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AMD ROCm 3.8 Is Released. The latest #AMD #Radeon Open Compute graphics stack offers absolutely dismal #OpenCL performance in the LuksMark benchmark compared to the Mesa Clover OpenCL library from the newly released Mesa 20.2 graphics stack. #rocm #compute
https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_ROCm_3.8_Is_Released

"YouTube Regrets": #Mozilla has launched a new campaign against #YouTube called #YouTubeRegrets.
Journalist James Corbett reports that there could be some issues with Mozilla's desire to control and dictate what you can and can't see on the #Internet
https://linuxreviews.org/YouTube_Regrets_-_from_Corbett_Report

We, and Rockit Girl, Wishes You A Very Happy Chuseok Harvest Festival Holiday! Today is the first day of the Korean #Chuseok holiday. We hope your world is filled with lots of joy and happiness the coming days even if your country doesn't have a holiday!
https://linuxreviews.org/Rockit_Girl_Wishes_You_A_Very_Happy_Chuseok_Harvest_Festival_Holiday

Fake News Detector For Firefox Is Coming After The Harvest Festival Holiday. SoundsGreat developer Suh Kwangho (서광호) told us that and much more about the future of the "Fake News Detector" browser extension. #fakenews #linux #firefox #edge #naverwhale
https://linuxreviews.org/Fake_News_Detector_For_Firefox_Is_Coming_After_The_Harvest_Festival_Holiday

"Don't like [screen] tearing? Use #Wayland!" -Michel Dänzer, #RedHat Graphics Team, #Xorg and #Mesa developer and 26th largest contributor to Mesa 20.2.0
https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_fix_screen_tearing

Fake News Detector is an excellent web browser extension that lets you vote on what is and isn't #fakenews and get warned if others have deemed an article to be fake news. It is currently only available for the #naverwhale and #microsoftedge web browsers.
https://linuxreviews.org/Fake_News_Detector

Sonic Robo Blast 2 3D platform game with all the concepts of a classic 2D platform #game in a 3D world. The objective is to run around and collect rings and avoid monsters. The game-play is not very exciting and the graphics is mediocre by today's standards. Available for free for #linux Windows macOS and Android. #indiegames
https://linuxreviews.org/Sonic_Robo_Blast_2

GNU grep 3.5 Is Released. It changes three output messages and the --files-without-match (-L) has been changed so it succeeds when a file is selected, not when a file is listed. There's also six bug-fixes.
#gnu #linux #grep
https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_grep_3.5_Is_Released

Mesa 20.2.0 Is Released. The latest #Linux graphics stack offers #Vulkan 1.2 support, #OpenGL 4.5 support for llvmpipe, faster NIR performance and the ACO shader compiler for Vulkan on #AMD hardware is now the default shader compiler for AMD graphics.
https://linuxreviews.org/Mesa_20.2.0_Is_Released

#Linux 5.9-rc7 Is A Total Disaster On Machines With #Intel Graphics. You can't even start #Xorg with this kernel, the #i915 #linux kernel driver will get a "NULL pointer dereference" and freeze X. AMD systems are fine.
https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_5.9-rc7_Is_A_Total_Disaster_On_Machines_With_Intel_Graphics

Linux 5.9 Will Be Delayed One Week. There have been some very unfortunate problems in this #linux kernel release cycle that are, hopefully, fixed in 5.9 rc7. Linus Torvals will delay the final release by one week to make sure.
https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_5.9_Will_Be_Delayed_One_Week

The #GNU Operating System Turns 37: It's exactly 37 years since Honorary Doctor Richard Stallman announced his intention to make a free Unix-like OS. His hard work is the basis for modern operating systems like #Deepin, #Linux Mint, #Manjaro and #Ubuntu
https://linuxreviews.org/The_GNU_Operating_System_Turns_37

Liquid Prompt is an adaptive shell prompt for #bash and #zsh that shows CPU temp and CPU load if those are high and laptops battery status if it's low. It's very nice, though there are out-of-the-box bugs. #devs on #linux and #macos may find it useful.
https://linuxreviews.org/Liquid_Prompt

From the #FSF Bulletin: Trial by proprietary software. Free Software Foundation Executive Director John Sullivan argues that courts should not require people to use #proprietary #software like #zoom and find them guilty if they don't.
https://linuxreviews.org/From_the_FSF_Bulletin:_Trial_by_proprietary_software

#zsmalloc appears to be the wisest choice for a zswap #RAM #swap #cache on #linux while #zbud has a slight negative impact and #z3fold is a total disaster. A compressed #zram swap device seems to generally preferable to using a RAM cache for disk swap devices. #ramletsneverlearn
https://linuxreviews.org/Zswap

"This was way too slow. Just say we didn't find the file."
#windows #windowsxp #programming #lazy #microsoft
https://linuxreviews.org/42.9_GB_Of_Microsoft_Source_Code_Leaked:_Historicans_Can_Now_Study_The_Source_Code_For_MS-Dos_3.3_To_Windows_XP

Such #WindowsXP icons. Wow.

42.9 GB Of Microsoft Source Code Leaked: Historicans Can Now Study The Source Code For MS-Dos 3.3 To Windows XP
https://linuxreviews.org/42.9_GB_Of_Microsoft_Source_Code_Leaked:_Historicans_Can_Now_Study_The_Source_Code_For_MS-Dos_3.3_To_Windows_XP

Korean trot singer Kang Hye Yeon's latest cover brings attention to lonely single mothers struggles. Her wonderful "Golden Grass - Mother's Song" cover is very well performed. The lyrics is about single a single mothers struggle with loneliness and hardship. #kpop
https://linuxreviews.org/Korean_Trot_Singer_Kang_Hye_Yeon's_Latest_Cover_Brings_Attention_To_Lonely_Single_Mothers