LWDW: Facebook Sea-Monster

Firefox blocks Facebook, Telegram goes terminal and we recap SCALE 16X. All this, plus your emails!

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AlphabitOS
https://www.wraltechwire.com/2018/03/19/report-red-hat-could-be-a-google-takeover-target-a-deal-wouldnt-be-cheap/

Ah, complete baseless speculation.
Something’s very disturbing in the force . . .
Happy 25th Red Hat!
Do you know what else is ripe for a google takeover? Everything!
The googs has all the money
“Oh, but Red Hat is a major player in the cloud space and Google is always looking to bolster their position.”
- So is Dropbox, so is Microsoft, so is freakin’ Canonical (maybe less so than the other two).
If I set up a NextCloud server and sell some spare space, will the Googs shower me with money?
Google Mkt cap: 699.46B / Revenue US$110.85 billion (2017)
Oracle Mkt cap: 185.26B / Revenue US$37.73 billion (2017)

darktable 2.4.2
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.4.2
https://www.darktable.org/

Every bit as good as Adobe’s Lightroom and have been using it for a long time
Extra localizations, a heck of a lot more support for cameras and a few bugfixes.
- Namely, if you try to export a pdf with all the pictures, it shouldn’t crash anymore.

2 Facts
https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/Authenticator/

I use the Authenticator Extension for Chrome/Foxfire but this is a nice alternative.
Linux native 2FA if you’re afraid the Googs will suddenly give a damn about your adult browsing habits.

Microsoft’s continued venture into cloud infrastructure and to Azure all the things, wtih Google’s Kubernetes and Linux penguins in tow . . .
MS is still working towards becoming a services company like big Blue.

Foxbook
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/

It’s probably too late, but you can isolate what Facebutts will track from your browsing history.
This basically does what P-Badger does but only for FB.
It will be nice not having to remember to log out of Facebook after each session

Look at this telegram
https://github.com/bad-day/TelegramTUI

Snap.gif
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/870bcn/snap_support_for_peek_screen_recorder_discontinued/

I commend this ARCH!!1! user’s self restraint on waiting until bullet point #2 to mention it.
The next few years are going to be nasty.
Flatpak will end up winning if for no other reason than Snap is perceived as Ubuntu tech.

Mintbox Mini 2
https://www.pcmag.com/news/360052/extremely-compact-mintbox-mini-2-linux-pc-launches-june

15W and passively cooled.
- It’s a netbook without a battery or screen.
- It’s like a Chromebook, but useful.
- Doesn’t officially support android apps.

3D Wayland compositor (RTheren): “No window wobble:
https://github.com/ammen99/wayfire

Tower of Irony
https://www.git-tower.com/public-beta-2018

A company has the chutzpah to build a git client for Win/Mac only, when git was literally developed for the development of Linux. #triggered
GIT off my lawn!!!!!!!!!!!

SCALE chat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jE1G_skwtE

Slice of Pi

AmigaPi
https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=552

Amiga Workbench on a RasPi with DietPi, the Amiberry emulator and classic hardware, awesome!
- Michael Fox–or you can just get the Vampire V2 accelerator bored and have an amiga running to modern standards [or the new Vampire V4]

ZXPiW
https://blog.hackster.io/a-beautiful-raspberry-pi-powered-zx-spectrum-489deb2020ab