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I suppose they don't matter enough to change the advice to using SteamOS/Arch.
Also Ubuntu is far more new person (to linux) friendly than Arch
wiki.debian.org/Steam#Steam_…
"Steam ships with its own versions of some libraries (the "Steam Runtime") in an attempt to emulate the Ubuntu 12.04 environment in later versions of Ubuntu."
IIRC Steam used to (still does??) ship with basically its own runtime libs so doesn't matter as your not using system libs other than kernel+graphs drivers+display server
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That evaluation led to a full production deployment :)
...which I just upgraded to 14.0. Think it started on 6.something
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Normally quite against going all in on one product/vendor but I really like how Gitlab is turning out since I did my first evaluation of it in 2014! Wouldn't hesitate to recommend it as the central piece of an engineering org
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You want to think of it like HTTPS certs, nothing about how trustworthy or good the website (or driver) is, more if its been tampered with or not
Raises a bunch of questions around using evidence from computer systems.
I wonder how many people have been convicted due to badly written software
Thirty-nine Post Office workers convicted of theft have names cleared after one of the UK’s most widespread miscarriages of justice
bbc.in/3nfMvwc
Big milestone! Open Distro has done well, hopefully this does just as well.
What about the other parts of the stack like Logstash?
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Next up:
Xbox Live Gold renamed to Xbox Plus
Xbox Gamepass renamed to Xbox Now
Why would you throw away a brand like "Xbox Live"????
There’s an experiment coming to a limited number of gaming channels soon - Clips! Get the details here: yt.be/clips
Imran Hussain retweeted
Countdown to Year 2038 problem: 17 years, 4 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes and 32 seconds
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Being able to so easily switch back and forth from my Xbox to my PC is super nice, just a shame I don't play any PC games with a controller
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Xbox Series Controller pairing tips:
Double press the sync button to switch to Xbox
3 Second press the sync button to go back to the last paired bluetooth device
To go straight into bluetooth from off, hold the sync button for 3 seconds, avoids turning the Xbox on
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I always wanted to switch the Streaming setup to OBS but it wouldn't work on our hardware, I think I couldn't get its need of OpenGL and Xpra to play nice
Imran Hussain retweeted
January 1: 2021 has to be better
January 6: I can’t go to bed in case I miss the overthrow of the American government and the invocation of the 25th amendment to instal a 2-week presidency
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Imran Hussain retweeted
I wonder how much of UK-EU trade deal has been copy & pasted from old 90s documents 🤔
p921 refers to Netscape Communicator 4.0 as a "modern e-mail software package" (it was last updated in 2002) and recommends SHA-1 as a hash algorithm (deprecated by NIST in 2011 as insecure)
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