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Gaping Hole In ReactJS
by Linus Sphinx 06 Dec '25

06 Dec '25

Patch YESTERDAY: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/12/admins-and-defenders-gird-themselv… If you're not familar this is what a React web app looks like: https://github.com/Sphinxtar/SixCards

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X11 on Fedora 43
by Linus Sphinx 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Wasn't too hard, still desktop shopping. $ sudo dnf install lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter $ sudo dnf install @xfce-desktop-environment $ sudo systemctl disable gdm $ sudo systemctl enable lightdm $ systemctl reboot Have to pick the xsession at start, menu in the upper right corner, then log in, right click settings to change desktop image.

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Wayland and Fedora
by Linus Sphinx 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Has anyone seen it wake up? Just logging in it sits and the mouse cursor dies for 45 seconds, it lags all over the place. Now Fedora and Wayland both suck. Switching to Arch.

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something got me thinking about Usenet
by Brian E. Lavender 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

I see that Sonic offered Usenet service until 2016 https://sonicstatus.com/2016/09/09/usenet-service-ended/ I haven't connected to a Usenet server for I believe around ten years! Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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This Feels Right
by Linus Sphinx 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

Who says you can't go home again. Still the best looking. $ sudo dnf install enlightenment

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Wayland
by Linus Sphinx 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

I'm seeing the problem is not the OS, but the desktop, it's Gnome 50 and up that insists on Wayland. Trying to switch to XFCE and X11 before I completely dump the distro.

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SacLUG back at Kupros December
by Brian E. Lavender 23 Nov '25

23 Nov '25

See you at Kupros in December. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/december-2025.html Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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xslt in libre office
by Brian E. Lavender 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

I have never used the xslt filter capability in libre office. Has anyone used it? https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/xsltfilter.html I did do some brief work witho FOP https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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meeting tomorrow
by Brian E. Lavender 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

Don't forget we have the SacLUG tomorrow! https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/november-2025.html Kevin demonstrates AI document repository When: Mon November 17, 2025 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM Speaker: Kevin Brisson Location: Bel Air #502 S.E.G.R. Kevin will present his Byte Vision local document analysis tool. https://github.com/kbrisso/byte-vision This talk will be at the Bel Aire Arden. Note that the meeting will be on Monday, rather than the usual Tuesday. 4320 Arden Way Sacramento, CA 95864 -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Xorg stuff
by Brian E. Lavender 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

While downloading F43 updates for my desktop, I found this thread on Xorg. Admittingly, I still do not fully understand how the windowing manager all fits together. I take it that there are various X libraries? https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-x11libre-system-… I thought this quote was interesting: "Fedora will benefit from shipping an actively maintained Xserver instead of a moribund one whose maintainers themselves label as “unmaintained” (pushing Wayland as the replacement)." Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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