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SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker (arstechnica.com)

HandBrake 1.7.2 Improves Automatic Selection of Dolby Vision Level (9to5linux.com)

Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)

Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.

LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA (stgraber.org)

Blog post from LXC’s project lead

Arcan releases 0.6.3 and receives funding from NLNET and a private entity (arcan-fe.com)

Mullvad has Deb and RPM repositories now! (mullvad.net)

You can easily add them by following the instructions on their site....

Canonical changes the license of LXD to AGPL (discourse.ubuntu.com)

This week in KDE: un-flashy important stability work (pointieststick.com)

openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/51 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)

This week in KDE: Holiday bug fixes (pointieststick.com)

Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support (www.phoronix.com)

QEMU 8.2 Released With New VirtIO-Sound & VirtIO-GPU "Rutabaga" Devices (www.phoronix.com)

Zorin OS 17 Has Arrived (blog.zorin.com)

Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (ubuntu.com)

In collaboration with Polar Signals we have committed that beginning with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, our GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) package will enable frame pointers by default for 64-bit platforms. All packages in Ubuntu, with very few exceptions, will be rebuilt with frame pointers enabled, making them easier to profile and...

NVK holiday update: What we've achieved, and where we're headed (www.collabora.com)

Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future (www.phoronix.com)

Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available. (kbin.social)

Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....

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