Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare (www.phoronix.com)
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...
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...
Thunderbird with Hotkeys and general cleanup? (www.youtube.com)
That video is basically just a “this concept is kinda cool but the product sucks”...
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....
ZFS for Dummies (ikrima.dev)
reflections on distrusting xz - joeyh blog (joeyh.name)
Podcast -- A chat about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it - Risky Business (risky.biz)
Aesthetics matter (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
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...
Qt 6.7 released (www.qt.io)
Qt 6.7 is out with lots of large and small improvements for all of us who like to have fun when building modern applications and user experiences. Several additions are released as technology previews, and we are looking forward to your feedback so that we can get everything ready for the next LTS release!
AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires (www.phoronix.com)
have you successfully installed a custom rom / foss on a redmi 10c?
the device is so bloated
Tilde in /usr/local/share/applications~?
I’m creating shortcuts for Syncthing, when I noticed this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/7385aa13-aa7a-4ff8-b0c6-483f91e0eba6.pngIs there supposed to be a “~” after the folder name?
SteamOS as your daily driver?
Is this a totally crazy idea? Talk me down before I hurt myself.
Switch to Container Tabs – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 157 (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Mozilla released a Firefox Nightly test build with vertical tabs - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Nine: a tui sliding puzzle (Bash) (lemmy.world)
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/nine...
research!rsc: The xz attack shell script (research.swtch.com)
hachyderm.io/
Fedora proposal to change default desktop to KDE (fedoraproject.org)
Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 (www.linuxadictos.com)
XZ backdoor in a nutshell (lemmy.zip)
Linux GUI termserv
Due to hardware reqs we’re tossing the idea at work to replace the Microsoft termserv with Linux. Due to the userbase being all windows fans we’d need a full on GUI and i’ve been prodded towards Mint. Good idea or bad?...