“Unique opportunity to meet face-to-face with developers and contributors to get features requested and problems solved”
The program includes talks from Klara Inc. , Netflix and developers: John Baldwin, Ed Maste.
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Firefox View allows the user to access the following:
- Recent Browsing: View your active and recently closed tabs at a glance.
- Opened Tabs: See all your current tabs organized for clear navigation.
- Recently Closed Tabs: Quickly retrieve any tabs you’ve mistakenly closed.
- Tabs from Other Devices: Sync with your Mozilla account to access tabs across all your devices effortlessly.
One more feature of this version is PDF editing by adding images and alt text, in addition to text and drawings.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-set-tab-pickup-firefox-view
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So after this 1988 vulnerability and multiple privilege escalation problems, the list of security advisories continues with more issues of X.Org X server prior to 21.1.9 and Xwayland prior to 23.2.2
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html
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HyperOS is a new Android operating system that will be used by the Xiaomi 14 series which are are rumored to launch on October 27. It replaces the MIUI that was used for the past 13 years.
The official announcement on X.
Some leaked screenshots can be found in GSMarena
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Some interesting benchmarks with improved IO performance are done using the Phoronix Test Suite
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> obs
debug: Found portal inhibitor
debug: Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
debug: Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
debug: Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
debug: Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
debug: Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Yami.qss
debug: Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Yami.qss
info: Using EGL/X11
info: CPU Name: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz
info: CPU Speed: 1129.667MHz
info: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 8
info: Physical Memory: 15740MB Total, 505MB Free
info: Kernel Version: Linux 6.6.0-1-MANJARO
info: Distribution: “Manjaro Linux” Unknown
info: Desktop Environment: KDE (KDE)
info: Session Type: x11
info: Window System: X11.0, Vendor: The X.Org Foundation, Version: 1.21.1
info: Qt Version: 6.6.0 (runtime), 6.5.1 (compiled)
info: Portable mode: false
info: OBS 29.1.3-1 (linux)
info: ———————————
info: ———————————
info: audio settings reset:
samples per sec: 48000
speakers: 2
max buffering: 960 milliseconds
buffering type: dynamically increasing
info: ———————————
info: Initializing OpenGL…
info: Loading up OpenGL on adapter Intel Mesa Intel(R) Xe Graphics (TGL GT2
)
info: OpenGL loaded successfully, version 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.1.9-ma
njaro1.1, shading language 4.60
info: ———————————
info: video settings reset:
base resolution: 1920×1080
output resolution: 1280×720
downscale filter: Bicubic
fps: 30/1
format: NV12
YUV mode: Rec. 709/Partial
info: NV12 texture support not available
info: P010 texture support not available
info: Audio monitoring device:
name: Default
id: default
info: ———————————
warning: Failed to load ‘en-US’ text for module: ‘decklink-captions.so’
warning: Failed to load ‘en-US’ text for module: ‘decklink-output-ui.so’
libDeckLinkAPI.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or director
y
warning: A DeckLink iterator could not be created. The DeckLink drivers ma
y not be installed
warning: Failed to initialize module ‘decklink.so’
error: os_dlopen(/usr//lib/obs-plugins/frontend-tools.so->/usr//lib/obs-plu
gins/frontend-tools.so): libluajit-5.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file
: No such file or directory
error: os_dlopen(/usr//lib/obs-plugins/frontend-tools.so->/usr//lib/obs-plu
gins/frontend-tools.so): libluajit-5.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file
: No such file or directory
warning: Module ‘/usr//lib/obs-plugins/frontend-tools.so’ not loaded
info: [pipewire] Available captures:
info: [pipewire] – Desktop capture
info: [pipewire] – Window capture
warning: v4l2loopback not installed, virtual camera disabled
error: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display in vaapi_device_h264_supported
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) obsThe problem stems from incompatibility of obs with the current libva-vdpau-driver that provides hardware accelerated video decode/encode.
A solution is to delete the libva driver and install the nvidia-vaapi-driver instead.
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Brave, a browser focused on privacy installed a VPN service in Windows clients without even asking to do so. This behavior dates back to 2022 but is limited to the Windows version.
It’s possible to remove these services manually or another is to uninstall Brave and reinstall it without admin rights so that the program can’t install additional services.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925192/brave-browser-vpn-windows-11
