FSF Says Google’s Decision to Deprecate JPEG-XL Emphasizes Need for Browser Choice – Slashdot
Personally, I never used nor remember having saw a JPEG-XL picture.
I see WebP happily replacing Jpeg and PNG and GIF thought.
I just wonder how an open, royalty-free image file format should not be desirable (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF )
Microsoft Is Testing a Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet For the Edge Browser (source Slashdot).I strongly, strongly suggest everyone to avoid using this functionality because it is proprietary software. Not having the sources you can’t be sure what it really does. It can easily have a backdoor to let some external entities come in and raid (i.e. stole) your money.
WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief – wrote Slashdot
Of course they would not remove it, they don’t need it!
Governments have their own Meta-provided comfortable backdoor to WhatsApp.
How can I be sure? I’m not, but being WhatsApp proprietary software it is pratically impossible to ensure there are no back doors. So as we can’t be sure there are no backdoor we must held for true that there are backdoor, until proof and behave accordingly.
The proper way should be not to use WhatsApp but far too many people use it. A more feasible approach should be to use it to suggest people to leave it, using more secure alternatives (in descending order of privacy Briar, Signal, Sessio, Telegram and others. I posted a comparison here, I think it’s time to refresh it)
How to play Elite Dangerous on Linux
Elite Dangerous is a space flight simulator game developed and published by Frontier Developments. In the game, the player takes control of the
wpOS – WordPress dashboard replacement that changes everything.
From their website it looks like any other proprietary software. But I do know that WordPress is licensed under General Public License, so this wpOS -which is patently a WordPress plugin – must abide to the GPL. I just wonder how they comply.
Do you need to centrally manage Linux systems and user accounts under an Active Directory domain? Here’s how to do it.
Source: How to join a Linux system to an Active Directory domain
Continue readingThe Debian project has taken the decision in 2022-10 to create a new repository component non-free-firmware, and include its content on installation media for the upcoming Debian release bookworm to make things easier for our users.
From Firmware – Debian Wiki
So people like me that installed Debian several years ago keeping it updated shall add to their /etc/apt/sources.list a non-free-firmware component, like this:
deb <a href="http://deb.debian.org/debian/">http://deb.debian.org/debian/</a> bookworm main non-free contrib non-free-firmware<br>deb-src <a href="http://deb.debian.org/debian/">http://deb.debian.org/debian/</a> bookworm main non-free contrib non-free-firmware<br><br>deb <a href="http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/">http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/</a> bookworm-security main non-free contrib non-free-firmware<br>deb-src <a href="http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/">http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/</a> bookworm-security main non-free contrib non-free-firmware
WhatsApp smetterà di funzionare il 31 dicembre 2022 su molti telefoni datati
Sono i modelli più vecchi che perdono la compatibilità con l’app di messaggistica a causa della vetustà del sistema operativo non più aggiornato.
E questa è un’ottima notizia! Magari qualcuno passerà a Telegram o Signal
Tuttavia è un pezzo che non vedo più dispositivi con Android inferiore a 4.1….
For my personal serie “yet another reason to avoid x”, today we have Roomba:
Your robot vacuums are watching you and the resulting imagery of your most private moments can, horrifically, get leaked online… iRobot … confirmed that gig workers shared intimate photos… to social media.
Source: Slashdot.org
Yet anoter reason to avoid Chrome and Edge: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome Enhanced Spellcheck Feature Exposes Passwords
Next question is: are Brave
and Chromium 
affected?