Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

@archlinux @fedora

Plasma 6 optimized for Wayland gaming, plus compositor crash recovery https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/plasma-6-optimized-for-wayland-gaming-plus-compositor-crash-recovery/

#Linux #KDE #Wayland

Thank you for bringing us the Kubuntu Focus line of computers! We love to see systems that come with Linux preinstalled.
https://kfocus.org/

To: @kubuntu
From: Fedora

#ILoveFS #Kubuntu #Ubuntu #FedoraLoveFS

These rows are perfectly horizontal and are not moving. A mind-bending anomalous motion variation of the Café wall illusion by Akiyoshi Kitaoka.

Source: http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/motion30e.html

Oh, this is exquisite.

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

@molly0xfff "Stract’s About page says “if we ever become evil (maybe by changing our motto) please take our code and start a competitor. The fact that you have this ability will make sure that our values will always be aligned with our users."

This is probably one of the top reasons why I love #OpenSource.

#HaikuOS: The #OpenSource #BeOS You Can Daily Drive In 2024

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/haiku-os-the-open-source-beos-you-can-daily-drive-in-2024/

The Linux desktop is a house owned by an amateur DIY home improvement person. Floor boards squeak, the back door doesn't latch unless you close it a certain way, you have to jiggle the toilet lever, and there's tape on a light switch controlling an outlet that needs constant power.

The homeowner doesn't fix these things, because they know to jiggle the lever, how to close the door. Working around these flaws has become second nature so they don't even realize they are doing it.

1/2

Take a few minutes to read this important blog post from @pluralistic. He got scammed, and he describes what happened. https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swiss-cheese-security

We're heading into a time when the scammers are gaining the upper hand, no matter how good we are at trying to avoid being taken by experts.

That's the thing: They are experts.

Get ready to do business less conveniently in the near future.

We just released critical security patches for versions 4.1, 4.2, nightly, and the already discontinued 3.5 and 4.0.

If you are using nightly, you can upgrade to the `4.3.0-nightly.2024-02-02-security` tag to get the patch.

Please upgrade as soon as possible!

Time-lapse video of a flight through the eye of Hurricane Florence in September 2018, captured by NOAA's Lockheed WP-3D Orion nicknamed 'Kermit'.

I'm forced to use Windows 11 for my work computer, and I can't honestly say without looking what my default browser is. I have #Firefox, #Vivaldi, and of course Edge because it's pushed by corporate. I solve most of my problems by just not closing my browser. Ever. Occasionally Windows "helpfully" puts Edge into my taskbar for me and I helpfully delete it as soon as I see it. Still, this is beyond the pale. If Microsoft won't stop doing it, the courts should stop them.

https://www.osnews.com/story/138410/platform-tilt-documenting-the-uneven-playing-field-for-an-independent-browser-like-firefox/

This is some impressive research: IOActive researchers figured out how to get root access on a bitcoin ATM, using the same physical access that a regular customer might have (the touch screen).

https://labs.ioactive.com/2024/01/atm-security-owning-bitcoin-atm.html

HP does not serve its customers; HP's customers serve it.

#printers #hp

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out/