IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, January 20, 2024
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10:12 schestowitz; <li>
10:12 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/01/19/this-week-in-kde-auto-save-in-dolphin-and-better-fractional-scaling/">This week in KDE: auto-save in Dolphin and better fractional scaling</a></h5>
10:12 schestowitz; <blockquote>
10:12 schestowitz; <p>Were in the home stretch now! </p>
10:12 schestowitz; <p> Plasma and Gear apps have branched, which means anything committed to master and not backported is going into the next release after the mega-release next month. For Plasma, the next one is 6.1, and for Gear apps, its 24.05. Quite a few new features and UI improvements are starting to accumulate there! Here are a few: [...] </p>
10:12 schestowitz; </blockquote>
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10:12 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pointieststick.com | This week in KDE: auto-save in Dolphin and better fractional scaling Adventures in Linux and KDE
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13:36 schestowitz; </blockquote>
13:36 schestowitz; <li>
13:36 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/germany_fine_security/">IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security</a></h5>
13:36 schestowitz; <blockquote>
13:36 schestowitz; <p>Back in June 2021, according to our pals at Heise, an contractor identified elsewhere as Hendrik H. was troubleshooting software for a customer of IT services firm Modern Solution GmbH. He discovered that the Modern Solution code made an MySQL connection to a MariaDB database server operated by the vendor. It turned out the password to access that remote server was stored in plain text
13:36 schestowitz; in the program file MSConnect.exe, and opening it in a simple text editor would reveal the unencrypted hardcoded credential.</p>
13:36 schestowitz; </blockquote>
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13:36 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | IT consultant in Germany fined for exposing shoddy security The Register
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16:28 schestowitz; <li><h5><a href="https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/01/virtualbox-7-0-14-released-with-initial-rhel-9-4-support/">VirtualBox 7.0.14 Released with Initial RHEL 9.4 Support</a></h5><blockquote>Oracle Virtualbox announced a new point release for the 7.0 series this Tuesday. It’s VirtualBox 7.0.14, which add initial host and guest support for Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux 9.4, though it’s still in development stage. </blo
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16:28 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ubuntuhandbook.org | VirtualBox 7.0.14 Released with Initial RHEL 9.4 Support | UbuntuHandbook
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