Brodie Robertson

Today we had @npub1we4…th63 on the podcast who wrote a blog post explainer on the recent Firefox Privacy Preserving Attribution that provided a way for regular people to understand what was going on.
Video Release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rol5uGshVCw
Audio Release: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-over-tea/episodes/Firefox-And-The-Privacy-Preserving-Ads--Andrew-Moore-e2mo93v

2024-08-02 14:54:33 UTC

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To add to this even though modern Chromebooks have some fancy chips to ensure valid firmware, Google straight up doesn't care if you unlock it and some of the documentation for this is on the Chromium docs including a link to the schematics for the cable needed https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/hdctools/+/main/docs/ccd.md

2024-08-02 10:54:26 UTC

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No matter what warnings are provided there will still be bug reports upstream and some method will need to be in place to deal with them. It's less of a problem for users who actively choose to switch to COSMIC and setup a theme (they will see these warnings) and instead those who are using a distro that ships a heavily modified version out of the box

2024-08-02 10:40:05 UTC

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Both are ultimately providing a bad user experience, either they open an issue and it gets auto closed or they open an issue and no one ever deals with it because theming is not a problem upstream wants to deal with.

2024-08-02 10:31:46 UTC

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I think it's ok to auto close an issue if a user is using a theme, like it's fine to auto close an issue if they're on a distro that cherry picks untested patches.

2024-08-02 10:25:20 UTC

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No it's a suggestion to deal with the problem from the GNOME side not a judgement on the difficulty. Theming isn't going to go away in the rest of ecosystem and as long as there is some mechanism available other desktops and distros will use them.

2024-08-02 09:08:31 UTC

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That's a good way too put it

2024-08-02 09:07:18 UTC

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FUTO's public stance was much worse previously, at least now they're using a new term so you can easily explain it's something different. My major issues were when they were trying to use the term Open Source and redefine it making things even more confusing.

2024-08-02 08:58:12 UTC

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If they don't want to support it that's absolutely fine and they should probably just setup a bot to auto close theming related issues.

2024-08-02 08:37:45 UTC

Well I've cut up all the interesting parts of the System76 call, now to get started on putting it together
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/112/891/517/824/537/367/original/6f326a51b3950dd8.png

2024-08-02 08:36:09 UTC

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At this point the FSF has absolutely no teeth left, it's a shell of the organization it once was

2024-08-02 07:01:39 UTC

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100%, I refuse to believe otherwise

2024-08-02 06:57:08 UTC

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That's what I said when I first heard it lol

2024-08-02 00:08:25 UTC

LIVE SOON:
People always complain about playing Terra in this game but honestly it's not that bad... no really I'm being honest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHG67azzLg

2024-08-01 18:12:58 UTC

It's 3:42am, only a few people can get me to stay up this late for a call lol

2024-08-01 05:47:43 UTC

Building An Exciting Game Loop #Gaming #Podcast https://youtu.be/8mXoMCojbM0

2024-08-01 00:13:26 UTC

LIVE SOON:
It do be the game time again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g45RnuQTqDU

2024-08-01 00:08:40 UTC

Will Anyone Learn From Crowdstrike's Disaster #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/qHBZsGGExTw

2024-07-31 13:58:22 UTC

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Boot yes, depending on the model there may be some additional tweaking to do

2024-07-31 04:44:59 UTC

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Xubuntu

2024-07-31 03:24:26 UTC

???
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/112/878/961/319/862/668/original/4bef3c04b7e6324b.jpg
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/112/878/961/620/241/870/original/2e6dd5f7e7124bf9.jpg

2024-07-31 01:33:37 UTC

People always ask about the anime figures on my shelf, no one ever questions the skull though, why not?
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/112/878/525/066/699/460/original/60709927102c7d0a.jpg

2024-07-30 23:55:56 UTC

Death Of A Legendary Gentoo Linux Based Distro #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/yx9BCsXUeZY

2024-07-30 23:53:33 UTC

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Those are also customizable, so if you like the the customization of Klassy but also like the KDE buttons you can have both

2024-07-30 05:05:51 UTC

Don't forget that there's no reason you have to build games in Godot, Godot itself is built in Godot, but there's also super cool projects like Pixelorama https://github.com/Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama

2024-07-26 05:42:24 UTC

I am 26 years old
I have been using computers since I was 8
I just found out that pixel is short for picture element

2024-07-25 11:55:28 UTC

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Frankly we need competition in the desktop environment space on Wayland, XFCE, Cinnamon and Budgie will eventually catch up but right now if you want to use a DE, if you don't like KDE you have GNOME, if you don't like GNOME you have KDE.

2024-07-25 11:26:02 UTC

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I don't really see it as fragmentation when there is overlap of the implemented Wayland protocols

2024-07-25 10:40:15 UTC

Don't forget, August 8th
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/112/846/699/919/264/106/original/e89555eebb4769ac.png

2024-06-28 01:16:07 UTC

If there is the term "enshittification", meaning something getting worse over time, what would be the opposite? engoodification?

2024-06-20 06:47:03 UTC

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I think the main issue is for people who are so reliant upon a screen reader that making that swap is incredibly challenging without the help of another person. Also the plan eventually is to move away from X11, so now that we basically have a deadline for that people are suddenly getting very interested in seeing this resolved ASAP. And some people are getting way too aggressive about resolving it

2024-06-08 06:51:29 UTC

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Hear me out... AI Blockchain

2024-05-24 02:07:20 UTC

YouTube actually added a good feature for once, you can now set 3 thumbnails for a video and it will automatically A/B test them for you, you could already do this manually but this massively stream lines the process.
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/112/493/620/872/095/443/original/50c4d88dfd992d85.png

2024-05-06 02:11:27 UTC

In today's edition of weird shit in Xorg, here is xbiff https://man.netbsd.org/xbiff.1

2024-05-03 14:28:03 UTC

Saunas are great, everybody should go to a sauna