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Let’s Encrypt roots Mozilla! Linux hacks Windows, Chrome cancels Flash, and a simple script for exploring your Ballmer Peak.

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Oh, LE is going to be trusted as their own root, neat.
Creating a new root and getting it trusted is no small task.
This is a step in the right direction.
Doesn’t really matter until all major browsers and OS also trust Let’s Encrypt’s CA
- So, Google?
  - Yes. And Apple, Microsoft, Debian, Red Hat…
And, if they weren’t before, this is when the rest of the certificate providers should start to worry!

Sudo apt-get nope python
At least this shows that some people are showing interest to PyPy.
- Well it is superior to Python in every way.
- And yet, everyone uses CPython, including myself

Oh, for the love of Santa!
How is flash still a thing?! Especially from Google! Why haven’t they killed it yet? They’ve had the power to do it for several years now! What’s with the “progressively phasing out” bullhonkey?
GG FF already nuked it from orbit.
I remember the days of only having a Flashblock plugin installed.
That’s a good thing but Flash still has to stay included in Chrome, otherwise a large chunk of internet history would be lost.

“Hello, I’m the Redundancy Fairy! I’m here not just to introduce you a new music player but an Electron Framework one at that! Why? Did I not say I was the Redundancy Fairy?”
I’m putting it to the test, the one all usable media players must pass: add my 60000 track library
Pffft! Okay Google play ____ ___ __
- The best part is, if you enable the Google Now functionality on the desktop browser and install the Play Music extension, you can do that on your PC!
- Money says Museeks can’t do that!
Something something Plex.
Oh, it didn’t pass the test btw

Don’t forget pacmixer and pulsemixer. (I see he added “not literally”)
I’m fine with Pavucontrol, thanks
Nothing like the good old days of Ubuntu 9.04 when the first thing you needed to do was install a CLI tool (alsamixer) and unmute the internal audio sink.
- sndconfig, 1996, RedHat.
If you use KDE, you get the same functionality from the KMix tray icon that you do from this.
Still it’s a neat little project.
I guarantee some ARCH users already has it installed so they can look like a L33T HaX0rs before booting back into Win10.

Differently branded Clevos aka The Linux Store
https://store.nimbusoft.co.uk/

Seems pretty reasonable as far as the price goes
I hate that the total amount doesn’t update when you add or remove options
Really detailed “About Us” section.
Yeah, I have yet to hear of anyone buying stuff from them.
- Would you buy anything from a site /w a black “about us” section?
If they decide to reply to my email, maybe we’ll update this story next week.

X86 convertible Linux table… OMG the price!
- That’s the price of freedom!
  - $1.05
Had custom MOBOs made.
They did a pretty good job avoiding any mention of Linux or Gnome.
This is great! Although, you still can’t get full 3D acceleration out of the Intel Mesa drivers without the kernel blobs.
- But, since the OS is Debian based, you can install that with an apt command.
Whoever greenlit the VO on their video should be shot.

This comes as a shock to absolutely noone.
Wouldn’t it be better to wait for an usable OS before selling devices running Ubuntu?
- Something something FoxfireOS.
- It makes sense to have at least a few prototype-thing models to showcase the OS.
- Unfortunately, they decided to go with some slow ass phones to show an OS which is still woefully unoptimized!
I mean, who thought this was going to fly in the first place?
You want to compete with Android and iOS?
- Get a time machine.

The “streamlined interface” was sorely lacking!
The only reason MS Office got away with a 100 pixel tall ribbon at the top was because it gave you the option to hide it when it wasn’t in focus.
And I can’t help but think sharing an odt file with a big “Confidential” flag over the internet is the exactly the kind of thing the NSA is always looking for.
- Aren’t supposed to encrypt those files as well? (yes, the NSA would also be looking for those but it’s harder for them to access the contents)
Unless you’re Hillary Clinton.
I want to know how many still use a non cloud-based office suite thingy and why.

After running a bunch of scripts, you should be able to fire up Ubuntu Mate desktops from your browser
That’s very neat, but that project name though… What if lutris was called Python-Gtk-Steam-wine-emulators-games?
- Then people might know about it?
For when you can’t CLI over SSH and need some GUI hand-holding.
- Gotta do something for the MATE crowd.

BREAKING: If you install a 3rd party program, the attack vector gets larger!
Are you saying Windows wasn’t developed with the Linux kernel in mind and therefore, what is a reasonably safe bug on Linux turns into a full blown security breach under Windows?
I’m far more concerned about the fact that Windows applications could inject stuff into the Linux applications. That seems like a much more worrisome issue.
Between the dumbed down article from eweek and the overly technical slides from Ionescu, I fail to see how this could be a problem.
“Linux on Windows is not running inside of a Hyper-V hypervisor”
- Jaw, floor.

I don’t think I’ve ever regretted code I wrote while drunk (or tipsy), or at least not anymore than code I wrote while sober
Pushing git commits while hungover seems way more dangerous
It uses the DrinkShield for Arduino as a breathalyzer, and a Ruby script as the git hook.
Built for hackNY’s spring 2013 hackathon by Alex Qin (@alexqin) and Geoffrey Litt