Notices by Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social), page 8

The piece of normality we all need in these times:
#XScreenSaver 6.03 has been released
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/02/xscreensaver-6-03-out-now/

In #japanese , you can spell "2" as nyan/にゃん, so 22nd Feb 2022 is called "super cat day" over here. We had companies reworking their webpages with cats and quite some media coverage:
https://youtu.be/VdWzBhkKtJg

#8bit emus. I love the c64 demos, and that they have the east German KC85/3, my first computer
https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/index.html

@codewiz Fedora-KDE-Live-raw from Fed 8th installed nicely on my spare box nearby, with encryption.

Best reason to update to #fedora rawhide or 36: to finally get rid of that Fedora35 background image..

This is gold.

"I respect the individual choices of all Londoners in this 1854 cholera epidemic. If you have cholera and want to defecate in the drinking water, that is your individual freedom. If you are afraid of getting cholera yourself, simply don't drink, cook, clean, or bathe with water."

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/02/neoliberal-john-snow/

Burning fuses to prevent downgrading of firmware was yesterday, now vendors start to lock CPUs to motherboard vendors:
https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-vendor-locking-ryzen-based-systems-with-amd-psb/

@nordern Yea, suuuure..

Off to Kyushu in the south of Japan to burn left over holiday. I just entered the Yufuin-no-mori train, one of the special trains only operating in Kyushu.
On the mobile, a tech talk from Tokyo Linux user group, mobile network coverage is great!

#Bitcoin singlehandedly undid ALL the environmental good of electric vehicles in 2021, and consumed almost 2X as much energy as in 2020.
https://twitter.com/Cord__/status/1477886739972829184

「資本論」斎藤幸平さんに聞く“脱成長”の真意
日本では初めてそんな話を聴いたので、すごく嬉しいです。
"Let's overthrow the idea of endless growth", talk with Saito Kouhei. Finally such topics also start in #Japan, glad to see this happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pqhLWZLdyg

My thoughts so far around the Launch keyboard
https://blog.fluxcoil.net/posts/2021/12/launch-keyboard/

@codewiz Builds nicely on Fed35, and I reconfigured now into Thinkpad layout, with one additional tweak:
Thinkpad allows in Bios to switch ctrl <-> Fn, and I made the left Fn key now also a ctrl key.
https://fluxcoil.net/wiki/hardwarerelated/launch_keyboard#conpiling_the_software_on_fedora35

@codewiz But actually, one could simply reorder that by oneself
*considering_that_now*

@codewiz That's right, and that's the piece which I still need to adapt to.
ctrl / alt / fn / super / space
is the order here. I'm a VIM guy and also jump forward/backward in lines often using 'alt', that feels still a bit awkward. Will see what it's like in 2 weeks.

Just right before the festive days: the System76 Launch keyboard arrived, my first keyboard with real switches. It's nice, so far! It's an 80% model, has exactly the keys I need, and typing just feels great.

Which OpenSource pieces have you discovered this year, which software have you stopped using?
The Linux unplugged election of the 'software pieces of the year' made me think on what changed for me this year.
https://blog.fluxcoil.net/posts/2021/12/2021-opensource-linux/

How the bad concept of #patents started..
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fire-3

Great idea: pen sharpener making the pen flakes like bonito flakes on Takoyaki:
https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2021/12/16/okonomiyaki-pencil-sharpener/

@codewiz I guess that's a question for the mozilla folks.. the way I understand it is that they first make new things just available via env variables or about:config, and when it's considered stable that goes default.
(The cynic in me whispers: mozilla are busy with much more important stuff.. like implementing advertisements from 'partners', which they stated recently)