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That moment users finally realize the hard way, that paying for license doesn't mean owning the software.

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After another day of work using GNU Guix System I have almost daily driver ready OS. Only blocker is nasty bug with ghostscript/printing which causes me trouble in my graphics work that I need to get done.

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So my first steps with GNU Guix System were a bit shaky, but I've finally got a hang of it and now I want to run it everywhere. This project has excellent documentation and my protip is that one should really commit himself (one afternoon will suffice) to read it before running install.

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Morning well spent. I've replaced intel card in my x220 with Atheros one, so I'm ready to migrate to guix on libre kernel later today (:

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There are many reports that for many even new Firefox release haven't fixed addons issue. How about global same time next year?

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Until yesterday there was IceCat instead of Firefox but shit happened and I needed to do quick fresh debian install so haven't had any time to set it up.

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So my web browsing workflow goes like this: Tor Browser for normal websurfing, Firefox with security addons like NoScript/uBlock/PrivacyBadger for everytime I need to login with my true identity, Firejailed Firefox (fresh profile on every run) for online banking and those times when I just need website to work (plus webdevelopment). What is yours?

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muesli  

TIL: #bash provides pseudo devices for TCP and UDP connections:

echo "hello" > /dev/udp/127.0.0.1/1337

or

exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.google.com/80
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\n" >&5
cat <&5

I'm baffled how I've never discovered that until today.

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Silver Spook Games  

"Riot Games employees are preparing for a walkout this afternoon... employees reported a culture of widespread and endemic sexism at the company... the first walkout at a major gaming studio."

kotaku.com/riot-employees-prep

DO IT! AAA, the corporate game industry is overflowing w/ shitheadery, exploitation of workers. It's the central pillar where Steve Bannon launched the fascist international movement through gamergate, pushing game culture toward the far-right

This is a critical anti-fash push.

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As WordPress developers we're getting first important security features update in a really long long time: paragonie.com/blog/2019/05/wor

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Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords | CBC News
cbc.ca/news/business/cbsa-boar

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Anyone knows what's the status of neo900 or about some smartphones like it? Unfortunately neo900 website looks dead.

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So yesterday events left my tor browser both on mobile and on the desktop broken. Extensions got disabled and I'm not able to reinstall them. Download is always corrupted.

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Looking at the press Firefox is getting today, even on more mainstream blogs... it'll be very hard to pitch it to anyone again. Powerusers might forgive but regulars won't

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FiPies  

@sirmacik

Well apparently they've rolled out the patch via normandy:

wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Norma

Good on them to remind me to sanitize that attack surface ^_^

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Bee Yarn Knee 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏  

Today's reminder that security and crypto will, by design, reduce reliability and cause breakage and extra work, was brought to you by Mozilla Firefox and code signing. 🤪

This is the expected outcome, folks!

(The reason I point this out is not to deny the need for security, but to point out that security has real costs and should be weighed accordingly.)

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Alexander Bochmann  

@rysiek @sirmacik Looking at the bug tracker, it seems exactly the same thing happened to them three years ago, when that intermediate certificate expired the last time...

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fridaysforfuture, but everyday  

firefox bug, how to manually enable your plugins Show more

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In other news: Oracle after years of running open source projects still haven't learned a thing.
Negotiations Failed: How Oracle killed Java EE. | Head Crashing Informatics
headcrashing.wordpress.com/201

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The important thing is it took for example noscript for every user... be it tor browser, be it mobile device

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