I wonder how much work is entailed in transforming Fedora in to a distro that meets some definition of the word “Sovereign” 🤔

Personally I wouldn’t want to make a project like this be dependent on the whims of a US defense contractor like RedHat/IBM, especially after what happened with CentOS.

Because Netanyahu doesn’t want to testify at his corruption trial

Yes, that was one reason…

and because the United States has not stopped giving them weapons to carry out this war, regardless of what they did and or who the US president was

and that is another.

But, this article buries the lede about what was probably the most compelling reason for Benjamin Netanyahu in making his decision to murder hundreds of people yesterday and today:

Netanyahu has a deadline: his government must pass a national budget in two weeks, or face the prospect of his government collapsing, triggering new elections.

Returning to war paved the way for Netanyahu to bring his far-right ally Itamar Ben Gvir back inside the coalition and beef up his governing majority. Ben Gvir had quit because of the January ceasefire with Hamas, and returned Tuesday with the resumption of the war.

[…]

The strikes could last at least another two weeks until Israel passes its national budget, giving Netanyahu a stronger position in power and more flexibility to resume a ceasefire, analysts say.

if you’ve never used ed(1) technically it’s illegal for you to say “it’s a UNIX system, i know this”

as i said, it “is about to be released”.

or, one could also say that the the 3.0.0 source code has been released, but the official binaries haven’t been yet :)

edit: i see https://flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP has 3.0.0 now, and from https://testing.gimp.org/downloads/ i see that https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v3.0/linux/GIMP-3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage is also there. presumably https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ will be updated very soon.

StartPage/StartMail is owned by an adtech company who’s website boasts that they “develop & grow our suite of privacy-focused products, and deliver high-intent customers to our advertising partners” 🤔

They have a whitepaper which actually does a good job explaining how end-to-end encryption in a web browser (as Tuta, Protonmail, and others do) can be circumvented by a malicious server:

The malleability of the JavaScript runtime environment means that auditing the future security of a piece of JavaScript code is impossible: The server providing the JavaScript could easily place a backdoor in the code, or the code could be modified at runtime through another script. This requires users to place the same measure of trust in the server providing the JavaScript as they would need to do with server-side handling of cryptography.

However (i am not making this up!) they hilariously use this analysis to justify having implemented server-side OpenPGP instead 🤡

Could anybody in short explain, what I have to understand from “it’s tagged”?

Git is the most popular version control system, which lets developers track changes to software source code. A “tag” applies a name (or version number) to a specific point in the history.

The commit shows that there was a longer with 3.0.0 tag before and now its just 3.0.0

The link goes to a commit which is tagged GIMP_3_0_0, and shows the change made in this commit. This commit happens to change the version line in a file called meson.build - this file configures Meson, which is used to build GIMP. The version is being changed from 3.0.0-RC3+git to 3.0.0. The string “RC3” in the previous version number is short for “release candidate 3”, and “git” here means that there were additional changes since “release candidate 3” was released.

What does that tell us? :D

So far the news and downloads pages still haven’t been updated, but the version being changed to 3.0.0 and this commit being tagged tells us that GIMP 3.0.0 is about to be released: official binaries and an announcement about it can be expected to appear very soon.

The tag means no more changes will be included in 3.0.0; if some show-stopping bug were discovered now, the version number would be incremented to 3.0.1 rather than to include a fix in 3.0.0. (Technically, a tag can be updated/replaced, but by convention it is not.)

The “VP Engineering for Ubuntu” being a NixOS user is hilarious and reminds me of the CEO of Ford saying he’s been driving a Xiaomi EV “for six months now and I don’t want to give it up”.

The fact remains this article is titled in a very clickbaity way

The link is to a youtube video, not an article, so apparently you resisted taking the bait… but aren’t letting your lack of a click prevent you from commenting :)

Tuta’s product is snake oil.

A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against.

If you don’t care about their (nonstandard, incompatible, and snake oil) end-to-end encryption feature and just want a freemium email provider which (purports to) protect your privacy in other ways, the fact that their flagship feature is snake oil should still be a red flag.

Clickbait. The VP Engineering for Ubuntu made a post that he was looking into using the Rust utils for Ubuntu and has been daily driving them and encouraged others to try

It’s by no means certain this will be done.

Here is that post. It isn’t certain to happen, but he doesn’t only say that he is daily driving them. He says his goal is to make them the default in 25.10:

My immediate goal is to make uutils’ coreutils implementation the default in Ubuntu 25.10, and subsequently in our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, if the conditions are right.

yep. (see my other comment in this thread)

The three currently-maintained engines which (at their feature intersection) effectively define what “the web” is today are Mozilla’s Gecko, Apple’s WebKit, and Google’s Blink.

The latter two are both descended from KHTML, which came from the Konquerer browser which was first released as part of KDE 2.0 in 2000, and thus both are LGPL licensed.

After having their own proprietary engine for over two decades, Microsoft stopped developing it and switched to Google’s fork of Apple’s fork of KDE’s free software web engine.

Probably Windows will replace its kernel with Linux eventually too, for better or worse :)

How else are Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi and co getting away with building proprietary layers on top of a copyleft dependency?

They’re allowed to because the LGPL (unlike the normal GPL) is a weak copyleft license.

BSD tells me the team probably wants Ladybird to become not just a standalone browser but also a new competing base for others to build a browser on top of

it’s about the ladybird browser. i edited my comment to add details.

with mandatory male pronouns for users in the documentation.

(and no politics allowed!)

subtitles “fixed” in them without separate SRT file

can you turn them on and off? meaning, is there a text track embedded in the video file, or is the text actually rendered into each frame?

if the former, you can easily extract them into an SRT file (or another format) using ffmpeg: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/ExtractSubtitles

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/a-global-review-of-public-transit-seat-cover-designs

it was an unfortunate choice to make the video thumbnail include the headline the video refutes, without any indication that it is being refuted, given that presumably far more people will see the thumbnail than will watch the video 🤦