Re: [GTALUG] LibrePlanet Canada Registration (keynote from Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle)

2020-01-23 Thread Stephen Paul Weber via talk
There's nothing about the satellite event on the website? It's blank. You're saying that visiting either of https://2020.libreplanet.ca/register/ or https://2020.libreplanet.ca/ shows as blank for you? Could you let me know what browser? Renders on all the test devices I have tried it on so

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

2020-01-23 Thread Dhaval Giani via talk
Hugh, On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:08 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > < > https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-spots-malicious-npm-package-stealing-data-from-unix-systems/ > > > > This article list six cases of malware contributed to npm (the repo for > sharing

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

2020-01-23 Thread Don Tai via talk
I regularly browse with javascript turned off. I use NoScript. While it is a hassle, I whitelist trusted sites, but refuse script from 3d party sites. There is a bit of setup to do to whitelist sites. Scripts have long been abused. Browsing without js restores a bit of honesty in web pages, as a

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

2020-01-23 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:37 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | In this vein - - - - a contact who in computer terms calls himself a > dinosaur > | refuses to allow javascript on his computers doing all his browsing on text > | based browsers. In his

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

2020-01-23 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: o1bigtenor via talk | In this vein - - - - a contact who in computer terms calls himself a dinosaur | refuses to allow javascript on his computers doing all his browsing on text | based browsers. In his opinion javascript is a serious accident already in free | fall. What you're sharing

Re: [GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

2020-01-23 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 1:08 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > > > This article list six cases of malware contributed to npm (the repo for > sharing node.js and JavaScript source). > >

[GTALUG] Multi-Threading Work on GCC Link

2020-01-23 Thread Nicholas Krause via talk
Greetings All, For convenience and since the GCC folks want to move ahead as I've been personally busy with other things here is a link to my rough draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1po_RRgSCtRyYgMHjV0itW8iOzJXpTdHYIpC9gUMjOxk/edit I've yet to heard from the LLVM side but probably

[GTALUG] security threats of Open Source

2020-01-23 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
This article list six cases of malware contributed to npm (the repo for sharing node.js and JavaScript source). How many undetected cases exist? I've alway pretended that Linux distros vet

Re: [GTALUG] Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade | ZDNet

2020-01-23 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
On Thu., Jan. 23, 2020, 11:42 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > > This means that it will ill-become them to legally stomp on WINE. > That's a Good Thing. But it isn't working to improve WINE. > Aww. I was really looking forward to running WSL under WINE Stewart > > > --- Post to this

Re: [GTALUG] Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade | ZDNet

2020-01-23 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: James Knott via talk | On 2020-01-23 11:42 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > This means that it will ill-become them to legally stomp on WINE. | > That's a Good Thing. But it isn't working to improve WINE. | | 'The Wine 5.0 update |

Re: [GTALUG] Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade | ZDNet

2020-01-23 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2020-01-23 11:42 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: This means that it will ill-become them to legally stomp on WINE. That's a Good Thing. But it isn't working to improve WINE. 'The Wine 5.0 update takes advantage

Re: [GTALUG] Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade | ZDNet

2020-01-23 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: James Knott via talk | Microsoft is working to improve Wine on Linux: | | https://www.zdnet.com/article/wine-for-running-windows-10-apps-on-linux-gets-big-upgrade/ | | And Android too: | |

Re: [GTALUG] ThinkPads on special

2020-01-23 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Nicholas Krause via talk | Probably not after reading the article its just a better binned chip as the | others can hit 35 watts but are binned for 45. The part that Asus has exclusively is 35w vs 45w for the best part Lenovo can get, with otherwise identical specs. (There may be a