D2iQ's AI Navigator tool leverages generative AI to make managing Kubernetes clusters more accessible to more IT pros with varying skill levels.
Alex sits down with the lead developer of mergerfs to get an update on the project, Chris has a button-pushing breakthrough and more. Special Guest: Antonio Musumeci.
Overdue
It’s been a busy week, and I’ve got posts I’ve been meaning to write. The problem is they’re long and I’m busy. That’s why I’m doing a shorter post today, since even just getting this one out somehow took 4+ hours while I was continually sidetracked by “real work”.
But despite this being a shorter post, don’t worry: the memes won’t be shorter.
QOwnNotes is a open source (GPL) plain-text file notepad with markdown support and todo list manager for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that (optionally) works together with the notes application of ownCloud (or Nextcloud). So you are able to write down your thoughts with QOwnNotes and edit or search for them later from your mobile device (like with CloudNotes) or the ownCloud web-service. The notes are stored as plain text files and you can sync them with your ownCloud sync client. Of course other software, like Dropbox, Syncthing, Seafile or BitTorrent Sync can be used too.
Character Animator is software that combines real-time live motion-capture with a multi-track recording system.
In the past, I have used Weechat with Weechat and IRC relays. Since, I have switched to ChromeOS, I disabled the IRC relay, because I switched to the Weechat Android App on ChromeOS. Nevertheless, I was never 100% happy with the Weechat relay. The relay usually works via a shared password and access to this relay is equal to SSH access.
This guide will help you understand, configure and maintain storage on Linux servers. The content of this guide is optimised for reliability and accesibility. This is based not only on my own experiences but observing the experiences of enterprise customers for many years.
We have often said that you should use a complicated and unique password for each and every one of your accounts. However, unless you have a great memory, you are not going to be able to remember them all. That is where tools like password managers come in handy. KeePass is a very handy and useful desktop password manager that allows you to record all your passwords and store them in a safe place. The only troublesome thing about it is that you always have to switch to this app, search and copy the password before you can paste it into the login form. In this article, we will show you how to integrate KeePassXC and KeePass 2 with Chrome and Firefox in Ubuntu.
Recently we switched our 9p filesystem usage in CoreOS Assembler to use virtiofs.
This is the technology behind a lot of new lightweight container VM technology like kata-containers and libkrun, but can also be easily used with libvirt.
In the dynamic realm of web development, Node Package Manager (NPM) stands as a cornerstone, facilitating seamless integration of packages into your projects. However, the road to web development nirvana can be fraught with hurdles, one of which is the notorious NPM Error: EACCES – Permission Denied.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install GitLab on Fedora 38. For those of you who didn’t know, GitLab, a powerful web-based Git repository manager, offers a versatile platform for collaborative software development.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Steam on Debian 12. Steam, the renowned digital distribution platform for video games, has become an integral part of the gaming community. With a vast library of games and a thriving online multiplayer ecosystem, Steam offers gamers a rich and immersive experience.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install RPM Fusion on Fedora 38. For those of you who didn’t know, Fedora 38 relies on DNF (Dandified YUM) as its package manager, streamlining the process of installing, updating, and managing software. Central to this process are repositories, online databases that host software packages.
FreeScout is an open-source helpdesk and shared inbox written in PHP and based on the Laravel framework. It's built as an alternative to Zendesk/Help Scout. This guide will take you through the step-by-step installation of the FreeScout Help Desk on the Debian 12 server.
Netdata is an open-source monitoring system for Linux-based operating systems. It provides real-time performance and monitoring using beautiful and detailed dashboards. This tutorial will show you how to install and monitor various services using Netdata on a Debian 12 server.
Haltdos is a web application firewall that can protect your server from different kind of attacks, such as : SQL injections, RCE, XSS, LFI, RFI and more.
If you are not finding the package in your system and getting the error unable to locate package, then let me show you what to do next.
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest PyCharm IDE in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. PyCharm is available to install in Ubuntu via different ways. They include Snap, Flatpak, official tarball, and Ubuntu PPA. Choose either one that you prefer.
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Intellij IDEA 2023.2 in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. Intellij IDEA is available to install in Ubuntu via different ways. They include Snap, Flatpak, official tarball, and Ubuntu PPA.
Podman is an open-source container management tool for creating, managing, and running containers and images. It’s often used as an alternative to Docker, allowing users to run standalone (non-orchestrated) containers without requiring a daemon.
We know that we all love using Linux but we can’t deny the fact that Windows has a huge dominance in the industry. Today, it’s used a lot in the business world.
Rsync is also known as remote sync is a command-line tool used to copy and sync files and directories remotely as well as locally in Linux/Unix systems. With this rcopy and synchronize data: Remotely and locally across directories, disks, and networks. Perform data backups. Mirror between two Linux machines.
A new maintenance update is in the works for the 3.5 stable branch, to update Android templates to target Android 13, and fix a number of other platform porting bugs.
A lot of our code deals with text strings in one way or the other, and often not even with particularly complex ones. Seemingly simple and yet we have a myriad of different APIs for that in Qt. Here are two concrete examples on the impact of picking the right string types and using them correctly.
JSON and QLatin1String
Qt’s JSON API provides overloads for
QString,QStringViewandQLatin1String. The latter one is usually said to be the most efficient option, but it’s also the most restrictive one, basically limiting you to 7bit ASCII string literals. For JSON keys that is often sufficient though.
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 01 to September 08.
I was writing about MicroVMs the other day:https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/freebsd_boots_in_25ms/It made me wonder... if you can have a Linux VM that starts in milliseconds, could you create one for a vaguely Unix-like but non-Unix OS, such as Plan 9, so that it could run Linux binaries on this non-Linux-like OS?ISTM you'd need two or three things, all of which either exist or are doable.
Lately, we have been working again on the request workflow redesign. We have introduced the build results summary of a request and improved the information displayed in the Mentioned Issues section. All these improvements will help you focus on what matters and better digest all the information you receive when you review or visit a request.
There are several test periods in the upcoming weeks. Here are the first two: [...]
GNU Boot has published its first release candidate, and we need help for testing, at first from people who are able to recover from computers that don't boot anymore.
This is because, while we have very minimal changes on top of the code used by the last Libreboot release that didn't contain nonfree software, we didn't test all the images ourselves yet, so there is still risks of ending up with computers that don't boot anymore.
At Axiom, our design team has recently come up with a “new” (to us) ðŸÅŸaestheticðŸÅŸ for some of our online content. It shows up in posts & ads on social media and in featured images on blog posts. Here is an example.
This is the first in (maybe) a series of “Tales From Tech Support”, which are true stories from my point of view. I’ll probably only post these on a Friday.
In the 1990s, I worked as a contractor for a large, well-established accounting firm.
We’d often buy new equipment and unpack it at the helpdesk, throw away all the packaging, and then take the actual kit to the user for deployment. That meant in our helpdesk area, we had hundreds of copies of the same manual for equipment. So we had a policy to throw most of the manuals away and only keep one or two in our ’library'.
The record-high rainfall and serious flooding that hit Hong Kong on Thursday night were a reminder that “climate change is really here,” former Observatory director Lam Chiu-ying has said, as he called on the government to enhance the city’s resilience in face of natural disasters.
The squonk doesn’t exactly carry itself as a particularly scary cryptid—a deeply depressed one, really—but its story has proven a lasting source of tall-tale inspiration.
tl;dr: either 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes, but there’s no consensus.
As best I can tell, there is no broad consensus on how large a kilobyte is. Some say that a kilobyte is 1000 bytes while others say it’s 1024 bytes. Others are ambiguous.
This also means that the industry does not agree on the size of megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, and so on.
MediaTek tapes out first 3nm smartphone SoC with TSMC. But what about IFS relationship?.
It's vital to recognize the many unforeseen consequences of school closures, business lockdowns, and mask mandates.
Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released, researchers [sic] at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everything from ordering a pizza to solving physics equations to controlling the TV in your living room—into a compendium that would be made accessible to large language models (LLMs).
The tax agency is opening examinations into large hedge funds, private equity groups, real estate investors and law firms.
In these reports we outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As a quick recap, whilst anyone may inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, almost all software is distributed to end users as pre-compiled binaries.
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version
* Fix compatibility with file 5.45. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#351) [ Vagrant Cascadian ] * Add external tool references for GNU Guix (for html2text and ttx).250. This version includes the following changes:
In the early-morning hours of Feb. 25, 2021, Terri Ripley got the call every chief information officer dreads: Her company, OrthoVirginia Inc., had been hit by a massive attack of the Ryuk ransomware that had shut down its entire computing fabric.
The US and UK have announced sanctions against 11 more alleged members of the Russian cybercrime group Trickbot.€
The European Union is making big changes to cybersecurity requirements with its proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). You may have heard about the CRA’s potential impact on the open source ecosystem. But what does the Cyber Resilience Act mean for you? This post is an introduction to the Act and explains how it may affect the open source maintainers and developer community. Note that this post is based on a draft of the CRA from September 15, 2022. The Act is still in a draft stage and getting feedback, and its provisions may differ before it is passed into law.
Emsisoft urges its users to update anti-malware and other security products after signing them with an improperly issued digital certificate.
Check Point has observed a wave of phishing attacks launched via Google Looker Studio to steal credentials and funds from intended victims.
APTs exploited vulnerabilities in Zoho ManageEngine and Fortinet VPNs to hack an aerospace organization in early January 2023.
The year 2018 was a different era when it came to security. It was a time when there were a lot of security companies, and it became quickly apparent that more scrutiny and regulation was on the way, as the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation just came into effect.
Residents of the Syrian city of As-Suwayda have been out in the streets protesting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for the past few weeks. Despite the security risks, women have been on the front lines. We interviewed three women to find out what the protests mean to them.
Display of military might on its 75th year of founding comes as it grapples with economic slump, regional tensions.
Following two military coups d’état in 2022, militant Islamist groups in Burkina Faso have moved to encircle Ouagadougou leaving a trail of unprecedented violence in their wake.
The upgrade of ties between the US and Vietnam is as much about the economy as it is about China and security.
By Matthew Walsh Chinese travellers throng the bazaars of old Kashgar, munching mutton kebabs and soaking up heavily commodified Uyghur culture — part of a government push to remould troubled Xinjiang into a tourism paradise.
Xi wants to boost his image without getting his feet wet or facing an angry public, analysts say.
The two nations have 'shared vision for the region,' Australian PM Albanese said during a visit to Manila.
North Korea marked its founding anniversary with a parade attended by leader Kim Jong Un as well as Russian diplomats and a high-ranking Chinese delegation, state media said Saturday, as Pyongyang deepens ties with Moscow and Beijing.
It’s India’s moment. New Delhi welcomes the world for the G20 summit at a time of unprecedented clout on the world stage. From its rivalry with China and its ever-warming ties with the United States to its calculated neutrality on Russia and its stated aim to champion the global south, what kind of a difference will the world’s most populous nation and its populist leader make going forward?
The crumbling Russian macroeconomy may entice Western policymakers to knock Russian President Vladimir Putin and his power centers further off balance.€
With the Russian and Chinese leaders absent, the president hopes to get others to align with him on a variety of matters, including Ukraine and curbing Beijing’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific.
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: LastPass vault hacking, Russia targets energy facility in Ukraine, NXP data breach.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Kyiv is “ready” to organise elections despite the ongoing war. Earlier, Zelensky said Russian air superiority is 'stopping' his country’s counteroffensive against occupying forces. The remarks came as Russian air strikes killed several people and injured dozens more in eastern Ukraine.
India expressed confidence on Friday that the Group of 20 major economies will finalise a declaration at this weekend's summit in New Delhi, with sources saying only the wording about the war in Ukraine had yet to be resolved.
Lithuania handed over 4.5 million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine on Friday, the Defence Ministry said.
Subsidies requested by Lithuanian politicians and Ukrainian farmers for the transport of grain through Klaipėda and other European ports are not being considered in Brussels, says Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commission Executive Vice-President and Trade Commissioner, currently on a visit to Lithuania.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda urged the European Union (EU) to start accession negotiations with Ukraine this year already.
China and Russia starkly at odds with group opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Cuban authorities have arrested 17 people in connection with an alleged network to recruit Cuban nationals to fight for Russia in Ukraine.
Russian authorities are holding local elections in occupied parts of Ukraine in an effort to tighten their grip on territories Moscow illegally annexed a year ago in a vote Kyiv and the West have condemned as "fake" and a "propaganda exercise."
At least four people were killed and dozens of others wounded in Russian attacks across Ukraine on September 8, as Kyiv claimed "partial success" near the battle-scarred city of Bakhmut.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk says he prevented a Ukrainian attack on a Russian Navy base last year by declining Kyiv's request to activate Internet access in the Black Sea near Moscow-annexed Crimea.
The bloc remained deeply divided over the war in Ukraine.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv on Saturday, the Japanese foreign ministry said.
Any possible breakthrough will depend on bloc leaders during their two-day meeting.
News that Mr. Musk did not allow the use of his Starlink satellite network highlights concerns in Kyiv and Washington about his outsize influence in the war.
India, the host, hoped to advance an economic agenda to aid poorer nations even as the Russian and Chinese leaders skipped the gathering.
The Starlink satellite internet service, which is operated by Mr. Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, has been a digital lifeline for soldiers and civilians in Ukraine.
Residents criticize the government over the lack of early warning, and 2 people die.
Europe’s decoupling from Russian hydrocarbons in the past year must be followed by a longer-term push to achieve decarbonization.
The latest data published on September 8 by the Central Statistical Bureau show that in August€ 2023, compared to August€ 2022, the average level of consumer prices* increased by 5.4€ %. The figure in July was 6.4%.
The European Central Bank is increasingly desperate in its fight against inflation. Will further interest rate hikes strangle the economy for good? Some are now looking to unconventional measures to turn things around.
Reports of unpaid salaries add to China’s economic woes.
It said they were rounded up in an operation launched with Chinese authorities.
Doing business in China, once seen as a can’t-miss opportunity, poses a troubling quandary: Reasons to stay can be as compelling as the reasons to retreat.
The Canadian government on Thursday announced the appointment of Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Marie-Josée Hogue to chair a public inquiry into claims of foreign interference in Canadian elections. Justice Hogue will preside over an independent inquiry investigating interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections by China, Russia, other foreign states and non-state actors.
The Russian activist Elena Kotenochkina has been living in Lithuania for more than a year on a humanitarian visa.
German Rear Admiral Stephan Haisch says he is confident that participants in large-scale naval maneuvers set to begin next week in the Baltic Sea are well prepared.
Russia on September 8 summoned the Armenian ambassador to protest what it termed "unfriendly steps" taken by Yerevan in another sign of strain between Moscow and the former Soviet republic.
North Korea's state-sponsored hackers have executed another major online theft as Kim Jong-un is expected to discuss supplying weapons to Russia.
An employee of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and a self-employed German businessman have been charged with treason for allegedly passing secret documents to Russia, German prosecutors said on September 8.
China and Russia sent letters to Kim Jong Un on deepening ties.
Critics have noted that the institute continued to take money from Saudi Arabia, even after the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
On August 28, a video of a young Kylian Mbappé being scolded by a man said to be his father started circulating on social media. Initially published by a satirical account specialising in comedic "deepfakes" – artificially-generated images that replace one face with another – the video was reposted multiple times with some people taking it seriously. The creator of the video told us more.
In classrooms and educational spaces across our country, a coordinated attack on our students’ right to learn is underway. Perhaps nowhere are those attacks more pronounced than in Florida, where state officials have led a coordinated effort to restrict free speech in classrooms under the guise of protecting children.
Last July, the “Individual Freedom Act,” colloquially known as the Stop WOKE (Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees) Act, went into effect. The law limits the ways concepts related to systemic racism and sex discrimination can be discussed in teaching or conducting training in workplaces or schools. The ACLU filed a lawsuit against HB 7 in August 2022, resulting in an injunction against it.
The Council of the European Union (EU) announced new sanctions Friday on six people it says committed human rights violations in Crimea.
Rescuers were searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake centered in the Atlas Mountains, about 50 miles from the city of Marrakesh.
A powerful earthquake has struck Morocco, damaging buildings in major cities and sending panicked people pouring into streets and alleyways from Rabat to Marrakech. There is no immediate word on any casualties. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 11:11 p.m. Friday with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8. The tremor's epicenter was high in the Atlas Mountains south of Marrakech and west of Oukaimeden, a popular Moroccan ski resort. It was also near Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa.
The sacked workers demanded they be paid according to a floating euro exchange rate.
Demands include the return of books, blankets, dishes and clothes.
Iran's security forces have intensified their crackdown on families demanding justice for their loved ones killed during the protests as the first anniversary of the September 16, 2022, death of Mahsa Amini approaches.
On the eve of the so-called ‘Antitrust Trial of the Century’, the Justice Department’s (DoJ) case against Google...
Engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things.
The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF JEKYLL ISLAND for various tourism-related services, finding the mark to be deceptive under Section 2(e)(1). Respondent, appearing pro se, admitted that use of the word OFFICIAL in its mark "suggests to consumers that the services Respondent provides via its website are the authority on [] Jekyll Island or come from an ‘official’ source related to Jekyll Island." From there, it was all downhill. Jekyll Island-State Park Authority v. Stratatomic LLC, Cancellation No. 92074348 (September 5, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Mark Lebow).
Recording Academy head Harvey Mason Jr. has officially reversed course after appearing to indicate that “Heart on My Sleeve,” the popular AI release made to sound like a project from Drake and The Weeknd, could be eligible for Grammys.