I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn’t bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.

Then it’ll probably shock you even more when you realise that this thing is hosted on Github, a site owned by Microsoft… :)

… for now. They’ve already replaced the old Notepad with a bloated UWP version, so it probably won’t be long before it starts sending telemetry as well.

IT guy here, the NFC thing isn’t really a concern (NFC doesn’t work that way) or for that matter, any other wireless technology, as it’ll need to authenticate with your phone somehow. If you can somehow simply scan data from a phone without any form of authentication, that would be a massive security hole - something that would be patched by the vendors real quick. Also, if something like that were possible then the TSA/FBI wouldn’t have any issues pulling data from locked phones. Think of all the times you’ve had to put your phone thru the xray machines at the airports. Also see the case of FBI vs Apple for instance.

The other issues you’ve mentioned are valid though. Heck my Galaxy Fold won’t even fit in that slot.

it is a stupidly simple working demo of DRM circumvention

A much more simpler method is to just use Streamfab. No need for nVidia, a second PC etc.

In my experience (W11 + Fedora on UEFI Thinkpad), I’ve seen it actually get rid of the Fedora entry from the UEFI boot list. Reinstalling GRUB from chroot didn’t fix it, so I used EasyUEFI and manually added the Fedora EFI file to the boot list and that worked.

So it wasn’t simply changing the boot order, it actually nuked Fedora from the UEFI boot list.

I that case, check out Fedora CoreOS.

https://www.talos.dev/

It runs entirely in RAM, administration is super simple, no ssh, easy to update/and upgrade, immutable, minimal distro designed specifically for secure container usage.

How about Gogs? The whole thing is < 30 MB, and is lightweight enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. You can even get a native binary package if you want to run it without the overhead of Docker.

Corrected, thanks!

• Fedora KDE plans to drop the Plasma X11 session, in favor of Wayland

• Because X11 is bloated, insecure, and in a development freeze since many years.

• Wayland is simple, secure, minimal; developed by former X11 devs.

• Challenges:

• Wayland’s minimal core protocols lacked essential features.

• Fragmentation in development efforts occurred.

• Protocol approval was political and time-consuming.

• Current State:

• Standard protocols for most requirements are now available.

• Plasma and KDE apps run well on Wayland with the upcoming Plasma 6 release.

• Many 3rd-party apps work via the XWayland compatibility layer, but some need to be ported to Wayland.

• Conclusion:

• Fedora aims to drop the Plasma X11 session entirely, if you don’t like it then switch disros.

• Many 3rd-party apps are already Wayland-ready, but many are not, and collaboration is needed to expedite this transition.

There’s TrafficToll. It hasn’t had any updates for a while, but since it’s just a python frontend for tc (which is still maintained), it should work just fine.

Yep

Inflexible by Nature

This is my biggest concern with immutable distros, but this article says nothing to address it. It gave examples of changing certain parts in NixOS, but I’d rather see a couple of “hello world” type examples for a few other popular immutable distros.

Eg, how do I alter a file, say /etc/fstsb, in Fedora Silverblue, Nitrux, BlendOS etc? Is it as easy as remounting your root as r/w and saving? Or does it require a 100 steps? If it isn’t straightforward, then it may well be considered as inflexible.

nVidia doesn’t, but lawyers do. License violations are not cool, regardless of who does it.

Yep, just use the rectangular selection from the edge panel and you can save it as a screenshot or extract the text.

Native Alpha is an opensource alternative.

sysdig can monitor and display file IO usage.

See this page for some examples: https://github.com/draios/sysdig/wiki/Sysdig Examples#disk-io

Probably Oblivion and Skyrim. Depends on the controls though, some PC games require a mouse and keyboard to play (like Age of Empires), so it would be interesting to see how they handle button mapping and mouse drags/gestures.

Yes, in theory. In practice, Github has become a hub for such living documents, especially in the Linux/OSS world, so it isn’t strange for people to look there for guides and recommendations.