During the past few days, I’ve been chatting with Firefox users, trying to separate fact from rumor regarding the consequences of the August 2020 Mozilla layoffs. One of the topics that came back a few times was the removal of XUL-based add-ons during the move to Firefox Quantum. from https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/
Every 3 years at Canonical we get a laptop refresh fund. I used my last one to buy a ThinkPad T450. My next one is due in November this year. I was considering replacing the ThinkPad with a desktop computer of some kind. from https://listed.to/@popey/17478/multiple-gpus-in-a-skull-canyon-nuc
The video that announced this to the world has been viewed quite a few times now. While it uses an early version of the code that I developed for this, so doesn’t reflect the code as it is now, you can find it below for historical purposes: from https://snapcraft.ninja/2020/07/29/systemd-snap-packages-wsl2/
Today, I’m excited to launch Keyoxide.org, the lightweight and FOSS solution to make basic cryptography operations accessible to regular humans. Keyoxide. from https://yarmo.eu/post/keyoxide
The aim of this project was to display a colour image on a black and white monitor, by overlaying an acetate bayer filter over the monitor and mosaicing a colour image. from https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/rainbow/
Broadly speaking, most snaps in the Snap Store fall into one of two categories, desktop applications and server daemons. The graphical applications such as Chromium and Spotify use desktop files, which ensure they can be opened on demand by any user via a menu or launcher. from https://snapcraft.io/blog/split-personality-snaps
What can only be described as pure programmer sorcery, the emulator 3dSen PC is out now and breathes new life into many classic NES games and it’s brilliant. from https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/06/incredible-emulator-3dsen-pc-converts-classics-into-3d-and-its-out-now
Cancer care in England has faced major disruption during the pandemic with big drops in numbers being seen following urgent referrals by GPs, figures show. The number of people being assessed by a cancer doctor within two weeks of a referral fell to 79,500 – a drop of 60% in April. from https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52985446
While Ubuntu server is officially supported on the Pi 2, 3, and 4 (including the new 8GB RAM variant of the Pi 4), getting the Ubuntu desktop running on the mini PC has so far been a community effort. from https://joeress.com/ubuntu-20-10-desktop-to-gain-official-raspberry-pi-support/