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Have you ever dreamed of having a virtual enviorment that can simulate the real world in, have meetings in, and connect with others in. Firefox has new protections for supercookies, ubuntu has a new installer out, and CloudLinux has a beta out of AlmaLinux.

• RedHat exists to make a profit, and they need to

• RedHat spends money to support open source that they could take home/pocket

• RedHat handled the release poorly and cut the release cycle short

• RedHat has been a good friend of the community

• The new model makes more sense, but was poorly communicated

• Element/Matrix Pros:

  • Decentralized
  • Federated
  • Integrated with other services (Bridges & Widgets)
  • End to End Encryption

• Funkwhale

• Decentralized Selfhosted Spotify

• Makes music social again

• Why host your own? Because of things like this

• Mihai's Blog post

• White Noise Machine based on a raspberry pi

• Uses OMX Player

• My Noise on Google Play

• Noice App

• Firefox Blog Post](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-protections/)

• Firefox 85 implements network partitioning

• Different image cache for each site

• Firefox 85 also partitions pooled connections, pre-fetch connections, pre-connect connections, speculative connections, and TLS session identifiers

• Ubiquity is getting hard to maintain

• Subiquity Github

• Uses Curtin and Flutter

• Flutter is controlled by Google, this could be a problem long term

• Why a snap?

• GitLab Blog Post

• GitLab is phasing out the Bronze/Starter tier

• Special Offers for people transitioning

• GitLab Free tier gained over 450 features this year and continues to gain more

• Google suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying the developers

• Google said it was due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix

• Reddit Post

• Matrix Team responded quickly and openly to resolve the issue

• Matrix Team went above and beyond and implemented community suggestions

• Having multiple clients is an advantage to the Matrix Protocol

• Ars Technica artical

• Greg founded a new start up company called Ctrl IQ

• Greg was interviewed on Ask Noah EP 213

• AlmaLinux Blog Post

• First RHEL 8 respin available for download

• Download AlmaLinux

• Vircadia Site

• An Introduction to Vircadia

• Vircadia™ is an open-source 3D interface and server foundation

• Ecosystem of open source metaverse applications

• Open Source VR/Virtual World

• Far more than entertainment, lots of potential

• Download Vircadia

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