My take on the discontinuation of mozilla.social is that it was a good idea that was underfunded and underdeveloped. It had the real problem of lacking a meaningful way to fund it, but that wasn't the fault of the people working on it. They did good work with few resources and little support. Shame that a distributed social network isn't as hip in Silicon Valley as pointlessly large matrix multiplications.
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Essay I want someone to write: if you weren’t there, it’s hard to explain how much 1990s FOSS was driven by how *low-quality* proprietary software was.@luis_in_brief proprietary software was also very expensive. Anything related to graphics required significant investment and you had to pay even for an IDE or C/C++ compilers. I remember paying a license for the text editor I started using in 1995.
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Hey #Firefox for #Android users, I need your help.Hey #Firefox for #Android users, I need your help. We've started rolling out updates for version 130 and it seems that a lot of users with Vivo devices experienced a bunch of crashes. Samsung and Google ones are affected too, but to a lesser extent. If Firefox is crashing for you ping me, I'd love to know exactly what happens at the moment of the crash and right afterwards.
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I've found a lot of conflicting and confusing reports about the #SecureBoot issue caused by a Microsoft update, so here's my relatively informed take about it.I've found a lot of conflicting and confusing reports about the #SecureBoot issue caused by a Microsoft update, so here's my relatively informed take about it.
Spoilers: this isn't an issue with GRUB, but with another less known bootloader called shim. GRUB can also be affected though. So let's talk about how the bootchain of a #Linux distro works and what happened to it. 🧵 1/11