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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • In the EU any bank requires customers to use 2FA. Dutch customs requires critical logistics companies to use 2FA (amongst other stuff).

    From what I recall critical companies must address likely methods to breach their security. It is highly likely that a company will get loads of attempts to check. Similarly, a critical company is expected to deal with employees leaving and ensuring their access is revoked.

    From skimming they seem to say that there isn’t a breach because an account of an ex-employee was used. But that’s too easy, the processes sucked. The way they got in is just one of the things that some EU regulation requires critical companies to address. Same for perhaps not forcing customers to use 2FA. That’s crazy.

    The EU is usually really slow in regulating things. If they got in using a method that the EU said you had to address then it means you had ages of time and nothing was done.

    Really unresponsible. Especially as I think they seem be pretty critical part of the economy.



  • My budget is maximum $50

    There’s a Dutch weather man who reviews a crazy amount of earbuds as a hobby. They’re all Bluetooth ones though. I found that you get better quality for a similar price if you get a wired one.

    Anyway, recommend that you check out https://www.scarbir.com/

    He has lists per price range, but also recommendations per usage type. E.g. I bought ones that were less affected by wind noise (during a call).






  • If you’re THE leading DE project at least try to accommodate those DE’s that depend on your code or meet with them to inform them well in advance and discuss the best options for those DE’s.

    It’s always easy to say that other people should do more work to benefit others. Libawaita isn’t anything new. It was announced loads of times.

    In other words, work together for the good of all users

    That the current status isn’t what you want isn’t the same as not working together. Further, there’s usually a limited amount of time and attention.

    Within Linux there’s loads and loads of opinions. Loads of different desktop environments. That complexity cost development time. Time that isn’t infinite. Again, it seems to easy to direct how others should spend their time and/or to argue that they aren’t doing enough for your liking.




    • Background I was using got removed, got a better one anyway

    I had that happen a few times. This time I downloaded those backgrounds again (from gnome-backgrounds repository). Still, it’s pretty annoying to have this happen.

    I upgraded just before the beta. Discovered a mutter crash, reported it, it was fixed in a day or so.



  • Never heard about this. They’re website is awesome, they have a extensive list of changes they made. Don’t agree with removing SELinux though. It stops enough security issues and it doesn’t seem good to have such a change while likely (didn’t check) rely on Fedora for package updates.

    Kind of wonder how old certain changes are, e.g. Fedora did change the vm.max_map_count.

    Edit: forgot to say that I do like it. I like opinionated software/projects even if I might not use it myself.


  • Those hacked together system-specific bash scripts were shit.

    With a different feature set per script as well. The systemd service files have often been pushed upstream.

    Pretty sure people liking those scripts never really tried dealing with them across distributions. Though this just rehashes things that were said when distributions decided if to switch to systemd. Still the same strange claim that those scripts are somehow easier. It wasn’t, it is also way easier to package a systemd file from upstream than to maintain that stuff within a distribution.


  • I wonder if this is still true, now that he no longer works for RedHat, but Microsoft.

    Why wouldn’t Fedora do that? Decisions are decided by multiple people, they are not forced through or just decided unilaterally by one person.

    Enough people in Fedora try to improve the low level stuff. I’m looking forward to that homedir systemd stuff. Don’t care about this sudo alternative.




  • Are you reading what you wrote? It’s full of contradictions.

    It seems you think that people should be free from consequences until a certain level is surpassed? That’s rather arbitrary.

    What I saw is that an active developer got actually banned just for arguing against an affirmative action.

    It’s often not as simple as how you summarize this. Above is awfully similar to the incorrect claim of “cancel culture”. While often that meant that people think someone should be able to do as they please without any consequences. Except for things they dislike, then there should be consequences.