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GBTI Member Article: Hudson Atwell shares his wp-cli staging plugin that helps users import a remote database into a local environment.

I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let's change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

Allow me to spread the word about ListenBrainz. ListenBrainz is a FOSS project that aims to crowdsource listening data from digital music and release it under an open license. Basically it's Last.fm but better. Whatever you use to listen to music, you can probably link it up with ListenBrainz. All ListenBrainz listening data is available for all to use, commercially or not. Why should we give our listening data only to proprietary companies like Spotify and depend on them, when we can share it. If you've kept track of your what music you've listened to up to this point, don't worry, there are several ways to import them into ListenBrainz so you can keep an overview of all your music listening.

I am not working for ListenBrainz in any way, I just really like this project, and I had not seen much on Lemmy about them, so I'm happy to spread the word.

After two and a half years since the 13.0 branch was published, the FreeBSD 14.0 release (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/announce/) has been formed. FreeBSD 14 will be the last FreeBSD branch to support 32-bit platforms.

• A new base64 utility for encoding and decoding data in base64 format has been added.
• The default command prompt for the root user is /bin/sh.
• Added tcpsso utility to allow socket options to be set for existing TCP connections.
• The number of supported CPU cores (MAXCPU parameter) in systems based on amd64 and arm64 architecture was increased from 256 to 1024.
• The timerfd subsystem was added to the kernel to simplify porting programs from Linux.

Importing data from the Chromium Snap Package:

• Ubuntu users using Firefox Snap can now import browser data from Chromium if it is installed as a Snap package.

Privacy settings for websites:

• A new feature called Website Privacy Settings has been added to the Privacy & Security settings section, allowing users to tell websites not to sell or share their data or send a Do Not Track request.

Improved privacy and security:

• Users can now import TLS trust anchors (certificates) from the operating system's root storage in the Privacy & Security > Certificates section.
• Added a context menu item "Copy links without site tracking" to copy links without tracking information.

Improvements to the Picture in Picture (PiP) mode:

• The Picture-in-Picture feature now has an angle adjustment feature that is activated by holding down the Linux Shift key while moving the PiP window.
• This release adds a new "devtools" feature that allows users to simulate a disconnected connection to websites.

Cookie banner blocker and URL tracking protection (Germany only):

• Added a cookie banner blocker for users in Germany that automatically rejects cookies and rejects annoying banners on supported websites.
• URL tracking protection removes unspecified URL request parameters that are used to track users.

Privacy improvements:

• Firefox 120 continues to improve private windows and ETP-Strict privacy configuration to enhance Canvas APIs with fingerprint protection.

Tools for website developers:

• In this release, the new version of Firefox activates WebAssembly GC by default to support languages such as Dart or Kotlin.
• Early pre-connect prompts are enabled.
• Added a new user activation API for JavaScript to check user activity on a web page.
• Support for lh and rlh units for correct parsing and calculation of lengths.

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The release of the general-purpose programming language Rust 1.74 (http://www.rust-lang.org/), developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published.

• In addition, we can note the results (https://ostif.org/rustvmm-audit-complete/) of the audit (https://ostif.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/X41-rustvmm-final_release.pdf) of the RustVMM project (https://github.com/rust-vmm), which provides components for creating task-specific hypervisors and virtual machine monitors. The audit confirmed the high quality of the code base and the use of techniques in the architecture and implementation aimed at achieving maximum security.

• Google also presented (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/) a new implementation of the Binder interprocess communication mechanism rewritten in Rust. The Rust implementation of Binder has achieved parity in functionality with the original C version, passes all AOSP (Android Open-Source Project) tests and can be used to create working firmware editions.

• Fully open source, including Android and iOS apps (in beta)

• Stream all audio formats on the fly ▫️Search and add podcasts to download episodes with automatic downloading.

• Multi-user support with customizable permissions

• Saves each user's progress and syncs across devices.

• Automatically detects library updates, no need to rescan

• Download books and podcasts with bulk folder upload using drag and drop ▫️Metadata backup + automatic daily backups, etc