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Nov 30, 2023

DDOS Takes Down Blender... Cloudflare Saves The Day

What kind of crazy person decides to DDOS a 3D modelling tool like Blender, what possible value could someone have in doing so, but likely nowadays services like Cloudflare exist along with offering some really interesting metrics along the way.

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Blender Website: https://www.blender.org/
Blender Cyberattack: https://www.blender.org/news/cyberattack-november-2023/
The Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23623473/blender-stable-diffusion-ai-plugin-3d-modeling-texture-render

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#DDOS #Blender #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS

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Nov 30, 2023

31 13:38

Nov 30, 2023

Louvre: Build A Wayland Compositor On Easy Mode

Most Wayland compositors if not built from scratch are built from a library like wlroots but this is notouriously complicated to work with, fear not a new project has come along to fill the gap. That being louvre a C++ library aiming to be far less complex

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Louvre Repo: https://github.com/CuarzoSoftware/Louvre
Writing A Wayland Compositor: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wwsiaf/writing_a_wayland_compositor_is_much_harder_than/
Thoughts On Wlroots: http://inclem.net/2021/04/17/wayland/writing_a_wayland_compositor_with_wlroots/
XDG Shell: https://wayland.app/protocols/xdg-shell
XDG Decoration: https://wayland.app/protocols/xdg-decoration-unstable-v1
Presentation Time: https://wayland.app/protocols/presentation-time
Linux DMA BUF: https://wayland.app/protocols/linux-dmabuf-unstable-v1
Session Lock: https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-session-lock-v1
Tearing Control: https://wayland.app/protocols/tearing-control-v1
Fractional Scale: https://wayland.app/protocols/fractional-scale-v1

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Nov 30, 2023

50 14:47

Nov 28, 2023

This Application Just Dropped Wayland Support?!?

As more and more projects move to Wayland, this one application went the other way and just dropped it's Wayland support by default, that project being the PCSX2 emulator.

==========Resources==========
PCSX2 Github: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2
PCSX2 PR: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/10179
XDG Decoration: https://wayland.app/protocols/xdg-decoration-unstable-v1
GTK Decoration: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6161
Libdecor: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libdecor/libdecor
XDG Session Management: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/18
EXT Placement: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/247
XDG Alignment: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/249
Nvidia Driver Bug: https://github.com/negativo17/nvidia-driver/issues/131

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Nov 28, 2023

54 11:23

Nov 28, 2023

Plasma 6 Entered It's 3 Month Alpha Release!!

Plasma 6 is just around the corner release in February 2024 but until then it's bug fixing all the way and especially considering the history of KDE this is super important to make good and take your time.

==========Resources==========
Plasma 6 Alpha: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Post-Plasma-6-Alpha
KDE Plasma 6 Release Schedule: https://community.kde.org/Schedules/February_2024_MegaRelease
Nate Graham Blog: https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/17/this-week-in-kde-panel-intellihide-and-wayland-presentation-time/
KDE Fundraiser: https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
KDE Get Involved: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved

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Nov 26, 2023

Google Chrome Goes To War With Adblock... AGAIN

At the start of the year Google Chrome had to put a stop to the Manifest v3 transition which would completely neuter adblockers because it just wasn't ready, well now it is and I'm impressed by the marketting strategy.

==========Resources==========
Wired Article: https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-ad-blocker-crackdown-spurs-record-uninstalls/
The Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/7/23950513/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-privacy-advocates-eu
New MV3 Timeline: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
MV3 Problems: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/2ZCITuOHT1E/m/8_DGt6QYDwAJ
Hackernews Comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33929202
MV3 Delay: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ
404 Media Post: https://www.404media.co/as-youtube-declares-war-on-ad-blockers-google-sponsors-ad-blocking-conference/
Google Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1eIaRuy7w&t=24021s
Google Undermines Adblock: https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/google-undermines-adblock/
Ublock Origin Comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17wu2gz/google_confirms_they_will_disable_ublock_origin/
Gorhill Post: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1725633169070649710
Vivaldi Post: https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers
Brave Post: https://twitter.com/brave/status/1574822798299729925
Firefox Post: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

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Nov 26, 2023

52 22:34

Nov 25, 2023

Full Thoughts On The Steam Deck OLED

I'm really late to be doing this but it's time for my full thoughts on the Steam Deck OLED, and since I never looked at the original Steam Deck let's include those thoughts as well.

==========Resources==========
Steam Deck OLED: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/
Buy A Steam Deck: https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck/
Video 1: https://youtu.be/4oFHnF657bg

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Nov 25, 2023

41 11:32

Nov 25, 2023

Is YouTube Really Slowing Down FIREFOX??

Recently it was discovered that YouTube was in some way throttling Firefox with an artificially added 5 second delay but is that what's really happening or have people misinterpreted the situation

==========Resources==========
Video 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17zdpkl/this_behaviour_from_google_is_beyond_disgusting/
Video 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17zwrdp/update_thread_to_whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video
Video 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/
uwukko Thread: https://twitter.com/uwukko/status/1726625892620009501
Code Comments: https://twitter.com/elnardu/status/1726636873936994591
Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23970721/google-youtube-ad-blocker-five-second-delay-firefox-chrome

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Nov 25, 2023

69 15:19

Nov 23, 2023

Linux Torvalds Didn't Plan To Make Git

Nowadays Git by Linus Torvalds is the most important version control or source control management system but the way it in which it originally came about wasn't a smoothly as you might have hoped.

==========Resources==========
Torvalds Interview 1: https://www.linux.com/news/10-years-git-interview-git-creator-linus-torvalds/
Linus Torvalds Interview 2: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds
Larry Mcvoy Email: https://lkml.org/lkml/1998/9/30/122
Bitkeeper: https://www.bitkeeper.org/
Stallman Email: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=103454948625224&w=2
Sourcepuller: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcepuller/
LWN Article: https://lwn.net/Articles/130746/
Linus Torvalds Email 1: https://lwn.net/Articles/130681/
Linus Torvalds Email 2: https://lwn.net/Articles/131669/
Monotone: https://www.monotone.ca/
C++ Rant: https://web.archive.org/web/20160206023141/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918
Git First Commit: https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290

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Nov 23, 2023

34 16:22

Nov 23, 2023

Github Copilot Chat: A New Way Too Get Sued

Github Copilot has been here for a bit over 2 years now and it's just as much of a legal nightmare to be using but Microsoft has even more tools avilable for you to get yourself sued with Github Copilot Chat powered by GPT 4.

==========Resources==========
First Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJncWAqbJo
Lawsuit: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/12/github_microsoft_openai_copilot/
Github Universe Blog: https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/
Copilot X: https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-powered-developer-experience/

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Nov 23, 2023

59 13:48

Nov 22, 2023

You Should Write More Useless Open Source Software

When you first started programming you probably were doing it for fun but over time you might have got too stuck into writing important but in many cases boring code, well how about you try writing more useless software

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Useless Software: https://ntietz.com/blog/write-more-useless-software/

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Nov 22, 2023

66 17:31

Nov 21, 2023

Pop OS COSMIC Desktop Is Close But Still So Far!!

It's been about 7 months since I last checked in on the COSMIC Desktop project and since then a ton of work has been done on things like HDR, there's a theming system, a notification center, lock and login screens and so much more, whilst I'm not going to wait for it to be done it is looking really cool.

==========Resources==========
May Blog: https://blog.system76.com/post/may-flowers-spring-cosmic-showers
June Blog: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-de-tiling-redesign-and-libcosmic-rebasing
July Blog: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-skies-of-a-colorado-july-2023
August Blog: https://blog.system76.com/post/customizing-cosmic-theming-and-applications
September Blog: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-september-new-window-swapping-mode
October Blog: https://blog.system76.com/post/locked-and-loaded-with-new-cosmic-de-updates

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Nov 21, 2023

92 17:56

Nov 21, 2023

Linux Software I Will NEVER Live Without

Over my time using Linux I've messed around with a bunch of software but even with all the duplicates I've tried there are certain pieces that I can never find myself replacing.

==========Resources==========
Dmenu: https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
MPV: https://mpv.io/
SXHKD: https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd
Music Player Daemon: https://www.musicpd.org/
Protonup QT: https://davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/
Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Simple MTPFS: https://github.com/phatina/simple-mtpfs

==========Time Stamps==========
0:00 Intro
0:45 Dmenu
2:31 MPV
4:11 SXHKD
6:02 MPD
8:11 Protonup QT
9:35 Alacritty
13:17 Simple MTPFS
15:38 Honorable Mentions

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Nov 21, 2023

31 3:25:48

Nov 21, 2023

Answering All Your Steam Deck OLED Questions!

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It's been a year and half since I last streamed on this channel and today we're back messing around with the SteamDeck, partially for a review and partially just to help you guys out on deciding whether you want one.

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Nov 21, 2023

48 12:52

Nov 20, 2023

How Did Valve Secretly Make An HDR SteamDeck!?!

I've been keeping a close eye on the development of HDR on Linux and somehow I didn't suspect at the creation of an HDR version of the SteamDeck with the Steam Deck OLED and today I wanted to do a recap on a lot of that work.

==========Resources==========
Secret Device: https://www.pcgamer.com/new-mystery-valve-hardware-device-certified-in-south-korea/
Steam Deck 2: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/21/23884863/valve-steam-deck-2-refresh-upgrade-cpu-2025
Steam Deck FF7: https://www.gamesradar.com/steam-deck-oled-kills-the-originals-aerith-processor-with-a-sephiroth-upgrade-as-valve-flexes-its-final-fantasy-7-fandom/
Start Of HDR: https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1610200412854046720
Joshua Ashton Patches: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/JoshuaAshton/linux-hdr/-/tree/josh-hdr-colorimetry/
Joshua Ashton Death Stranding: https://landofkittens.social/notice/ARGYbddAH6RQnNqH8S
Joshua Ashton Elden Ring: https://landofkittens.social/notice/AYpveqlrTynAzXEDJo
Steam Deck 3.5: https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1702804377696866807
Jeremy Selan Tweet: https://twitter.com/JeremySelan/status/1722854155814052131
Hackfest: https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/ShellDisplayNext2023
Phoronix Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.0-Wayland-Default
Xaver Blog: https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/05/18/hdr-and-color-management-in-kwin.html
Kernel Patches: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Melissa Blog 1: https://melissawen.github.io/blog/2023/08/21/amd-steamdeck-colors
Melissa Blog 2: https://melissawen.github.io/blog/2023/11/07/amd-steamdeck-colors-p2

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Nov 20, 2023

42 21:27

Nov 20, 2023

Valve Sent Me The NEW Steam Deck OLED!!

I know I'm late to the party and everybody has there initial videos out already, blame Fedex but we're here anyway I finally have my hands on the Steam Deck OLED and today we're looking at the device for what it is, later on we'll be talking about my experience using it

==========Resources==========
Steam Deck OLED: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/
Buy A Steam Deck: https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck/

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Nov 20, 2023

68 12:21

Nov 17, 2023

Firefox Finally Abandons Mercurial For Git

If I told you that Firefox wasn't using Git for there source code management you'd probably be surprised but they've been using Mercurial with a bit of Git on the side and finally Git is becoming the only choice

==========Resources==========
Version Control Summit: https://wiki.mozilla.org/VersionControlSummit2006
Firefox Announcement: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/firefox-dev/c/QnfydsDj48o/m/8WadV0_dBQAJ
Contribute with Mercurial: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/committing_rules_and_responsibilities.html
Contribute with Git: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/mobile/android/geckoview/contributor/contributing-to-mc.html
Github Mirror: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
Git Migration: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Migrating_to_git
Mercurial Remote: https://hg.mozilla.org/
Comparison: https://www.perforce.com/blog/vcs/mercurial-vs-git-how-are-they-different
Funny Post: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/10731/is-firefox-really-open-sourced

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Nov 17, 2023

71 13:54

Nov 16, 2023

Web Environment Integrity Is Finally GONE!!

Earlier this year there was a big discussion about a new web api called Web Environment Integrity and to my surprise the project has officially been sidelined for it too very narrow use in Android Web Views

==========Resources==========
WEI Video 1: https://youtu.be/tm3gH-ycykw
WEI Video 2: https://youtu.be/-6r6GhwD4iQ
WEI Issue: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/28
Closed Issues: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed
Brave Article: https://brave.com/web-standards-at-brave/9-web-environment-integrity/
Vivaldi Article: https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/
FSF Article: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out-attack-on-the-free-internet
Mozzilla Position: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#issuecomment-1648820747
Chromium Commit: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
Intent To Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_kGO22g/m/Iu5w_dcoAgAJ?pli=1
Commit Removal: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/5001989
Android Blog: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/11/increasing-trust-for-embedded-media.html

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Nov 16, 2023

Linux Mint & Cinnamon Are Coming To Wayland!!

Linux Mint and Cinnamon have been around for a really long time but Cinnamon has always been an X11 desktop but that is beginning to change as there is now an experimental Wayland in the works

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Linux Mint Github: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/10078
Linux Mint January News: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4470
Linux Mint July News: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4554
Linux Mint October News: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4591
XCE Roadmap: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap
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Nov 16, 2023

40 11:48

Nov 16, 2023

Thunderbird: The True Power Of FOSS Development

Recently you may have seen a video about Thunderbird doing incredibly financially well and that's I don't think that's unique to Thunderbird, the tactics they used could very easily be applied to other projects with just a little bit of work

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Nicco Loves Linux Video: https://youtu.be/XYqkOxZMsfU-
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Nov 16, 2023

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Nov 15, 2023

XWayland's Rootful Mode Reaches A New Level

Last year I discovered XWayland's rootful mode, an incredible feature for embedding a full X session inside of Wayland and recently it got quite a bit more powerful.

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Xwayland Rootful Blog: https://ofourdan.blogspot.com/2023/10/xwayland-rootful-part1.html
Phoronix Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootful-Useful
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Nov 15, 2023

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Nov 15, 2023

End Of Xorg On Fedora KDE IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING

Back in september it was announced that with Fedora 40 KDE Plasma was going to be shipping Wayland only, I thought it was probably going to happen but it certainly wasn't confirmed now the vote has passed so it's almost certainly happening.

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Vote: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3086
Plasma Showstoppers: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers
Discussion Page: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-proposal-kde-plasma-6-system-wide/89794
David Revoy: https://www.davidrevoy.com/
Phoronix Numbers: https://www.phoronix.com/review/wayland-nv-amd-2023/5
Fedora Pulseaudio: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePulseaudio
Fedora Systemd: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd
Fedora Btrfs: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault
Fedora Pipewire: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire
Fedora Wayland by Default Plasma: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
Fedora Wayland by Default Nvidia: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultOnNVIDIA

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Nov 14, 2023

Libreboot Trolls FSF With New Canoeboot Project

A while back I talked about some fun drama between libreboot's developer Leah Rowe and a couple of FSF people and Leah is back to mess around again with a very petty project called Canoeboot.

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Video 1: https://youtu.be/vMolA5H39IE
Video 2: https://youtu.be/GpwU1uQEeog
Old Fake Libreboot: https://libreboot.at/
GNU Boot: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuboot
NonGenuine Boot: https://canoeboot.org/news/nongenuineboot20230717.html
Leah Post: https://mas.to/@libreleah/111288774175233731
Canoeboot Release 1: https://canoeboot.org/news/canoeboot20231026.html
Canoeboot Release 2: https://canoeboot.org/news/canoeboot20231026.html
Libreboot Release: https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot20231101.html
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Nov 14, 2023

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Nov 14, 2023

Even Mate Desktop Is Working On Wayland Support!!

Recently I talked about the Cinnamon desktop beginning experimental Wayland support and that it turns out was also true for the Mate project albeit the approach is drastically different and at this stage very early on.

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Mate Wayland Apps: https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/developers-corner/wayland-meson/
Ubuntu Mate Roadmap: https://ubuntu-mate.org/faq/roadmap/
Ubuntu Mate X11 and Wayland: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/switch-between-wayland-and-x11/25947
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Mate Wayland Github: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-wayland-session
Wayfire: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire

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Nov 13, 2023

Discord Now Officially Ships On Flathub!!

Discord is kind of a mess on Linux but very recently they started officially shipping on Flathub, does this mean Linux and Wayland problems will be addressed. Don't hold you're breath but I would at least hope so.

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Flatpak Advocacy: https://mastodon.blaede.family/@cassidy/110951643313461449
Discord Verification: https://mastodon.blaede.family/@cassidy/111310323208049583
Discord Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/com.discordapp.Discord
Discord Github Issues: https://github.com/flathub/com.discordapp.Discord/issues
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Oct 26, 2023

Linux Kernel Kicked Out These Legacy WiFi Drivers

Whilst the Linux kernel has this reputation of great legacy support that isn't forever and sometimes legacy wifi drivers that nobody is actually using need to get the boot

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Legacy WiFi Driver Patch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/t/#u
CFG80211 Docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/driver-api/80211/cfg80211.html
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