You cant tell me that a rewrite of gnu stuff in rust is just for security. I see that weak permissive license and the conspiracy part of my brain turns on…

Its not a backdoor, because secure boot was never about safety to begin with. Its just a piece of security theater, whose primary use is more control for microsoft. “Secure” boot only boots software signed with a microsoft key, thats the “security”. Microsoft also allows linux distributions to be signed, but nothing is technically stopping them from just refusing, for " security reasons", and on some systems secure boot cant be turned off. So it being bustable is a good thing. There are other ways to protect devices from physical access, but generally, if attackers have physical access to your computer, then its compromised, secure boot or not. Framework just didnt want to play along.

The article is from a security researcher involved in the development of post-quantum encryption. Hes known for fighting against various agencies trying to weaken encryption for their questionable benefit. Hes been very successful but a one-man-show only goes so far. Please, if you read this: write those emails to the mailing list and tell others whats going on!

This (sadly) has implications across the whole world, but right now its very easy to stop.

And please, if you do write the email, please dont just copy paste the template in the article, it seems the comitee wants to ignore all the ones with the same wording because of “spam”

Well, with the exeption of RAID5/6 on btrfs. Its still(!!!) not safe to use!

hmmm, bromine, sounds very safe and healthy.

If you want to release your app under the gpl and are not sure whether you are allowed to on the apple app store you can always dual license your app, for example proprietary and gpl. That way you can have it on the app store without legal problems and it can still be F(L)OSS.

However, I have never heard of any legal trouble for releasing gpl apps, so I dont think anybody cares that its technically questionable. Thats an open legal question that no court has answered and I dont think they ever will.

I also have problems with one machine, it just refuses to see the others. It might have something to do with the firewall or SElinux, but I’m not sure.

No, it works on other setups too! I have used the regular kde connect app with enlightenment DE for example.

KDE Connect: An app for iOS, android, pretty much every flavor of linux, windows, etc. that lets you connect any devices together to share files, show notifications of other devices, use your phone as an input device(keyboard, mouse), control multimedia applications(start, play, stop, etc.), trigger commands, and everything else if you make a plugin for it.

No idea why this news is making the rounds, duckstation switched to a nonfree license long ago and was forked from the last free release as a consequence. No one is using the og anymore to my knowledge.

Sure. The steam version is easiest, just install steam, get the game through steam and it should just work. Heres a website that tracks compatibility with linux through proton, valve’s solution to running windows games, its installed by default when you get steam: https://www.protondb.com/app/389730

Reading Kents unhinged messages, that seemed inevitable in hindsight.

Is it the Ur-Quan masters, aka Star Control II?

Great writeup! Thanks for doing this!

no NTSYNC still :(

Now that you mention it: I never realised that protondb only covers games on steam! maybe they should add a way to add nonsteam games.

quite a few of these links are just:

I installed windows game on the steam deck! Heres How I Managed This Herculean Task Using Arcane Magics: just runs the game with wine/proton

You can make lots of money off of F(L)OSS software, see Redhat, SUSE, etc. Its just a different business model, e.g. support contracts, administration, e.t.c.

Yes, this new iteration of Junk Store will be paid software and will be closed source.

And then I stopped reading.

This is really amazing, I never thought that an exotic system so un-linux-like could ever get a proper gpu driver, nevermind run the newest hardware!