Have you ever dreamed of having a virtual enviorment that can simulate the real world in, have meetings in, and connect with others in. Firefox has new protections for supercookies, ubuntu has a new installer out, and CloudLinux has a beta out of AlmaLinux.
RedHat exists to make a profit, and they need to
RedHat spends money to support open source that they could take home/pocket
RedHat handled the release poorly and cut the release cycle short
RedHat has been a good friend of the community
The new model makes more sense, but was poorly communicated
Element/Matrix Pros:
Decentralized Selfhosted Spotify
Makes music social again
Why host your own? Because of things like this
White Noise Machine based on a raspberry pi
Uses OMX Player
Firefox Blog Post](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-protections/)
Firefox 85 implements network partitioning
Different image cache for each site
Firefox 85 also partitions pooled connections, pre-fetch connections, pre-connect connections, speculative connections, and TLS session identifiers
Ubiquity is getting hard to maintain
Uses Curtin and Flutter
Flutter is controlled by Google, this could be a problem long term
Why a snap?
GitLab is phasing out the Bronze/Starter tier
Special Offers for people transitioning
GitLab Free tier gained over 450 features this year and continues to gain more
Google suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying the developers
Google said it was due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix
Matrix Team responded quickly and openly to resolve the issue
Matrix Team went above and beyond and implemented community suggestions
Having multiple clients is an advantage to the Matrix Protocol
Greg founded a new start up company called Ctrl IQ
Greg was interviewed on Ask Noah EP 213
First RHEL 8 respin available for download
Vircadia™ is an open-source 3D interface and server foundation
Ecosystem of open source metaverse applications
Open Source VR/Virtual World
Far more than entertainment, lots of potential
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