Episode 4:03: This is the WEI

Coming up in this episode
* Immutability is confusing
* Going the wrong WEI (or W-E-I)
* Reverb Focus
* Hardware Focus
* And Gentoo Focus
0:00 Cold Open
1:34 Immutability Is Confusing
21:25 Going the Wrong WEI
40:55 Reverb Focus
45:56 Community Focus
51:09 Gentoo Focus
1:29:25 Next Time
1:31:02 Stinger
The video version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_89_OFjgdk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q89OFjgdk
Banter
Fedora Silverblue Technical information (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/technical-information/)
rpm-ostree documentation (https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/)
Vanilla OS documentation (https://documentation.vanillaos.org/)
ABRoot (https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/ABRoot)
blendOS documentation (https://docs.blendos.co/docs/intro)
Announcements
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Web Environment Integrity
2015 - AMP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages)
2019 - Google proposed Web Bundles (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/web-bundles/)
2021 - Google weakened the power of extensions (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening)
May 2022 - First party sets were introduced through the W3C by Google but in June 2022, the W3C decided to drop the idea (https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacycg/2022Jun/0003.html).
April 24, 2023 - The original Google WEI proposal post (https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md)
July 24, 2023 - Mozilla's rebuke (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#issuecomment-1648820747)
July 25, 2023 - Vivaldi's rebuke (https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/)
August 1, 2023 - Brave's rebuke (https://brave.com/web-standards-at-brave/9-web-environment-integrity/)
August 8, 2023 - The EFF rebuke (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1)
More Announcements
Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum)
Reverb Focus, all about the feedback.
Lily
https://blanc.pages.dev/debian-codenames-toy-story-characters/
Hackerdefo
I have created a few useful (hopefully) gists related to Debian
sources.list files and Debian download links. Here are links to those gists,
https://gist.github.com/hakerdefo/98701fbf746c8216e77a65002f7a0dab
https://gist.github.com/hakerdefo/5e1f51fa93ff37871b9ff738b05ba30f
https://gist.github.com/hakerdefo/1599cb664cc3c2f125a45248d9c6c71d
https://gist.github.com/hakerdefo/124a37ca927018f8b52a72e316d160fa
My Blog -> https://hakerdefo.github.io
My Projects -> https://github.com/hakerdefo
Housekeeping
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Community Focus - Hardware Haven (https://www.youtube.com/@HardwareHaven)
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@HardwareHaven)
Discord (https://discord.gg/25a6qVdSMh)
Gentoo Focus
use https://packages.gentoo.org
read the news - eselect news read new
pay attention to profile selection (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Profile_(Portage))
Next Time
The history of the Fedora Immutable Desktops so Fedora Silverblue (https://fedoraproject.org/silverblue/) or Fedora Kinoite (https://fedoraproject.org/kinoite/) or Fedora Sericea (https://fedoraproject.org/sericea/).
Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space
Stay tuned 📡 and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.
We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support!
Producer
Bruno
Dave
John
Johnny
Co-Producer
Tim
Super User
Advait
CubicleNate
Eduardo S.
Hausken
Jill and Steve
Larry
LiNuXsys666
Livet
Musical Coder
Nicholas
Nick
sleepyeyesvince

Coming up in this episode

Immutability is confusing
Going the wrong WEI (or W-E-I)
Reverb Focus
Hardware Focus
And Gentoo Focus

0:00 Cold Open

1:34 Immutability Is Confusing

21:25 Going the Wrong WEI

40:55 Reverb Focus

45:56 Community Focus

51:09 Gentoo Focus

1:29:25 Next Time

1:31:02 Stinger

The video version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_89_OFjgdk

Banter

Fedora Silverblue Technical information
rpm-ostree documentation
Vanilla OS documentation
ABRoot
blendOS documentation

Announcements

This program was made possible by:

📺️Youtube
📽️TILvids
And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patreons like you 😍

Web Environment Integrity

2015 - AMP
2019 - Google proposed Web Bundles
2021 - Google weakened the power of extensions
May 2022 - First party sets were introduced through the W3C by Google but in June 2022, the W3C decided to drop the idea.
April 24, 2023 - The original Google WEI proposal post
July 24, 2023 - Mozilla's rebuke
July 25, 2023 - Vivaldi's rebuke
August 1, 2023 - Brave's rebuke
August 8, 2023 - The EFF rebuke

More Announcements

Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy

Reverb Focus, all about the feedback.

Lily

https://blanc.pages.dev/debian-codenames-toy-story-characters/

Hackerdefo

I have created a few useful (hopefully) gists related to Debian

sources.list files and Debian download links. Here are links to those gists,

https://gist.github.com/hakerdefo/98701fbf746c8216e77a65002f7a0dab
https://gist.github.com/hakerdefo/5e1f51fa93ff37871b9ff738b05ba30f
https://gist.github.com/hakerdefo/1599cb664cc3c2f125a45248d9c6c71d
https://gist.github.com/hakerdefo/124a37ca927018f8b52a72e316d160fa
My Blog -> https://hakerdefo.github.io
My Projects -> https://github.com/hakerdefo

Housekeeping

Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord.

🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy
📰 Linux User Space subreddit
⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server
📲 Linux User Space Telegram
✉️ Linux User Space Matrix
📽️ Linux User Space Twitch
🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon
📜 Linux User Space Twitter
📺️ Linux User Space TILVids

Community Focus - Hardware Haven

YouTube
Discord

Gentoo Focus

use https://packages.gentoo.org
read the news - eselect news read new
pay attention to profile selection

Next Time

The history of the Fedora Immutable Desktops so Fedora Silverblue or Fedora Kinoite or Fedora Sericea.

Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space

Stay tuned 📡 and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.

We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support!

Producer

Bruno
Dave
John
Johnny

Co-Producer

Tim

Super User

Advait
CubicleNate
Eduardo S.
Hausken
Jill and Steve
Larry
LiNuXsys666
Livet
Musical Coder
Nicholas
Nick
sleepyeyesvince

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