As with all 'volunteer' contributions these days, I would recommend caution. Has it been audited? Something like this runs with root privs, doesn't it?

Slashdot has a story about yet another SNAFU with secure boot. MS attempting to fix a Wind'ohs vulnerability has broken GRUB and people with dual boot systems cannot boot.

The Proton Mail / VPN people suggest you install OpenResolv when you configure a Linux system to use their VPN. Of course, they recommend that you to use their app first. But that requires the Gnome desktop environment, which is now in the death-grip of you-know-what eldritch abomination from the depths of Red Hat. So, if you configure manually, they say you should install both OpenVPN and OpenResolv -- specifically to prevent problems of the sort you are describing.

You say that as if it's an accidental side-effect.

More weirdness. uBlock Origin still works in another VM running Chimaera even though it was nuked in a newer VM running Daedalus. No, the updates have not stopped for Chimaera. I have the same version of Chrome on both systems... ???

In other news, Google has backtracked on killing third-party cookies in Chrome. Hmmm.... could it possibly be anti-trust fears?

hddtemp:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
     0.3-beta15-54 -1
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Why would they remove it? Was it causing some sort of problem? That's really annoying since Gkrellm needs it to read HD temp. Is there a replacement? How difficult would it be to get Gkrellm to use the standard Smartmon interface?

Yeah, as others have already pointed out, he said nothing new here. Everyone has known this for ages, And yet Wind'ohs continues to dominate the desktop. Partly it's sheer inertia. When people develop habits they can be very hard to change.

As far as the government is concerned, it's actually about (irony of ironies) security. Not from the network, as this is the whole problem, but from the users. Government likes Wind'ohs for the same reason that big business does, the control over the peon desktops that you can have with Group Policy. There really is nothing else like it. No competition at all. If you want to have thousands of workers on computer workstations that you control remotely, restricting users from doing various things and keeping them under surveillance, there are no other options. And that's why big business and government use Wind'ohs and will continue to use it for the foreseeable future.

The ordinary consumer, on the other hand, without the resources to pay the huge license fees that government and corporations can shoulder, will be getting more and more advertising on their 'personal' computers in their own homes. A Wind'ohs computer is now a kiosk that MS controls and just happens to allow you to use. And MS has given themselves the right to watch everything you do and sift through all of your data to figure out what ads to shove in your face.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/06/2 … r-backlash
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/1 … even-worse

Odds are very good this is not Firefox, it's the sites. I've had several banking sites that used to work in Firefox stop working. But I've not forgotten the current problem with the web, called Chrome. Back in the day, MS was actually investigated for twisting HTML to suit themselves and lock out other browsers. Now, Chrome is being used to do the same and no one bats an eyelid. When I switch to Chrome the sites I was having problems with work fine.

We might try filing customer service complaints with the websites that only work with Chrome. But I suspect it's too late. Firefox is now 1 percent or less of usage and they won't care. Where are the antitrust investigators now?

It's been WEEKS and I still have to boot to the old kernel every time I used that system. This is how they support "old stable"? I am suddenly much less inclined to start using Linux as my primary OS.

"Dropping down"? Will we have to install backports repositories to get it? Why didn't they realize this update would cause a problem and arrange for both upgrades to be synchronized?