LWDW: WeebOS

webOS goes open source! KDE Connect gets good, Firefox acknowledges a nine year old bug and Ubuntu release an image… for ants! All this, plus your emails!

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Itsy bitsy
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/ubuntu-has-made-its-minimal-images-even-more-minimal-just-28mb

We should host a minimal 2 (insert game here) challenge.
Bionic minimal images have been shrunk by 10%, down to just 28MB

KDE Connect
https://nicolasfella.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/kde-connect-state-of-the-union/

And, as if I wasn’t dependent enough on KDE connect, remote keyboard!
- Bring me some Synergy like control over Android and let me use my PC mouse/keyboard to navigate my phone/tablet/chromebook and I’ll forever be a KDE fanboy!
Also, allowing me to use my headset and microphone to listen to stuff from my phone or talk to people would be awesome!

Desktop Pi
https://extonlinux.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/run-raspberry-pis-pixel-desktop-on-a-pc-or-mac-an-exton-modified-build-180315-with-refracta-tools/

It’s Debian with LXDE… I don’t… wha-?
Pi, more like WHY?
Is this wicked extra light or something?

Foxy hax
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firefox-master-password-system-has-been-poorly-secured-for-the-past-9-years/

All of a sudden I have this sinking feeling in my stomach.
Like when you learn the rsync service creating backups of that one server you manage for a friend crashed like 3 months ago and you only just found out.
What in the actual F, Firefox?
Wladimir Palant, the author of the AdBlock Plus extension, says the encryption scheme used by the master password feature is weak and can be easily brute-forced.
This be fixed with the launch of Firefox’s new password manager component —currently codenamed Lockbox and available as an extension.

Open weebOS
https://liliputing.com/2018/03/lg-releases-webos-open-source-edition-looks-to-expand-webos-usage.html
http://webosose.org/

webOS will reign once more!
AKA last ditch effort @ adoption
There’s a reason it failed the first time
I have a $100 Touchpad somewhere.
Mostly Apache 2.0

Oh, yes! Moar of this, please!
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/03/private-internet-access-goes-open-source/

All the client side applications for the PIA VPN are going to become open sauce over the next few months.
Stands to reason they wouldn’t be able to open sauce the backend without basically running themselves out of business.
They’re also doing a $2.20/month price if you sub for 2 years
That’s just under $53 if you’re wondering… for 2 years of VPN with unlimited traffic and 5 devices!
Remember kids, if you are not paying for the VPN you are the product.

Silly hippies
https://github.com/harvesthub/gardenhub

Are the turbo organic farmers going to be able to know what the hell a docker is and how to use it?
GardenHub is building technology to enable gardeners to collaborate and act upon what’s growing, ripening, and available for harvest in their gardens.
Really really good idea BUT.
I’m overgeneralizing here but the Me diagram of people who garden and people who know what the heck a github is… yeah, that.

Open Ray
http://www.develop3d.com/features/the-future-of-the-3d-graphics-engine-AMD-Vulkan-3D-CAD

Right now this is more geared toward the enterprise and people running heavy duty CAD applications.
I’m sure ray-tracing and path-tracing will be feasible and rammed into our eye holes in the future of vidjagames, but that’s not this podcast’s job to report on.
I’m glad to see AMD has a Vulkan solution after NVIDIA rolled out their DX business.
This has been a promised unicorn since I drew my first triangle… using GLIDE.

NVIDIA 390 Chrome fix
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1029484/linux/-various-all-distros-numerous-performance-amp-rendering-issues-on-390-25/post/5245135/#5245135