I’m not suggesting that it’s outrageous. Merely that it’s probably not a high priority.

Maybe webm and mp4 files with multiple language tracks are usually played with a media player, not a web browser?

I’ve had very good results with PTM7950 phase change material on my CPU, which has not been delidded. I expect it would work even better on a GPU, which typically doesn’t have a lid.

(Note that PTM7950 is somewhat difficult to apply, since it comes in a pad-like form that is both sticky and brittle. If you decide to try it, I recommend refrigerating it first, and being careful and patient when applying. I feel it was worth the effort.)

GNU Taler requires exchanges in order to function, and hasn’t had any so far. What exchange now exists for use in Switzerland? Is it Taler Operations AG?

It depends on wire transfers to move money into and out of a Taler wallet. Wire transfer fees are typically around 30 USD. That’s not practical for most people’s needs, even if covering batches of transactions. Are there plans to support a less expensive means of funds transfer?

GNU Taler requires exchanges in order to function, and hasn’t had any so far. What exchange now exists for use in Switzerland? Is it Taler Operations AG?

It depends on wire transfers to move money into and out of a Taler wallet. Wire transfer fees are typically around 30 USD. That’s not practical for most people’s needs, even if covering batches of transactions. Are there plans to support a less expensive means of funds transfer?

This is simply a news article reporting a pattern that was found, much like other articles report scientific discoveries or wartime events. It is not a detailed record of the investigation. Do you see the difference?

No photos, no names, no vendors.

Manufacturers and vendors are named in the article.

If you want more details, I suggest you contact the people involved in the investigation and ask.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth

Let’s not make things complicated when they don’t have to be.

The undocumented radio modules were found in the equipment. The radios themselves are the evidence.

When you find a bug in your food, you don’t need additional evidence to prove that it’s there.

When the fuck will you people get it??

This is the wrong way to get people to care what you have to say.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth

Proton:

• GE-Proton rebased on top of Valve’s Proton 10 Bleeding Edge
• Wine-Wayland has been enabled and patches from upstream wine backported for it. YMMV (Your mileage may vary). Thanks Etaash-mathamsetty for the backporting as well as the wine-wayland specific patch fixes for various games.
• Dualsense controller patches from ClearlyClaire https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7238 rebased (thanks loathingKernel)
• FSR patches rebased (thanks loathingKernel)
• Nvidia Reflex low latency patches rebased

Protonfixes:

• Marvel Rivals EGS fix added (thanks termdisc)
• Fix added for The Testament of Sherlock Holmes (thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Fix added for Borderlans: The Pre-Sequel (thanks loathingKernel)
• Fix added for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (thanks Reilley64)
• Fix added for Breath of Fire 4 (GOG) (Thanks ImLinguin)
• Fixes added for Star Citizen (Thanks mactan-sc)
• Fix added for Yosumin (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Fix added for DOOM 2016 (GOG) (Thanks ImLinguin)
• Fix added for Lord of the Rings Online (thanks mdmatthias/MathiasDillain)
• Fix added for Once Human (Thanks jcdickinson)
• Fix added for Shadows of Adam (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Save import fix added for Metaphor ReFantazio (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Save import fix added for Persona 3 Reload (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Fix added for Liminal Border Part III (thanks R1kaB3rN)
• Fix added for Mojika Truth Rears Its Head (thanks superboo7)

Info regarding Wine-Wayland:

YMMV (Your mileage may vary). Most games that utilizes DXVK or VKD3D should be fine. Games that have native Vulkan or OpenGL are a coin toss. Most launchers should also be fine (Again huge thanks to Etaash, he’s been hammering out a lot off the Wine-Wayland bug fixes, including one that was critical for OpenGL and launcher rendering). If a game or launcher isn’t working, please DON’T come bugging us to fix it. Officially we’re with Valve on this – it’s not supported. It’s there for people to use/try/test out because it’s a wanted feature, that’s the extent of it.

New option for using Wine-Wayland:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

New option for using HDR with Wine-Wayland:

PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1

It goes without saying, but just in case people don’t know – You need Wine-Wayland to use HDR, therefore you need both options for HDR:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

If you want to use Wine-Wayland without HDR, you do NOT need this option:

PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1

Known issues with Wine-Wayland:

DOOM 2016: Opens in small window and crashes on resolution change without mesa patch. Fixed with patch DOOM Eternal: Crashes without mesa patch. Broken mouse cursor in menus, Broken mouse pointing in-game DOOM The Dark Ages: Broken mouse pointing in-game Wolfenstein The Old Blood: OpenGL error crash Wolfenstein The New Order: OpenGL error crash Wolfenstein Youn Blood: mangohud broken Path of Exile/Path of Exile 2: Vulkan renderer broken without mesa patch. Fixed with patch.

AMD-Specific:

mesa patches needed for DOOM 2016 and DOOM Eternal: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34918 mesa patches needed for DOOM Dark Ages: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34944 mesa patches needed for Path of Exile/Path of Exile 2 (currently not submitted yet): https://github.com/Nobara-Project/rpm-sources/blob/42/baseos/mesa/min_image_count.patch

Hopefully we can figure out a fix for the cursor issue in the DOOM games. Fingers crossed

:(

A flimsy band-aid over the real problems:

• Locking an open-source project’s community behind a corporation’s private service & license terms.
• Using a real-time chat platform for long-lived information storage.

They could even remove the word allegedly, since they put misleading in quotes. There’s no need for both.

Sigh… Modern web “journalism”.

provide the option to delete all messages in bulk later on.

You cannot reliably do this on any chat platform, since a server that (openly or secretly) keeps chat history can ignore requests to delete it, and since the other participants can (and often do) still have the messages.

The closest you can come is to self-host a server or use a peer-to-peer chat service, and chat only with people whom you trust. (And use end-to-end encryption, of course.)

Reminds me of this bit of history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

All the more reason to call attention to an easily overlooked alternative, especially if it’s able to serve a blind person’s needs better.

Streaming of what? Music tracks? Radio stations? TV?

Running ALSA as root had one huge benefit

Huh? ALSA is not a sound server, but a collection of kernel components and libraries. You don’t run it.

With PipeWire or PulseAudio, audio is bound to a user session.

PipeWire has a system-wide mode of operation. It wasn’t well-tested when I last asked about it, but it might be worth a try.

GTK3 broke accessibility for years.
GTK4 released with no accessibility support at all.

This whole article is focused on GNOME and other GTK-based desktops. The only mention of KDE Plasma at all is to say that a certain GNOME fork (MATE) isn’t like it. This seems like a rather large oversight given that Qt, upon which Plasma is built, has accessibility features built in.

So, nearly every criticism here is not about Linux after all, but about a specific desktop family. I hope the author eventually notices that others exist, tries them, and discovers things that work better in them. (And it would be nice if they were to post a more comprehensive follow-up article, or at least rephrase this one so that it doesn’t mislead people into thinking it represents the Linux desktop ecosystem as a whole.)