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XZ backdoor in a nutshell
I have been reading about this since the news broke and still can't fully wrap my head around how it works. What an impressive level of sophistication.
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XZ backdoor in a nutshell
I have been reading about this since the news broke and still can't fully wrap my head around how it works. What an impressive level of sophistication.
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White House official threatens to redraw Canadian border
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I'm actually thinking of buying a gun, which is crazy because I've been opposed to them my whole life.
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I can now control external display brightness from KDE and I don't know why. Thank you, nameless Linux contributor
Probably using ddcutil. There is a popular gnome extension for the same thing:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2645/brightness-control-using-ddcutil
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Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
Grand Theft Auto.
All of them, but especially V. I have tried a few times to play them but never get more than a few missions in before losing interest in the story. I think I have to like or identify with a protagonist to enjoy a game, and most GTA characters are pretty unlikable.
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What's an uplifting fact that might counter the doom of our current reality?
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And the best part is that this is driven by economics, not even policy at this point. Renewables are cheaper.
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Do you prefer cut or uncut?
I find my uncut wood a little too big to fit in the fireplace, so I think I will say cut.
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So how is not buying American going for you?
I'm currently switching all my computing/cloud stuff over to Canadian and/or EU providers. I'm going to move my domains to Easy DNS and try out a VPS from LunaNode.
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How do you, or do you vet if a software will paywall features or "enshittify"?
Just use open source software?
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Introducing GNOME 49, “Brescia”
Integrated brightness control for multiple monitors is awesome!
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Laptop companies: which one?
Framework. I've run Debian, Fedora and for a while now NixOS, all of which have worked flawlessly.
I did have to replace the heatsink/fan part on mine because the fan bearing started clicking, but I'm sure that was just a first generation product issue (I was one of the first batches). I was glad to be able to do the replacement myself at relatively low cost and the process couldn't have been easier (took about 30 minutes).
My previous machine was a 2013-ish ThinkPad X series and the Framework absolutely blows it out of the water. I'm looking forward to upgrading mine to a Ryzen motherboard sometime in the not so distant future.
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Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.
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Its an American company so I suppose it is possible.
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Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)
I'm a little surprised that they are planning on testing downstream distros like bazzite. It would make more sense to just stick to the biggest upstream distros like Arch/Debian/Fedora for benchmark purposes in my opinion.
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Iran's President to Trump: I will not negotiate, 'do whatever the hell you want'
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Even then it doesn't matter, CUSMA was negotiated by him and look how that is playing out.
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What's your self-induced pain points fellow linux users
I have an HP printer
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Introducing GNOME 46, “Kathmandu”
What a great looking release. I'm most excited that we finally have proper caldav/carddav support built in!
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Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought | Seth Klein
It sucks that we had no realistic (as in actually able to win) alternative. Not exactly thrilled with him, but he is clearly better than the other possible leader we could have been stuck with.
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Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch
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Time to fork it.
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Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing.
Meanwhile I get support for both completely ad free with infinite selection on my Jellyfin server... What on earth are these companies thinking, you literally get a superior product by not paying for it. I would gladly pay a small fee per download of DRM free files if that were an option.
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What is the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
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I came here to say my safety razor from 1932 that I use daily, but you beat me by a couple decades!
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I don't think its worth trying to repair the US relationship until they demonstrate the ability to go through at least a few sane presidents. Even if they manage to rid themselves of Trump and seem to be returning to sanity, they will probably just elect another lunatic again.