Rudra Saraswat, who turns 14 later this month, is among the youngest participants in the ongoing ‘DebConf 23’, India’s first Debian conference, at Infopark with around 350 participants from across the world.
Rudra, based in Bengaluru, is in his own words, a tech nerd, “who loves to develop for Linux”. He maintains a home lab and uses Ubuntu, a Linux-based open source operating system. He said he was an official Ubuntu member and creator and project leader of Ubuntu Unity, Ubuntu Web, UbuntuEd, Gamebuntu, and other projects.
Being a tech nerd does not prevent him from finding time for his hobbies. He is a tabla graduate and loves to swim and play lawn tennis and snooker. He said on the sidelines of ‘DebConf23’ that he would like to continue with studies in computer science.
Ascender, now available for turnkey deployment with Kubernetes as a cost-effective, well supported platform for infrastructure automation at scale.
RENO, Nev., Sept. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CIQ, the company building the next generation of software infrastructure for enterprises running performance-intensive workloads atop Rocky Linux, today is making available its Ascender enterprise infrastructure automation platform installer. This marks the launch of the CIQ rollout of Ascender installers for all Kubernetes-based platforms.
Virtual Application Networks, or VANs, are today’s Heavy Networking topic. Our guest is Ted Ross, an open source developer and motive force behind the Skupper.io project. Skupper creates VANs largely in the context of multi-cluster Kubernetes. That is, install Skupper in multiple K8s clusters, do a little plumbing, and you’ve built a Virtual Application Network that’s conceptually like a VLAN or VPN, except that all the magic is happening up at layer 7.
There are several microservices design patterns, each with its unique characteristics and use cases. Here are nine to consider.
Grafana has released Grafana Beyla, an open-source eBPF auto-instrumentation tool for application observability. Beyla is able to report span information and RED metrics (Rate-Errors-Duration) for both Linux HTTP/S and gRPC services. This is accomplished without having to make code modifications for inserting probes.
As someone who's spent a good amount of time exploring various network-attached storage (NAS) solutions, I've developed a particular fondness for Synology.
A new report has confirmed that Intel has begun work developing Linux graphics drivers for its next-gen graphics card lineup codenamed Battlemage.
But Not Mine
If you’re reading, thanks for everything.
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I planned to blog about it a while ago, but then I didn’t and news sites have since broken the news: Zink from Mesa main can run finally xservers.
Yes, it’s true. For the first time ever, you can install Mesa (from git) and use zink (with environment variables) to run your entire system (unless you’re on Intel).
But what was so challenging about getting this to work? The answer won’t surprise you.
Migrating from WordPress? Here are the top 10 alternatives.
Instagram scraping, also known as Instagram data scraping, refers to the process of extracting data from Instagram. It involves using automated tools or scripts to gather information from Instagram profiles, posts, comments, hashtags, and other relevant data points.
The software featured in this article offers indispensable ways to help manage a computer-based classroom.
WPS Office is an office suite software program that is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. It was developed by the Chinese company Kingsoft Corporation in Zhuhai.
Scratch is an amazing visual programming language and online community aimed at teaching coding concepts and terminology to children and beginners in a fun and interactive way.
OnlyOffice stands out as a leading Linux alternative to Microsoft Office, offering a very similar interface, so if you are migrating from a Windows to Linux environment, then this will suit you better than LibreOffice. It provides a range of office productivity tools for creating,
systemctl is a powerful service management tool under systemd for Linux distributions. By services, we mean a resource or unit, such as a software application that runs in the background without your intervention. These are also called daemons.
In the dynamic world of Linux environments, safeguarding data stands paramount. Whether for personal use or maneuvering through server settings, understanding the depth of backup and restore strategies can be a game-changer. This article unfurls the multifaceted avenues of Linux backup and restore strategies, touching upon the necessity to have a fortified plan and how it keeps the data landscape secure and retrievable in Linux operating systems.
Understanding Linux File System
Before delving into the intricacies of backup and restore strategies, it's vital to understand the Linux file system. Linux supports several file systems such as ext4, XFS, and Btrfs, each boasting unique features that govern how data is stored and retrieved. Appreciating the nuances of these file systems can significantly influence your backup and restore strategy, rendering it more robust and suited to your specific needs.
Backup Strategies
Protection starts with a proper backup strategy. Let's explore various backup avenues available in Linux environments.
Manual Backup
Using incognito mode on your browser doesn't guarantee you complete privacy. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and other entities can still find out what websites you visited in a private browsing session.
Fortunately, it's easy to delete private browsing data on Linux and prevent others from viewing your browsing history. But first, it's important to learn whether or not you should trust your browser's incognito mode.
The Wine development release 8.16 is now available.
What's new in this release: - Beginnings of a DirectMusic revival. - Many fixes and improvements in the regression tests. - Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.16.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
It’s that time of year again, so let’s look at what’s new.
New Adaptive Widgets
I’ve already talked about them in my last blog post, so I won’t go into details this time.
Breakpoints
Libadwaita 1.4 introduces a breakpoint system, allowing to change UI in arbitrary ways depending on the window size. Breakpoints can be used with
AdwWindow,AdwApplicationWindow, or withAdwBreakpointBinif you need more control.Breakpoints can be used in a fully declarative way from UI files, for example: [...]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Due to my contributing to different things last Friday, I had to skip the weekly review (again) and thus will have to span two weeks again this time. As Tumbleweed rests in the capable hands of Ana, this is not an issue: Tumbleweed keeps on rolling without me being present after all. Just as we expect it to be. During the last two weeks, we have released 9 snapshots (0901, 0902, 0904, 0906, 0908, 0910, 0911, 0912, and 0913).
Release Candidate versions are available in testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for a parallel installation, perfect solution for such tests, and also as base packages.
RPM of PHP version 8.2.11RC1 are available
RPM of PHP version 8.1.24RC1 are available
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.
There are some updates on Fedora shirts and sweatshirts.
Two years after the announcement of the current Fedora logo, we decided to clear our stock of shirts with the old logo. Soon our shirts will only be made and stocked with the new Fedora logo.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux's edge management capabilities are now built into Red Hat Insights to help organizations more securely manage and scale deployments at the edge. The benefits of zero-touch provisioning, system health visibility, and quick security remediations are available from a single interface. Most importantly, RHEL edge hosts are built using rpm-ostree, which enables you to treat your host OS updates like any mobile phone.
Podman is a powerful container engine that provides everything needed to run containers and groups of containers, known as pods. Podman’s origins are derived from the Docker project and strive for compatibility and architectural simplicity. Podman will enable you to install applications on your edge device in a stable, repeatable manner, like on a mobile phone.
To help government agencies and regulated industries embrace cloud-native innovation at scale while enhancing their security posture, we are pleased to announce the publication of the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for Red Hat OpenShift 4. The guide is available for download at the Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Exchange.
As containers continue to grow in adoption, the number of vulnerabilities and regulatory concerns has increased exponentially. According to Red Hat’s 2023 State of Kubernetes Security Report, 67% of respondents report they have had to slow down cloud-native adoption due to security concerns. However, the need for rigorous security measures and compliance controls doesn’t mean organizations need to place digital transformation efforts on hold.
As the telecom industry experiences a shift from conventional frameworks to cloud-based architectures, we explore the implications of the cloud-native paradigm. Blake Shiver, vice president of global cloud partners at Red Hat, joins us to demystify what ‘cloud-native’ means for telecommunications players. Unravel the complexities, understand the benefits, and discover why this transition is more than just a technological trend.
We are announcing the launch of Ansible Community Forum, a place for Ansible users to ask questions, developers to discuss projects in the ecosystem, and the whole Ansible community to gather and connect through sharing ideas, events, and more!
LMDE 6 – the latest Linux Mint Debian edition instalment is currently undergoing BETA testing. Things look stable. This release is much-awaited because Debian 12 “Bookworm” was a blockbuster release. And with that, you have the best of Linux Mint 21.2.
Let’s have a look at the new features.
Last May, SparkFun introduced the “Datalogger IoT – 9DoF” no-code platform with support for over 50 Qwiic sensor modules and a built-in 9-axis IMU sensor and magnetometer. Taking into consideration that some users may not make use of the built-in sensors, the company decided to launch a cheaper version called the “DataLogger IoT” that can still get data from Qwiic sensor and GPS modules without any programming thanks to the “no-code” Arduino firmware preloaded on the ESP32-WROOM-32E module.
Choosing a custom router firmware can be daunting. There are several options that are recommended all over the Internet, and the documentation on the actual process of installing the firmware tends to be sparse. Throw in the terms and acronyms that get tossed around, and before long, you're happy to stick with your router's stock firmware.
It doesn't need to be that difficult. Each of the three major open-source firmware – DD-WRT, Tomato, and OpenWRT – has its own strengths and weaknesses that make it ideal for one situation or another. You'll need to consider which features you need for your network and whether your router is even supported by the firmware.
We have released PureBoot 28 with many improvements, particularly for high resolution displays.€ Prior-generation devices like Librem Mini v1 and Librem 15v4 improved as well. Update now using our update instructions! In addition, we have been working to upstream PureBoot’s functionality back into Heads.
After two years of designing and prototyping and endless development meetings, I am immensely proud to finally unveil to the world the brand new Fairphone 5. The team at Fairphone has spent countless hours to bring our latest flagship to life, making it faster, thinner, but more importantly, fairer in every way possible.
Ten years ago, they said fairer phones were impossible. Well, look at us now! In this decade, our community grew from 25.000 to over 400.000 – and we’ve already done so much together. But there are still so many people we want to reach out to.
PostgreSQL 16 open-source RDBMS improves performance, logical replication, monitoring, and access control.
We’re very happy to announce that “Caminos cruzados”, a Spanish non-for-profit organization, has signed an agreement with GNU Solidario to implement GNU Health in health institutions from Gambia.
María Eugenia Ramos, president of the organization traveled to Gran Canaria to meet with Luis Falcón, president of GNU Solidario to formalize the agreement and to plan the next actions in the Gambia.
The Celery project, which is often used Python library to run “background tasks” for synchronous web frameworks, describes itself€ as:
Celery is a simple, flexible, and reliable distributed system to process vast amounts of messages , while providing operations with the tools required to maintain such a€ system.
As last weeks post on countering string bloat has triggered some interest (and a few misunderstandings) here are a few more details on that topic. Nevertheless this isn’t going to be a comprehensive discussion of string handling in Qt (and was never meant to be), there’s plenty of posts and talks on that subject already out there if you want to dig deeper.
Qt Insight 1.4 release is now available.€
After recently announcing that IntelliJ-based IDEs will support the Wayland display server protocol, JetBrains has unveiled a new IDE for Rust Developers.
Called the “RustRover”, it aims to be a feature-packed standalone Rust IDE that is set to receive regular updates, quick support, and an “out-of-the-box experience”.
Allow me to show you what it has to offer.
The E310-10EHI is an embedded platform designed to be used as an inference system and built around Elkhart Lake Atom, Celeron and Pentium processors.
We’ve already written about many mini PCs powered by the Intel Processor N100 SoC and other SKUs part of the Alder Lake N-series family, but the HUNSN BM34 is a bit different as it offers eight USB ports, with two USB 3.0 and six USB 2.0 ports that should remove the need for an external USB hub for most use cases.
Reports suggest that as Foxconn builds Huawei Mate 60 Pro and Apple iPhone handsets, it's paying more for Huawei's phones at its Shenzhen plant.
Apple Inc. said today that it will update software on the iPhone 12 in France to address an issue discovered by the country’s government that it may emit high levels of electromagnetic radiation. At the same time, other countries in the European Union have signaled investigations into the phone’s emissions.
Microsoft servers, which play a crucial role in hosting our news websites, faced a widespread outage across Eastern Canada & the U.S. This unexpected disruption began in the early morning hours and affected our ability to deliver the latest local news to you.
Japan’s leading developer of new AI technologies Fujitsu accelerates its commitment to open source innovation with new projects hosted in LF AI & Data
Fujitsu Limited and the Linux Foundation today marked the official launch of Fujitsu’s automated machine learning and AI fairness technologies as open source software (OSS) ahead of Open Source Summit Europe 2023, running in Bilbao, Spain, from September 19-21, 2023. The two projects will offer users access to software that automatically generates code for new machine learning models, as well as a technology that addresses latent biases in training data.
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: China blames NSA for a cyberattack, AI jailbreaks, and Netography spin-off.
The financially motivated UNC3944 group that hacked MGM has hit at least 100 organizations, mainly in the US and Canada.
The report noted that North Korea's cyber intelligence units have targeted defence companies in Brazil, the Czech Republic, Italy, Norway, Poland, and Finland.
The Program class’s dosome() method displays a distraction decoy PDF from the .NET binary’s resources, designed to mislead the user into thinking an error occurred.
Note that DMS Health Technologies first disclosed this breach on June 16, 2023 on its website and it was reported in the media then. At that time, they disclosed on behalf of Avera Health and stated that 1,500 were affected.
Caesars Entertainment, self-described as the largest U.S. casino chain with the most extensive loyalty program in the industry, says it paid a ransom to avoid the online leak of customer data stolen in a recent cyberattack.
Caesars discovered on September 7th that the attackers stole its loyalty program database, which stores driver’s license numbers and social security numbers for many customers.
“We are still investigating the extent of any additional personal or otherwise sensitive information contained in the files acquired by the unauthorized actor,” says an 8-K form filed by Caesars with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.
Colombia has reported a massive cyberattack affecting dozens of government websites and impacting countries across Latin America.
Local media said Thursday that key websites — such as the justice, health, and culture ministries as well as several hospitals — had been affected by a ransomware attack.
The presidency said in a statement Wednesday the attack had targeted the US-owned company IFX Networks, which provides web hosting services to 17 countries in the Americas.
Additional coverage at Segu-Info, who report that the attack may be the work of RansomHouse. A screencap of what is alleged to be the ransom note to IFX Networks is included in their report...
Search giant Google has agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California over its location-privacy practices.
Lawmakers in California are continuing to speed ahead of the federal government in writing legislation to address privacy concerns.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a $93 million settlement with Google, Inc. on Thursday in a lawsuit over the company’s location tracking practices. T
California has become the latest state to enact a special law regulating how consumers can remove themselves from data brokers. The Delete Act was passed this week and it’s now up to Governor Gavin Newsom to sign it into law.
Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people:
With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from ever forgetting a colleague’s name, give a reminder at a cocktail party that an acquaintance had kids to ask about or help find someone at a crowded conference. However, six years later, the company now known as Meta has not released a version of that product and Mr. Leyvand has departed for Apple to work on its Vision Pro augmented reality glasses.
The technology is here. Maybe the implementation is still dorky, but that will change. The social implications will be enormous...
For the first time since Francisco Franco's death in 1975, a man who says he was detained and tortured by the dictator's regime testified before a Spanish court on Friday.
Continuing attacks – and murders – of farmers and their workers was under the spotlight in the National Assembly (NA) this week with a motion for an ad hoc committee to investigate these specific crimes debated.
Calls to share scarce water resources and cooperate on security issues featured heavily in a two-day summit of the five Central Asian leaders that wrapped up in Dushanbe on September 15.
On September 14, the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting of the directors of security policy departments from the Nordic countries and Baltic States (Nordic-Baltic Eight, NB8), who had gathered to discuss topical issues of regional security, NATO and the European Union, the ministry said in a release.
Guyanese President Irfaan Ali outlined his country's ambitious agenda for reducing food and energy insecurity in the Caribbean region.
Tuvalu is sinking. It’s slowly but steadily being swallowed by the Pacific Ocean and will most likely be uninhabitable by 2100. Although there is a campaign to save Tuvalu from disappearing under the ocean water and to preserve its cultural legacy in the digital world...
A recently introduced Google account sync feature has been blamed after sophisticated hackers attacked 27 cryptocurrency firms via Retool.
Launching one of the most prominent climate lawsuits in the nation, the state claims Exxon, Shell, BP and others misled the public and seeks creation of a special fund to pay for recovery.
Selling people on the idea of a machine that spits out money was obviously not easy. But then a freak weather event happened, and everything began to click.
Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has launched an audit into the use of representation funds at the Embassy in London after receiving additional information about possible misconduct by two diplomats – Ambassador to the UK Eitvydas Bajarūnas and Ambassador to NATO Deividas Matulionis.
Surveillance video from a Denver theater appears to show Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert vaping during a “Beetlejuice” musical play. That's the one thing she denied doing while acknowledging this week that she had been kicked out for being disruptive. Boebert and another guest were escorted from the play Sunday after audience members accused two guests of vaping, singing, using phones and causing a disturbance. € Boebert's campaign manager confirmed her ejection but denied the allegations of vaping. Boebert is running for reelection in a western Colorado congressional district. She has built a national profile with a combative style that has grabbed media headlines.
Newly unsealed court papers shed additional light on a legal fight whose existence was revealed last month.
California lawmakers have finished their work for 2023. The Legislature sent hundreds of bills to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has the next month to decide which to sign into law. Labor unions have had a string of big victories this year. Lawmakers agreed to give health care workers a $25 minimum wage. Fast food workers got a $20 minimum wage increase. And lawmakers voted to make workers who have been on strike for at least two weeks eligible for unemployment benefits. That could benefit striking actors, writers and hotel workers in Southern California. Lawmakers also passed the nation's most sweeping emissions disclosure law on big businesses.
Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday at Detroit’s three automakers. They are seeking higher wages in an era of big profits, and as the industry makes a costly switch from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles. By striking simultaneously at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, the United Auto Workers union is trying to inflict maximum pain. The strikes were limited to three assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio and Missouri. Union President Shawn Fain says more plants will be added if the companies don’t deliver better contracts. The workers are seeking 36% higher wages over four years.
"This is our generation's defining moment. The money is there, the cause is righteous, the world is watching," UAW President Fain€ said.
Thousands of auto workers walked out at midnight Friday after contract negotiations failed to make progress. The limited strike, which currently affects three Midwest assembly plants, is the first to affect all three Detroit automakers simultaneously.
The union targeted three factories: one run by General Motors, one by Ford and one by Stellantis. Prolonged walkouts could hurt the U.S. economy and President Biden.
White House aides believe the battle between the car companies and their workers underscores many of the president’s policy positions.
Union members at one of three factories chosen for a first wave of walkouts voiced determination to win substantial pay gains in their next contract.
The United Auto Workers have leverage and a solid case that’s likely to win them public favor.
The strike, which began in the U.S. ton Friday, will cause slowdowns and supply chain disruptions on both sides of the border.
About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn’t bridge a giant gap between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit’s three automakers are willing to pay.
Teachers in some schools across Lithuania are staging a two-hour warning strike on Friday.
Following Friday’s warning strike, the Lithuanian Education Employees’ Trade Union (LÃ Â DPS) is sticking to plans to organise a long-term strike and a teachers’ march in late September.
Monitor movie critic Peter Rainer navigates the Toronto film festival – and an industry still dealing with dual strikes – and is rewarded with a top-notch cinematic passport.
Mahir BaÃŸÃ±à Ÿ, the TGS Ankara Branch president said during the demonstration, "We will know we are not alone as long as you do not provide interviews or statements to Sputnik during the strike."
One year ago this Saturday, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for wearing her hijab "improperly". Her death led to massive anti-regime protests, known by their now-iconic slogan: “Woman, Life, Freedom”. The Observers team has been in regular contact with dozens of women across Iran over the past 12 months. Many of them have told us that it has become the “new normal” for millions of women in Iran to go out in public with their hair uncovered. But with a new law under discussion that would massively increase the penalties for hijab-related offenses, how long will these new freedoms last?
A judge has ruled that a civil lawsuit against California Treasurer Fiona Ma by a high-ranking former employee who alleges that Ma made sexual advances toward her before firing her can go to trial. Judith Blackwell alleged sexual harassment, racial discrimination and wrongful termination in the lawsuit, which she filed in July 2021. Ma says the allegations by the former head of the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee are without merit. A judge on Thursday denied Ma’s motion to dismiss the case entirely. But the judge did throw out the lawsuit’s allegations of racial discrimination and wrongful termination, saying Ma presented evidence Blackwell's firing was based on job performance.
Many small apartments in big cities have virtually no fire protection equipment.
I’m trying to come up with a plan to harmonize all my sites. There are way too many installs on too many machines spread out over vendors and sites. A general clean-up is really needed.
Right now I have a couple of sites that are self-hosted (they run on a old machine in my office), a VPS at Linode and a couple of VPSes at DigitalOcean. I also have a couple of sites run via github pages.
Despite years of Google primacy over Microsoft Bing, usage of Bing has more than doubled over the past three years and continues to grow.
Search engine defaults seem to be pretty important when it comes to dominating the search engine market — and quite expensive as well.
In keeping with the traditional Viennese coffeehouse culture and the famous coffee speciality Wiener Melange, the first hearing at the Unified Patent Court’s local division in Vienna revolved around a patent protecting a technology for milk frothers.
In the past I have admired the creativity of participants, e.g. using a chain of several retro devices to get the bytes transported all the way to modern day network, or using a ham radio link or something such. Now my problem is not to come up with fancy ideas, but rather to get something going before the end of this years September, really.
I'm sitting in the garden right now. My trusty Acer is connected via a Telekom "Speedstick LTE". I can roam the internet some --- needless to say, LTE is not available or the signal to weak. But I have established a G2 connection, it seems.
WLAN? You might ask. Well, I could switch the router on. Sure, but its off unless explicitly needed. Just curiously asking "iwlist scan" spits out a dozen WLAN access points in the neighborhood. The days of quiet, that I have experienced when we moved here, seem to be gone.
So, the "connection test" entry made it to ew.srht.site and Antenna, yay! Thank's ~solderpunk, you made me try something new.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.