FOSS Weekly #24.45: Firefox-Brave Fight, Linux Security, Mint Desktop Effects and More

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Personally, I prefer text-based tutorials. Easier to write, easier to keep them relvent by updating. But videos seems to be the 𝚏̶𝚞̶𝚝̶𝚞̶𝚛̶𝚎̶ present.

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💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition

• Firefox and Brave going into a tussle.
• Two handy apps for Linux and Android.
• Russia looking to do something about Linux.
• And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux News

• Firefox’s claims have irked Brave, resulting in heated conversation.
• Shotcut 24.10 has released with an optional, yet useful AI-powered feature.
• EA has kneecapped support for Linux, saying that there was a cheater problem with the platform.
• Proton Drive enhanced privacy with new features.

Russia appears to have set out on a journey to build an independent Linux community.

Russia is Looking to Build its Own Linux Community After Expulsion Of Maintainers

Russia is deciding to build its own Linux community after the recent fiasco. What do you think?

It’s FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Who knew that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was involved with open source?

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy

ASWF is the open source foundation run by the folks who give out Oscars, and you’ve probably seen the results

The RegisterLiam Proven

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

• We list out some of the best music players for Linux.
• Avoid using deprecated Linux commands before it is too late!
• Improve your Flatpak experience with these tips.
• Linux Mint can be customized in various ways, this time, we take a look at some really cool desktop effects for it.
• Having wrong time display issues on your Windows-Linux dual boot setup? Fret not, there’s an easy fix.

These are some crucial steps that you need to take if you want to harden your Linux system.

9 Things I Do to Improve My Linux Computer’s Security

Want to know some quick but effective methods to keep your Linux system safe? Here are some great tips for you!

It’s FOSSCommunity

👷 Maker’s and AI Corner

A new Open Source model can edit images with prompts.

Curious about Fedora on Raspberry Pi? Here’s how it goes:

I Installed Fedora on Raspberry Pi and Compared to Official Pi OS

Ready to switch your Raspberry Pi experience with Fedora? Here’s how I do it.

It’s FOSSAbhishek Kumar

📹 Videos We are Creating for You

✨ Apps of the Week

This Rust-based open source code editor might make you switch. Care to check Zed out?

Zed: A Next-Gen Rust-Based Open Source Code Editor With AI

From the creators of the now defunct Atom, we have Zed editor with interesting capabilities.

It’s FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

• For Android, there’s the Easy Watermark app, which makes it easy to safeguard one’s work.

🧩 Quiz Time

Up for a crossword on Linux distros? 🤔

Identify The Linux Distros: Crossword

If you know about Linux distributions, you can solve this crossword.

It’s FOSSAnkush Das

💡 Quick Handy Tip

If you have the Tiling Shell extension installed, right-click on the title bar of any window and choose any one of the window tiling options, it can also show any custom layouts you may have created.

🤣 Meme of the Week

Nano users being unbothered, as usual.

🗓️ Tech Trivia

Considering that this is the election week in the US, here’s an interesting trivia.

In the 1952 presidential election (U.S.), CBS News used a UNIVAC computer to predict the outcome between Eisenhower and Stevenson. UNIVAC’s early analysis pointed to an Eisenhower win, but newscasters Walter Cronkite and Charles Collingwood doubted its accuracy, given opinion polls favored Stevenson. They delayed announcing the computer’s prediction until Eisenhower’s victory became evident.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse Corner

One of our regular FOSSers ponders if scams will get more sophisticated now that AI has been growing rapidly.

ChatGPT Is Now a Search Engine. What Kind Of Implications We Might See?

https://www.howtogeek.com/chatgpt-search-is-now-available/ Just read this item and thought of the implications now for everybody… We all get mail, spam, phishing scams, etc. With the usual ideas, you have won, you have a package to be delivered, help needed, fred has died and left … These scams are widespread and I probably get a good number each day headed direct to the bin. But with the growth of artifical intelligence, voice recognition, speech and images these types of scams could get wo…

It’s FOSS Communitycallpaul.eu (Paul)

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