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A little reading to put in the queue for the weekend...we've updated our privacy policy (https://quad9.net/privacy/policy/) AND are sharing a blog to explain the changes.
https://quad9.net/news/blog/were-updating-our-privacy-policy/
As always, all respectful feedback and questions are welcome! 🫶😍
@AAKL @theregister @lproven Someone built their own Steam Machine. Components came to $700 without the case.
Bulk discount normally runs at around 10%. Case, I guess at $30. So Valve likely pays $650 for parts.
That leaves them with about $400 for assembly (probably $50-100), support (around $100), development ($50), sales and marketing ($10), and inventory ($10-50)
So, somewhere between $50 and $100 in profit per machine. Not a good deal for Valve
The Curious Case of aa.ns.charter.com
I run Pi-hole on my home network. Most days I don't think about it. But one stray entry in the query log caught my eye, and what I thought would be a five-minute mystery turned into a seven-year-old bug in Charter's authoritative DNS infrastructure that nobody at Charter is going to find from the inside.https://mikehowells.com/2026/06/21/the-curious-case-of-aa-ns-charter-com/
Today marks the 30th anniversary of Id Software's Quake.
It's hard to convey how revolutionary this game was in 1996. Running on a fast Pentium, it delivered baked lighting, true 3D levels, polygonal enemies, a NIN score and Lovecraftian worlds at around 30 FPS @320x240 😜
It helped pioneer Internet FPS gaming through client-side prediction over 28.8Kb/s modems and drove adoption of early 3D accelerators.
Happy 30th Quake, thanks for the gibs.
First Xfwl4 Preview Release available
xfwl4 is our brand new Wayland compositor for Xfce.
Read the blog post from our core developer Brian Tarricone for details:
https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/06/xfwl4s-first-preview-release
#Xfce #xfwl4 #Wayland #Linux
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfwl4-First-Release
Xfce’s new Wayland compositor sees first alpha release
The developer working on Xfwl4, the Wayland compositor for Xfce, has published the new compositor's very first alpha release. Considering it's only been six months or so of work, it's impressive to see the effort reach this state already.
The end goal of xfwl4 is to behave as closely as possible to an Xfce desktop running on
https://www.osnews.com/story/145362/xfces-new-wayland-compositor-sees-first-alpha-release/
Active AUR malicious packages incident
https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/
400+ Arch User Repository packages have been compromised in a massive, sophisticated supply chain attack, including a rootkit installation.
https://discourse.ifin.network/t/400-aur-packages-compromised-with-infostealer-and-rootkit/577
Last Updated: 2026-06-12T04:22:42Z (UTC) What’s Happening It appears an AUR package maintainer’s account (arojas) was compromised. The maintainer’s account had write access to over 400 package repos. The compromise was reported and other AUR maintainers have been working to remove the infected packages. The affected packages were modified with preinstall scripts to use npm to install the atomic-lockfile package, a malicious payload. Here’s an example of the change: This blog has a deep d...
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