pinchcramp

pinchcramp, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Official Release Page for those who don’t want to read the Phoronix article: gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/…/1.0.0

It’s great to see that Pipewire has reached this milestone. Personally I’ve been using it since 0.3.35 for very basic audio needs and it’s been a very smooth transition. After installation I never had to tinker with it anymore. “It just works”^TM^

pinchcramp, 7 months ago

Vanilla OS is moving to Debian with version 2. I don’tthink they have a KDE version, though.

pinchcramp, 7 months ago

Ah, that’s good to know. Thanks for the info!

pinchcramp, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Firefox now supports a setting (in Preferences → Privacy & Security) to enable Global Privacy Control. With this opt-in feature, Firefox informs the websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold.

This sounds like Do Not Track revisited. The only difference that I can find (only skimmed the website) is, that there seems to be some legal support for this in the state of California.

Now you can exercise your legal privacy rights in one step via Global Privacy Control (GPC), required under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).

I wonder:

1. How does this differ from DNT?
2. Does this this have any real chance to take off? From what I’ve heard, DNT has been rather counterproductive as it can be used to fingerprint users.