Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

We all make some sort of folder for storing our projects, so if it's such a standard then why not actually standardize it in XDG User dirs and that is exactly what was done.

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==========Resources==========
Gitlab Issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-user-dirs/-/work_items/3
Translate Code: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-user-dirs/-/blob/85558b8afbaf404b7d14a5a9d45a94cfdfc863f8/translate.c
Merge Request: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-user-dirs/-/merge_requests/24/diffs?commit_id=217cae71c620ed2b3ed2936256ece68defccc6ab
XDG User Directories Config: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

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Just the other Germany had a major outage with there ccTLD .de which took down almost every single website that was making use of it, this likely created a really unpleasant night for any sysadmins so lets discuss what happened.

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==========Resources==========
LTT Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1t4ttuw/no_its_not_you_all_german_de_domains_are/
Jeff Geerling: https://x.com/geerlingguy/status/2051803148281434490
Cloudflare DNS: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/dns-ns-record/
DENIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DENIC
Cloudflare DNS: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-1.1.1.1/
DENIC Status Page: https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38
Mastodon Thread: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116523894072281086
Cloudflare Status Page: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Scheduled Outage: https://status.denic.de/pages/maintenance/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa0dee54fd6005141db1e2

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#Germany #TLD #DNS #WebDeveloper #Sysadmin

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VSCode pushed and then very quickly reverted a change which was marking every single commit you made as being co-authored by Copilot even if it had absolutely nothing to do with it.

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==========Resources==========
VSCode PR: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
VSCode PR Revert: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/313931
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883
VSCode Explainer: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/314311

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For a long time Ubuntu Linux was basically the default Linux distro recommendation when you had nothing else to suggest but over the years it seems like Fedora or more accurately the Fedora family of distros has begun to fill that role.

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==========Resources==========
Ubuntu Linux: https://ubuntu.com/
Fedora Linux: https://fedoraproject.org/
Canonical ShipIt: https://canonical.com/blog/shipit-comes-to-an-end
Bazzite Linux: https://bazzite.gg/
Nobara Linux: https://nobaraproject.org/

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#Fedora #Ubuntu #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

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Long in the past Steam Skins were an expected feature in Steam but that has long since ended however with this open source project called Millennium that has completely changed.

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Millennium Site: https://steambrew.app/
Themes/Skins: https://steambrew.app/themes
Plugins: https://steambrew.app/plugins

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About 14 years ago GNOME made a design choice to hide the logout button if there was only a single user or a single desktop but the choice was basically hidden until some very recent changes to remove X11

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==========Resources==========
Log Out Thread: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/please-add-log-out-even-when-there-is-only-one-user-account/34780
GNOME 3 Design Docs: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design(2f)OS(2f)SystemStopRestart(2f)History.html
Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657011
GNOME Shell Issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/9100

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Turns out that right under our noses for the past 9 years effecting every version of Linux kernel in that time was a trivial to execute privilege bug now dubbed CopyFail otherwise going by CVE-2026-31431

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==========Resources==========
Initial Writeup: https://copy.fail/
Better Writeup: https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions
POC: https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/blob/main/copy_fail_exp.py
Kernel Patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a664bf3d603d
The Cause: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=72548b093ee3
Debian CVE: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431
Ubuntu CVE: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-31431
SUSE CVE: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31431.html
Red Hat CVE: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-31431
KDE Linux Disclosure: https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-linux-images-202604210254-are-vulnerable-to-cve-2026-31431/46632
Github Notice: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2274-3hgr-wxv6

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KDE Plasma 6.7 is just a bit over a month a way and honestly it's shaping up to be another incredible release, so much so that I am seriously considering swapping back to the environment at least for a bit.

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This Week In Plasma: https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-plasma/

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Finally the Steam Controller is actually coming we know when it's dropping, May 4th and honestly I'm super excited for it, I've not got a chance to try it yet but everything I'm seeing with it looks absolutely amazing

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==========Resources==========
SteamDeck Performance: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Valve-adds-new-tools-for-developers-to-track-Steam-Deck-framerate-and-player-feedback-data-to-help-improve-performance.1281922.0.html
PC Peformance: https://www.techpowerup.com/348023/steam-will-estimate-game-fps-before-purchase-to-show-expected-pc-performance
Proton 11 Beta: https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/2044888780440551671
Proton Arm: https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/2044892275201790251
Linux Arm Client: https://github.com/chaitan3/steam_installer_linuxarm64
Valve Announcement: https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/508485755865137686
Steam Controller Purchase Page: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller
SC Controller: https://github.com/C0rn3j/sc-controller
8BitDo: https://www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-2-wireless-controller/
iFixit: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/game-pads/valve-will-be-providing-steam-controller-replacement-parts-via-ifixit-after-launch/
Steam Frame and Machine: https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/2048818605991604356
Steam Deck 2: https://www.ign.com/articles/valve-says-its-hard-at-work-on-steam-deck-2-but-theres-still-no-release-window

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You should never pick up and plug random USB devices into your system, but sometimes you can't control what other do to your system and you want to make sure that no one ever plugs in a BadUSB

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==========Resources==========
Kernel Patch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
USB Guard Website: https://usbguard.github.io/
Arch Wiki USB Guard: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USBGuard
USBKill: https://github.com/fabiogermann/usbkill
Silk Guardian: https://github.com/kmille/silk-guardian

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Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDTvvOTie0w
Free Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/GameTime

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