[04:29] schestowitz[04:29] schestowitzThis week Id like to highlight a very cool development: the automatic crash reporting facility in the Plasma 6 version of our venerable DrKonqi crash report wizard. Automatic reporting is opt-in, but so far lots of people are opting in, and were using this data to get a much better picture of the crashes that our users are actually experiencing than we ever could using Bugzilla! U [04:29] schestowitz sing this system, at least three such important crashes were fixed this week, two by Fushan Wen (link 1 and link 2) and one by Vlad Zahorodnii (link)and possibly even more than I missed!
[04:29] schestowitzThese reports make a difference; theyre not a black hole. So if something crashes, please do use the automatic crash reporting feature in DrKonqi!
[04:29] schestowitzIn addition, quite a lot of technical and performance work was merged, especially for Discover and the Baloo file indexer. Finally, features and UI polishing are starting to land in Plasma 6.1. In addition to everything listed here, theres something big that I cant mention yet since its not 100% merged yet, but only 95%! Hopefully next week. So stay tuned for that!
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[04:29] schestowitz[04:29] schestowitzI'm bit late to the train of Plasma 6 related posts... But anyway. I will go through some things I did.
[04:29] schestowitzFor me working on Plasma 6 was pretty fun, I learned a lot of new things and fixed bunch of bugs and crashes.
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[04:30] schestowitz[04:30] schestowitzThis article was bi-posted to Gemini and the Web; Gemini version is here: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/kraileth/neunix/2024/cbsd_pt7.gmi
[04:30] schestowitzBefore I started diving into basic jail management with CBSD, I wrote two articles about the tool in general. This one is more in line with those as we are going to take a look at how to update CBSD (and doing a backup beforehand). We will also be exploring a bit of the pretty comprehensive help system.
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[04:32] schestowitz[04:32] schestowitzSipeed introduced the Lichee Pi 4A line of computers, offering a slightly newer T-Head TH1520 SoC, which is also 4-core, but uses faster C910 cores than the JH7110.
[04:32] schestowitzSo how does it compare? Well, overall, it may be a pretty good RISC-V SoC, but in practice, at least underclocked as it is in the Lichee Console 4A, it's underwhelming (see my benchmarks later in the post).
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[04:40] schestowitz[04:40] schestowitzMorse code may be less important these days for communication, but it's worth learning for some applications. One of the best ways to learn Morse code is to hear it.
[04:40] schestowitzIf you use Linux, there's a command-line program that can help you do just that. It's called morse. This program translates any text into the audio dots and dashes of Morse code.
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openSUSE rebuilds the entire codebase of Tumbleweed after a backdoor discovery in the xz library. Immediate update required!
[13:38] schestowitzWhile the work to analyze the xz backdoor is in progress, several ideas have been suggested to improve the entire software supply chain ecosystem. Some of those ideas are good, some of the ideas are at best irrelevant and harmless, and some suggestions are plain bad. Id like to attempt to formalize one idea (remains to be see in which category it belongs), which have been discussed before, but the context in which the idea can be [13:38] schestowitz appreciated have not been as clear as it is today. [13:38] schestowitz
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