●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, December 12, 2021 ●● ● Dec 12 [00:20] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Dec 12 [04:44] *Despatche has quit (Quit: Read error: Connection reset by deer) ● Dec 12 [05:33] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Dec 12 [06:48] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@t25x9hgy9xhrc.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 12 [07:03] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [07:04] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@t25x9hgy9xhrc.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:37] *techrights_guest|48 (~b6015387@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:53] *techrights_guest|48 has quit (Quit: Connection closed) ● Dec 12 [08:18] *techrights_guest|62 (~67ac9d8a@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:20] *techrights_guest|62 has quit (Quit: Connection closed) [08:33] schestowitz
[08:33] schestowitzI wont say anything about FreeBSD on laptops in general, but on this laptop it manages acceptable, but no more than that. For now, it will keep running openSUSE, just like the kids laptops around here.
[08:36] schestowitzFirefox 95 is released, [08:36] schestowitz
screenshot at right. The big new feature, besides speculative AOT JIT which doesn't apply to us yet, is RLBox, which compiles certain third-party libraries into safe WebAssembly, and then compiles them back into C, so they can be compiled a third time into pre-sanitized native code. This has obvious security benefits and the performance impact shouldn't be especially large, but it adds yet another build-time [08:36] schestowitz prerequisite: the WASI SDK. This kind of really sucks because now you have to have a third toolchain (it builds one whether you like it or not) besides clang and our preferred compiler, gcc. Pending internal package support, some distros have chosen simply to disable this for the immediate future, even including Fedora.
[08:48] schestowitzA January 2021 FBI document outlines what types of data and metadata can be lawfully obtained by the FBI from messaging apps. Rolling Stone broke the story and its been written about elsewhere.