In this video I will be taking a look at StormD a variant from the distro creators of StormOS which is an Arch based distro, StormD is based on Debian. The ISO I have downloaded is an XFCE build which also comes with the same Maintenance Utilities Program as StormOS. Besides being based on Debian there are slight differences with applications out of the box, theming and layout, I don't believe plank was available in the original StormOS. StormD also comes with Gnome Software with Flatpak available out of the box, also being Debian you would also be able to boost software availability by installing Snap Packages if that's your preference. Hope you enjoy the video.
We take a look at the many new changes over the last few weeks, Development is speeding along. This is one HOTLY anticipated Debian release of 2022. Keep up with the latest updates…
I love Arch Linux. I love AppImages. And I love this Python script that easily converts any Arch Linux package (either in the standard repos or the Chaotic AUR) to an AppImage. This tool is so simple to use that I think it will greatly increase the number of AppImages and their usage.
I looks at the latest data dumps from ProtonDB to give you a quick list of new games that work perfectly with Proton since they were released in August 2022 – all of them work out of the box or well enough with tweaks.
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
This is a highlight reel from the longer discussion on when not to use Linux.
KeePass2 password manager released version 2.52 a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, & Ubuntu 18.04 via PPA.
The new release now allows importing 1Password 8.7 1PUX, and Key Folder 1.22 XML files, as well as groups and expiry dates when importing Sticky Password XML.
There are also other password manager files compatibility, such as support for the new encoding of double quotes when importing Steganos Password Manager CSV, and automatically convert time-based one-time password generator settings on Bitwarden JSON import.
Check out my review of KeePass if you are new to the application. It has been my password manager of choice for a long time. Main reasons for that are that it is a local application with optional cloud syncing support, extensible through a ton of extensions and apps, well designed and more secure than online password managers.
KeePass 2.52 is available as a download from the official project website. You may get an update notification in the program itself, but need to download and install the update manually.
Do you want to install a specific version of a package using the apt or apt-get command without using modern sandboxing tools like Snap or Flatpak?
Then check your package for all available versions that you want to install by using the below command.
The request headers contain the information about the resource that is required to be fetched. The response headers contain information about the response sent by the server. It’s something like server details and other information.
cURL is a command line utility used to transmit data over the different-2 protocols. It is a quick tool for developers to view the request header and response header values of a website.
To control the dot matrix with MAX7219 using Arduino and display different patterns/characters on a dot matrix
In this tutorial, we will learn how to interface MAX7219 LED Dot matrix display with Arduino. We will familiarize you with the MAX7219 dot matrix display and program Arduino to show various demonstrations of displaying texts and symbols.
Tried implementing FUSE cpiofs. I thought it might be fun to implement a file system that can mount initrd file systems. I've implemented symlinks and regular files handling and then I realized that it is kind of annoying that I need to implement hard links.
All (Unix) processes are members of some process group. Process groups go very far back in Unix; they're present at least as far back as Fourth Edition (V4) Unix. However, they aren't really "process groups" in the modern sense, as we can see from the relevant proc struct field being called p_ttyp. Instead they were used primarily to send signals to your terminal processes when various things happened (see dmr/tty.c and dmr/dc.c), and the 'process group number' was the address of the 'struct tty' for your terminal.
In V7, h/proc.h changed the p_ttyp field to p_pgrp and now called it the 'process group leader'. However, there's (still) no way to send a signal to a process group from user code, although various tools know about the idea of process groups and will report them to user level (for example pstat.1m, which gets this information in the traditional Unix approach of reading kernel memory, per cmd/pstat.c). V7 is also where the 'process group' number becomes the process ID of the first process to open a (serial) tty after it's been closed.
Want to install add-ons like Adblocker in Mozilla Firefox? Here is this tutorial where we will learn how to install the extensions for this open-source browser on Windows, Linux, or macOS.
To extend the functionality and feature of the browser we use extensions and the same goes for FireFox as well. For example, if you want to block advertisements in FireFox completely, then we can use extensions such as Adblocker that need to be installed separately in Mozilla Firefox. The so-called add-ons/extensions make it easier for us to surf or enable you to use new functions.
All the cool kids these days are trying to get people to add their upcoming games to their wishlist. Its literally the coolest game in town. You wouldn’t want to not be cool right?
In all seriousness, the reason indie devs do all that is because its widely believed that steams algorithm internally keeps track of what new games are ‘hot’ by how many people are following them or adding them to their wishlists, and this helps to determine how much visibility those games get at launch. I suspect the effect is much reduced with DLC because it sells to a smaller audience anyway, and perhaps steam prioritizes new IP over expansions and DLC anyway. We have no way of knowing.
In today’s standalone episode I’m going to talk about some new gaming ideas I’ve not seen anywhere else, and have their creator, Andrew Ringlein, come on and talk about them. Andrew was also on a previous episode where we talked about crypto and how it changes incentives in business.
So I’ve been a steady, casual gamer since junior high school, and Andrew actually introduced me to Role Playing Games way back then. Andrew is a die-hard gamer, a super close friend, and quite simply the smartest game designer I’ve ever met. And now he’s actually built a game studio and is in the middle of launching two games.
But before I bring him on I want to talk about why I thought these ideas warranted a UL episode. He’s a close friend, but I have lots of friends, and I only create UL content around ideas that I think will be interesting to the audience.
The GNOME desktop environment is one of the most popular user interfaces and suites of apps available for desktop Linux distributions. Now a team of developers have been working to bring GNOME to mobile devices running Linux-based operating systems.
GNOME Shell for mobile provides a touch-friendly user interface optimized for smartphones and tablets. And while it looks a bit like Android or iOS at first glance, there are a few key differences. The GNOME team have outlined some of them in an article about recent updates to GNOME Shell on mobile.
GNOME 43 has almost arrived, with the beta already released on August 6, 2022. Although it is not a finished product, it provides a glimpse of what to expect from the stable release which is due in September 2022.
GNOME 43 brings a number of cool features and updates with a focus heavily on visual enhancements making the UI more user-friendly and efficient.
It went easier than I expected, so I thought I'd have a go on my sacrificial half-decent Thinkpad.
(It is only a Core i5, it has a wobbly screen hinge, and until recently it had a tiny decade+ old SSD. Recently, I pulled the SSD that was giving errors from my X220, replaced it with a new bigger one -- that's only been waiting for a couple of years -- and bunged the old, possibly-flakey one into the sacrificial T420. I tried it with Ubuntu Kylin, the international remix. Worked well although there are glitches.)
This machine's primary SSD has ChromeOS Flex on it. I rather like it. It's slick, it's fast, it does its one job very well. I am using a Debian container to run Firefox 'cos I am perverse like that. Slow to start, issues with maximisation, but works well.
Tonight, because the radio has gone Very Very Solemn And Dull And Worthy, I spent a while faffing with DR-DOS VMs and then I decided on something that might be more educational.
I nuked Kylin and put FreeBSD 13.1 on it.
Now recently I tried GhostBSD on my multiboot testbed. It was a nightmare. Hard, fiddly, falls over in its own install process, and the end result has an ugly theme. Not impressed.
So I went with the vanilla version.
First boot: it finds the wifi card, but can't see any WLANs. That is not much cop.
Tried again. Found a hint online on my phone, switched vconsoles, did `ifconfig wlan0 down` and then `ifconfig wlan0 up`. Went back to the installer, and lo! It sees WLANs! Pick mine, connect, and now I can install stuff.
So, violating the recommended process, since it's booted off a DVD image via Ventoy, I figure that if I reboot, I won't be able to readily mount and install stuff off that. So let's do it while I'm booted off the install medium. It leaves you in a `chroot` console so it should be installing stuff onto the hard disk.
Join us for the online November 2022 FreeBSD Vendor Summit. The event will consist of virtual, half day sessions, taking place November 3-4, 2022. It’s free to attend, but we ask that you register with the Eventbrite conference system to gain access to the meeting room. In addition to vendor talks, we will have discussion sessions and a separate hallway track. The vendor summit is sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation.
The Fedora Linux 37 Beta RC5 compose[1] is GO and will be shipped live on Tuesday, 13 September 2022. For more information please check the Go/No-Go meeting minutes[2] or logs[3]. Thank you to everyone who has and still is working on this release! The Final Freeze begins on Tuesday 4 October.
Front-end development can be complex—and that means a front-end developer’s skills are essential, albeit constantly shifting. But a humble web search can produce various memes and jokes about how the front end isn’t as much of an endeavor as other parts of an application can be.
As more enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud strategies and begin to extend their IT reach out to the edge, scale becomes an issue. Red Hat, a longtime player in the datacenter thanks to its Linux distribution and related systems software, has worked hard over the past decade to establish itself in the hybrid cloud world. It was an effort that worked well enough to compel IBM to spend $34 billion in 2019 to buy it to try to change its own future.
Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform with integrated DevOps capabilities, is now certified and supported for the public cloud in addition to bare-metal and VMware vSphere-based deployments, following NVIDIA’s announcement of general availability of NVIDIA AI Enterprise 2.1.
The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian 11 (codename bullseye). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.
Please note that the point release does not constitute a new version of Debian 11 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away old bullseye media. After installation, packages can be upgraded to the current versions using an up-to-date Debian mirror.
The Debian project is pleased to announce the thirteenth (and final) update of its oldstable distribution Debian 10 (codename buster). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.
The Debian Project has announced 10.13 and 11.5 updates to its “Buster” and “Bullseye” series, which mainly address security issues.
Debian is one of the oldest GNU/Linux distributions in active development. However, it does not follow a strict release schedule, making it difficult to predict when a new release will be available.
And I'm over here with the Debian images/media release team in Cambridge.
First time together in Cambridge for a long time: several of the usual suspects - RattusRattus, Sledge, Isy and myself. Also in the room are Kartik and egw - I think this is their first time.
Definitely settling into a rhythm - we've been joined by smcv in person (and bittin on line). Bullseye testing is now well beyond the standard image testing into the live images.
Buster images are gradually being built so there's the added confusion of two sets of wiki editing, two sets of potential edit conflicts ...
In June I caved and bought a Prusa Mini 3D printer for home. I bought it just before an announced price hike. I went for a Prusa because of their reputation for "just working", and the Mini mostly as its the cheapest, although, the print area (7"€³) is large enough for most of the things I am likely to print.
To get started, at the same time I bought some Prusament recycled PLA to print with which, unfortunately, I've been a little disappointed with.
Google released an emergency update for the company's Chrome web browser on September 2, 2022. The update addresses a security issue in the browser that is rated high and exploited in the wild.
Google Chrome is a web browser that holds 65.21% of the web browser market, according to Statista. It has a vast marketplace of extensions and themes that allows users to extend its functionality for free.
LinuxLinks, like most modern websites, is dynamic in that content is stored in a database and converted into presentation-ready HTML when readers access the site.
While we employ built-in server caching which creates static versions of the site, we don’t generate a full, static HTML website based on raw data and a set of templates. However, sometimes a full, static HTML website is desirable. Because HTML pages are all prebuilt, they load extremely quickly in web browsers.
There are lots of other advantages of running a full, static HTML website.
I previously announced the end of new Qt5-based Grantlee releases. The Grantlee template system is to find new life as part of KDE Frameworks 6 in the form of KTextTemplate. The Grantlee textdocument library will probably become part of another KDE library with similar scope.
Meanwhile, some changes have accumulated since the last Grantlee release, so I’ve made a new release to make them available to users. Many of the changes are small, but with a few new features which were cherry-picked from the Cutelee repo.
The other significant change is that Grantlee 5.3.0 can be built with Qt 6. This is not a change of plan regarding migration to KDE Frameworks, but is intended to assist with porting existing code to Qt 6.
R Consortium recently talked to Mario Amau, co-organizer of the Vienna<-R about the lively R community in Vienna. The group is committed to providing its members with valuable talks and networking opportunities. The group is looking forward to restarting their live events, now hybrid, in September!
Subversion is an open-source version tracking system. It keeps files in a central repository and provides version control over directories or files. As a developer, you can pull project files from a repository, make changes to them, and push them back again.
Subversion also has a server component that you can use to host your projects. It works much like an ordinary file server.
In January I wrote Compressed debug sections. The venerable zlib shows its age and there are replacements which are better in every metric except adoption. The obvious choice was Zstandard, but I was not so confident about solving the ecosystem issue if we adopted it for ELF compressed debug sections. At any rate, I slowly removed some legacy .zdebug support from llvm-project so that a new format could be more easily introduced.
In June, Cole Kissane posted [RFC] Zstandard as a second compression method to LLVM on LLVM discourse forums. I learned that other folks were investigating a better compression format for ELF compressed debug sections and told myself: it's high time to propose ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD to the generic System V Application Binary Interface (generic ABI).
ELF is an elegant format which has passed the test of time. Many things created by the forefathers from 30 years ago carry over and are still used today. Every new feature, even a small addition like introducing a new constant has to pass a significant high bar for acceptance. There were many discussions on Add new ch_type value: ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD.
I redesign a grouped-bar chart to attempt to better align the logic of the display with the logic of the argument. The redesigned chart provides better visual access to year-by-year comparisons by different combinations of categories and reveals nuances in the data not obvious in the original chart.
TrackMate is a plug-in for ImageJ which ships with Fiji. It’s essential for single particle tracking work, particularly for microscopy movies. For example, tracking the movement of fluorescent vesicles inside cells.
A tracking session generates a TrackMate XML file. The idea was to write something for R that could load these XML files and do some analysis.
Watching a vibrant Seattle sunset the other day, my imagination started running. The otherworldly hue of the sky evoked something from science fiction. The hazy orange-purple was mesmerizing.
I envisioned a massive, alien object hovering over a long-abandoned Seattle, with a burning orange sky, and buildings overgrown as nature reclaimed the city.
One of the biggest frustrations of text-to-image generation AI models is that they feel like a black box. We know they were trained on images pulled from the web, but which ones? As an artist or photographer, an obvious question is whether your work was used to train the AI model, but this is surprisingly hard to answer.
Sometimes, the data isn’t available at all: OpenAI has said it’s trained DALL-E 2 on hundreds of millions of captioned images, but hasn’t released the proprietary data. By contrast, the team behind Stable Diffusion have been very transparent about how their model is trained. Since it was released publicly last week, Stable Diffusion has exploded in popularity, in large part because of its free and permissive licensing, already incorporated into the new Midjourney beta, NightCafe, and Stability AI’s own DreamStudio app, as well as for use on your own computer.
So I'm in Berlin currently to attend the fourth Qubes OS Summit, also to discuss the future of the reproducible-builds.org mirror of snapshot.debian.org and in the evening I've met an old Debian friend who told a lovely story about his 5 year old daughter, who since recently is a Debian user using an old laptop with LUKS encryption, knowing her data will be lost when she forgets her passphrase... Ã°à ¸ÃÅ€
AT&T didn't say how the initial infection occurs...
I’ve seen some mediocre automated translations of my Dutch language resignation statement go round. To prevent any confusion, please find the story here in English:
Until today I was one of the three members of the board that checks warrants for the Dutch intelligence and security services. This board is called “Toetsingscommissie Inzet Bevoegdheden” or TIB.
If either of the civil or the military intelligence and security services of The Netherlands want to use their lawful intercept, SIGINT or hacking (& some other) legal powers, they have to first convince their own jurists, then their ministry and finally the TIB. The TIB then studies if the warrant is legal, and that decision is binding.
As the Spirit of Stuff-Ups continues, nothing puts the Qantas conundrum in starker relief than rival airline, Germany’s national carrier Lufthansa, which paid back its Covid debt to the German people last November.
“On behalf of all Lufthansa employees, I would like to thank the German government and the German taxpayers,” declared Carsten Spohr, CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa. “In the most serious financial crisis in our company’s history, they have given us a perspective for the future. This has enabled us to save more than 100,000 jobs.”
What’s the scam? The German government lent the money (1m euros), jobs were saved, service standards preserved. The Australian government gave billions in public subsidies instead of loans, standards plummeted and 9,400 lost their jobs while management banked the JobKeeper.
Every year, the defense industry donates millions of dollars to the campaigns of members of Congress, creating pressure on the legislative branch to fund specific weapons systems, maintain an extremely high Pentagon budget, and add ever more military spending. This upwards pressure is a constant, no matter what figure is requested by the president for the Pentagon, even though nearly 50% of the current Pentagon budget already goes to private contractors each year.
Members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees are especially targeted by defense contractors. These committee members determine the amount of money authorized for the Pentagon when the committee marks up the annual Pentagon policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act.
Once upon a time, such a donation would have been inconceivable. However, thanks to a series of court decisions, chiefly the Supreme Court’s 5-4 2010 Citizens United one that wiped out century-old campaign finance restric€tions, corpor€a€tions and other outside — or as they’re known, “dark-money” — groups can now essentially sink unlim€ited funds into elec€ting those they believe will benefit them most. In this case, that money will assumedly help Leo and his nonprofit further reshape both American politics and our courts.
If you can find any other news that's being buried under the royal succession whoopsie? This is your thread.
This is a wordlog for the SpellBinding puzzle (in which you construct words using the specified letters; each word must contain the anchor letter).
This, alas, must be a rather brief and pathetic post. For the last two weeks, I have been reading books on astronomy and star gazing, and I have been very eager to do more star gazing. But that whole time we have had, here in Fairbanks, an almost unbroken continuance of overcast cloud conditions. That, coupled with the fact that, in my location, one must currently get up at about 1am or 2am for workable light conditions, has made stargazing near impossible for the working man.
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Of course, here in Alaska we have plenty of darkness once we get deep into winter, but the benefit is offset somewhat by the sub-zero temperatures.
This is yet another Gemini capsule and interweb site. This is more of an experiment and I don't know yet if it will roll. Let's see! I will take bets!
It's a very simple app I made with Python and sqlite with no proper coding standards applied, but hopefully the code would be useful for other people trying to learn more about Gemini and cgi scripts in general.
I've been working on *Donk Project* for the past three months or so. It was one of those projects that I couldn't help but try out, to see how far I could get.
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There's decades worth of solid libraries in the ecosystem, as well as a new generation of modern, C++17-and-above-supporting libraries.
I've slowly made progress in the cluster design. I have started setting up what could be called the hashi stack. It's been an interesting, if sometimes frustrating, process.
I've also worked on getting some network kit. I ended up looking at ibm rackswitch equipment, ebay found me some ibm 8264 switches for cheap, one had ethernet, the cables of course were a fortune.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.