

Iirc, this was recently claimed in the initial release statement of the Xlibre fork of Xorg that wants to ‘make X great again’
Iirc, this was recently claimed in the initial release statement of the Xlibre fork of Xorg that wants to ‘make X great again’
Unfortunately, Wayland still lacks some things that Xorg offers, so switching would be a step backward for some people. Snarkily dismissing them as conspiracy theorists is wrong in several ways.
I think the intersection between those who have valid reasons to use X11, e.g. missing features of Wayland, and those wo think Wayland is a ‘big tech conspiracy’ is small.
Once triggered, StarDict sends the selected text in plaintext over HTTP to third-party servers in China, namely dict.youdao.com and dict.cn. And to make matters worse, these requests are made over unencrypted HTTP, making the data visible to anyone monitoring the network—whether on a local LAN or through a compromised router.
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Finally, to wrap things up, it’s worth pointing out that this StarDict behavior can only happen in an X session. If you’re running Debian 13 with Wayland, then you’re safe, thanks to the protocol’s sandboxed design. And at this point, I guess folks who think Wayland is some kind of big tech conspiracy being forced on users without good reason might want to rethink that stance.
Obviously now, they have the confidence to deliver it in a distribution targeting Linux beginners.
Additionally, only young, sexually immature bulls live in their family. When they’re grown up, they live in bachelor groups led by a dominant male. During musth, they are roaming the savannah individually.
The license does not allow removing the original license and purport that the code was created by someone else. It looks as if large parts of the project were copied directly from Spegel without any mention of the original source.
Elon