LWDW: Wayland Zombie Apocalypse

NVIDIA drops 32-bit support, KDE travels back in time, Grsecurity gets slapped and Wayland hates zombies. All this plus your emails!

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Ha HA!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/22/grsecurity_defamation_perens_dismissed/

The judge denied the SLAPP claim in the best possible way.
“…the plaintiffs [GR Security] have not shown a probability of prevailing on their claims.”
- HAH!
Breaking: Expressing an opinion alone does not amount to intentional commerce disruption.
With luck they will now catch a clue and drop this nonsense and they should.
Why? Because this has harmed their company far FAR worse than anything Bruce Perens could have done.
In closing: Dear Grsecurity, quit acting like absolute tools #comeatmebro

Xdate
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2017-December/002830.html

Fixes and more fixes.
Adam Jackson says there will probably be another 1.19 release with the remainder of the patches from Master.
If you were expecting new features, you will have to wait until the 1.20
Fixed a non-argb cursor conversion /w xwayland and speaking of.

That’s an odd way to fix zombie object issues.
Instead of killing the zombie object, it changes it to a generic zombie and when the compositor sends the delete request it deletes the generic zombies.
Since this wasn’t a fix, Derek sent another round of patches to create a zombie per object which respect the delete request from Wayland.
army of bespoke zombies would make a proper band name,

Cliiiiick
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7lb5l7/new_screenshot_alternative_for_wayland/

If you don’t want to use the default screenshot tool in your Wayland session, you don’t have much of a choice.
“now master works with Ubuntu 17 Gnome Wayland (it should)”
- Well? Does it work or not?
gnome and plasma desktop only
If you were thinking Wayland still has a looong way to go well, claim your prize.
Also, something something security argument.

RIP32
http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-is-ending-gpu-driver-support-for-32-bit-operating-systems/

They will keep the security patches until 2019, at which point those will drop too.
I like to play the FSMs advocate on things like this but I’m unable to come up with a reason to maintain 32-bit driver support.

Official Atom
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2956#issuecomment-353225330

Jack 3
http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/News/?action=view&url=jack2-1912-release-and-future-plans

As someone who has been using Jack for the last three days I believe myself fully qualified to speak on behalf of the community.
JACK1 is in bug-fix mode only.
From now on the focus will be on JACK2.
Development of new features will happen in the JACK2 codebase.

Decided lack of Linux BOB
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/12/19/why-hasnt-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-happened-yet/

Oh look, it’s useful now
https://ubports.com/blog/latest-news-1/post/android-apps-on-ubuntu-touch-with-anbox-107

We mentioned Anbox a while back but the main issue still stands.
The Play store is not installed by default and there is no easy way to do it.
And Google could frown on that and nope it.
You could use F-Droid or other third party stores, but that’s not where the meat of Android is.

Try try again
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/290746744/eelo-a-mobile-os-and-web-services-in-the-public-in

Trouble
https://github.com/gulzar1996/auto-like-my-gf-insta-pic

This is a fantastic idea to let your loved ones know you care about the pointless things they share on social media.
That is, until you get caught.
And you gonna get caught, eventually.

Slice of Pi
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/26/fast-3d-printing-with-raspberry-pi-but-not-how-you-think/

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