Notices by Zak :1password: (zak@infosec.exchange)

@evacide Frankly I wish I knew anyone that was cool enough to be in a cabal of marriage-ruining lesbian witches.

DNS is short for Dinosaurs

@BrodieOnLinux I think I'll agree with that. If not only because it'll likely inspire an entire new wave of "Linux challenges." 110 million people is a lot.

@BrodieOnLinux Ah yep, I did notice this in yours! Still a very good call out.

Half of my YouTube feed today is just Linux YouTubers talking over the PewDiePie video. Which makes sense. But I've seen absolutely zero of them compare his (good) attitude towards Linux (both the good and the bad) to other major videos, like the LTT challenge.

I'm actually really impressed with the PewDiePie #Linux video. He's talking to an audience of real people, not nerds, and explaining benefits pretty well. And it seems to me that he's put a lot of work into the customization aspect, more so than even I ever have. I'm not sure how many new people this'll bring to the community, but it won't be a small number.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0&t=4s

@BrodieOnLinux And sometimes the hardware can be genuinely nicer than the usual alternatives. Linux on a Chromebook Pixel (2015) remains my best Linux experience to date.

I don't know how anybody lets their software fall out of date. I am *constantly* checking for updates for absolutely everything.

I'm using a light theme on my device for the first time in over a decade and I don't hate it.

This is fascinating insight into Facebook's AI slop problem.

https://youtu.be/Cedj8AKI2U8?feature=shared

TIL that if you don't manually set a country code within OpenWRT, it defaults to the "World" profile which restricts the power of your router's antennas to the lowest possible regulated output globally, which for me was 20dBm. Setting it to "United States" allowed me to increase that to 23dBm, which is double the power.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/which-country-is-less-restrictive-on-2-4-ghz-and-5-ghz-signal-channels/131286

@BrodieOnLinux Fedora. The usual.

@BrodieOnLinux This is super annoying. I am curious to see how Valve themselves handle this, since if anti-cheat is done at the hardware verification level, this would theoretically hinder the game compatibility list for a future iteration of the Steam Deck.

With everything going on with Mozilla and #Firefox, it's once again time for me to post about our need for a real, flagship #Linux web browser. Firefox has been it for some time, and while I can absolutely understand why, I think it's becoming more and more apparent that Mozilla's goals don't really align with those of the Linux community. And to be clear, that's okay! Mozilla needs to make money. But Linux distributions and users shouldn't be impacted by that need, now or in the future.

I recognize that projects like GNOME Web are awesome, but I don't see a future in which GNOME Web replaces Firefox and is shipped among distributions regardless of their desktop environment of choice.

As seen on Reddit, X / Twitter appears to be partnering in some way with Brave for search results in their stupid AI thing:

"We share parts of Input Data with Brave Software, Inc., so we can include Brave’s search results in the Service."

https://x.ai/legal/europe-privacy-policy-addendum

Might fuck around and rewatch Andor.

On the web, I've been using elk.zone for Mastodon and phtn.app for Lemmy. Are there any good web applications for Pixelfed?

#fediverse

Ah yes, surely this will save Tinder. https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/tinder-will-try-ai-powered-matching-as-the-dating-app-continues-to-lose-users/

@dansup Are these being made available on GitHub, as well?

Babe wake up, #fediverse Facebook Marketplace just dropped. https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt