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Submission + - Ubuntu Linux 25.10 quietly kills off GNOME on Xorg as Wayland takes over (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: Ubuntu 25.10, known as âoeQuesting Quokka,â is taking a big turn under the hood. Canonical has dropped support for the GNOME desktop running on Xorg. Starting with this release, the default âoeUbuntuâ session now uses Wayland only. Yes, folks, thereâ(TM)s no longer an option to log into GNOME on Xorg.

Submission + - Pavel Durov exposes U.S. law that forces engineers to install back doors (x.com) 3

schwit1 writes: Pavel Durov blows Tucker Carlson’s mind by exposing U.S. law that forces engineers to install back doors—and bans them from telling their own company

This is why Telegram didn’t set up shop in America.

“You know what’s interesting, in the U.S., you have a process that allows the government to actually force any engineer in any tech company to implement a back door and not tell anyone about it.”

“Using this process called the gag-order, you know there are certain legal procedures.”

Carlson, stunned, asked: “Not tell his own employer about it?”

Durov confirmed: “Yes, exactly. If you tell your own boss, you can end up in jail. Like, gag order.”

Carlson: “Actually?!”

Durov: “Yeah.”

Carlson: “So your employees have a legal obligation to act as fifth column spies? Saboteurs against you, your employees?”

Durov didn’t hesitate: “That’s one of the reasons I didn’t move to the U.S. with my team.”

Comment Never Enable WAN Access (Score 3, Insightful) 23

The original announcement isn't clear, but based on the relatively low number of affected devices (there must be hundreds of thousands of these routers in use), it seems that only "savvy" users who enabled forms-based logins on the WAN port may have been affected.

Installing a private key and enabling SSH on a non-default port (as the attackers did) is likely much more secure, if the device absolutely must be accessible, or enabling the VPN -- again with public/private key pairs.

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft! (Score 1) 37

Sorry I should have been more explicit:
The only reason I even keep a windows partition around is for gaming,
Everything else already gets done in Linux (actual Linux not WSL) by way of dual-booting at home, and because my work PC has been Linux-only for years, so I already have it covered, thanks.

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft! (Score 1) 37

The only reason i even keep windows around is for gaming,
Everything else already gets done in Linux (actual Linux not WSL) by way of dual-booting.
But with steam doing an increasingly good job with Proton, and Microsoft forcing increasingly clueless shit like this and privacy-raping shit like Recall on users, I'm finally 101% done with them.

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