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motang writes: "Microsoft has announced a temporary reprieve for developers who use VS Code to connect to servers, clouds, container, and other devices running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS." They will release a recovery (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/203375#issuecomment-1927893504) update to VS Code soon.
This would the primary reason to use containerized apps like snap and flatpak. Since it is Ubuntu and 6 year old version it would be best to use snap version of VS Code or VSCodium.
How of this was already in the workings before the purchase by IBM I wonder? But seeing how RedHat was before, I am sure this is more of an IBM thing sadly.
motang writes: Beeper recently launched Beeper Mini, an iMessage app for Android users and claimed it was done by reverse engineering and was secure. Apple took steps recently to block that.
motang writes: Like article author Ron Amadeo says "When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slower" It is only a matter of time where all ad-blocking is pretty going to be not supported on Chrome. Why would they (Google)? When they are pretty much a ad company.
Looks like they did no work on the UI end, and looks like a Chromium Snap that's installed on my Ubuntu laptops. Might be good for Samsung users who would like to keep their things in sync with their phone.
motang writes: A set of merge requests were opened to drop X.ORG (X11) from GNOME desktop. "This is the first step towards deprecating the x11 session, the systemd targets are removed, but the x11 functionality is still there in so you can restore the x11 session by installing the targets in the appropriate place on your own.
X11 has been receiving less and less testing. We have been defaulting to the wayland session since 2016 and it's about time we drop the x11 session completely.
Let's remove the targets this cycle and maybe carry on with removing rest of the x11 session code next cycle."
I am glade AlamLinux is not too effected by this. Having choices is good, and I also see RedHat's point. They were giving everything away, without having any of the clones do any work, now those said clones will just have to do a bit more work to make their clones.
