When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian (www.theguardian.com) Spanish
Dell is so frustrating
Dell has got to be one of the most frustrating companies that put out a linux laptop. They put out a laptop certified for ubuntu but then never support newer releases. A big part of their hardware is always proprietary drivers like webcam, fingerprint reader etc… Then you update to a new LTS release because lets be serious...
Rectangle for Linux?
To preface this, I’ve used Linux from the CLI for the better part of 15 years. I’m a software engineer and my personal projects are almost always something that runs in a Linux VM or a Docker container somewhere, but I’ve always used a Mac to work on personal and professional projects. I have a Windows desktop that I use...
recommendations for desktop Lemmy client?
Looking for a Lemmy client for my desktop, archlinux. Was hoping for a good community recommendation and preferably open source.
sshfs pemission denied on root path folder
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CLI text processing with GNU Coreutils (head, tail, tr, sort, paste, pr, join, etc)
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Linux distros recommandations
Hello, I wanna know which distro could be could for productivity (not gaming). Maybe a debian based one, I don’t know and I don’t care about the desktop env. Thx!
Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression (9to5linux.com)
Linux Firmware Update Utility Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression for Future Releases...
xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094) (gist.github.com)
A lot of comments there. Found this one via a search engine.
Fedora + Hyprland?
Are there any issues?
X.Org & XWayland Hit By Four Security Issues (lists.x.org)
Some thoughts on the xz backdoor
While the exact details of this vulnerability are still investigated (see hereif you want to catch up on the topic), I wanted to share some of the thoughts I had regarding to what this incident means for the wider open source ecosystem....
Tablet Calibration on Bazzite OS
Hey, I’m trying to calibrate my Wacom Cintiq Pro 32 on Bazzite OS, but I am running into issues. My problem is that my cursor is ~10px off from my pen tip, which makes drawing quite weird. Common sense would take you to KDE Plasma’s settings app, but the “Drawing Tablet” Input Device setting does not feature a tablet...
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare (www.phoronix.com)
if you installed a linux distro on a macbook pro, can you change the mac address?
I installed ubuntu xfce 23.04 on a 2014 macbook pro 11.1....
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind (web.archive.org)
Does anyone know how to execute a script when a certain sound plays?
I have a dumb work related chrome thing, i’d like to make it so that when a certain notification sound plays in chromium, my computer does a few things automatically for me...
AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires (www.phoronix.com)
The XZ Utils backdoor is a symptom of a larger problem (ariadne.space)
Found in this huge list : security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-3094
XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams (web.archive.org)
Thunderbird with Hotkeys and general cleanup? (www.youtube.com)
That video is basically just a “this concept is kinda cool but the product sucks”...
SteamOS as your daily driver?
Is this a totally crazy idea? Talk me down before I hurt myself.
fwupd and xz metadata (blogs.gnome.org)
Why can’t I macchange my 2014 macbook with ubuntu 23.10 on it?
I followed all steps: I disabled network manager’s automatic search for networks with sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager.service, I executed sudo ip link set wlp4s0 down as well, sudo macchanger -r wlp4s0 returned [ERROR] Could not change MAC: interface up or insufficient permissions...