Notices by Topher 🌱🐧💚 (topher@mastodon.online)

@catsalad

The cats have clearly established whose side they are on. This is useful information.

@kc @catsalad

We mustn't lose the cat vote, at any cost, or else we are doubly doomed.

@thelinuxfraud
I'll be far more interested when applications can launch in a corner out of the way where I want and always use them - instead of directly on top of what I need and am currently looking at, every single time.

I love it conceptually and for the many safety and security advantages, but for now things like this make it absolutely insufferable to actually use.

Mozilla released #Firefox 118.0.1 and ESR 115.3.1 to address CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in libvpx

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-44/

I suppose I'll follow the Linux distro packages again for this one so I guess follow this thread or whatever 😂

#security #cve20235217 #libvpx

#Firefox on both #Flatpak and #Snap is already updated to 118.0.1 addressing CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in libvpx

Make sure you are running 118.0.1 or update ASAP.

Tracking of traditional distro packages will continue throughout this thread as they arrive in various repositories (both Firefox and libvpx, along with Chromium builds not linked dynamically to the system lib - e.g. #linuxmint)

https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox

https://snapcraft.io/firefox

#Linux #security #cve20235217 #libvpx

Is it just me or is society just about endlessly building more elaborate piles of shit on top of the existing piles of shit? Is anybody even happy within this miserable reduction and confinement of human existence into a pointless system of largely arbitrary "norms" and expectations for the sake of alleged progress and growth, which is mostly solely quantified by what constitutes "economic" growth and doesn't even necessarily result in a better / happier life for anyone (often just the opposite)

Literally none of the "goals" of a "normal" person within this society are things that I at all want or would in any way make me happy

I would so much rather live in a world where there is never another new shitty iPhone or needlessly faster internet connection developed ever again, but every living person has clean, safe water to drink

@jackivan88

In fairness, the number of spreadsheet documents MS Excel has spontaneously irrecoverably corrupted on me vs. the number LibreOffice has are far from equal.

If I had something critically important I needed to do and couldn't afford to lose or go wrong, I would still trust Excel over LibreOffice without even a moment of hesitation.

This from a FOSS and Linux desktop user of many years.

Maybe if we spent more attention to productivity apps, not changing GNOME UI...

@lightweight

@kainoa

Hey just wanted to say congrats on all the awesome shoutouts you've been getting lately!

"I'm not going to discuss this with you unencrypted," needs to become a normal part of our modern vocabulary.

#privacy #safety #encryption

@Cloudguy

This is a bit vague. Is this applicable to strictly Amazon accounts with devices e.g. Echos? All Amazon accounts whatsoever, including those only used for shopping and never connected with any "smart" devices like Echos or vacuum cleaners? Does this apply to AWS? I understand you can't divulge any specific details, but it would be helpful to know what you're suggesting is impacted to know what to preventatively lock down and redo 2FA.

@RL_Dane @fu

It was multitouch. As soon as multitouch handheld devices happened, and we no longer had physical keys (even to dial a phone number), and UI design all around started shifting towards convergent touch-oriented interfaces hence CSD and all this nightmarish hellscape nonsense, that was the beginning of the end.

The saddest part is that CSD isn't even *always* bad. There are specific situations where it's even helpful. But decimating desktop metaphor (because phones!) was a mistake.

@RL_Dane @fu

Why it's suddenly necessary to involve arcane swipe gestures and round after round of "guess the mystery icon" to find a simple feature that has always been easily located behind the same menu in the same spot for the past 20+ years - on a desktop! - is absolutely beyond my capacity to understand.

@RL_Dane @fu

The scariest part is how blindly oblivious the designers pushing this are to the needs and motivation of the specific userbase who are still using traditional desktop.

Yeah, we have a smartphone on us - and yet are deliberately going to a desktop machine where we can actually see what we're doing on larger than a bloody 1.7mm screen and interact with it with proper HID devices and find features and menus that are now buried behind swipes and mystery icons and confusion.

@RL_Dane

Not to forget, there's Unity also! Rudra Saraswat's resurrection is now an official Ubuntu flavour.

@RL_Dane

You can still have this a few ways.

xfce4-panel with xfce4-appmenu-plugin, in essentially any DE of your choice

Including GNOME btw. Just because they have their crippled panel doesn't mean you can't write an extension (or ask me for mine) that just hides that nonsense, and position xfce4-panel in its place

KDE has it also but KDE is just a bit too...KDE for me.

Or, there's Fildem, which is nice but can be super wonky at times with checkbox/radio items within menus.

@rolle

The vertical indicator line to distinguish threads is very nice and super helpful.

I personally don't think looking aesthetically "modern" is (or should particularly be) a selling point for something. I hate most modern things and actually strongly prefer the traditional (non-rounded icons, overkill border-radius on everything, a hundred pixels of extra "breathing space" padding within a single viewport, so forth).

Nevertheless, this is very nice and I appreciate it. It's super sleek.

You should not have to do this.

You should not have to do this.

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You should not have to do this.

You should not have to do this.

@GossiTheDog