and posturing on there ( I set up an account to explore) but it has to be vented somewhere by people and I think it's better in the open.
The whole FB anodyne institutional blue bland discussion thing has run its course I feel...
got a 24" LG 1080p monitor in the van that needs less than 20W - doable with a small extra battery and 100W solar. the 4k monitors from LG are quite energy efficient as well (<30W)
For a long time, they just did source-code dumps whenever they made a binary release (i.e., did what is required by the LGPL). They actively chose to move it to being run as an open-source project, with public history, public bug tracking, and public contributions.
been safely driving a van with 140km/h top-speed on the autobahn just fine for years - there might be a correlation between the maximum speed of a car and the owners inability to drive safely, but the explanation is probably more a psychological than a technical one ..
your mindset is quite common among german car makers though, maybe the reason they are unable to offer competitive answers to a technologically rather boring challenge - bringing down the price for electronic vehicles by mass production
I have spent a lot of time driving a van with similar speed limitations around Germany as well. I agree completely. While it was frustrating as an American growing up hearing about the autobahn, it was still faster than I would drive in America.
It would only be unsafe if you attempted to pass people inappropriately (and spent too much time in the left lane). This is a driver issue, not a car issue.
