Cyber Rattling
There are a couple stories about Iran and terrorists initiating cyber events against the west. Why this is interesting is that the WEF was hyping a major cyber crisis coming in two years, about two years ago. I also have…
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Phoronix Suggests Open Source Projects Should be Controlled by Big Tech
This all makes me wonder how much advertising Red Hat and IBM do with Phoronix? I have Pi-Hole DNS/Unbound servers with uMatrix and xBlock Origin in my browsers, so I don’t see much advertising or elements of certain websites, as…
Fedora Silences Support for Xorg Fork, But Other Distros Voice Support
This is a good report on the situation of a Fedora project member submitting a proposal to replace X11 with XLibre on Fedora. And it’s also funny that Xorg has released a couple bug fix versions to try to make…
XLibre vs. Wayland
As XLibre has become a fork by dissatisfied programmers who previously worked on X.Org, there has been some interesting discussion about the projects, and how X.Org was being extinguished from within in favor of Wayland being rushed through by Red…
Google’s Advanced Protection Arrives on Android: Should You Use It?
I’d like to see Google add a setting for not allowing background apps to run, something I must manually do. You have to go into the app information and kill it, as for a lot of apps there is no…
Microsoft is the Queen of Big Tech Pride Month – Promotes Child Abuse
I nice overview of tech megacorps and what they did for Pride month. But what Microsoft is doing is child abuse and Satanic. If you needed a good reason to not use Microsoft software, here you go.
Trump Organization Announces Mobile Plan, $499 Smartphone
So much for a crackdown on big pharma megacorps, as Trump’s phone plan will include telehealth and a pharma benefit. And if you’re going to use a MVNO reseller, there are a lot of cheaper options out there. And if…
Apple to Introduce Digital Passport ID in iOS 26 This Fall
They’re trying to make it seem like just the Passport ID, but pay attention to the statement about age and identity verification for apps. And this was the purpose of the state laws for age verification to access porn. So…
XLibre and Desktop Environments
I wanted to highlight a couple interesting comments below from the project’s Github issues tab. And reaperx7’s post made me chuckle, as GNOME is one of the worst DE environments. And this whole XLibre fork has been interesting in that…
XLibre and Browsers
Update: added OpenMandriva response that gives support to XLibre, and they already switched to it for the development branch. Consequently, OpenMandriva is another non-DEI distribution rejecting the woke nonsense with sexual perversion needing to be espoused in everything. So for…
Microsoft CEO Says up to 30% of the Company’s Code Was Written by AI
(Headline article below) If you needed another reason to get away from big tech operating systems, here you go. Supposedly, you can use AI to code if you’re a very competent coder that can properly prompt it and verify the…
First LiveCD with XLibre
It looks like the IT firm in Brazil has been doing their own distribution and have already incorporated XLibre. Consequently, this is a distro based on Macaroni OS derived from Funtoo which was based on Gentoo. I think this is…