LWDW: Big Slappy Penguin Kisses

Linus goes on a tear, Microsoft brings GVFS to Linux, Dell continues to embrace the penguin and nano records a stroke. All this plus your emails.

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Linus hates security
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/20/security_people_are_morons_says_linus_torvalds/
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/356

So, the proposed patches wanted to create a whitelist of applications and every other bit of software that acted out of place would get killed.
- Remember how many times Linus has said that the Kernel shouldn’t break userspace?
- And once again, I find myself agreeing with Linus because the developer submitted a broken patch.
- He knew it was broken, because he had to go back and create a fallback mode for the few bits of software he forgot to account for when creating the exclusion list.
- Linus views security issues as bugs.
“IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE when security people set magical new rules, and then make the kernel panic when those new rules are violated.”
- Kinda has a point.
- The kill on sight approach works but you have to implement things like fallback modes.
- Because things gonna go wrong.
Linus is more of a mark it and track it then sort it if need be vs LOIC.
Cook backed down and admitted his fixes could not be tested in a single development cycle.

Linus lets it in
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2017-November/157803.html

AMD too has often been at the end of a Linus denial with accompanying torrent of (deserved) insults.
This time, though, instead of going to Linus directly they had Dave Airlie help them with and submit the patches.
Good idea, AMD! Because clearly, he is much better at this whole Linux thing than AMD ever was.

There is so much wrong with that article title, I don’t even know where to start.

Yet another Google Drive
https://github.com/MStadlmeier/drivesync

Tired of looking at your email through an old version of Firefox with a funky layout?
Now you can look at your email through an old version of Chromium with a funky layout.
The more things change the more the stay the same, right?
For example, the Snap version doesn’t follow your system theme at all.
Oh look, it wants me to create a mailspring account to check my mail.
Also, gnome-software is rubbish.
Tried to install mailspring, it failed complaining about snap.
It actually installed but didn’t register so uninstalling it was not presented as an option.
Had to snap remove mailspring to nope the critter.

I still like the look of that Precision AIO
“The better option is to buy a computer with Linux pre-installed”
- Somebody needs to tell Mr. Brian that it’s 2017.
DELL offers RHEL and Ubuntu 16.04.
Big, honking, downside? AMD graphics.

I plugged them digits into the main router.
It works (I guess) but don’t really see any advantages.
GCA & IBM have partnered with Packet Clearing House to launch a DNS that blocks malware from phoning home.
GCA is a non-profit—so the long-term growth of the service is based largely on government and industry continuing to fund it.

Recording strokes
https://www.nano-editor.org/news.php

Macros… Because if there’s one thing a CLI text editor needs, it’s macros.
Improved syntax highlighting? Allowing people to cycle between them in the editor itself? No?