Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This will likely be the last Technology Short Take of 2020, so it’s a tad longer than usual. Wei Lien Dang discusses the recent MITM vulnerability in Kubernetes (assigned CVE-2020-8554). Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows. Sorry about that!

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

This is the best Chromebook of 2020 so far Several Chromebooks came out this year vying to become the best “premium” Chromebook of 2020. By unveiling the Galaxy and the C436 at CES 2020, the companies essentially posed the question: can a Chromebook be worth $1,000? Use gesture controls to swap between windows.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”. Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) August 14, 2020. But the comparison to Netflix or Spotify is beside the point. It might simply not want to cede control of the user experience when an iPhone simply becomes a tiny wireless TV screen for games running on remote Windows or Linux PCs.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

announced the Deck in July as its latest foray into both hardware and its support of gaming on the Linux operating system. For comparison’s sake. The Deck, like Valve’s Steam Machine before it, uses a custom operating system based on Linux, with a special Proton compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Or is this just, what I thought was going to happen in 2024 and it’s happening in 2020? It’s got an ARM processor, and it runs Linux and we’re off to the races. Windows is open. Things like Steam were created on Windows, because Gabe and the team could go build an app on Windows products. It’s just not even close.

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