Notices by Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu), page 6

Kudos to Gaming on Linux for helping KDE with its fundraising efforts: KDE's end of year fundraiser is live https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/kdes-end-of-year-fundraiser-is-live/

The way people are getting all crazy and all, I'm not sure this is a bad idea: Meta suspends accounts tracking private jets of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other celebrities | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/21/meta-suspends-accounts-tracking-private-jets-of-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-and-other-celebrities/

"GNU Boot discovered an issue with non-free code affecting not only them but also some of the Linux distributions that pride themselves on being fully free software / 100% open-source": "100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Boot-Second-Fail

"The tech giant should be broken up, but regulators in Europe and the U.S. must work together to ensure it’s done properly": Google’s Breakup Needs an International Tag Team https://www.itprotoday.com/regulatory-compliance/google-s-breakup-needs-an-international-tag-team

"The GOP candidate for President has a criminal docket. And in that criminal docket, today, the government included a post promising to free seditionists and cop-assailants with the same urgency with which Donald Trump promises to close the border. “My first acts,” the GOP standard-bearer stated, would include freeing the people who assaulted the Capitol on January 6": Trump's GOP Is Running on a Platform of Freeing Seditionists and Cop Assailants - emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/18/trumps-gop-is-running-on-a-platform-of-freeing-seditionists-and-cop-assailants/

"Unlike Google's deal, which is a commitment to purchase power should the reactors ever be completed, Amazon will lay out some money upfront as part of the agreements": Amazon invests in nuclear power https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/amazon-the-latest-tech-giant-to-announce-investments-in-nuclear/

I'm pretty sure that a lot of people are thinking about replacing WordPress right now, so I'll be sharing all of these I see to help you shop: Adduce - static site generator - LinuxLinks https://www.linuxlinks.com/adduce-static-site-generator/

Man, I've been on Mastodon all day and haven't heard a thing about this: X rival Mastodon has started selling toys | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/15/x-rival-mastodon-has-started-selling-toys/

I registered to attend this on Saturday but I haven't heard back yet. Should I be worried: Doctorow and the 'Enshitternet' - Live, Online, and Free on Thursday - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2024/10/doctorow-and-the-enshitternet-live-online-and-free-on-thursday/

It looks as if the folks at Mozilla have had a bit of time on their hands: It’s Halloween — pick your spooky Firefox disguise | The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-halloween-logos/

"Zap is taking a unique approach to fusion power known as sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch. Instead of using magnets or lasers to squeeze the plasma, it sends a bolt of electricity through a plasma stream. That current generates a magnetic field which compresses the plasma — the pinch — and ends up with fusion. The company had been studying the phenomenon through a series of devices at its facilities in Washington State': Zap Energy shows off its new fusion power prototype https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/09/zap-energy-shows-off-its-new-fusion-power-prototype-century/

"Protect Yourself" point six is critical, IMO: Is Airport Wi-Fi a Trap? How Hackers Can Steal Your Data and How to Protect Yourself https://medevel.com/is-airport-wi-fi-a-trap-how-hackers-can-steal-your-data-and-how-to-protect-yourself/

Ya know, I really disliked VMware until they started moving deep into open source territory and hired some great open source people. I still can't figure out what Broadcom was thinking: An old cloud learns new tricks - OpenStack Dalmation https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/an-old-cloud-learns-new-tricks-openstack-dalmation

There's always an "if I had only known" moment: I'm a tech pro - but when a hurricane hit my mountain home, the disconnection shocked me https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/im-a-tech-pro-but-when-a-hurricane-hit-my-mountain-home-the-disconnection-shocked-me/

"Congress hasn't updated consumer privacy law since 1988, when it took the bold step of…banning video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you took home. Since then, a coalition of commercial surveillance companies, cops and spies who treat their data-lakes as massive lagoons of warrantless surveillance data has prevented the passage of any new privacy protections for Americans : Thinking the unthinkable Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction

"He also repeatedly praised predominantly White countries such as Denmark, Norway and Sweden while emphatically warning against immigrants from Congo in Africa."
Gift article, so no firewall.
https://wapo.st/4gQMYAw

"Even though the government has been forced by court decisions to offer a venue for challenges, the federal government is still under no obligation to tell people why they’ve been placed on the list, much less promise to never put them back on it again": Appeals Court Reminds Law Enforcement That ‘No-Fly’ Doesn’t Mean ‘No Drive’ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/03/appeals-court-reminds-law-enforcement-that-no-fly-doesnt-mean-no-drive/

"“I come from academic AI and have been educated in the more rigorous and evidence-based methods, so I don’t really know what all these words mean. I frankly don’t even know what AGI means. Like people say you know it when you see it, I guess I haven’t seen it. The truth is, I don’t spend much time thinking about these words because I think there’s so many more important things to do…” Even the 'godmother of AI' has no idea what AGI is https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/03/even-the-godmother-of-ai-has-no-idea-what-agi-is/

I definitely like this judge.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/politics/tina-peters-sentence-colorado.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU4.e-cc.CKOuJiEohBkz&smid=url-share

"This latest release of the popular open-source DBMS delivers incremental backups, replication, and JSON tables among other improvements": PostgreSQL 17 packs big performance and feature enhancements https://www.zdnet.com/article/postgresql-17-packs-big-performance-and-feature-enhancements/