Apparently the AlmaLinux 8.4 official Vagrant box is not alone. Rocky Linux seems to have released theirs five days ago.

Don't forget AlmaLinux, which has similar goals, it's backed by Cloud Linux, and has been out since late March. They also have an official Vagrant box, which makes it easy to try out.

Duck Duck Go mobile app is my primary browser for mobile use. It is ideal for searching and links from feeds, bar code scans, email and other such things. Although it is fun to take a peek at the built-in privacy dashboard, I rarely use it. Most of the sites I visit do not even have a TOS;DR report, which takes some of the fun out of it. I have only ever used the flame button to "burn" all the cookies and other private data, a few times, but it is nice to know the fire button is there.

However, for sites like slashdot, where I want to hold onto session cookies for an extended period of time and expect a fresh tab to see them, I use Vanadium, which is the default browser on GrapheneOS. Vanadium is a security hardened version of Chromium, which, in turn, is the community edition of Google Chrome.

Vanadium is also slightly better for sharing links to email because it is smart enough to set the email subject to the page title as well as sharing the link in the email body. The DDG app does not do this.

The screen caps and videos looked awfully familiar to me. Scratch is just the Squeak scripting from from way back re-implemented in the browser, without a lot of the great benefits that Squeak OS brought to to the table.

Naturally, both Scratch and Squeak are built into the latest Rasbian image for Raspberry Pi fans.

I have agree that proprietary authenticator apps and OAuth based services are dubious at best. It's no surprise that banks don't trust them either.

It's too bad that OpenID started out half-baked, the implementations so inconsistent that sites stopped offering the opportunity to provide your own URL, and then the standards committee hijacked by industry representatives with vested interests that loaded it up with verify instead of fixing its security problems.

But, you might want to check out SQRL, which I mentioned in a reply to the parent post. It's an open standard with open source implementations and a two party security model that keeps those pesky snoops at bay.

Just in time for the release of Secure, Quick, Reliable Login. SQRL has the potential to be more secure and easier to use, which is a rare combination in the security realm.

I'm a little shocked to see an article on FIDO without even a mention of Steve Gibson's competing Secure Quick Reliable Login.

Although I'm not an expert on this, most reports I've heard is that SQRL, is what FIDO was trying to be.

One key feature of SQRL is that it only does one of Authentication and Authorization, so it can be used for anonymous login, which would be better for many purposes, such as blog comments where you only need to verify that some response belonged to the same author as some other so nobody could impersonate someone else. Though it looks like FIDO may also do this.

Good point. I was remembering the first draft before they decided to keep the Affero license separate.

This is (part of) why GPL v3 was created. If it's online, you have to post the license and source. A lot of companies would prefer to pay a modest license fee to avoid the indignity of having pages like that on their site.

Many businesses consider GPL to be business unfriendly and use APL instead. I guess this just shows that GPL v3 would have protected their interests better and they wouldn't have to opt for dubious combo licenses. Point FSF.

So, you're expecting that they'll start insisting that end users not be able to run Greasemonkey scripts since they might infringe some content creator's rights to present things on your browser as they envision, then, soon after outlaw that pesky view source option?

Isn't this pretty much what topcoder already does?

Without having read the actual PDF (naturally), the description basically matches the competitive software component marketplace that topcoder provides. And, yes, like other commenters have mentioned, it seems like a Mechanical Turk style race to the bottom. Thankfully their component model seems a litte broken to me, so, perhaps that's why it hadn't taken over the industry.

This sounds like the same concept that the Freedom Box Foundation has been working on for a while. It would seem like a better use of resources for these groups to get together and pool their efforts rather than do the same thing twice.

If you are a software developer, and don't find use for arbitrarily large number of cores... Time to get up to date!

That's why I'm so excited by the new breed of languages like Scala.

Sure, there's no silver bullet to automagically solve all parallel programming problems, but languages like Scala have features like Parallel Collections libraries, functional programming and Parallel Domain Specific Languages that can abstract enough of the problems of parallel programming away that journeyman programmers have a decent chance of being able to work effectively with multiple cores.

I'm somewhat disappointed by the adoption curve. The reluctance to move toward an actual solution to the problem is somewhat surprising.

This is also the real reason behind NoSQL databases... the need to scale horizontally instead of vertically is the primary driver, not a disdain for SQL.

The term "Intellectual Property", is considered misleading by many who advocate for electronic freedom. Please consider avoiding the term so as not to indirectly support the claims of those who want to restrict these freedoms.

Google Listen, the Android podcatcher that Google designed to work with Google Reader, has been dead for a while now, but it was still usable because Google Reader was still working even if they didn't update the Android app. However, it looks like the demise of Google Reader itself will doom Google Listen to uselessness.

Of course, Google claims they dropped Google Listen because there were apps out there that did the same thing better, so it's not exactly the end of the world.