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It is fun reading about open source developers fighting

Hi Scott,

It's certainly disappointing to receive your email like that. I see that
you're really upset, and I think we have a shared interest in
deescalating this. You've mentioned the desire to talk about this in
public, so I'm responding in the announcement thread to you, as this
seems like the appropriate venue for discussion. I've also CC'd the
FreeBSD Security Officer. I've responded to your email and its threats
in line mailing-list style below:

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 6:08 PM Scott Long <scottl at netgate.com> wrote:
> What you and Kyle did was tell the world that there are a number of
> zero-day exploits in the code.  You gave us no details until after the
> fact, gave us no time to mitigate, correct, and publish before your
> announcement and Kyle's code drop, and used the opportunity to
> bash the code, and by extension us, for your own self-gain.

😄

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-March/006499.html

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Looks like Microsoft is not working hard on WinUI 3

https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/15/dotnet_6_preview_2/

Microsoft has released its second preview of .NET 6, but confirmed there will be no visual designer for WinUI 3.0 when it comes out in November this year.

The register

It will be hard to work fast without seeing what the XAML will look like. Will they fix all the controls so they work with WinUI 3. Many were missing the last time i looked. It will take a long time before WinUI 3 is better than WPF.

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Politicians really wants power over Twitter and Facebook

They want people to write things that are good for their political parties. First amendement is going to make it difficult. Maybe they even want to change the first amendment. Sometimes i wonder we are going back to have it was before Internet. It was hard for ordinary people to write anything that lots of people would read. Media would decide what people would know about. If media decided that something should not be known, it would only be known by a few people.

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I have waited a long time for Intels PCIe 4 chipset

Now their 500 series chipset is out. I am not sure it is good enough. There will be PCIe 4 only on one slot. There is no USB4 ports. Some motherboards have a Thunderbol4 port. Will that port be useful for something. My computer is getting old. It is a Intel H170 chipset. Should i wait for next generation of chipset.

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I should DuckDuckGo more for searching

I wonder what information Google have stored about me. What can they figure out about me from my searches. Have they handed it over to the police.

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Nobody needs 24bit audio at home

Sonos has announced that it has expanded its relationship with Qobuz by offering its customers a 24-bit Qobuz high-resolution streaming option.

Cepro

16bit audio have close to 100db signal/noise ratio. Why would anyone want more. Ordinary people will not care about this. People who understand audio thinks it is stupid. You have to turn up the volume very high to hear any noise from 16bit audio. They probably needed some feature to sell something. 24bit audio could be useful in audio production when they process audio.

https://www.cepro.com/audio-video/sonos-introduces-24-bit-qobuz-streaming-to-s2-platform/

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What is so great about electronic bass and bleeps

If i knew i would tell you. I cant get enough of the synthesizer sounds.

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Facebook reminds me of the Depeche mode song “Flexible”

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

Turkey was demanding the social media giant block Facebook posts from the People’s Protection Units, a mostly Kurdish militia group the Turkish government had targeted. Should Facebook ignore the request, as it has done elsewhere, and risk losing access to tens of millions of users in Turkey? Or should it silence the group, known as the YPG, even if doing so added to the perception that the company too often bends to the wishes of authoritarian governments? It wasn’t a particularly close call for the company’s leadership, newly disclosed emails show. “I am fine with this,” wrote Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No. 2 executive, in a one-sentence message to a team that reviewed the page.

Propublica

Money
Can have strange effects
I ask myself
Is it a sin
To be flexible
When the boat comes in
Open the window and out go ideals

Flexible

Maybe the YPG was dangerous terrorist anyways. Facebook have many enemies

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Soon only the truth will be allowed on Facebook

Now posts, pages and groups containing such falsehoods will be removed from the platform entirely. “Building trust and confidence in these vaccines is critical, so we’re launching the largest worldwide campaign to help public health organizations share accurate information about Covid-19 vaccines and encourage people to get vaccinated as vaccines become available to them,”

https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/02/08/1920221/facebook-says-it-plans-to-remove-posts-with-false-vaccine-claims

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Switching from xorg to Wayland moves very slow

Last month was the delightful news that Ubuntu 21.04 is aiming to use Wayland by default for non-NVIDIA systems on the GNOME desktop rather than the X.Org session.

Phoronix

I want this to be over soon. We should not have to think about if we use xorg or Wayland. I try to use Wayland, but i have to switch to xorg for some things. Maybe it would move faster if Wayland was faster than xorg, but sadly it is not. I believe xrdp have to be fixed. And nvidia is also complicating this for reasons i dont understand. Why must nvidia be so difficult.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-21.04-Wayland-Plans