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In the forty-fifth episode of the WordPress Briefing, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses highlights from this year’s State of the Word address.
What's up, Linux Community!!! In this video, I check out the newly created operating system installer for Ubuntu Desktop. Based on reports this new installer will be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 release, dubbed name "Lunar Lobster". The new installer is written in flutter programming language created by Google.
These features are still considered experimental, but they should be stable for most work and I'd be happy to receive further feedback from occasional contributors.
In this article, we'll go through the process of submitting an actual typo fix patch to the upstream kernel.
Konstantin Ryabitsev has put up a blog entry showing how to use b4 to submit kernel patches without (directly) using email.
Darkable, the popular free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new 4.2.0 release a day ago.
pREST is a free open-source low-code platform that allows you to create a RESTful web apps without the usual setup and configuration complexity.
Fertility Test Analyzer is an open-source Android app that does not share any of your data with any third-party or depends on any external library. You can use it for free, as it also does not contain any trackers, or privacy invasion scripts.
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The app is released under the Apache License (2.0)
It supports multiple layouts, stream bookmarks, and user-friendly interface.
The app is available to download as a Linux Snap package from Snapcraft.io.
Symphytum is a free open-source database and collection manager app that allows you to create and manage your data collections.
PyCaret is an open-source, low-code machine learning library in Python that automates machine learning workflows. It is an end-to-end machine learning and model management tool that speeds up the experiment cycle exponentially and makes you more productive.
Totum is an open-source no-code database interface that allows users to create complex data oriented and spreadsheet based applications with a complex interface without having to dig into the backend code.
AnonAddy is short for "Anonymous Email Address", it is a self-hosted email server that allows you to create unlimited aliases and protect yourself from spammers.
Journable is a lightweight native bullet journal Gnome app for managing your tasks and plans in a fast and productive manner.
A school ERP system is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that built to manage the school resources that include the teacher-student workflow.
Translation programs are essential for student especially who learn other languages. It is also required for people who travel or migrate to another country while they are adapting or learning the country's language.
Anubias is an open-source RAD (Rapid Application Development) IDE for building mobile and desktop apps. It uses Electron, and Flutter to aid developers build apps for all screens.
vCard Studio is an amazing lightweight cross-platform desktop app that helps you manage your vCard file collections.
It is written using Free Pascal and "Lazarus IDE", and can be installed on Windows, and Linux.
Goxel is my favorite app in this list, not just because it works on Windows, Linux, and macOS, but it also because it is easy to use even for my 5 years old son. That's why we recommend it in our collection of design apps for kids.
Zettlr is a free open-source Markdown editor for professional writers, developers, researchers, journalists, bloggers and content creators. It allows you to write your files in a Markdown format and make a use of the YAML header metadata that is widely used by many ope-source blogging platforms.
Text-to-speech is a technology that allows you to convert and read written text into a digital text aloud which you save in an audio format file. Many also call it "Read aloud".
TTS apps are handy tools in converting text or text files into a speech in a sound format, especially for students, content creators, and daily users.
Dicom Image Reader is an open source medical image viewer built with JavaScript, HTML5, NodeJS, and Electron framework. It can load data in DICOM format (single image DCM) and provides standard tools for its manipulation such as contrast, zoom, drag, possibility to draw regions on top of the image and imaging filters such as threshold and sharpening. It is based DWV JavaScript open source library.
scp stands for Secure Copy. It is a command-line utility for securely transferring files between computers using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. scp is similar to the cp command, which is used to copy files and directories within a single system, but scp can be used to transfer files between systems over a network.
The scp command was designed to be a secure alternative to the rcp command, which was used in the early days of the internet to transfer files between computers. The rcp command had several security vulnerabilities, including the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the remote system, which made it prone to abuse. The scp command was developed to address these issues and provide a more secure method for transferring files.
Today, scp is widely used by system administrators, developers, and IT professionals for tasks such as deploying code, managing servers, and backing up data. It is a powerful and essential tool for anyone working with computers and networks.
Thunar is the file manager included in Xfce, a free and open source Desktop Environment which implements the traditional desktop metaphor, and has become the favorite of many users which switched to it when the GNOME project introduced the GNOME shell. Thunar is light on resources but doesn’t lack functionalities which can be extended further by creating custom actions.
In this tutorial we learn how to extend the Thunar file manager by creating custom actions.
In this video, I am going to show how to install BunsenLabs Linux Beryllium.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Fail2ban on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Fail2ban is software to prevent brute-force attacks. This software, written in Python, enables it to run on POSIX Fail2ban systems that have a locally installed user interface or firewall. This service will help prevent unwanted logins by banning nefarious IP addresses from gaining access to your server.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Fail2ban on Rocky Linux. 9.
Disk partitioning is the process of dividing a hard drive or other storage device into smaller, logical units called partitions. Each partition is treated as a separate storage device, and you can use it to store different types of data or to install different operating systems.
Docker is one of the most popular container platforms, letting you manage containerized applications. Docker provides architecture and capabilities for container automation, security, customization, and enterprise support.
Docker has three important components: the Docker client (a command-line tool), Docker Host, and Docker Registry. These three components work together to enable you to build, run, and store applications.
Find out how to use this amazing tool by containerizing a sample Django app. First, learn to install Docker on Ubuntu, macOS, and Windows.
I’m a big fan of ASCII and ANSI style art — dating back to the BBS days of the 1980s and 90s. So it’s no surprise that I enjoy sprucing up my Linux terminal with ASCII animations from time to time.
Well, it just so happens that this week is Hanukkah. And, when I went looking for Hanukkah themed ASCII animations for Linux (or other platforms)… I came up completely empty handed.
Ubuntu 22.04, codename Jammy Jellyfish, was released on the 21st of April 2022.
Knowing what's happening on your systems is the first step in preventing and troubleshooting issues.
Ubuntu is a popular open-source operating system based on the Linux kernel. It is widely used on personal computers, servers, and in cloud computing environments. One of the key tasks in managing a Ubuntu system is managing users and groups. In this article, we will explain how to add and delete users in Ubuntu 22.04.
In FirewallD, the `--source` option allows you to specify a network or an IP address as the source for applying the rules. It is used to specify the network or IP address that is allowed to access the port or service that is being opened. The `--add-source` option is used to specify multiple networks or IP addresses as the source for the rules being applied. It is used in conjunction with the `--permanent` option to add multiple sources to a rule already configured in the firewall.
These days, virtual machines are increasingly common. It's really useful to launch a different operating system for specific tasks.
Geekos are rolling out a new Operating System and the second prototype of the next generation OS is quickly advancing.
The first Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) prototype Les Droites has been supplanted by a new ALP prototype Punta Baretti.
Implementations with the new prototype include more flexibility, security and stability.
The mountainous prototype has the big addition of Full Disk Encryption. ALP extended this Full Disk Encryption to bare metal servers and the use of a Trusted Platform Module will open the doors to leverage unattended booting while keeping systems encrypted and secured. ALP is intended to run on both private and public clouds that require encryption features. The systems need no user interaction on boot nor while ensuring security for workloads. Grub2 will be the bootloader instead of another and it will have a single encrypted volume considering initramfs is already encrypted.
There were some compatibility issues addressed with the new prototype; SELinux is now set to fully enforce access control and firewalld defaults to netfilter deny; these two packages were previously more open for compatibility and testing purposes.
The openSUSE News site covers some highlights from the second prototype release of the upcoming SUSE "ALP" distribution.
Historically mirrorcache.opensuse.org was set up to evaluate new backend engine, and gradually the new engine became the only used by download.opensuse.org as well.
The main task of both services is to redirect requests to artifacts produced by OBS (Open build Service) to community mirrors using GeoIP information. The both services use the same database and the same backend engine, so behavior should be more or less identical.
In the best case mirrorcache.o.o could be deprecated or be just an alias, but download.o.o has complex legacy setup and also runs other heavy services, which may affect user experience in some cases.
The post describes changes that went live for download.opensuse.org on 22-Dec. No critical changes in functionality are expected, so most of the users can ignore the details below. The functionality was already available on mirrorcache.opensuse.org for weeks, excluding some final visual polishing.
Why do SUSE’s intentions to expand globally favour India over other countries? A worldwide corporation called SUSE provides open-source products for businesses that are built on the Linux operating system. Although the company’s current headquarters are in Luxembourg, its original location was Germany, and it has offices all over the world.
Red Hat and SUSE are similar. It puts together the Linux kernel and other open-source parts to create a reliable, feature-rich Linux operating system (OS) that is for sale.
Do you contribute to projects which depend on each other? Would you like to test changes spanning multiple repositories together before merging them to the main branch?
I started distributing my little e-book to the world a few weeks ago. Now I am sharing that it’s available on at least 12 websites that you probably use, including Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Apple Books, and the Kindle store.
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Before you move forward, remember that I plan to donate all the money I receive from it to a Fedora-related project or a group. Please share some ideas with me about where the money will go well. Currently, they are about $100.
A few weeks ago, The Economist published “The World Ahead 2023”, its 37th annual year-end issue that examines the trends and events that will likely shape the coming year. Two years ago, “The World in 2021” said that we should expect unusual uncertainty in the coming year, given the interactions between the still flourishing covid-19 pandemic, an uneven economic recovery and fractious geopolitics. Last year, “The World Ahead 2022” said that 2022 would be a year of adjusting to new realities in areas like work and travel being reshaped by the pandemic, and as deeper trends like the rise of China and accelerating climate change reasserted themselves.
YouTuber ETA Prime has created a new video this week providing an exciting hands-on look at the Orange Pi 5. A Raspberry Pi alternative offering an affordable yet powerful ARM -based single board computer. The Orange Pi 5 features a Rockchip RK3588S 8-core 64-bit processor, quad-core A76 & quad-core A55, with 8nm process design, up to 2.4GHz main frequency supported by integrated ARM Mali-G610 graphics.
Ports on the mini PC inlcude HDMI output, GPIO interface, M.2 PCIe2.0, Type-C, Gigabit LAN port, 2 x USB 2.0 and single USB 3.0 port to name a few. The SBC is capble of running a number of different operating systems including the Orange Pi OSï¼ËDroidï¼â°, the official operating system developed by Orange Pi, together with Android 12 and Debian 11 if preferred.
Since I created the first version of my Raspberry Pi desktop case back in 2020, a number of manufacturers have made spinoffs of the design, with some less spun off than others. Some even asked me to review the case design that they unashamedly copied.
I’m reaching out to share some tough news with you. It’s something that’s been weighing on my mind, and – led by one of our core values – it’s important to be transparent about it. We recently discovered that two employees privately received commission payments from a third-party supplier and, with that have disadvantaged Fairphone. An external whistleblower tipped us off, and our thorough investigation confirmed the allegations.
Needless to say, we have a clear zero-tolerance policy against any form of misconduct, deceit, or dishonesty. This guides our team and procurement policies; it’s implemented in contracts and guidelines, and it is deeply embedded in the culture of Fairphone’s day-to-day interactions. As you can imagine, this came as an incredible shock to all of us at Fairphone. Since day one, we’ve been all about creating a value chain based on care, fairness, trust, and transparency, so we’re definitely feeling let down right now.
BlueSeer ERP is a free open source multilingual ERP software package.
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Collaboration is a must for companies trying to stay ahead of the curve or keep up with the competition. Without collaboration, things simply wouldn’t get done. That means you need the right tools for the job — and, wow, there are a lot of options.
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At the moment, Twake is a bit limited in features, but what it does offer is quite a solid entry into the collaboration space. What you get with Twake is a platform for real-time communication and document collaboration. Twake allows you to create multiple companies, workspaces and channels for communication, and it has a built-in OnlyOffice document server so your team members can collaborate with documents and presentations.
Twake has a UI that’s incredibly simple to use so you don’t have to worry about onboarding new team members. Once a new team member has logged in, they’ll feel right at home within the application. Team members can use Twake from within a web browser or download the desktop app for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Metafresh is a cross-platform self-hosted ERP system for small, medium, and large size companies. It comes packed with many modules starting as reporting, accounting, sales and more.
We have released Qt 6.5 Beta today. As earlier Qt 6.5 Beta is available via qt online installer. In addition to the online installer Qt 6.5 Beta source packages are available in the Qt Account Portal for commercial users and in the opensource download area for opensource users. This is the first beta and we will release more beta releases during the beta phase.
The project was started within Digital Equipment Corporation — and provided the first “full text” searchable index of the World Wide Web that was accessible to the average Web user. Anyone who used Web search engines back in the mid 1990s knows what a huge improvement this was.
As such, AltaVista spring-boarded to become the number one search engine almost overnight.
Microsoft elevates security rating for vulnerability resembling EternalBlue.
A cryptographer and privacy specialist Amandine Jambert, a.k.a. Cryptie, is our guest in the 18th Software Freedom Podcast episode. With her experience, Cryptie is the perfect person to tackle some basics about Security in Free Software.
Cryptie has been involved with Free Software for around 20 years now and has been a volunteer for the FSFE for 10 years. Together Cryptie and Bonnie Mehring discuss the basics of cryptography and discover what a privacy specialist is. They then move on to the basics of IT-Security and talk about prejudices against the security of Free Software. If you have wondered what is needed to make Software more secure this is the perfect episode for you to start with this topic and learn about the basics of IT-Security.
The patch management process can be painful, tedious, and time and labor intensive. Often, all this effort is for no other purpose than to maintain the operational status quo. And for devs or sysadmins, patch management has to happen on top of handling every-day activities as well as any other additional challenges that occur during service interruptions or system reboots.
A cross-platform botnet, ‘MCCrash’ that starts out from malicious software downloads on Windows devices and spreads to a range of Linux-based devices was recently examined by the Microsoft Defender for IoT research team.
X server implementations (e.g. Xorg and Xwayland) will (by default) no longer allow clients with different endianess to connect.
CISA released four Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on December 22, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libksba and linux-5.10), Slackware (mozilla), and SUSE (curl, java-1_8_0-ibm, and sqlite3).
I was reading recently, a guy said that owning an electric vehicle without a power-point to plug it into at night, is hell. This situation would cover a lot of people; those who live in apartments with parking bays and no power, and those who have to park in the street.
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Once at the head of the queue, if it is a fast-charger, good, except that every time you fast-charge, the battery range decreases. It decreases more and more, so you have to fast-charge more frequently.
Then there's the running cost. This is touted as one of the advantages of electric vehicles; however, read this article from our local newspaper, "The West Australian", Saturday, December 17, 2022:
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I reckon that as 2030-2040 (whatever the deadline will be in your State) approaches, there will be exceptions to the all-electric law, for those who have to drive in remote rural regions.
Might be a good idea to own a petroleum-powered engine before the deadline, as it's value is likely to go steadily upward afterward -- unless the Govt introduces disincentives to own or drive a non-electric vehicle.
After today posting "Electric vehicle reality check", thought perhaps a good idea to do another post with a more positive slant...
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It was on the news here a few days ago, someone's house burnt down, when they left a lithium-powered skateboard on charge. Spontaneous combustion and explosion of lithium-ion batteries is quite common, so we really do need an alternative.
I guess as 2023 progresses, we shall see how true the uptake of sodium-ion battery becomes. If the YouTube posts are to be believed, the Chinese company CATL is already building huge battery production plants in China and Europe, with cars due to hit the streets in 2023.
One of the central themes here on Walled Culture is that copyright isn’t doing its main job. It is supposed to provide fair remuneration for the work that creators do, and act as an incentive to produce more in the future. But as I explored in Walled Culture the book, the evidence is that copyright is failing to do that.
For example, all around the world, writers are struggling to earn a decent wage. In 2018 the US Authors Guild conducted a survey of US authors that revealed a median author income of $6,080, down from $8,000 in 2014, $10,500 in 2009 and $12,850 in 2007. Earnings from book income alone fell even more, declining 21% to $3,100 in 2017 from $3,900 in 2013 and just over 50% from 2009’s median book earnings of $6,250. As a result, authors were finding ways to supplement their writing income, for example speaking engagements, book reviewing or teaching. Respondents who identified themselves as full-time book authors still only earned a median income of $20,300, even including these other sources of income – a figure that is well below the US federal poverty line for a family of three or more.
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That problem could also be the solution, as I suggested in Walled Culture. A move to a funding approach based on patronage – not just one patron, as in the past, but on hundreds or thousands of “true fans” supporting a favourite creator through small but regular payments – could be a way to do better than today’s copyright system. It could hardly do any worse.
My wife and I visited Chicago, IL earlier this month. We've been there many times before, but on this trip we spent almost all of our time in the Near North Side, in the heart of downtown Chicago. The area, containing upscale shopping on North Michigan Avenue and tourist attractions at Navy Pier, caters to an upper-class clientele: its shops are filled with manicured display windows and its sidewalks are meticulously cleaned.
Advertising space in this part of town is fought over fiercely, and as a result is expensive and strictly controlled. Most ads promote major shops and attractions: male models pose with cologne bottles, while penguins adorn signs for the aquarium. Nordstrom ads sit next to promotions for the Chicago Philharmonic. All are aimed at wealthy consumers wanting to lead affluent lifestyles.
It has been a while since I posted or browsed here. The summer was busy, fall came and went; I didn't have the stomach to use a computer after the workdays were over.
Tonight I am more-than-micro-dosing psilocybin and leaving a jazzy synth loop I made playing while thinking of some way to exit the desk for a living.
Is it okay for something to be happy and stressful at the same time? I think it must be. That is how meeting family on the holidays is like for me most of the time. I love my family, I have good relationships with them, my immediate family anyway. But there's some sort of expectation leading up to Christmas that leads me to pace the floor and toss and turn at night. I want them to be happy and satisfied with their holiday to the point where it stresses me. I know it'll be a good time when we get together; I'm looking forward to it, but at the same time I keep hearing a voice in the back of my head saying...
Hey hey everyone! Christmas is on its way, and I'm excited. I'm hoping your holidays are merry and bright.
It's been a little while since I've updated my gemlog. I have a train trip planned for the new year, which I'm looking forward to. A few days ago I celebrated a friend's birthday at a bowling alley. It was a little awkward (de exemplu, one of the guys balanced his checkbook at the bowling lane lol), but overall the evening was enjoyable. I'm pretty sure I pulled a tendon in my hand by carelessly using too-heavy bowling balls, but whatever lol, my hand's KT taped.
Tried Debian Testing (Bookworm) for a while recently both on my laptop (vanilla Debian with MATE desktop) and on one Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi OS with the Pixel desktop). Eventually things just broke in ways that got me fed up. It really sucked when the laptop broke because I didn't know how to create a new boot image without it. The things that broke were Network Manager and the graphic desktop. I can do without the latter, but how do i get a new image without the former? It was Friday evening and my work laptop was at the office.
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I've now used my own laptop with the fresh install to download a new Raspberry Pi OS image, write it to a microSD card, and inserted that into the Raspberry Pi. There's a bit of config to do before it's the way I want it, but it works again!
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.