[08:56] schestowitz[TR][08:56] schestowitz[TR]Apparently, in Fedora 38, theyve made it so if youve already performed surgery on the rest of Fedora to re-enable accelerated video decode on your computer, with the new mesa-drivers-freeworld package on RPM Fusion (if you have non-Intel hardware) or the pile of Intel-media-driver packages, as well as the gstreamer1-vaapi packages, Firefox as an RPM or Fedora Flatpak wont play vide [08:56] schestowitz[TR] o using hardware acceleration, so things become a slideshow.
[08:56] schestowitz[TR]I ended up fixing it by deleting Firefox from Fedora with dnf remove firefox, and then setting up Firefox from Flatpak and going through turning off all of Mozillas spyware and adware again.
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[08:56] schestowitz[TR][08:56] schestowitz[TR]With HaikuDepotServer (HDS) still on Java 11 introduced in September 2018, it was time to upgrade to 17 and then also make the transition from Spring 5 to SpringBoot 3 which was released in November 2022. Spring is a base technology for SpringBoot with SpringBoot providing more configuration and functionality by convention.
[08:56] schestowitz[TR]These upgrades will bring HDS up to date with the current state of the art in backend Java and allow HDS to be maintained more easily going forward.
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[10:56] schestowitz[TR][10:56] schestowitz[TR]Under the arrangement, the Israeli firm, NSO Group, gave the U.S. government access to one of its most powerful weapons a geolocation tool that can covertly track mobile phones around the world without the phone users knowledge or consent.
[10:56] schestowitz[TR]If the veiled nature of the deal was unusual it was signed for the front company by a businessman using a fake name the timing was extraordinary.
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[10:57] schestowitz[TR][10:57] schestowitz[TR]If you just wanted to place a plug for your system of choice, like any good fan-boy would, you are welcome to do so. But when this plug (a form of an informal advertisement for free in web-land) includes inaccuracies, false characterizations, and right-out lies, you open up an area of criticism and correction of your plug that may end up as a boomerang to become a negative advertise [10:57] schestowitz[TR] ment. And below is your comment and source included, unaltered, unmoderated, and still waits a response. We thought it would be a valuable separate discussion, since it is a bit off-topic to discuss other objects than the article specifies (not that we were ever so strict on this), to just speak here about Artix specifically, in contrast of its other two Arch alternatives.
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[11:31] schestowitz[TR][11:31] schestowitz[TR]The South Australian District Court has dealt a fatal blow to public sector whistleblowing, basically making it impossible for anyone to safely blow the whistle. Rex Patrick explains the public interest travesty.
[11:31] schestowitz[TR]I attended the District Court last week when Judge Kudelka handed down her judgement in a Richard Boyles whistleblower defence case. The court was overcrowded with Richards supporters. It was standing room only. The media were there too.
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