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XWayland is actively developed. XFree86, which is the "standalone DDX" you see on X11 desktops, is being actively maintained.

Nowhere (and everywhere). It is my understanding that XACE doesn't actually provide any security features itself. It just provides the "hooks" to implement security extensions. Lik…

probably because there is a ton of open source projects out there with disabled tests in their training data.

Lobbyists turning into government regulator is a lot more common then people realize. It is normal regardless of what party occupies the Whitehouse. This is one of those things wer…

Fixing X11's security would of broken window positioning as well. Since that is a security issue. The deal here is that the only way to fix X11's security issues is by breaking all…

Yes it was bit uncharitable, but I couldn't resist based on the way he phrased it. It was just a joke. "Preventing" the vulnerability would indeed require going back to 1994. Since…

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The way X11 developers ended up fixing this is by creating Wayland. This way privileged operations (like keylogging, screen capture, etc) require the cooperation and authentication…

Microsoft is guilty of giving incompetent administrators enough rope to hang themselves.

That shpool looks like a good idea.

Modern science is derived from Christian Scholasticism from the middle ages so this way of talking and thinking about science as being divinely originated is only unusual in the pa…

I think that using the term 'application containers' to reference docker and 'system containers' to reference LXC is a bit of a meaningless distinction. You can 100% host "systems …

"Systems containers" are almost certainly isn't more secure since 'root' means things, even in a container. Containers just leverage existing Linux namespace isolation techniques t…

Copyright exists to protect publishers, not the people actually doing the work. Copyright was created for the specific purpose of censorship.

Generally speaking the cells that are welded on are designed to be welded on in the areas were you do the welding. Doing something other then welding on them properly is going to b…

Replace well known, fast, and efficient image to text algorithms that can happily run on my ancient Kindle with a gigantic black box of ML mush that requires tens of thousands of d…

Rabies anti-virus require very carefully handling and refrigeration and thus can be extremely expensive for hospitals to keep in stock. And, yes, it needs to be applied before symp…

One of the effects of ISG15 deficiency is a disease called "Type I interferonopathy". Among the symptoms of this disease includes things like necrotic lesions and severe multi-syst…

AMDgpu is the driver for newer GPUs, radeon is for the older GPUs. This is like circa 7 or 10 years ago. So it is both driver changes and architectural changes. There is also AMDGP…

Things have changed a lot since Steam deck. Especially in the last 3 or 4 years. Mobile users suffer more problems then people with dedicated desktop GPUs, but it still gotten a lo…

With the advent of Steam deck and Valve putting time and effort into AMD GPU drivers the AMD GPU is really the best option for Linux when it comes to general desktop stuff and gami…

There was a similar situation going on with Craigslist and a couple other websites. I don't remember the details. But the basic gist is that people were selling illicit sex service…

Water rights is a huge deal in Colorado. It is in the state constitution and there has been a lot of government corruption around the issue. It is common for people to buy up land …

If you are using podman "rootless" mode prior to 5.3 then typically you are going to be using the rootless networking, which is based around slirp4netns. That is going to be slower…