Finally some good news this week! #Fractal 8.beta is here 🎉
Details at https://discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-8-beta-released/21988
"A data broker is offering sensitive passport data of thousands of people for sale – and publishing some of it openly online. Our investigation leads to an airline as a possible source. Data protection authorities are alarmed"
"netzpolitik.org was able to identify several people on the list. They live in Bavaria or Lower Saxony and confirm that their data and ID numbers are genuine. Some were shocked to learn their data was public"
Passport numbers for sale in the EU: https://netzpolitik.org/2024/european-data-broker-sensitive-passport-data-of-germans-published-online/
"Over the past decade or two, however, liberal as well as conservative judges and justices have extended the First Amendment to protect nearly anything that can be called 'speech,' regardless of its value or whether the speaker is a human or a corporation".
...from corporate donations to political campaigns (Citizen United) to companies selling consumer data (Sorrell v. IMS Health)
Attention ZNC users: An RCE vulnerability has been discovered in ZNC's modtcl. You should disable this module until patched. More info at https://libera.chat/news/zncpsa (CVE-2024-39844)
Proton Docs Debuts: A New Era of Encrypted Productivity
https://reclaimthenet.org/proton-docs-debuts-a-new-era-of-encrypted-productivity?utm_source=fediverse
Arch based distro EndeavourOS has a new release for their fifth anniversary. This update has restored support for ARM devices. There are now EndeavourOS ARM images for the Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 5, ODROID N2, and Pinebook Pro. It also updates the kernel, Mesa, Plasma, among other programs as well as fixes several bugs. EndeavourOS uses the Calamares installer. It uses SystemD for the init system. If you choose the online installer then you get a choice of eight desktop environments or five window managers. You also get a choice between Grub, SystemD-Boot, or no bootloader. You can also choose between BTRFS and EXT4 for filesystems. All in all you get a lot of user choice during install outside of the sole init system option.
The main website for EndeavourOS is here:
The release notes for this update are here:
The page for the ARM device downlaods is here:
https://endeavouros.com/endeavouros-arm-install/
The source code is available on Github:
https://github.com/endeavouros-team
https://github.com/endeavouros-arm
The project has a forum as well as a presence on the Fediverse and Matrix:
https://forum.endeavouros.com/
https://mastodon.social/@EndeavourOS
https://app.element.io/#/room/#endeavouros-space:matrix.org
If you wish to help the project financially they accept donations through Open Collective:
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