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Apr 18, 2024

Every time I notice what's happening in Windows land I'm so very happy to be a Linux user, it seems like every update things are only getting worse and worse over there.

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Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations
Windows Update: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations
Pcworld Article 1: https://www.pcworld.com/article/1668041/ads-in-the-windows-11-start-menu-are-definitely-coming.html
Pcworld Article 2: https://www.pcworld.com/article/1373805/the-windows-11-start-menu-is-microsofts-latest-advertising-space.html
Twitter Post 1: https://twitter.com/thebookisclosed/status/1589350496711495680
Twitter Post 2: https://twitter.com/flobo09/status/1502645866204704773
Pcworld Article 3: https://www.pcworld.com/article/623335/microsoft-says-we-werent-supposed-to-see-windows-file-explorer-ads.html
Pcworld Article 4: https://www.pcworld.com/article/627401/new-windows-11-update-restores-one-click-browser-choice-mostly.html
Pcworld Article 5: https://www.pcworld.com/article/419870/7-ways-windows-10-pushes-ads-at-you-and-how-to-stop-them.html

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Apr 18, 2024

43 19:34

Apr 18, 2024

This ZSH Plugin Manager Is Really SUS

I don't know if there is actually anything malicious about this project but after digging into the zsh plugin manager zi it does look a little bit sus and maube it's best to avoid it.

==========Resources==========
Dylan Nugent Thread: https://recurse.social/@dylnuge/112224580867240812
Zdharma Vanishes: https://www.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/qinb6j/httpsgithubcomzdharma_has_suddenly_disappeared_i/
Zinit Continuum: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit
Z-shell Website: https://wiki.zshell.dev/

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Apr 18, 2024

51 13:04

Apr 16, 2024

Reproducible Builds: Final Step In FOSS Validation

Every so often I hear the term reproducible build but I had never actually looked into what I meant so here we go then

==========Resources==========
Morten Blog: https://linderud.dev/blog/nixos-is-not-reproducible/
Reproducible Definition: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/definition/
Reproducible Projects: https://reproducible-builds.org/who/projects/
Fedora Revivial: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/report-from-the-reproducible-builds-hackfest-during-flock-2023/87469

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Apr 16, 2024

78 13:28

Apr 15, 2024

Linux Is A Castle Built On A Mountain Of Sand

Whilst there's a lot of well maintained software out there in the FOSS world it's important to remember that a lot of it doesn't see much maintenance as such it's not too strange to see bugs pop up that really make no sense whatsoever

==========Resources==========
Github Article: https://github.blog/2023-10-09-coordinated-disclosure-1-click-rce-on-gnome-cve-2023-43641/
Libcue: https://github.com/lipnitsk/libcue
Tracker Miners: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners

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Apr 15, 2024

66 15:15

Apr 14, 2024

5 Reasons KDE Plasma Is Actually Awesome

Some people seem to think that I hate KDE Plasma after my prior videos but that couldn't be further from the truth, I think it's a great environment but it has some rough edges so instead let's talk about whats good in it.

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Apr 14, 2024

78 12:33

Apr 13, 2024

Every Linux Distro Should Set This One Value!!

Linux gaming has only been getting better and better but even so there's still issues that need to be resolved and this one change to vm max map count is going to massively improve some games.

==========Resources==========
The Command: sysctl -a | grep max_map_count

Arch Mailing List: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/7I4PNTZNRKUYFATOKXU3P6LKL33H5PMW/
Fedora Change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/IncreaseVmMaxMapCount
NixOS Change: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/238459
Ubuntu 24.04 Change: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/ubuntu-2404-increases-vm-max-map-count-for-smoother-linux-gaming/
Linux Kernel Mailing List: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/566168554.272637693.1710968734203.JavaMail.root@zimbra54-e10.priv.proxad.net/
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Apr 13, 2024

81 15:28

Apr 12, 2024

Regarding The Hyprland & Vaxry Situation

Recently there a situation between Vaxry the developer of Hyprland and Lyude Paul a member of the Freedesktop Board and Code of Conduct enforcement team and the best way to describe this is an absolute hellscape of arguments.

==========Resources==========
Initial Post: https://fosstodon.org/@TheEvilSkeleton/109587658504727925
Tech Over Tea Appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nskemNa_Kn4
Drew First Blog: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
OpenSUSE Package: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1111755#revision_details_2
Vaxry First Post: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity
Vaxry Second Post: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandCommunityChanges
Hyprland Code Of Conduct: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
Vaxry Third Post: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat
Vaxry Fourth Post: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat2
Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1bzna16/hyprland_creator_vaxry_is_now_banned_from/
Drew Second Post: https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html
Nicco Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjTdroiDCtc

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Apr 12, 2024

69 14:27

Apr 11, 2024

Nvidia's Biggest Wayland Flaw Is Almost FIXED!!

I've been hearing about explicit sycn for years, and it looks like the problem is at most a few months away being resolved and finally you'll be able to effectively use an NVIDIA GPU on Wayland

==========Resources==========
LWN Article: https://lwn.net/Articles/814587/
Collabora Article: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/06/09/bridging-the-synchronization-gap-on-linux/
New Protocol: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/90
Phoronix Articel: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-Explicit-Sync-Goal
Xaver Hugl Blog: https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync.html
Old Protocol: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/commit/19ec5dcc4b1d57ce5dd8e400b5e9b4ec5791ff06

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Apr 11, 2024

69 13:50

Apr 09, 2024

KDE Plasma "Tiling" Is Neat But Isn't Tiling

If there's one thing I'm an expert in it's tiling, and I'm here to say that what KDE Plasma does is not tiling, however that doesn't mean it's bad and it can be made much better even without implementing tiling.

Yes I'm gatekeeping the definition of tiling

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Apr 09, 2024

68 9:51

Apr 08, 2024

Ubuntu Tries To Compete With Red Hat Linux!!

Ubuntu Linux whilst being massive in the desktop space also exists in the corporate space but i many ways was dropping the ball compared to Red Hat and SUSE

==========Resources==========
Ubuntu Pro Beta: https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-pro-beta-release
Ubuntu Pro GA: https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-pro-enters-ga
Red Hat Support Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
Ubuntu Legacy Support: https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-expands-long-term-support-to-12-years-starting-with-ubuntu-14-04-lts

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Apr 08, 2024

88 12:29

Apr 08, 2024

The Grifters Of The Linux XZ Backdoor

Any time anything happens in the world grifters crawl out to explain how this would have never happened if you followed there best practices but they always tend to miss the mark and the XZ backdoor is no different.

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Mastodon Post: https://chaos.social/@rugk/112186994466015883
OpenSSF: https://openssf.org/blog/2024/03/30/xz-backdoor-cve-2024-3094/

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Apr 08, 2024

73 11:31

Apr 05, 2024

Flathub's Unverified Badge Feels Pointless

For a while now Flathub has provided a verification system for applications but recently they added an unverified badge to unverified apps but if I'm being honest I feel like it doesn't provide any use.

==========Resources==========
Verfication Addition: https://github.com/flathub-infra/website/commit/5aae6b759b15ae26c155a0c8c18f13ca0da29ee3
Verified Website: https://news.itsfoss.com/verified-flatpak-apps/
Flathub Verfied: https://flathub.org/apps/collection/verified/1
Verified Docs: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-users/verification/
Flathub Post: https://floss.social/@flathub/112175755723668238

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Apr 05, 2024

79 17:06

Apr 04, 2024

Will Fedora Linux Go Full KDE Plasma!?!

When you think of Fedora workstation you think of GNOME, but does that have to be the case or is there a world where KDE Plasma is the flagship desktop instead, well maybe that world is this one.

==========Resources==========
Joshua Strobl Post: https://joshuastrobl.social/@me/112197620423915344
Fedora Proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation
Fedora Discussion: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f42-change-proposal-fedora-plasma-workstation-system-wide/111343
Phoronix Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Change-KDE-Default-Prop

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Apr 04, 2024

91 14:32

Apr 03, 2024

The Open Source Software Supply Chain Isn't REAL!!

Everytime something bad happens in the open source world there is talks of securing the Open Source software supply chain, the issue here is all the people building this software are mostly unpaid volunteers who have 0 interest in following your corporate rules.

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Article 1: https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
Article 2: https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/open-source-hobbyists-turf

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Apr 03, 2024

107 12:20

Apr 02, 2024

A Neat Linux Kernel Feature You Will Never Use

It's easy to forget that the main use for Linux is in the business world as such a bunch of changes get made that don't really matter for the desktop user but in some cases they may actually be useful

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Mailing List: https://patchew.org/linux/[email protected]/
USB Authorization: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-USB-Authorized-Mode

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Apr 02, 2024

106 6:58

Apr 01, 2024

The REAL Truth About Wayland

Wayland is set to be an important graphical protocol going into the future of Linux but does that really make sense and is there perhaps more going on than we initially thought.

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Apr 01, 2024

122 15:06

Mar 31, 2024

The XZ Linux Backdoor Is Incredibly BAD!!

Of all the times for a massive vulnerability to come out did it have to be over the Easter Weekend, I just wanted to take a break and here we are talking about state sponsored attacks on the XZ compression library.

==========Resources==========
Red Hat Report: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users
Debian Repotrt: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html
Arch Linux Report: https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/
OSS Mailing List: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
CVE 2024 3094: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3094

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Mar 31, 2024

104 14:30

Mar 29, 2024

KDE Global Themes Are Changing For The Better!!

After the recent KDE Global theme situation things need to change with how KDE handles global themes thand thankfully that seems to be happening with a couple of pretty reasonable additions

==========Resources==========
New Message: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/knewstuff/-/merge_requests/304
Nate MR: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/knewstuff/-/merge_requests/305
Screenlocker: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kscreenlocker/-/merge_requests/209

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Mar 29, 2024

82 16:53

Mar 28, 2024

Should Wayland Be Stopped To Fix This Issue?

Wayland is getting better every single day however there's still a lot that needs to be worked on and one major issue is accessibility which is known to be broken in many ways right now on Wayland

==========Resources==========
Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1bf1xt6/important_we_may_need_to_pause_the_retirement_of/
Cross Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1bf24za/what_does_the_greater_linux_community_think/
Gobal Portal: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/624
GNOME Portal: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/issues/47
Orca Issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/at-spi2-core/-/issues/163

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Mar 28, 2024

109 14:34

Mar 27, 2024

Red Hat Tries To Make Better OPEN NVIDIA Drivers

If you wanted to use open source Nvidia drivers your only option for the longest time was Nouveau but a couple of Red Hat engineers are aiming to change that and build a new driver based on Rust and for GSP firmware GPUs called Nova

==========Resources==========
Nova Gitlab: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nova
Nova Announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/Zfsj0_tb-0-tNrJy@cassiopeiae/
Rust LWN Hello World: https://lwn.net/Articles/910762/
Lina Post: https://twitter.com/linaasahi/status/1652957123779919872

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Mar 27, 2024

96 16:38

Mar 26, 2024

KDE Virtual Desktops Still Broken After 20 Years

I've been very vocal on the way virtual desktops work on KDE Plasma and there has been an open issue about exactly this problem for the last 19 years and by the time we hit 20 will it finally be resolved.

==========Resources==========
GNOME Issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/37
KDE Issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107302
Old Attempt: https://web.archive.org/web/20210923150636/https://blogs.kde.org/node/4489
Hack Fix: https://github.com/llacom/kwin-fix-dual-screens
Workspace Protocol: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/40

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Mar 26, 2024

106 12:32

Mar 25, 2024

COSMIC Desktop Alpha Is Only Weeks Away!!

The COSMIC desktop alpha was supposed to come out at the end of March but it's been delayed just a little bit until May to round out developing the first party COSMIC applications

==========Resources==========
January Post: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha
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Mar 24, 2024

Hyprcursor Is Simply A Better Way To Do Cursors

For a very long time now the way we handle cursors on Linux through a system called Xcursor and that's also on Wayland but who says we can't do it better and that's exactly what Vaxry is attempting to do with Hyprcursor

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Hyprland 0.37: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/releases/tag/v0.37.0
Hyprlock: https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprlock
Hyprpaper: https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper
Hyprpicker: https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpicker
Hyprland Welcome: https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-welcome
Hypridle: https://github.com/hyprwm/hypridle
Hyprcursor: https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprcursor
Vaxry Blog: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-cursors
Cursor Protocol: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/194

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Mar 22, 2024

KDE Global Themes Are Inherently Unsafe

When you think of a theme you probably think of images, config files and mayve some CSS but when we're talking about a KDE Global theme that's not really accurate. A Global Theme is just an addon and can run arbitary code.

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1biunsl/hacked_installed_a_global_theme_it_erased_all_my/
Related Repo: https://github.com/paju1986/PlasmaConfSaver/
Steam Issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
Steam Article: https://www.theregister.com/2015/01/17/scary_code_of_the_week_steam_cleans_linux_pcs/
KDE Blog: https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/kde-store-content/

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Mar 22, 2024

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Mar 21, 2024

Canonical Keeps Shipping Malware Snaps!!

It keeps happening, Canonical keeps letting Malware get shipped on the Snap Store and it seems like there is absolutely no effort being put in to stop this problem from happenning again

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September Malware: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/temporary-suspension-of-automatic-snap-registration-following-security-incident/37077
February Malware: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/exodus-movement-exod/38904/1
Allan Pope March Writeup: https://popey.com/blog/2024/03/exodus-wallet-part-three/
Allan Pope February Writeup: https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/

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