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GNU/Linux

Free Software/Open Source

  • AMD Ryzen/Zen Currently Doesn’t Support Coreboot Today

    Back in 2011 was the glorious announcement that AMD would support Coreboot with its future CPUs. Sadly, a lot has changed at AMD over the past half-decade, and there isn’t any Coreboot support to find today for Zen/Ryzen.

  • NASA Has Just Released Tons Of Free And Open Source Software, Here’s How To Get Them
  • Node.js: A project for casual contributors

    I sat down at the Open Source Leadership Summit to record a podcast with Mikeal Rogers, who heads the Node.js Foundation, a collaborative project under the Linux Foundation. He observed that one of the characteristics of Node.js and its community is that it’s a “post-GitHub platform,” meaning “the first release of Node.js and the first code written on Node.js were in a GitHub repository. That’s the environment we live in, so we had to come up with some newer ways of managing the project that are unique to this newer and more modern open source.”

  • Tune Up Your Code with the Crankshaft Compiler

    Safia Abdalla is an open source developer and a maintainer on a project called nteract, but her pet topic is compilers. And, in her talk at Node.js Interactive, Abdalla explained the inner workings of the V8 compiler and how it can optimize the code it gets fed. Although Abdalla specifically focused on what goes on in the V8 compiler, she noted that there are many similarities to other compilers.

  • Using open source APM software: InspectIT

    Thus, system failures and poor performance usually have a significant negative impact on a company’s reputation and economic success. The discipline of APM (Application Performance Management) comes to the rescue by providing methodologies and tools to ensure a high quality of service. APM tools provide the means to monitor the health of software systems, detect and react on emerging performance anomalies, and allow for the diagnosis of the root causes of performance problems. A set of commercial APM tools (AppDynamics, DynaTrace, NewRelic, etc.) are available that are rich in their scope of functionality and maturity; however, in some cases commercial tools may not be suitable due to license costs, vendor lock-in, or other reasons that can negatively affect companies following an open source strategy.

  • Events

  • Web Browsers

    • What’s the fastest Linux web browser?

      Firefox is easily the most popular Linux web browser. In the recent LinuxQuestions survey, Firefox took first place with 51.7 percent of the vote. Chrome came in second with a mere 15.67 percent. The other browsers all had, at most, scores in single percentages. But is Firefox really the fastest browser? I put them them to the test, and here’s what I found.

    • Chrome

    • Mozilla

      • The Story of Firefox OS

        I remember at a team dinner once Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s Chairwoman and “Chief Lizard Wrangler”, talked about the importance of storytelling. She talked about how telling stories in the open source software community helps us to reflect on shared experiences and learn from them.

        Well, I’m Ben and I’m a Mozillian. I’m a Software Engineer who worked on the “Boot to Gecko” project full time for five years and I have a story to tell.

        As an engineer on the project I don’t quite have the full picture when it comes to the high level decision making, financials and business partnerships. But I was involved in the project for a long period of time, longer in fact than any of its co-founders, and gained quite a lot of insight at the engineering, design and product levels.

      • Mozilla and BrowserStack Partner to Drive Mobile Testing on Real Devices

        At Mozilla a fundamental part of our beliefs is that all websites should work equally well across all browsers and all devices. The Internet should just work everywhere, flawlessly, with no questions asked. We’re therefore really happy that, as of this week, the BrowserStack team is launching a mobile test capability for Firefox browser products and a unique offering – one year of free testing on Firefox mobile browsers on BrowserStack’s Real Device Cloud. In addition, developers can test Firefox browsers on different desktop operating systems for free for 30 days.

        We know that today the majority of web content consumption and activity is on mobile. That’s what makes BrowserStack’s new Firefox test capability so important for web developers trying to build web compatible mobile sites. And helping developers be more successful with their sites is great for users too, and for Mozilla.

  • Oracle/Java/LibreOffice

    • Italian military share LibreOffice eLearning course

      Italy’s Ministry of Defence is sharing the eLearning course that it developed together with LibreItalia, the Italian promoters of LibreOffice. The course is made available via the LibreItalia website, and the source material is available on GitHub. The Ministry hopes that making it available will inspire others to modify and reuse the LibreOffice course.

  • BSD

    • LLVM 4.0 Release Candidate 3

      LLVM 4.0 remains running behind schedule but the third release candidate is now available for testing with hopes of shipping this updated compiler stack in the next week or so.

  • FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC

  • Public Services/Government

    • What happened in Munich [iophk: "Microsoft fifth columnists inside .de government"]

      What lead to this public hearing on 15 February? In 2014, Dieter Reiter was elected new mayor of Munich. He had referred to himself as “Microsoft fan” even before he took office. He prides himself with having played a major part in the decision to move the Microsoft Germany headquarters to downtown Munich. He started to question the LiMux strategy as soon as his term started, and asked Accenture, a Microsoft partner in the same building as Microsoft, to analyse Munich’s IT infrastructure. The report can be found here (German). It’s noteworthy that in their report, the analysts identify primarily organisational issues at the root of the problems troubling LiMux uptake, rather than technical challenges.

    • FSFE: What happened in Munich [Ed: Microsoft played dirty]

      On 15 February 2017, the city council of Munich, Germany convened to discuss the future of their LiMux project. In its public session, the plenary voted to have the city administration develop a strategy to unify client-side IT architecture, building atop a yet-to-be-developed “Windows-Basis-Client”. A translation of the complete decision is included further down.

      The opposing parties were overruled, but the decision was amended such that the strategy document must specify which LiMux-applications will no longer be needed, the extent in which prior investments must be written off, and a rough calculation of the overall costs of the desired unification.

      Since this decision was reached, the majority of media have reported that a final call was made to halt LiMux and switch back to Microsoft software. This is, however, not an accurate representation of the outcome of the city council meeting. We studied the available documentation and our impression is that the last word has not been spoken.

  • Licensing/Legal

    • Rational thoughts on the GitHub ToS change

      I woke this morning to Thorsten claiming the new GitHub Terms of Service could require the removal of Free software projects from it. This was followed by joeyh removing everything from github. I hadn’t actually been paying attention, so I went looking for some sort of summary of whether I should be worried and ended up reading the actual ToS instead. TL;DR version: No, I’m not worried and I don’t think you should be either.

      First, a disclaimer. I’m not a lawyer. I have some legal training, but none of what I’m about to say is legal advice. If you’re really worried about the changes then you should engage the services of a professional.

    • what I would ask my lawyers about the new Github TOS

      The Internet saw Github’s new TOS yesterday and collectively shrugged.

      That’s weird..

      I don’t have any lawyers, but the way Github’s new TOS is written, I feel I’d need to consult with lawyers to understand how it might affect the license of my software if I hosted it on Github.

      And the license of my software is important to me, because it is the legal framework within which my software lives or dies. If I didn’t care about my software, I’d be able to shrug this off, but since I do it seems very important indeed, and not worth taking risks with.

      If I were looking over the TOS with my lawyers, I’d ask these questions…

    • New GitHub Terms of Service r̲e̲q̲u̲i̲r̲e̲ removing many Open Source works from it

      The new Terms of Service of GitHub became effective today, which is quite problematic — there was a review phase, but my reviews pointing out the problems were not answered, and, while the language is somewhat changed from the draft, they became effective immediately.

      Now, the new ToS are not so bad that one immediately must stop using their service for disagreement, but it’s important that certain content may no longer legally be pushed to GitHub. I’ll try to explain which is affected, and why.

      I’m mostly working my way backwards through section D, as that’s where the problems I identified lie, and because this is from easier to harder.

  • Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

    • Storytelling in the 21st Century

      Some words for thought from this week’s video on nteract: “Open science isn’t truly open and open source isn’t truly open.”

      [...]

      I work as a technologist at a public library and my undergraduate degree is in philosophy. I like it when I hear technologists talking in these kinds of terms. It’s evidence of someone thinking at a very high level.

    • Open Data

      • Peer-review activists push psychology journals towards open data

        An editor on the board of a journal published by the prestigious American Psychological Association (APA) has been asked to resign in a controversy over data sharing in peer review.

        Gert Storms — who says he won’t step down — is one of a few hundred scientists who have vowed that, from the start of this year, they will begin rejecting papers if authors won’t publicly share the underlying data, or explain why they can’t.

        The idea, called the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative, was launched by psychologists hoping to increase transparency in a field beset by reports of fraud and dubious research practices. And the APA, which does not ask that data be made available to peer reviewers or shared openly online, seems set to become an early testing ground for the initiative’s influence. With Storms’ situation still unresolved, the society’s council of editors will discuss whether it should change its policies at a meeting in late March.

    • Open Hardware/Modding

  • Programming/Development

    • Master JavaScript Programming with 18 Open-Source Books

      This is the fifth in OSSBlog’s series of open source programming books. This compilation focuses on the JavaScript language with 18 solid recommendations. There are books here for beginner, intermediate, and advanced programmers alike. All of the texts are released under an open source license.

    • 10 Best Java IDEs For Linux

      Java, the famous programming language that is useful to us at almost every time in our daily work. Directly or indirectly we work on Java software almost everyday. My fellow developers, coders, programmers also use to develop Java software that is why I decided that it would be worth to write an article on it. Many of you who are reading this may be new at Java IDE( Integrated Development Environment) who want to develop some kind of software, want to code or modify some kind of string and may be wondering that which IDE to use or which is the best. So here I list the 10 best Java IDE for Linux. This list is based on several opinions, research, comments, update, and support, stability as I wanted to list the best. Let’s start now!

Leftovers

  • Health/Nutrition

    • How the Chili Dog Transcended America’s Divisions

      Forget about commercial feedlots and GMOs. Forget high cholesterol, expanding waistlines, and the merits of plant-based diets. Forget The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Fast Food Nation. Forget the trends of locavorism and clean eating.

    • Detroit’s hot dog eatery is a piece of American history

      100 years and three generations later, American Coney Island claims to be the oldest family-owned business in Michigan. By any measure, it is one of the nation’s most iconic restaurants, a fixture in downtown Detroit since the city was riding high on the auto business, through its decline, and now during its upswing.

      American Coney sits next door to its arch rival, Lafayette Coney Island, making this downtown stretch of Lafayette Boulevard the Motor City’s epicenter of all things hot dog. While each has its devoted fans, I’ve been to both, and for visitors seeking to experience Michigan’s “Coney culture,” I heartily recommend American for food, service and ambiance (though grittier Lafayette has better fries).

    • Rand Paul creates storm over access to ObamaCare draft bill

      Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday went off in search of a draft of the House Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, creating a storm of controversy gleefully embraced by Democrats.

      Paul complained that the ObamaCare bill was being kept in a “secret location.” He then walked over to the House side with a copy machine in tow to seek access to a room where he said the bill was being held.

      His move quickly created a spectacle, with reporters gathering around Paul for an impromptu press conference.

    • E-Commerce, Access To Medicines Catching On At WTO TRIPS Council

      The World Trade Organization committee on intellectual property rights met this week with some discussion items that departed from past agendas but are becoming more familiar. A discussion on electronic commerce revealed interest from members, despite a slow start on details. And discussions on the United Nations High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines prompted nourished interactions and a wish by some countries to pursue the subject in future sessions.

      [...]

      India gave a statement along the same lines, and underlined the panel recommendation that governments “should require manufacturers and distributors of health technologies to disclose to drug regulatory and procurement authorities information pertaining to: (1) the costs of R&D, production, marketing and distribution of health technology being procured or given marketing approval with each expense category separated; and (2) any public funding received in the development of the health technology, including tax credits, subsidies and grants,” according to its statement.

      India suggested that at future sessions of the Council, India cosponsor, with like-minded members, sub-agenda items under the main agenda item “the United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Panel Report on Access to Medicines.” Under those sub-agenda items, members could share their experiences including on specific recommendations of the panel, the Indian delegate said.

  • Security

    • HackerOne Offers Free Bug Bounty Programs for Open Source Projects

      HackerOne, a platform that is offering hosting for bug bounty programs, announced today that open-source projects can now sign up for a free bug bounty program if they meet a few simple conditions.

      The new offering, named HackerOne Community Edition, is identical with HackerOne Professional Edition, the commercial service the company is offering to some of the world’s largest organizations, such as Twitter, Dropbox, Adobe, Yahoo, Uber, GitHub, Snapchat, and many others.

    • Once overlooked, uninitialized-use ‘bugs’ may provide portal for hacker attacks on linux

      Popular with programmers the world over for its stability, flexibilityand security, Linux now appears to be vulnerable to hackers.

    • Amazon S3-izure cause: Half the web vanished because an AWS bod fat-fingered a command

      Amazon has provided the postmortem for Tuesday’s AWS S3 meltdown, shedding light on what caused one of its largest cloud facilities to bring a chunk of the web down.

      In a note today to customers, the tech giant said the storage system was knocked offline by a staffer trying to address a problem with its billing system. Essentially, someone mistyped a command within a production environment while debugging a performance gremlin.

      “The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) team was debugging an issue causing the S3 billing system to progress more slowly than expected. At 9:37AM PST, an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process,” the team wrote in its message.

    • Human error caused Amazon Web Services outage

      A wrong command entered by a member of its technical staff was responsible for the outage experienced by Amazon Web Services simple storage service this week.

      In a detailed explanation, the company said the S3 team was attempting to debug an issue that caused a slowdown in its billing system when, at 9.37am PST on Tuesday (4.30am Wednesday AEST), one of its technical staff ran a command that was intended to remove a few servers from one of the subsystems used by the S3 billing process.

      The worker entered one wrong input for the command and ended up removing a much larger number of servers than intended, some of which supported two other S3 subsystems.

    • Apple’s macOS bitten by a brace of backdoors

      OH JEEZ, THE SANCTITY OF THE Apple operating system continues to be whittled away at, and now two reasonably fresh backdoors have been revealed by a concerned security company.

      Apple backdoors are much prized, just ask the FBI, so to have two in a day should be a thing to celebrate. But only if you like that kind of stuff.

      The Malwarebytes blog dishes the dirt on the pair and the threat that they pose to people who use Macs.

      One of them is XAgent, which Palo Alto Networks clocked onto in February. It is a nasty business indeed.

    • SHA-1 crack just got real: System Center uses it to talk to Linux

      When Google revealed last week that it had destroyed the SHA-1 algorithm, it hammered another nail into the venerable algo’s coffin.

      But as we noted in our report on the feat, many applications still use SHA-1. And if you’re one of the many Windows shops running Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager Management Server, you’ve got an exposure.

    • SSH Communications Security’s Universal SSH Key Manager

      Today’s IAM solutions, warns enterprise cybersecurity expert SSH Communications Security, fail to address fully the requirements of trusted access. Organizations lack an efficient way to manage and govern trusted access credentials and have no visibility into the activities that occur within the secure channels that are created for trusted access operations.

    • Three Years after Heartbleed, How Vulnerable Are You? [Ed: Fools who cling on to hype, marketing and FUD from a Microsoft-connected firm even 3 years later]

      Three years ago, the Heartbleed vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library sent the software industry and companies around the world into a panic. Software developers didn’t know enough about the open source components used in their own products to understand whether their software was vulnerable — and customers using that software didn’t know either.

  • Defence/Aggression

  • Finance

    • Zero hours contracts reach record levels

      The number of people on controversial zero hours contracts has reached a record high of 910,000.

      New figures based on an analysis of Office for National Statistics data reveal that 105,000 more people were on contracts that do not guarantee work in 2016 compared with the same period in 2015.

      That’s an increase of nearly 14%, and 30% higher than 2014.

      In 2005, there were just 100,000 people on zero hours contracts (ZHCs).

      But although the new figures are a record, they also reveal a sharp slowing in the rate of increase in the last six months of 2016.

  • AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Censorship/Free Speech

  • Privacy/Surveillance

  • Civil Rights/Policing

    • California City Finds Optimum Balance Between Safety And Profit, Trims Yellow Light Times To Produce Spike In Citations
    • Matthew Fisher: Trump was wrong on the details, but right about ‘problems’ in Sweden

      Though U.S. President Donald Trump probably stumbled upon it accidentally — and though he invoked a terror attack that never happened — he was right about there being “problems they never thought possible” in Sweden since it “took in” large numbers of refugees from Muslim-majority countries.

      There is little sign yet of such frictions in Canada. But as Trump’s utterances and the support he got from almost half the American electorate demonstrate, the debate now taking place across the Old World about refugees from the Middle East has already crossed the Atlantic. It will inevitably shape the discussion in Canada about immigration and Muslim refugees.

    • Attacking right to dissent

      Last week’s events at Delhi University, where the ABVP, the BJP’s student affiliate, disrupted a seminar on “protest cultures” and initiated a campaign of violence and intimidation that is yet to die down, signals that we are passing through a disturbing phase when anyone can cite nationalism or patriotism to inflict violence, with the police standing by. The pity is that top government figures have virtually given cover to trouble-makers by arguing — falsely — that free expression is sacrosanct but criticising India is intolerable.

    • 5 Ways To Stay Sane In An Era Of Non-Stop Outrage

      You ever get so bored that you feel like you could kill 27 people and then mail their body parts to the police station?

      Serial killers do. Get that bored, I mean. The whole deal with psychopaths is that their brains don’t handle dopamine correctly. That’s the chemical that makes you feel pleasure. They get so starved for stimulation that they keep trying crazier and crazier shit just to fight the boredom.

    • Here’s what happened when this Swede introduced fika at her London office

      You can take the Swede out of Sweden, but you can never take their fika. Hanna Månsson writes about what happened when she brought the concept to her London office.

      When I left Sweden for London almost 12 years ago I also left behind a lot of things that I really love. Friends and family aside, I left ‘mosbricka’ at one o’clock in the morning, grillchips with dip at fredagsmys, Eurovision hysteria and a lot of fairly fabulous employment rights. And perhaps the hardest one of all – I left behind fika.

    • Engineer says Uber hired firm to investigate her after she reported sexual harassment

      The former Uber engineer who published a viral account of sexual harassment and discrimination said her former employer had hired a law firm to investigate her.

      Susan Fowler, whose blogpost about sexism and misconduct sparked widespread debate about the mistreatment of women in Silicon Valley, said on Thursday that Uber was investigating her and that she had hired the law firm Baker Curtis & Schwartz to represent her.

      An Uber spokesperson told the Guardian that the law form Perkins Coie was “investigating Susan’s claims, not Susan personally”.

      Fowler’s claim on Twitter comes a week after she said she had learned of some kind of “smear campaign” and that investigators had reached out to contacts of hers for “personal and intimate” details of her life.

      Shortly after Fowler posted her account last month – which claimed that a manager immediately propositioned her for sex when she joined the company and that HR refused to hold him accountable despite clear evidence – Uber said it was launching an “urgent investigation” into her claims. The company subsequently hired the former US attorney general Eric Holder to assist with the process.

    • Silicon Valley Needs To Get Its Act Together On Sexual Harassment & Discrimination

      You may have heard, recently, about a series of reports about sexual harassment (and general sexism and other similarly awful behavior) in Silicon Valley. It’s not a new thing, but it’s getting a lot of necessary attention right now and it’s seriously messed up. It’s unacceptable. It needs to stop — and people need to speak up about it, and to come down hard on anyone who’s engaging in it or letting it slide. If you’re doing the kind of crap being discussed, stop it now (and go apologize). If someone tells you you’re acting inappropriately, listen to them. And if you see someone else doing something awful, tell them to knock it off and then follow through.

  • Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

    • FCC Partially Kills Rules Requiring ISPs Be Clear About Usage Caps, Hidden Fees

      FCC boss Ajit Pai made it clear that overturning net neutrality would be the new FCC’s top priority (apparently right behind paying lip service to the poor), and his behavior is making it very clear that wasn’t an empty promise. Pai recently killed the FCC’s inquiry into Verizon and AT&T’s zero rating, which lets both companies use arbitrary usage caps to give their own content an unfair market advantage. The previous FCC argued both ISPs were violating net neutrality and engaged in anti-competitive behavior. The new FCC, in contrast, now says zero rating “enhances competition in the wireless marketplace.”

    • Why the dark net is more resilient to attack than the internet

      The internet is amazingly robust, but like any complex network is still prone to the occasional failure. A new analysis using network theory explains why the dark net – the hidden underbelly of the regular internet, invisible to search engines – is less vulnerable to attacks. The lessons learned could help inform the design of more robust communications networks in the future.

      The regular internet’s design is deliberately decentralised, which makes it very stable under normal circumstances. Think of each site or server as a node, connected to numerous nodes around it, which in turn connect to even more nodes, and so on. Take out a node or two here or there and the network continues to function just fine. But this structure also makes it more vulnerable to a coordinated attack: take out many nodes at once, as happens during a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, and the result can be catastrophic failure that cascades through the entire network.

    • Broadband lobbyists celebrate as FCC halts data security requirements

      Broadband industry lobby groups are celebrating a Federal Communications Commission decision to prevent enforcement of a rule intended to protect customers’ private data from security breaches.

      The data security rule that was scheduled to take effect today would have required ISPs and phone companies to take “reasonable” steps to protect customers’ information—such as Social Security numbers, financial and health information, and Web browsing data—from theft and data breaches. The FCC issued a stay of the rule yesterday, and Chairman Ajit Pai said he wants to shift authority over data security and privacy entirely to the Federal Trade Commission.

  • Intellectual Monopolies

    • Australia’s Indigenous Culture Event at WIPO Showcases Human Rights Candidacy

      The creativity-oriented UN World Intellectual Property Organization is often at its best when displaying the colorfully multicultural nature of its membership.

      [...]

      The event was followed by a lavish array of foods from Australia, mainly dishes featuring Australian lamb and beef, along with wines.

      The event was a prime networking opportunity. Not only a platform to spotlight Australia’s candidacy, but among others there were two of the candidates to be next director general of the neighbouring World Health Organization.

    • The Vatican Announces Plan To Protect Pope Francis’ Publicity Rights

      Now, I was raised Catholic, and this all feels a little off. To start, there are some pretty clear passages from the Old Testament about making a big thing out of symbols and idols. I’m not saying that claiming dominion over the images of the Pope and Vatican symbols violates those passages, but it does seem to me that this is something of an effort to plunge His Holiness into the murky depths of celebrity culture. After all, while the language bandied about deals with copyright, much of this seems to actually be more in line with trademark and publicity rights.

    • Copyrights

      • Chicago PD Uses Copyright To Refuse Release Of Its 35-Year-Old Deadly Force Training Film

        When copyright is deployed as a censor, it usually means the removal of content. In the case of Freddy Martinez of Lucy Parsons Lab (instrumental in peeling back the opacity covering the Chicago PD’s “black budget”), copyright is the excuse being given to prevent the release of information.

        Martinez was hoping to obtain a copy of an instructional film the Chicago PD shows to incoming officers. This video — made more than 30 years ago — was highlighted in the DOJ’s damning civil rights report. The DOJ noted that the video was outdated and the instructors presenting the film did absolutely nothing to ensure engagement or, you know, provide actual instruction.

      • ExtraTorrent’s Main Domain Name Shut Down By Registrar

        ExtraTorrent, one of the world’s largest torrent indexes, has lost control of its main domain Extratorrent.cc. The domain name has been disconnected by the registrar, which has rendered the site hard to reach. However, it’s still accessible through several backups.

      • Private Anti-Piracy Deals With Domain Registries are Dangerous, Professor Warns

        Last year the MPAA signed its first anti-piracy deals with a domain name registries, hoping to limit widespread copyright infringement. A dangerous development, according to University of Idaho Law Professor Annemarie Bridy, who warns that DNS filtering could gradually become a common tool to supress disfavored speech.

      • Copyright Troll Sues Tor Exit Node, Gets Partial Win

        Copyright trolls still labor under the (deliberate) misconception that an IP address is a person. Sometimes judges allow it. Sometimes judges remind them not to conflate the two. And sometimes — well, maybe just this once — the IP address being sued is actually a Tor exit node, evidence of nothing. (h/t Raul)

        In an opinion handed down by Judge Michael Simon, the person Dallas Buyers Club is suing for infringement will be subject to adverse jury instructions thanks to the Tor exit node DBC sued. The order refers to alleged evidence spoliation by the defendant, who shut down his exit node after being sued. The defendant has (correctly) pointed out “Evidence of what?” because it’s highly unlikely his node would cough up any usable identifying information about infringers utilizing the node.

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    IRC logs for Thursday, June 01, 2023

  21. Links 02/06/2023: NixOS 23.05 and Rust 1.70.0

    Links for the day

  22. Gemini Links 02/06/2023: Flying High With Gemini and Gogios Released

    Links for the day

  23. Links 01/06/2023: KStars 3.6.5 and VEGA ET1031 RISC-V Microprocessor in Use

    Links for the day

  24. Gemini Links 01/06/2023: Scam Call and Flying High With Gemini

    Links for the day

  25. Links 01/06/2023: Spleen 2.0.0 Released and Team UPC Celebrates Its Own Corruption

    Links for the day

  26. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 31, 2023

    IRC logs for Wednesday, May 31, 2023

  27. Tux Machines Closing the Door on Twitter Because Twitter is Dead (for a Lot of People)

    Tux Machines recently joined millions of others who had already quit Twitter, including passive posting (fully or partly automated)

  28. Links 31/05/2023: Inkscape’s 1.3 Plans and New ARM Cortex-A55-Based Linux Chip

    Links for the day

  29. Gemini Links 31/05/2023: Personality of Software Engineers

    Links for the day

  30. Links 31/05/2023: Armbian 23.05 Release and Illegal UPC

    Links for the day

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