today's leftover
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R Scott Jones ☛ Forums are still alive
I recently saw a post listing a number of forums, claiming that the old school platform was not dead yet. Well, my friends, forums are definitely alive and well. In fact, I’m confident that—in spite of the “old” technology they tend to employ—they remain far more alive than the fediverse. I guess that’s why I think it’s utterly ridiculous that some fedi folks pretend that they have any claim to the term “social web.” The social web is vast, and it should never be defined by a single protocol. Forums are part of the social web, imo.
Here are three more categories of forums that I didn’t see listed in that post.
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenSUSE ☛ Workshop Continues with GNOME Extensions
The session will cover how to enhance and customize the GNOME desktop environment using powerful extensions that add functionality, streamline workflows and personalize the desktop experience.
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Debian Family
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LWN ☛ Debian's "secret" sauce
While Debian's "sauce" is not actually all that secret, it is not particularly well-known either, Samuel Henrique said at the start of his DebConf24 talk. There is a lot of software-engineering effort that has been put in place by the distribution in order to create and maintain its releases, but ""loads of people are not aware"" of it. That may be due to the fact that all of that is not really documented anywhere in a central location that he can just point someone to. Recognizing that is what led him to give the talk; hopefully it will be a ""first step toward"" helping solve the problem.
Henrique said that he is a Brazilian and has been a Debian Developer since 2018. He mostly works in the security tools packaging team, but also maintains some packages outside of that team, including curl and rsync. In addition, he mentors Debian newcomers, mostly on packaging tasks. He works on the Amazon Linux security team. He noted that his web site contains links to the slides from the talk; a WebM video is also available. [Update: A YouTube video with subtitles in English and Portuguese is also available.]
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Security
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GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA detail new GPU driver vulnerabilities in their October 2024 Security Bulletin
NVIDIA have released a security bulletin to detail new security issues, so it's time to update your GPU driver once again.
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LWN ☛ Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dmitry, libheif, and python-sql), Fedora (suricata and wireshark), SUSE (cargo-c, libeverest, protobuf, and qemu), and Ubuntu (golang-1.22, libheif, unbound, and webkit2gtk).
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