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Apple’s top-secret iBoot firmware source code spills onto GitHub for some insane reason

Fun thing about the DMCA: it required Apple to state, under penalty of perjury, that the iBoot source code was legit: https://t.co/PKHZqcEe6h

— Karl (@supersat) February 8, 2018

Crucially, within the past day or so, someone decided to dump a copy of this secret sauce on popular developer hangout GitHub for all to find. Links to the files began circulating on Twitter in the past few hours.

Razer doesn’t care about Linux

I offered to upstream any example code they could share under a free license, or to write the code from scratch given enough specifications to do so. This is something I’ve done for other vendors, and doesn’t take long as most vendor firmware updaters all do the same kind of thing; there are only so many ways to send a few kb of data to USB devices.

KDE Slimbook II Plasma-Based Linux Ultrabook Laptop Is Cheaper, More Powerfu l

Meet KDE Slimbook II, the second-generation of the KDE Slimbook laptop that emphasizes the widely-used KDE Plasma open-source desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions. Build for running the KDE Neon Linux distro, the 1st-generation KDE Slimbook laptop was announced a year ago and offered some attractive features, including a 13.3-inch screen, faster SSDs, and latest Plasma desktop.

TING

• **Ting – mobile that makes sense

Let’s talk about elementary OS 5.0 Juno

But we’re finally ready to start (cautiously!) talking about Juno, the next major release of elementary OS.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Chris Goes to Microsoft

The third floor of one of the swankiest Microsoft offices I’ve ever been in #microsoft #opensourse #powershell

A post shared by Chris Fisher (@instachrislas) on Feb 12, 2018 at 10:10am PST

"Ambient Microsoft" interesting cross-cultural talk between @ChrisLAS and @jsnover that addresses the strategic (sea)change in Redmond [starts at 38:12]. cc:@maryjofoley @bdsams Hmm. All that's missing is an OS that runs all binary flavors… 😉 https://t.co/93Wqbj6mf5

— SpragueD (@SpragueD) February 13, 2018

• Administering Linux on Azure | Linux Foundation Training

• github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901

KDE neon Developers Blog

With the new Plasma LTS came an update to KDE neon LTS Edition and lots of people asking which edition to use and what the difference is. This caused us to review the purpose of LTS and as a result we’ve just hidden LTS from the download page. The only difference with the LTS edition is that it stays on Plasma’s LTS release but apps and libraries still get updates. This doesn’t fit well with the main use cases of an LTS which is that it only gets bug fixes and no new features.

• Until last week, you could pwn KDE Linux desktop with a USB stick

The CVE-2018-6791 vulnerability – unsurprisingly designated as high risk – was fixed on Thursday with an update to the Plasma Desktop.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

  Plasma Challenge Check In

• KDE neon

• Plasma – KDE.org

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• A Linux laptop with security at its core: Purism’s Librem PCs now widely available | ZDNet
• Fasting – Wikipedia
• Ketogenic diet – Wikipedia
• everything about keto – Reddit
• Amazon.com: Anker Quick Charge 3.0 51.5W 5-Port USB Wall Charger, PowerPort Speed 5 for Galaxy S7/S6/edge/edge+, Note 4/5, LG G4/G5, HTC One M8/M9/A9, Nexus 6, with PowerIQ for iPhone 7, iPad, and More: Cell Phones & Accessories
• Amazon.com: Belkin USB-IF Certified 4-Port Mini USB-C Hub with Two USB-C & Two USB-A Ports (Not Supporting Pass-Through Charging): Belkin: Computers & Accessories
• Amazon.com: Wavlink USB 3.0 45W/9A USB C Charging Station, Multi-port (2 USB C Type-C, 3 USB) USB Charger Desktop Hub for Phone, Tablets, iPad, Mobile Power, Macbook-Black: Computers & Accessories
• Amazon.com: Wavlink 60W/12A Transformers Design 6 Port USB C Fast Charge Desktop Charger Station (Multi Port: 2 USB C, 4USB) Adapter for Nexus 5X Nexus 6P and USB for iPhone, iPad and Android Devices-Black: Computers & Accessories
• Dell Sweepstakes link can be found here
• Razer’s Facebook post about linux
• The Linux Corner | Razer Insider | Forum
• rikai’s Twitch

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• FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

• Siri Offers Witty Responses About September 7 Event – Mac Rumors

• The EU may hit Apple with a $19 billion tax bill next week over ‘state aid’ – Business Insider

• Google Nexus Smartphones To Get Project Fi’s Wi-Fi Assistant Feature : TECH : Tech Times

• Fitbit’s Charge 2 and Flex 2 are next-gen trackers that blend fitness and style

• Android M details the end of Nexus device support

• Razer Core External Graphics Dock

• Business-Drone Rules to Take Effect

• SETI has observed a “strong” signal that may originate from a Sun-like star | Ars Technica

Kickstarter of the Week:

• The Wolfe: Supercharge Your Laptop by Wolfepack, Inc. — Kickstarter

The Wolfe allows high-performance gaming, virtual reality, graphic design, and video-editing for laptops – especially MacBooks.

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Razer impresses with an open source VR headset & their new “micro-console” at CES. We’ll tell you all about them, plus portable SSD’s & Dell’s new fancy edge-to-edge laptop.

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Razer is launching an open-source VR headset this year

This year, Razer’s announcing an open-source software and hardware initiative known as “OSVR.”

That acronym stands for — you guessed it — “Open-Source Virtual Reality.”

Razer is releasing every detail of its virtual reality headset and the software that makes it work as open-source, enabling developers, makers and other enterprising individuals to create their own versions. The company’s also making and selling its own “Hacker Dev Kit”, set to debut sometime between now and June.

Razer Unveils Its $100 Android-Powered Gaming Console, Razer Forge TV

The Razer Forge TV is a micro-console, 4×4 inches and selling for $100, and Razer hopes it will give the company three new routes into your living room: as a platform for hardcore PC gaming, for Android gaming, and for Android-based entertainment services via Google Play. The Razer Forge TV is due out in Q1.

It has quad-core processing (Qualcomm Snapdragon 805; Quad-Core Krait 450 CPU – 2.5 GHz per core); a high-end graphics engine (Adreno 420 GPU

Wireless and network connectivity; 16 GB of internal storage and 2 GB of RAM.

On the non-gaming front, the Forge TV will also work as an entertainment hub, letting users stream music, videos and other apps, and photos to their televisions.

External hard drives? Pfah! Samsung just launched external SSDs

Samsung’s 250GB external SSD is priced at $179.99, a 500GB drive is $299.99, and a 1TB drive is $599.99.

The Portable SSD T1 drives will connect to a PC’s USB 3.0 port. The SSDs have sequential read and write speeds of 450MB per second, random read speeds of 8,000 IOPS (input/output per second) and random write speeds of 21,000 IOPS.

Dell’s new XPS 13 has a stunning edge-to-edge display

2015’s XPS 13 will ship with an even better and truly beautiful 13.3-inch “infinity” display. It has an incredibly tiny 5.2mm bezel on the top and sides. While previous models of the XPS 13 have always had an impressively small bezel, the latest feels truly edge-to-edge, and it’s dazzling to look at. Dell hasn’t just stopped at thin bezels, though, and the 2015 model now has an optional 3200 x 1800 high-resolution touchscreen display. That’s a massive improvement over the 1366 x 768 resolution we disliked on the original.

Dell is claiming the new XPS 13 is the “smallest 13-inch laptop on the planet,” thanks primarily to the 13.3-inch borderless display that’s squeezed into an 11-inch size laptop

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The ENTIRE WORLD of online gaming erupted in a massive conflagration of hate, bile, controversy and intrigue, and naturally it was EVE Online that was to blame for it all. It seems like any time a major newsworthy meltdown occurs, this sandbox space simulator is the culprit behind the uprising.

On today’s MMOrgue, we’ve brought on a veteran EVE player as a correspondent to cover the highs and lows of the launch of the Incarna expansion, and editorialize on what CCP did so very, very wrong.

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OPENER:

Today’s T-Shirt: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003LUZQRS/?tag=thelinactsho-20

RIFT discounts…
* $10 on Steam during their summer sale (now $40)
* Subscription discounts
* “Come back” weekend
* … feeling the pressure from other upcoming titles?

HELLGATE REVIEW: Delayed until NEXT WEEK

And now, on to EVE!

List of ignominious CCP quotes:
https://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1534552

Leaked pdf: “Greed is Good”
Confirmation of authenticity: https://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1536065&page=5#126

Dev Blog response:
https://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=932

Devs fly CSM players out to Iceland:
https://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=934
Statements from each side:
https://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=935

My thoughts:
It seems, to an outsider, that the purpose of the Aurum store was to allow players to circumvent the ISK:PLEX exchange, and shortcut the economy straight from RL money to in-game items.
This, on a certain level, makes sense.
The issues arose from rumors of new Aurum-only items, and the feeling that allowing cash-purchased items devalues the time-based skill investments of long-time players.
TIME is the ultimate currency. In a way, every MMO is just a complicated barter system for your time investment.
With the widespread shift to F2P+CashShop mechanics, will this have a lasting impact, or will it be looked back on as a “silly debate”?

An Aurum-incentivized viral marketing campaign:
https://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=937

Post-Thoughts

Tease of the Week:
According to Paul Darrow (well-known voice actor) his work on SWTOR will be published by Christmas
https://www.mmocrunch.com/2011/07/13/swtor-coming-out-by-christmas/
Add this to a rumor I’d heard that the SWTOR Razer gaming peripherals will be released in November… it’s looking like a pretty solid launch date for this much-hyped title.
But jeez… that’s still 6 months away! pout

Next week:
Hellgate and MORE!

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