Proprietary Systems: Chromebooks, Windows, and Microsoft’s xClown

• Switching to Chromebook: 15 Apps and Extensions to Replace Your Desktop Favorites

  On your Chromebook, you also have the option to install Linux and Android apps. Here are some great Linux app alternatives for Windows programs. You can also check out these Windows programs that are available for Android.

• How to Fix a Windows Infinite Reboot Loop Problem [Ed: Don't use Windows?]

• Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming looks worse on Linux than Windows [Ed: Ars Technica (former editor a Microsoft operative, arrested for raping young kids) found a new angle/slant to make GNU/Linux look bad, based on Microsoft. Meanwhile, Valve shows that GNU/Linux can perform better than Windows when it comes to gaming.]

New GNU Releases and FSF Spring "Bulletin"

• June GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Twelve new GNU releases! [Ed: Much respect to Amin Bandali for stepping up and helping the FSF a lot when it needed it the most]

• Spring "Bulletin": Verifying licenses, free software in education, and more!

  Software freedom needs our advocacy, our words and voices, and our generosity to spread. The biannual Free Software Foundation Bulletin is an item made for sharing, its articles from FSF staff and community members help facilitate the conversation about the importance of free software in daily life. It is a great tool to help people find their reason to support free software, to contribute to free software, or -- for the many who are just learning about it -- to take their next steps up the ladder to freedom.

pgAdmin 4 v6.11 Released

The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 6.11. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 20 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes. pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website. Also: PostgreSQL: Announcing the release of AgensGraph 2.12

today's leftovers

• The Month in WordPress – June 2022 – WordPress News

  With WordPress 6.1 already in the works, a lot of updates happened during June. Here’s a summary to catch up on the ones you may have missed.

• Join the LibreOffice Team as a Web Technology Engineer (m/f/d), 10-20h per week, remote

  To provide high quality tools for our contributors, together working on office productivity for over 200 million users around the globe, we are searching for a Web Technology Engineer (m/f/d) to start work as soon as possible.

• Unravelling complexity in a software-defined vehicles industry | Ubuntu

  Vehicles are becoming more connected, autonomous, shared and electric (the famous CASE acronym). While customers expect new features and upgradability, the software and hardware components enabling such innovations require a different system architecture to function. This is a major change for the automotive industry as it requires new software skills, methodologies and business models. At the same time, automotive manufacturers need to adhere to complex and strict industry standards, and uphold safety-critical functions. In this post, we will focus on the different challenges the industry is facing in terms of hardware and software complexity, cybersecurity and safety. We will also discuss how Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) can learn from software companies to survive this transition towards software-defined vehicles and succeed. [...] On top of this, regulations are becoming very strict, forcing OEMs to provide patches and fixes to common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE). Taking into account the previously detailed system complexity, it is becoming increasingly necessary to move towards a software-defined holistic context. Only a software-defined approach can provide the required flexibility and scalability that allows companies to comply with regulatory requirements while providing UX updates and handling hardware complexity. Of course, cybersecurity never only relies on software. Hardware vulnerabilities can also occur and usually lead to even worse consequences. Some hardware issues can be patched via software, but usually these CVEs remain valid throughout the system’s lifetime. For example, Meltdown and Spectre, two of the most widespread hardware vulnerabilities in the world, are still present and affecting tons of devices. This means that during hardware conception, cybersecurity must be taken into account in the specifications and system architecture in order to limit these vulnerabilities.