today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 17, 2025

• GNU/Linux

  • Linuxiac ☛ Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 11 (Mar 10 – 16, 2025)

    Catch up on the latest GNU/Linux news: Debian 12.10, Plasma 6.3.3, Audacity 3.7.2, Kitty 0.40, Rust takes root in Ubuntu, KDE’s X11 support to continue until Plasma 7, and more.

  • Desktop/Laptop

    • Amelia Wattenberger ☛ Our interfaces have lost their senses

      We brought back some of the tactile controls with GUIs—graphical user interfaces. We skeumorphed the heck out of our screens, with digital switches, flat sliders, and folder icons. But we kept some of the the functionality in the physical world, with slots to stick disks into and big ol' power buttons.

  • Distributions and Operating Systems

    • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

      • Android Police ☛ Did you see this Linux DE running on Android?

        Google recently added a terminal app for Linux on Pixel devices, and an enterprising person on Reddit has confirmed that you can install and run an entire Linux desktop environment on Android. As a longtime Linux user, I find this pretty cool. So had, you seen the news about Linux on Android, and if so, what do you think of it? Do you see yourself running Linux apps on Android anytime soon?

  • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    • Russell Coker ☛ Russell Coker: Article Recommendations via FOSS

      Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Surveillance Giant Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan and are presumably open to being somewhat evil.

      The article recommendations on Chrome on Android are useful and I’d like to be able to get the same quality of recommendations without Surveillance Giant Google knowing about everything I read. Ideally without anything other than the device I use knowing what interests me.

      A ML system to map between sources of news that are of interest should be easy to develop and run on end user devices. The model could be published and when given inputs of articles you like give an output of sites that contain other articles you like. Then an agent on the end user system could spider the sites in question and run a local model to determine which articles to present to the user.

  • Security

    • SANS ☛ Mirai Bot now incroporating (malformed) DrayTek Vigor Router Exploits, (Sun, Mar 16th)

      Last October, Forescout published a report disclosing several vulnerabilities in DrayTek routers.

    • Fedora Family / IBM

      • Fedora 40 approaching end of life

        Fedora 40 is currently scheduled to reach end of life (EOL) on 2025-05-13 (approximately two months from the date of this announcement). Please upgrade all of your Fedora templates and standalones by that date. For more information, see Upgrading to avoid EOL.