nerd7473 @nerd7473@librem.one

Mark Zuckerberg responds to GOP pressure, says Biden pushed to ‘censor’ covid posts https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/27/24229668/mark-zuckerberg-gop-pressure-biden-censor-covid-posts #news

Privacy-first smartphone. No tracking, no data mining. True digital freedom in your pocket. #Librem5
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Call for nominations: Ubuntu Community Council https://lwn.net/Articles/987406/ #tech #linux

Sony CRE-C20 Hearing Aids Review: Rechargeable Batteries - Sony’s updated hearing aids now have a rechargeable battery so you don’t have to fiddle w... - https://www.wired.com/review/sony-cre-c20-hearing-aids/ #gear/products/headphones #productreview #gear/reviews #gear

#Wayland #inputmethod team GO!

I assembled a team to continue work I started for #mobilelinux with #phosh , #squeekboard and #librem5 .

We're going to finish the mobile side of screen-based input, and also try to properly bring traditional input methods (like for Chinese) to Wayland.

Thanks @nlnet for providing the motivation.

Watch this account!

#cjk #touchscreen #osk

Am I right? 🤡

💞 lovely lovely clickity clackity 💞

A post unfinished from Sunday, from which I forgot to share... the keyboard that was ordered some ways back has arrived! a German model of the wonderful Sun Microsystems type 5c (mini-8 pin DIN)

Now I just need to figure out which converter to arrange 🎁

#mechanicalKeyboard #sunmicrosystems #model5c #deutsche #keyboard #nerdstuff #vintage

"The History of Solaris" #SunMicrosystems hype featuring Jonathan "Ponytail" Schwartz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9US9o-QKQA

Sun Open Look VHS tapes uploaded by Play with Junk:

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SKMtH3_TO8

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjcewrp6HNc

#SunMicrosystems #OpenLook

☀️🌻🖥️🌞 In addition to the SPARCstation 20 (pictured), we also host the SPARCstation IPX, SPARCstation 4, SPARCstation 5, and SUN UltraSPARC 1.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #sunmicrosystems #museo #retrocomputing #solaris #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #informatica #sparcstation #microprocessore #tecnica #90s #italia #germany #sparc #vintagesun #maribor #kranj #slovenija #sunultrasparc1 #80s #sparcstation4 #workstation

Since 2015, EFF has named and shamed dozens of officials for their outrageous, ridiculous, and infuriating responses to records requests under open government laws such as the Freedom of Information Act. https://www.eff.org/issues/foilies

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1827435711571575017#m

[2024/08/24 20:00]

#Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France, French media say

Snippet: TF1 and BFM both said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/

Proton VPN has gotten better for Linux with WireGuard support! 💪

https://news.itsfoss.com/protonvpn-wireguard-linux/

Streamline your AI workflow with LibreChat!

https://itsfoss.com/librechat-linux/

Ubuntu Pausing SRU Kernel Updates During September

Canonical has announced it will not be shipping stable release kernel updates during September. Critical security and bug fixes will, naturally, be packaged up and pushed out to users, but any routine rollup releases that pop-out between the start of September and the beginning of October will… not. In an e-mail to the Ubuntu kernel team mailing list Canonical’s Roxana Nicolescu explains that the temporary pause is due to a “critical infrastructure change”, writing: This adjustment will allow us to focus on ensuring a smooth and stable transition. Our next SRU cycle will start when the infrastructure is back online. The
#News

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/ubuntu-pausing-sru-kernel-updates-during-september

What is std::ref?

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2024/08/21/std-ref

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2024/08/21/std-ref

#cpp #programming

LibreOffice 24.8 released, with many new features and improvements

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/08/22/libreoffice-248/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/08/22/libreoffice-248/

#libreoffice #linux #unix

Microsoft breaking a bunch of dual-boot systems by revoking insecure versions of grub during a standard Windows update is, uh, not great and was not supposed to happen, but it's worth mentioning that systems broken by this were running known insecure bootloaders and anyone running a distro that's actually on top of security updates was unaffected

Here's a link to the slides for my "Why are there so many kernel CVEs?" talk I gave at OSS China yesterday:
https://kccncossaidevchn2024.sched.com/event/ed2b39a9a0cdfc1df18de67ce0c2f6be

Link to git repo for the slides if the schedule site acts odd for you:
https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-security

It was fun, and will be the "set up" for my Kernel Recipes talk in Paris in a few weeks (only 3 conferences to go between now and then, travel is back in full swing.)

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