Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday – Firefall

Firefox marketshare is on the decline, Ubuntu 16.10 reaches EOL, and going green with OBS. All this plus your feedback!

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Colour key – Venn Pedro Mathieu Jordan

Flathub is a thing
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/07/7-flatpak-apps-can-install-right-now-flathub

I agree that SnapFlatImages are all the craze but they have a loooong way to go before they replace ppa’s on my Ubuntu system.
Flat has the best chance of becoming a universal standard but it will never happen.
At least there’s now a central-ish hub from which flats can be gathered up and pushed down to people.
Which if we’re being serious about this whole redundant universal package thing, there needs to be one.

Ubuntu 16.10 reaches EOL
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-16-10-yakkety-yak-is-no-longer-supported-upgrade-to-ubuntu-17-04-now-517083.shtml

GNOME leaves a bad taste
https://thehackernews.com/2017/07/linux-gnome-vulnerability.html

“a tool to generate thumbnails from Windows executable files”
- Ah, no worries on this end.
“For successful exploitation of the vulnerability, an attacker can send a crafted Windows installer (MSI) file with malicious VBScript code”
- ALL VBScript is malicious.
So… Another Linux vulnerability caused by Windows?
Basically, get rid of the gnome-exe-thumbnailer, if you want to be safe.

Huge fan of the work done by the Mozilla foundation but I quit using Firefox as my daily quite some time ago.
Googs never told me to switch my browser but it wanted me to make Google.com my homepage and default search engine.
Firefox did not lose because of Google, nay. It lost because of Firefox.
Seriously, Firefox had become such a bloated pile of nope a new browser (without plugin support) was able to drink its milkshake.
Firefox is a perfectly usable browser nowadays, if you force enable multi-process so that you can use it with plugins.
Thing is, public perception is also very important and Firefox was never the mainstream. It was, at one point, the darling browser of most geeks.
But most people were still using IE, many people kept on using IE until Chrome finally won.

Mozilla is crowdsourcing 10,000 hours of audio so anyone and everyone can use it to train and build voice apps.
Does not require you to submit any personally identifiable data.
Honestly, the idea behind it is enough to get me to help them.
Take the voice recog monopoly away from Google and other such companies and let the rest of the community benefit.
Of course, one mistake on Mozilla’s part, and this is going to be misused like crazy.

Ring Ring, it’s 1.0
https://blog.savoirfairelinux.com/en-ca/2017/rings-stable-version-released/

Three more years until they kill something that should have died five years ago.
Adobe will stop updating and distributing Flash but people still gonna use it.
If Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and all the others don’t pull an Apple and say “Bye, Flash!”, 2020 will have come and gone and we’ll still be talking about it.

Going green with OBS
https://linuxgamecast.com/2017/07/setup-use-a-green-screen-with-obs/

This is what happens when the only instructional video I could find was a poorly recorded ramble-fest.

Slice of Pi

$185 for the kit.
While the ability to monitor over the network is nice you can pick up a Kill A Watt for $20.

Amiga mini
https://hothardware.com/reviews/amiga-emulator-with-raspberry-pi-3

You put a PI 3 in a custom case and installed amibian, got it.
WinRAR, really?! With 7zip being actually free and supporting so many more formats, you’re actively recommending WinRAR?

Feedback

OBS
http://linuxgamecast.com/bradley/?V46VYeT
Amusement
http://linuxgamecast.com/bradley/?1s8aKeZ
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-mirrors/2017-July/000684.html