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Canonical Announces Availability of Real-Time Kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - 9to5Linux ( 9to5linux.com )

To get started with the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 24.04, check out the official documentation. One thing to keep in mind if you’re an NVIDIA GPU user is that the real-time Ubuntu kernel does not support the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.

Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices ( www.theregister.com )

The Register has learned from those involved in the browser trade that Apple has limited the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU. That requirement adds an additional barrier to anyone planning to develop and support a browser with an alternative engine in the EU....

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Well, since when Silicon Valley cared about environment or Global warming?
It's all about $ always.

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Bad news is that it is not clear at this point whether Mozilla is going to go forward with the implementation. A post on Reddit by one of the project members suggests that the build is a "rough proof-of-concept". Some features tested in the build "did not survive". It is unclear which did not, as they are not mentioned.
Mozilla is, however, implementing those that survived the cut into Firefox. Again, the poster does not mention which those are. It is also not verified that the poster is actually a member of the project team, so take this with a grain of salt as well.

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UX is a very subjective matter.

XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." ( lcamtuf.substack.com )

Thought this was a good read exploring some how the "how and why" including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f42f427b-626d-4962-b84e-83c8d9c3673b.png

Source: https://infosec.exchange/@fr0gger/112189232773640259

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Definitely state sponsored attack. It could be any nation - US to North Korea, and any other nation in between.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3abb80a0-700a-4cfd-a3b8-c3fe6b442a9c.png

Source: https://turnoff.us/

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  • Careful choice of program to infect the whole Linux ecosystem
  • Time it took to gain trust
  • Level of sophistication in introducing backdoor in open source product

All of these are signs of persistent threat actors aka State sponsor hacker. Though the real motive we would never know as it's now a failed project.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/df23566e-f0bf-4c13-aa16-e013b741e44b.jpeg

Source: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/112192351400749028

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Email alias indeed helps to avoid spam and helps you to assume separate identity per site, but won't help in any way to stop mail provider/server from processing your email data for user profiling / targeted ad purpose.

Buying email domain and self-hosting is only the full proof way from privacy POV, but it is really difficult target to accomplish. A privacy respecting email hosting + alias should be next ideal choice, IMO.

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Ah! I was not aware of the fact that Alias service can encrypt email before forwarding to actual mailbox.

Cyberus Develops Open-Source KVM Backend For VirtualBox ( www.phoronix.com )

Making use of Linux's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) opens up new possibilities while users can still enjoy the VirtualBox VMM itself. The KVM support is part of the mainline kernel so there is less worries with not having to use the VirtualBox kernel driver, KVM tends to support new features quite quickly, and tends to be...

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Known issues and limitations

Currently, Intel x86_64 is the only supported host platform.
    AMD will most likely work too but is considered experimental at the moment.
Linux is required as a host operating system for building and running VirtualBox KVM.
Starting with Intel Tiger Lake (11th Gen Core processors) or newer, split lock detection must be turned off in the host system. This can be achieved using the Linux kernel command line parameter split_lock_detect=off or using the split_lock_mitigate sysctl.

Source: https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm

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Docker can be run in rootless mode[1]. Ideally that should be the standard mode unless you have specific requirements not satisfied by rootless mode.

[1] https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/

Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

I currently have a Dell laptop that runs Windows for work. I use an external SSD via the Thunderbolt port to boot Linux allowing me to use the laptop as a personal device on a completely separate drive. All I have to do is F12 at boot, then select boot from USB drive....

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In most cases, work laptops have software(s) installed to automatically keep track of these activities, and flag it to security team of your organization. At that point, it will either lead to a formal warning to you, or termination/forced resignation.

From organization point of view, this is to avoid any accidental (or intentional) leak of confidential data, and/or accidentally (or intentionally) infecting your (work) system with malware/ransomware.

The latter had happened in one of my previous organizations, and the person responsible was terminated from job immediately.

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Same as that happened to Bibliogram earlier – a cat-n-mouse game between Dev and API owner.

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True, but till the transition completes (if it ever), these privacy frontends are quite handy tool to view content of those services.

I heavily use LibReddit to follow certain Subreddits, although I now mostly frequent Lemmy.

Intel Thread Director Virtualization Patches Boost Some Workloads By ~14% ( www.phoronix.com )

With this Intel Thread Director Virtualization to ensure the VM can properly manage task placement between P and E cores, the feature ended up yielding around 14% better performance than the status quo. That 14% win was with the 3DMark benchmark running on a Windows VM.

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Are the latest generation (11th onwards) of Intel CPUs still affected by any of these two vulnerabilities?

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Not just MS Team, but the whole MS ecosystem.

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Nextcloud[1] is an open source and self-hostable SaaS product.

Instead of using OneDrive and Google Drive (and similar proprietary solutions), Nextcloud is a better solution from Privacy POV, IMO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextcloud

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You are essentially sharing a file link via MS Teams.

Instead of keeping the actual file on OneDrive, it is hosted on your own (Nextcloud) server. Sorry but how it leads to privacy issue?

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The post is about Nextcloud self-hosted file storage as an open source replacement for One Drive which is deeply integrated with MS Teams. For those, who can't replace MS Teams with FOSS equivalent for whatever reason, can at least stop relying on One Drive for file storage solution.

And, for your information, Nextcloud does offer 1:1 and group chat solution[1], which is an open source replacement for MS Teams.

[1] https://nextcloud.com/talk/

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I actually own a steam deck and I never had any major issues with it, so my only conclusion is that this time it’s the fault of either linux mint

Isn't Steam Deck use AMD and not NVIDIA?
Btw, playing CS:GO2 on Nvidia 3070 Ti on Linux desktop using driver version 545 doesn't give me a major issue so far.

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