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  • GNU/Linux

    • 9to5Linux9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 13th, 2023

      The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 13th, 2023, brings news about Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, Rhino Linux, GNOME Asia 2023, NetworkManager 1.44, NVIDIA 535.98, and as well as all the latest distro and software releases.

  • Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    • Events

      • Xe's BlogI had a great time at DEF CON 31

        I've always admired DEF CON from a distance. I've watched DEF CON talks for years, but I've never been able to go. This year I was able to go, and I had a great time. This post is gonna be about my experiences there and what I learned.

        In short: I had a great time. I got to meet up with people that have only been small avatars and text on my screen. I got to see talks about topics that I would have never sought out myself. I'm gonna go again next year if the cards allow it.

      • CoryDoctorowPluralistic: Open Circuits (14 August 2023)

        Every trip to Defcon – the massive annual hacker-con in Las Vegas – is a delight. Partly it's the familiar – seeing old friends, getting updates on hacks of years gone by. But mostly, it's the surprises, the things you never anticipated. Defcon never fails to surprise. I got back from Vegas yesterday and I've just unpacking my suitcase, and with it, the tangible evidence of Defcon's cave of wonders.

    • GNU Projects

      • GNUwww-zh-cn @ Savannah: Welcome our new member - Jing Luo

        Hi, all I am very glad that we have a new member.

        [...]

        Jing Luo will show his/her passion in Free Software, and try to let more people know about GNU. I wish Jing Luo a pleasant journey to a better world. Let's welcome Jing Luo in this big family. wxie

    • Programming/Development

      • Jonathan McDowell: listadmin3: An imperfect replacement for listadmin on Mailman 3

        One of the annoyances I had when I upgraded from Buster to Bullseye (yes, I’m talking about an upgrade I did at the end of 2021) is that I ended up moving from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3. Which is fine, I guess, but it meant I could no longer use listadmin to deal with messages held for moderation. At the time I looked around, couldn’t find anything, shrugged, and became incredibly bad at performing my list moderation duties.

        Last week I finally accepted what I should have done at least a year ago and wrote some hopefully not too bad Python to web scrape the Mailman 3 admin interface. It then presents a list of subscribers and held messages that might need approved or discarded. It’s heavily inspired by listadmin, but not a faithful copy (partly because it’s been so long since I used it that I’m no longer familiar with its interface). Despite that I’ve called it listadmin3.

        It currently meets the bar of “extremely useful to me” so I’ve tagged v0.1. You can get it on Github. I’d be interested in knowing if it actually works for / is useful to anyone else (I suspect it won’t be happy with interfaces configured to not be in English, but that should be solvable). Comment here or reply to my Fediverse announcement.

      • Steinar H GundersonSteinar H. Gunderson: Encoding “The Legend of Sisyphus”

        I watched this year's Assembly democompo live, as I usually do—or more precisely, I watched it on stream. I had heard that ASD would return with a demo for the first time in five years, and The legend of Sisyphus did not disappoint. At all. (No, it's not written in assembly; Assembly is the name of the party. :-) )

        I do fear that this is the last time we will see such a “blockbuster” demo (meaning, roughly: a demo that is a likely candidate for best high-end demo of the year) at Assembly, or even any non-demoscene-specific party; the scene is slowly retracting into itself, choosing to clump together in their (our?) own places and seeing the presence others mainly as an annoyance. But I digress.

      • GentooWeek 11 report on porting Gentoo packages to modern C

        Hello all, hope you’re doing well. This is my week 11 report for my

        Similar to last two weeks I took up bugs from the tracker randomly and
        patched them, sending patch upstream whenever possible. Unfortunately,
        nothing new or interesting.

        I’ve some open PRs at ::gentoo that I would like to work on and get
        reviews on from mentor/s.

        This coming week is going to be the last week, so I would like to few more bugs and
        start working on wrapping things up. However, I don’t plan on abandoning
        my patching work for this week (not even after GSoC) as there is still
        lots interesting packages in the tracker.

        Till then see yah!

      • QtQt Creator 11.0.2 released

        We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 11.0.2!

      • Barry KaulerArgon2 illegal instruction problem again

        I posted about this problem, and a fix, about a month ago:

        https://bkhome.org/news/202307/argon2-illegal-instruction.html

        Easy 5.4.10 is built with the argon2 PET package that I compiled in the Compaq Presario. OK, this has a very old CPU, an Intel Core2, and I did test the 'argon2' binary in the Compaq and it worked.



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