The move is being driven at least in part due to having to deal with increased “nontechnical nonsense” raised around Rust programming language use within the Linux kernel.
It was simple at first when it was simple C code but since the Bcachefs tools transitioned to Rust, it’s become an unmaintainable mess for stable-minded distribution vendors. As such the bcachefs-tools package has now been orphaned by Debian.
It’s good to see that Mono has found a new home and won’t be facing the same fate as many other open-source projects when they aren’t actively developed or maintained anymore.
But, there’s another viewpoint that I am slowly warming up to: that Microsoft just did this to avoid letting people know that they intended to discontinue the project. An r/linux member puts it well:
Looks more like they want to discontinue the project, but that sounds bad so they just declared that wine is the new upstream now.
Whatever their motivation behind handing over Mono to the Wine project maybe, I am just glad to see that an open-source project has found a new home, where it is hopefully valued more.
In a pitch deck that has surfaced since the initial story broke out, Cox Media Group (CMG), a digital marketing outfit based out of Atlanta, Georgia, was spotted touting “the power of voice ” in a pitch. In it, they outlined how they can use AI to collect and analyze voice data from users through more than 470 sources .
Affects so many things, it’s hard to even consider the list:
This is going to result in a lot of hardware replacements. To quote the writeup:
All YubiKey 5 Series (with firmware version below 5.7) are impacted by the attack and in fact all Infineon security microcontrollers (including TPMs) that run the Infineon cryptographic library (as far as we know, any existing version) are vulnerable to the attack. These security microcontrollers are present in a vast variety of secure systems – often relying on ECDSA – like electronic passports and crypto-currency hardware wallets but also smart cars or homes. However, we did not check (yet) that the EUCLEAK attack applies to any of these products.
And in directly related news:
and this is the latest firmware, which confirms even the new stuff is affected:
While Google previously removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium, it may be Google that comes to the rescue and writes a Rust-based JPEG-XL image decoder that can then be shipped by Firefox.
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But if Google invests in writing a Rust-based JPEG-XL decoder, it will be interesting to see if they go ahead in reconsidering their image support within Chrome. Otherwise it would be rather ironic if Google develops this Rust-based JPEG-XL decoder only to be used by Firefox and other non-Google software.
The above was posted because the original seems to have been yanked from YouTube.
Update: Yep, it was yanked by YouTube, and this NSFW rant was the result:
It is a spaghetti of others work.
You can just think of searching same concepts from 10 different websites and then writing one sentence related to that concept from each website
Those, who use AI , actually will never use their critical thinking and hence will never ever be able to solve any problem by their own in real life.
Fastfetch is similar to Neofetch in that it ‘pretty prints’ information about your OS, desktop environment, pertinent underlying technologies, and selected system hardware specs in a terminal window.
But Fastfetch is far more capable than Neofetch: it’s faster, more featured2, supports Wayland (Neofetch technically didn’t), and is actively maintained.
