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  • I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn’t bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.
















    • Fedora KDE plans to drop the Plasma X11 session, in favor of Wayland

    • Because X11 is bloated, insecure, and in a development freeze since many years.

    • Wayland is simple, secure, minimal; developed by former X11 devs.

    • Challenges:

    • Wayland’s minimal core protocols lacked essential features.

    • Fragmentation in development efforts occurred.

    • Protocol approval was political and time-consuming.

    • Current State:

    • Standard protocols for most requirements are now available.

    • Plasma and KDE apps run well on Wayland with the upcoming Plasma 6 release.

    • Many 3rd-party apps work via the XWayland compatibility layer, but some need to be ported to Wayland.

    • Conclusion:

    • Fedora aims to drop the Plasma X11 session entirely, if you don’t like it then switch disros.

    • Many 3rd-party apps are already Wayland-ready, but many are not, and collaboration is needed to expedite this transition.