Notices by Nick @ The Linux Experiment (thelinuxexp@mastodon.social), page 6

After that LastPass fiasco, I got a bit worried about storing my credentials on a service I don’t host myself, so I just spent 3 hours going through all the passwords I had on my Firefox account, moving them to Nextcloud passwords on my own instance, and modifying every single one of them with a different password, so no 2 accounts use the same one. It was extremely boring, but well worth it, and I cleaned up a TON of old passwords that kept being suggested but were out of date.

In an hour (10:30AM Paris time) the folks at @peertube are load testing their servers for live streams, it will presumable be in French, but you can still tune in to help then see how well things work!

It will be here: https://www.auposte.fr/convocation/peerturbateurs-unissez-vous-rejoignez-notre-test-grandeur-nature/

Holy crap that’s bad, and that’s why I want nothing to do with TikTok, ever.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/?sh=1ebd75e87da5

@fabiscafe Very useful if you don’t want the algorithm deciding what you see and what you don’t!

French authorities declare the use of Microsoft Office and Google Docs illegal in schools and education markets, as they don’t follow GDPR and might disturb later competition by making students used to these proprietary solutions.

https://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q16/16-971QE.htm

The whole verification thing on Twitter looks like the worst thing any company ever implemented in terms of security. Tons of companies are being impersonated by verified accounts. So, there is NO VERIFICATION if you pay. None. How does that help fight scammers, again?

It is, and always was about the money. Which is even sadder, because it looks like with the reduced number of ads, and IAP on iOS and Android, Twitter might LOSE money for each 8$ paying customer.

Genius business, breaking what was working without fixing what was broken.

@gregoryopera @potato_lisper SpaceX was a disaster from the start. Their rockets kept exploding with priceless satellites on board ;) Only recently did that manage to actually send them to space

Ah Google and its mastery of communication, letting you know that your Adsense account has been canceled without telling you that it's been replaced by a YouTube payments account, thus creating a good 5 minutes of panic. Never change, Google.

In this week's #Linux and #opensource news video, we have the release of @fedora@twitter.com 37 beta, new developments on the awesome looking @gnome@twitter.com shell mobile project, and a lot more!

https://youtu.be/vqW7HtHimjA

There are grand ideas to unify package managers, create The One Distro to rule them all, but that's not what I'll be discussing today! Instead, here are some achievable things to make the #linux desktop better, features every desktop distro should have!

https://youtu.be/Ju1GV71wQ-c

A laptop that runs #Linux out of the box, with all day battery life and more, a great keyboard, and that helps the @kdecommunity@twitter.com project? This is the KDE @SlimbookEs@twitter.com, 4th edition:

https://youtu.be/qQaJR7u_Bdc

In this week's #Linux and #opensource news video, we have an optional GNOME telemetry tool, Grub breaking some Arch, and Arch based distros installs, and Valve basically confirming there will be a Steam Deck 2. Let's dive in!

https://youtu.be/Isu0dO-Qr6s

The same old fallacy...

https://youtu.be/An4X9E9vyn8

RT @xtremepentest@twitter.com

Linux is free, if you don’t value your time.

??: https://twitter.com/xtremepentest/status/1560921613100630017

@Phaserune But learning isn't a waste of time? It's time well spent, valuable time. Everything requires time to learn, so of that's the argument, then "cooking is only free if you don't value your time", or same goes fro driving, gping to school, or everything?

@Phaserune I'm sorry, but that's not true. You had to waste time learning windows or macOS before, that's no different for Linux ;)

The saying is just plain wrong, because time spent learning is NEVER wasted.

@Phaserune Agree to disagree, Linux has TONS of resources online to learn, and most of it is newbie friendly ;)