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Links 23/09/2022: PeerTube 4.3 and GNOME Report



  • GNU/Linux

    • Linux MagazineMake It One with Linux

      We interview Tuxedo Computers founder Herbert Feiler about the company's past, present, and future.

      In the old days, the operating system had to be Windows, but the times are changing. Tuxedo Computers is part of a new generation of computer vendors specializing in preinstalled Linux systems. The company is celebrating its 18th birthday this year, which seemed like a good time to ask Tuxedo founder Herbert Feiler about how he got started and the path ahead.

    • Unix MenLinux Commands Every Sysadmin Must Know

      If you are a system administrator, then Linux commands are what you use everywhere, you know what they are for and how to use them. However, before moving on to Linux commands that will be useful for both beginners to learn and experienced network administrators to make up for forgotten, it is worth mentioning what Linux is.

      Linux is an open-source operating system designed for file management. This means that any developer can take freely available system files and create their version of Linux – a distribution. Versions differ in built-in features, performance, graphical environment, support for unique programs and commands, and much more. Therefore, before downloading the system installation files from the first link in the browser, you need to figure out what exactly you need Linux for and, based on the goals, choose the appropriate version.

    • Desktop/Laptop

      • 9to5GoogleFramework Chromebook clarifies modules, operating systems

        This week the Framework Chromebook was announced as the first modular ChromeOS laptop. The ideas behind Framework are ambitious, to say the least, but how will this Chromebook version differ from the Windows option, and what about modules? In a Q&A on Hacker News, Framework’s founder has answered some of the community’s biggest questions around this new device.

      • Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It’s Boring | by Clive Thompson | Sep, 2022 | Medium

        A few days ago I took my Macbook Pro into the shop. It needed a new battery; the current one is five years old and dies after an hour. We’ll be in touch by next Tuesday, the repair shop said.

        So in the meantime, I started working on my backup laptop — which runs Linux.

    • Audiocasts/Shows

    • Kernel Space

      • André Almeidafutex2 at Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 | tony is coding

        As in the past editions, I took the opportunity to discuss about futex2, a project I’m deeply involved in. futex2 is a project to solve issues found in the current futex interface. This years’ session was about NUMA awaress of futex. Currently, futex allocates a single hash table in the kernel to store all data. If this is done in a NUMA machine, the table is allocated in a single node. This increases the cost of futex operations when done from any other node, given that will need to access a memory outside of it’s node.

      • LWNLinux 5.19.11
        I'm announcing the release of the 5.19.11 kernel.
        
        

        All users of the 5.19 kernel series must upgrade.

        The updated 5.19.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.19.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-s...

        thanks,

        greg k-h
      • LWNLinux 5.15.70
      • LWNLinux 5.10.145
    • Graphics Stack

      • Marcin 'hrw' Juszkiewicz: Is Wayland really a future of desktop?

        Each time I update my Fedora desktop to new release (usually around Beta) I give a try to Wayland. Which shows that I still use X11.

        [...]

        For desktop environment I use KDE. Which means Plasma desktop/panel, Konsole and few KDE apps. Firefox and Chrome as web browsers, Thunderbird for mail, Steam for gaming and Zoom (or Google Meet) for most of video calls.

    • Applications

      • OMG UbuntuAudacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support - OMG! Ubuntu!

        Podcasters, musicians, and amateur video makers like me will be pleased to know that a new version of open source audio editor Audacity is available to download.

        Audacity 3.2 serves as the latest stable release of this capable digital audio workstation, and is, as ever, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

        But what’s changed since last year’s Audacity 3.1 release?

      • Its FOSSAudacity 3.2 Released With VST3 Plugins and Apple Silicon Support

        Audacity 3.2 is here, a point update to one of the most popular free and open-source audio editing/recording tools.

        This release comes in after more than a year of the previous major release, Audacity 3.0.

        It is still one of the best audio editors for Linux available right now, even after its controversy last year.

        This release has a lot of new additions, such as support for VST3 plugins, support for Apple Silicon, FFMPEG 5.0, and more.

        Let's take a quick look at what's new with Audacity.

      • LinuxiacPeerTube 4.3 Free Video Platform Is Out with New Functionalities

        The ability to automatically import all videos from a remote channel into one of your PeerTube channels is the big news in PeerTube 4.3.

        PeerTube allows anyone to set up their video streaming site. It is a free, self-hosted, and open-source software that users can install on their servers to create a video hosting and sharing platform. In other words, it is like having your personal YouTube at home.

        Furthermore, all PeerTube sites can connect, and users having accounts on one can interact with people on the others. All PeerTube servers are interoperable as a federated network, and video load is lowered thanks to P2P (BitTorrent) in the web browser via WebTorrent.

      • Its FOSSFOSS Weekly #22.35: Linux Crossword, EuroLinux, GNOME 43, Files and Directories

        As promised in the previous edition of FOSS Weekly, we have created a crossword for you. This one is focused on various desktop environments and window managers.

    • Instructionals/Technical

      • ID RootHow To Install Rust Programming Language on Rocky Linux 9 - idroot

        In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Rust Programming Language on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Rust is a free and open-source, multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language developed by Mozilla. This language has many features such as safety, memory, and concurrency. Developers use Rust to create a wide range of new software applications, such as game engines, operating systems, file systems, browser components, and simulation engines for virtual reality.

        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 Rust Programming Language on Rocky Linux. 9.

      • DebugPointHow to Fix: bash wget Command Not Found Error
      • HowTo ForgeHow to Install Nexus Repository Manager on Ubuntu 22.04
      • HowTo ForgeHow to Install Neos CMS on Debian 11

        Neos is an enterprise content management built-in with custom content modeling that provides an effective way to edit and manage content, SEO optimization such as automatic redirects and SEO metadata, and powerful roles and user management.

      • Make Use OfHow to Read and Execute From a File With the Linux source Command

        source is a handy built-in shell command that accepts arguments, parses commands in a script, and executes them in the shell environment. The file's content is read by source and then passed on to the Tool Command Language (TCL) interpreter, which executes the commands.

      • H2S MediaHow to install FreeOffice on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy

        Learn the commands to install FreeOffice on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish Linux using the terminal to edit your documents.

        FreeOffice 2021 is a strong MS-Office alternative for those who don’t want to spend money but still rely on compatibility with Microsoft Office formats. Although FreeOffice is limited compared to the paid solution of SoftMaker, for most personal users the range of functions should still be sufficient.

        Using FreeOffice Microsoft documents can usually be opened, edited, and saved under FreeOffice without loss of formatting. Also visually oriented the software is stronger which won’t let you feel that you are using some free office version. This allows you to use a modern ribbon menu, as you are used to from MS Word. FreeOffice also includes a classic menu including Light and Dark Mode. In addition, there is a touchscreen mode, which significantly improves finger operation.

        To use FreeOffice for free, you must register the software after five days. All you have to do is provide a valid e-mail address.

      • AddictiveTipsSet up the Betterbird fork of Thunderbird on Linux

        Tired of waiting for Mozilla Thunderbird to get updated with new features or bug fixes on your Linux system? Try out Betterbird. It is a soft fork of Thunderbird that promises to keep the email client fresh, packed with features, and up to date. Here’s how to set up Betterbird on your Linux PC.

      • Red Hat OfficialHow to integrate Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes with ServiceNow

        In this post I will go through how you can integrate and send policy alert notifications from Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (RHACS) to ServiceNow.

        Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security supports a number of specific notifier integrations today, including Slack, Jira, Splunk, syslog and email. Although ServiceNow is not currently in that list, it is possible to use generic webhooks to create this integration. Using this option together with the ServiceNow feature Scripted REST API will allow you to send security alert notifications also to ServiceNow.

      • DebugPointHow to Fix: sudo Command Not Found Error

        The sudo command is an abbreviation of "superuser do", and it is a program which allows a user to execute a command with admin privileges. The sudo command helps you run programs/commands like an admin user.

        Also, the user, who is running the command with sudo must be a part of the sudo group. The primary reason you get this error is that the package itself is not installed. However, most modern Linux distribution provides this by default, but some don't.

      • H2S MediaHow to install Ubuntu 22.04 Server on VirtualBox - Linux Shout

        Learn the steps to install Ubuntu 22.04 Server ISO on VirtualBox Virtual machine running on Windows, macOS, Android, or Linux systems.

        Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux server is the latest long-term supported server OS from Canonical developers. Although, yet most of the server users are resorting currently on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, however, for those who want to try out the Jammy Jellyfish on a Virtual machine before moving to it, this article will help them.

        Most of the users would already be familiar with VirtualBox, if not, then it is an open-source project from Oracle to run virtual machines on all popular operating systems such as Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.

      • LinuxConfigHow to automatically change X11 displays setup with autorandr on Linux

        Adding a monitor to a setup is probably one of the most effective and immediate ways to increase productivity. A multi monitor setup can be useful, for example, when we need to consult some kind of documentation and at the same time work on another task full-screen. Autorandr is a free and open source utility able to apply specific X11 configurations depending on the displays connected to our machine.

        In this tutorial we learn how use the autorandr utility, and how to install it on some of the most used Linux distributions.

      • Red Hat OfficialFind text in files using the Linux grep command | Enable Sysadmin

        Using grep, you can quickly find text matching a regular expression in a single file, a group of files, or text coming from stdin.

      • OSTechNixEnable RPM Fusion Repository In Fedora, RHEL - OSTechNix

        In this brief guide, we will see what is RPM Fusion repository, why should we install RPM Fusion repository, and finally how to enable RPM Fusion repository in Fedora, RHEL, and its clones like CentOS, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux distributions.

      • The New StackHow to Create a Software Bill of Materials - The New Stack

        Although there might be days when you feel like dropping “SBOMs” left and right, within the realm of technology we’re not talking about another term for a four-letter word starting with “S.”

        SBOM stands for Software Bill of Materials and has become a crucial aspect of security for enterprise businesses and developers. Essentially, an SBOM is a nested inventory of software that comes together to serve a greater whole. SBOMs have become absolutely necessary for maintaining the high standards of security required to do business successfully — especially concerning supply chain risk management.

        You see, every piece of software ever created may or may not include vulnerabilities. That’s just a part of dealing with technology. This gets increasingly difficult as a piece of software requires more and more dependencies.

      • Trend OceansHow to Enable UEFI Mode in VirtualBox and VMware - TREND OCEANS

        Nowadays, you will find that most operating systems and hardware support UEFI mode, and when you buy new hardware that comes with a Windows operating system, you will find that the UEFI mode is the default boot firmware.

        However, you can switch back to legacy boot (on some hardware), but for that, you need to reinstall the operating system.

        But who will do that when UEFI has a lot of features enabled for users, like fast booting, which means you do not need to wait for a long period of time to just complete the boot process thanks to a separate EFI partition which holds the information about the operating system in a different partition.

        In addition, you will get a secure boot option to verify the integrity of the operating system at startup. It supports GUI over the boring blue screen, which can be complex for some users, but it has its own advantages.

      • HowTo ForgeHow to Install Prestashop with Apache and Let's Encrypt SSL on Debian 11

        PrestaShop is a free, open-source, efficient, and innovative e-commerce solution that helps you to sell your products online.

    • WINE or Emulation

      • WINE Project (Official)WineHQ - Wine Announcement - The Wine development release 7.18 is now available.
        The Wine development release 7.18 is now available.
        
        

        What's new in this release: - Character tables updated to Unicode 15.0.0. - Wow64 support in the macOS driver. - Async reader fixes in GStreamer support. - Various bug fixes.

        The source is available at:

        https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/7.x/wine-7.18.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.
    • Games

    • Desktop Environments/WMs

      • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

        • Shared With Me files in KIO GDrive

          I’ve just merged in kio-gdrive master the support for Shared With Me files. This new feature will be shipped with the next KDE Gear 22.12 release.

          Your shared files and folders will be presented in a virtual “Shared With Me” folder (similar to the “Shared With Me” tab in the Google web-UI)...

      • GNOME Desktop/GTK

  • Distributions and Operating Systems

    • New Releases

      • Mabox September 2022 ISO refresh

        September’s refreshed ISO images bring some interesting new features and a series of improvements for the already known Mabox tools.

    • Screenshots/Screencasts

    • SUSE/OpenSUSE

      • openSUSE Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2022/38 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*)

        During this week, openSUSE Tumbleweed was once again able to showcase the power there is in using OBS (open build service), openQA, and a dedicated team to make things happen. After six months of development, GNOME 43.0 has been released upstream on Sep 21. The openSUSE GNOME Team has been closely following progress and kept packages updated in the devel branch throughout the alpha/beta/RC phases. All the relevant package updates had been ready shortly after upstream released the tarballs and GNOME 43.0 could be shipped as part of Snapshot 20220921. This one snapshot only serves as an example of what happens in the various development areas. And this was just ONE of the snapshots published during this week. One, in a group of a total of 7, that is.

      • SUSE's Corporate BlogTCS Cognix Enterprise CaaS Solution with SUSE Rancher | SUSE Communities

        The following blog has been written by TCS Agile Computing, Cloud & Edge, Centre of Excellence (CoE) in collaboration with the Global SUSE GSI team. It examines the TCS Cognix Enterprise Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution with SUSE Rancher.

    • Red Hat and Fedora Family

      • Enterprisers Project4 questions IT leaders should ask before investing in new technologies | The Enterprisers Project

        It’s becoming clear that the economic highs we've seen over the last few years are settling down. What’s less clear is how low they will go and for how long.

        Savvy business leaders understand that the one thing that will help them weather this change is technology. While spending on technology will remain strong going forward, the key drivers to tech investments will shift, and practicality will be the key watchword.

        The cloud will continue to gain momentum as the key enabler to work from anywhere. Still, cloud costs will be more closely scrutinized across different departments, and some tasks formerly handled by cloud providers will likely go back to the IT staff. In addition, companies will look to reveal underutilized services that could enable additional cost savings.

        Companies will also turn to automation and AI to boost productivity and reduce costs caused by errors and waste. For example, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) systems will help companies automate repetitive tasks while minimizing human error that can result in additional costs and penalties.

      • Red Hat OfficialPipelines for cloud-native network functions (CNFs) Part 2: Pipelines for lifecycle management
      • Fedora ProjectFedora Community Blog: CPE Weekly Update – Week 38 2022

        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.

        We provide you both infographics and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

      • Fedora ProjectFedora Community Blog: Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2022-38

        Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!

        I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.

    • Debian Family

      • Gunnar WolfGunnar Wolf: 6237415

        Years ago, it was customary that some of us stated publicly the way we think in time of Debian General Resolutions (GRs). And even if we didn’t, vote lists were open (except when voting for people, i.e. when electing a DPL), so if interested we could understand what our different peers thought.

        This is the first vote, though, where a Debian vote is protected under voting secrecy. I think it is sad we chose that path, as I liken a GR vote more with a voting process within a general assembly of a cooperative than with a countrywide voting one; I feel that understanding who is behind each posture helps us better understand the project as a whole.

        But anyway, I’m digressing… Even though I remained quiet during much of the discussion period (I was preparing and attending a conference), I am very much interested in this vote — I am the maintainer for the Raspberry Pi firmware, and am a seconder for two of them. Many people know me for being quite inflexible in my interpretation of what should be considered Free Software, and I’m proud of it. But still, I believer it to be fundamental for Debian to be able to run on the hardware most users have.

    • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

      • UbuntuIoT Project Lifecycle: Efficient prototyping with Snaps and Ubuntu Core [Part I] | Ubuntu

        There is nothing more exciting than creating something new. Whether developing a new idea, coding a new software feature or creating a new product altogether. After a lot of hard work, we can finally see users interacting with the system and sharing their feedback. The quickest way to reach that point in a project is to start prototyping early.

        With an abundance of hardware and software available, it has never been easier to create a working prototype. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype is worth a thousand meetings. Providing an interactive solution to stakeholders and potential users is the easiest and fastest way to convey and validate your ideas.

      • UbuntuDesign and Web team summary – 29 July 2022 | Ubuntu

        The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration.

    • Devices/Embedded

    • Open Hardware/Modding

      • ArduinoA DIY non-contact digital tachometer for machinists | Arduino Blog

        A tachometer is a device that counts the revolutions of a rotating object, with the most well-known example being the automotive tachometer that monitors the revolutions per minute (RPMs) of an internal combustion engine. But tachometers are useful, and sometimes a requirement, in many other applications. RPM is a very important datum when working with machine tools like lathes and milling machines, which is what this DIY non-contact digital tachometer was designed to accommodate.

        The term “feeds and speeds” refers to the parameters a machinist uses to achieve the ideal tool load. A vertical milling machine’s end mill, for example, can only remove a certain amount of material with each stroke of each cutting flute. For that reason, it is imperative that a machinist know how fast the end mill is rotating. Most modern machine tools (not just CNC tools, but also manual tools) include a digital RPM display. But many older machines and some modern machines with low-cost VFDs (variable-frequency drives) do not and that makes it very difficult to maintain optimal load. This DIY device addresses those shortcomings in an affordable way.

      • ArduinoZen sand garden in a suitcase doubles as MIDI controller | Arduino Blog

        At the shallow end of the pool, a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) controller can be as simple as a handful of buttons that correspond to different notes. But even as one wades into the deep end of the pool, MIDI controllers tend to still look like hunks of plastic with some knobs and keys. Redditor Gilou_ wanted something that felt more organic (actually, “inorganic” if we want to be technical) and so they built this unusual MIDI controller that looks like a Japanese-style sand garden in a suitcase.

        If you stumbled across this device without any context, you would assume that is exactly what it is: some kind of portable sand garden. Opening the top of the suitcase reveals a handful of dark stones resting in a bed of sand. Traditional rakes and scoops hang in straps on the lid of the suitcase. But underneath the sand there are a few electronic components that turn the sound garden into a functional instrument. A piezoelectric pickup, like the kind you’d see on some acoustic-electric guitars, in the sand translates the vibrations of sand raking and sifting into an audio signal that feeds into a computer’s sound card.

    • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

  • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    • Microsoft-funded 'analyst': The Dead End - tecosystems

      If we normalize projects baiting developers with an open source license to gain traction and switching to a non-open source license to monopolize the returns on that traction, then the logical next step for investors will be skipping that first step entirely.

    • drones run linux: the free software movement isn't enough

      richard stallman. rms. if you've spent time in tech, you may know his name. in popular tabloid culture, he's painted as a sexist pedo - in 4chan-esque dungeons, he's heralded as a savior.

      in reality, he's a very flawed human that discovered something most of us never will. a single cause to commit the rest of his entire life to.

      rms has led the free software movement for 40 years. his asset is his flaw. he is stubborn. extremely stubborn. absolutely unwilling to deviate, admit fault, change, or back down. a staunch revolutionary on a blazing battleground. the world will see free software as a moral right, and he will die fighting, no matter what anyone says.

    • HackadayOpenAI Hears You Whisper

      Should you wish to try high-quality voice recognition without buying something, good luck. Sure, you can borrow the speech recognition on your phone or coerce some virtual assistants on a Raspberry Pi to handle the processing for you, but those aren’t good for major work that you don’t want to be tied to some closed-source solution. OpenAI has introduced Whisper, which they claim is an open source neural net that “approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.” It appears to work on at least some other languages, too.

    • VideoNMKD, An Easy GUI for the Stable Diffusion AI Art Generator - Invidious

      NMKD Stable Diffusion GUI is an easy to use, and easy to install, graphical front end to the Stable Diffusion AI Art Generator. In this video, I go through the steps involved in finding the tool, installing it, and creating your own AI masterpieces on your own PC.

    • Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

    • Programming/Development

      • Steve KempLisp macros are magical

        In my previous post I introduced yet another Lisp interpreter. When it was posted there was no support for macros.

        Since I've recently returned from a visit to the UK, and caught COVID-19 while I was there, I figured I'd see if my brain was fried by adding macro support.

        I know lisp macros are awesome, it's one of those things that everybody is told. Repeatedly. I've used macros in my emacs programming off and on for a good few years, but despite that I'd not really given them too much thought.

      • Barry KaulerLimine 4.1.2 black screen

        I have built EasyOS 4.4, for final testing, and tested it on some of my small collection of computers. Unfortunately, get a black screen on one of the computers.

      • QtQt for Android Automotive 6.3.2 is released

        We are happy to announce that the latest Qt for Android Automotive is out, focusing on better developer experience and bug fixes.

      • Perl / Raku

        • PerlTPF launches merch store for Perl 5 | dean [blogs.perl.org]

          TPF has launched an online store with Perl merchandise (swag) celebrating the Perl 5.36 release. The marketing committee plan to do a custom celebratory collection for each release of Perl with revenue from each sale goes to TPF's Perl fund.

        • PerlMy Perl Weekly Challenge | AWNCORP [blogs.perl.org]

          All this talk about types, objects, and systems, got me to thinking, "what would it take to create a 100% backwards-compatible pure Perl proof-of-concept for optionally typable subroutine signatures". I mean really, how hard could it be?

      • Python

        • LWNArch Linux drops Python 2

          Arch Linux has announced that Python 2 is being removed from the distribution's repositories. "If you still require the python2 package you can keep it around, but please be aware that there will be no security updates."

        • LinuxiacPython 2 Is No Longer Part of the Arch Linux Repositories

          Python 2 reached EOL in 2020, so Arch's devs reduced the apps that used it to the point it is now entirely removed from the distro's repos.

      • Rust

        • Linux embracing Rust will boost robotics community [Ed: There are reasons to be sceptical of this because C is already used widely, good developers use it, and it's not clear what developers stayed away from Linux kernel development just because Rust wasn't admissible]

          This week, Linux’s Benevolent Dictator For Life Linus Torvalds mentioned that the Rust programming language would be used in the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel. Currently, the Linux kernel is at preview version 6.0-rc6 (codenamed “Hurr durr I’ma ninja sloth”) so we have a bit of time before we all have Rust powering the kernel, but the mere announcement is news-worthy. It’s the author’s opinion that this embrace of Rust at the very core of Linux will be a huge boost to the robotics community.

        • Ten challenges for Rust

          Rust is in a pretty good place; it is getting more and more popular, has more and more contributors, and is used in some pretty significant places. However, it is a time of flux and change, and transitioning from a research project then a new, rapidly changing language to a popular, established project is a difficult change.

          Here, I want to describe what I think are the ten biggest challenges for Rust for now and the next few years. I have some ideas for solutions, but they are all big, difficult questions with no simple answer, so the real solutions will all take iteration, energy, and creativity. My focus is on the core project; there are many challenges for the community and ecosystem (e.g., how to make GUIs with Rust, or how to get more crates to 1.0) which I think must be primarily solved by the community.

  • Leftovers

    • HackadayBetter Scope Measurements

      There was a time when few hobbyists had an oscilloscope and the ones you did see were old military or industrial surplus that were past their prime. Today you can buy a fancy scope for about what those used scopes cost that would have once been the envy of every giant research lab. However, this new breed of instrument is typically digital and while they look like an old analog scope, the way they work leads to some odd gotchas that [Arthur Pini] covers in a recent post.

    • HackadayRobots Chase Down Balls In Fun Outdoor Game

      Art installations aren’t always about static sculpture or pure aesthetics. In the case of Operation Kiba, they can be fun games for everyone to enjoy.

    • HackadayA Love Letter To Small Design Teams, And The B-52

      The true measure of engineering success — or, at least, one of them — is how long something remains in use. A TV set someone designed in 1980 is probably, at best, relegated to a dusty guest room today if not the landfill. But the B-52 — America’s iconic bomber — has been around for more than 70 years and will likely keep flying for another 30 years or more. Think about that. A plane that first flew in 1952 is still in active use. What’s more, according to a love letter to the plane by [Alex Hollings], it was designed over a weekend in a hotel room by a small group of people.

    • HackadayHackaday Prize 2022: Solar Powered LoRa Weather Station For The Masses

      [Debasish Dutta] has designed a few weather stations in the past, and this, the€ fourth version of the system€ has had many of the feature requests from past users rolled in. The station is intended to be used with an external weather sensor unit, provided by Sparkfun. This handles wind speed and direction, as well as measuring rainfall. A custom PCB hosts an ESP32-WROOM module and an Ai-Thinker Ra-02 LoRa module for control and connectivity respectively. A PMS5003 sits on the PCB to measure those particulate densities, but most sensors are connected with simple 4-way I2C connectors. Temperature, humidity, and pressure are handled by a BME280 module, UV Index (SI1145), visible light (BH1750) even soil humidity and temperature with a cable-mounted SHT10 module.

    • Hardware

      • HackadayWireless Water Detector Hooks Up To Home Assistant

        Water damage can quickly make even the nicest buildings unliveable. [Andres Leon] suffered a small flood from an air conditioning unit, and wanted to avoid such issues in future. Thus, he built a wireless monitor to solve the problem.

      • HackadaySimple Internet Radio Transplant

        While we have a definite sweet spot in our hearts for analog radio, there are times that just call for a digital upgrade. One of the downsides that can come with this upgrade is complexity. For example, the more software-minded among us might base their build on the Music Player Daemon, and use a web interface for control. But that’s not everyone’s idea of a good time, and particularly an older user of your gizmos might really appreciate a simple, tactile user interface. That’s the situation [Blake Hannaford] was in, while building an Internet powered radio for someone else.

      • We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
    • Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

      • Common DreamsMassive Surge in US Wildfire Smoke Chokes Air Quality Progress for Tens of Millions

        Researchers at Stanford University found that the number of people impacted by "extreme smoke days," during which air quality is considered unhealthy for all age groups and populations, has increased by 27 times over the past decade, with 25 million exposed to hazardous air quality on at least one day in 2020.

    • Proprietary

    • Security

      • LWNSecurity updates for Friday [LWN.net]

        Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9, expat, firefox-esr, mediawiki, and unzip), Fedora (qemu and thunderbird), Oracle (webkit2gtk3), SUSE (ardana-ansible, ardana-cobbler, ardana-tempest, grafana, openstack-heat-templates, openstack-horizon-plugin-gbp-ui, openstack-neutron-gbp, openstack-nova, python-Django1, rabbitmq-server, rubygem-puma, ardana-ansible, ardana-cobbler, grafana, openstack-heat-templates, openstack-murano, python-Django, rabbitmq-server, rubygem-puma, dpdk, freetype2, rubygem-rack, and virtualbox), and Ubuntu (etcd, libjpeg-turbo, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-raspi, linux-oem-5.17, linux-raspi-5.4, python-oauthlib, and python3.5).

      • The Register UKCan reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it

        Our models and experimental results in a controlled lab setting show it is possible to reconstruct and recognize with over 75 percent accuracy on-screen texts that have heights as small as 10 mm with a 720p webcam.” That corresponds to 28 pt, a font size commonly used for headings and small headlines.

        […]

        Being able to read reflected headline-size text isn’t quite the privacy and security problem of being able to read smaller 9 to 12 pt fonts. But this technique is expected to provide access to smaller font sizes as high-resolution webcams become more common.

        “We found future 4k cameras will be able to peek at most header texts on almost all websites and some text documents,” said Long.

        […]

        A variety of factors can affect the legibility of text reflected in a video conference participant’s glasses. These include reflectance based on the meeting participant’s skin color, environmental light intensity, screen brightness, the contrast of the text with the webpage or application background, and the characteristics of eyeglass lenses. Consequently, not every glasses-wearing person will necessarily provide adversaries with reflected screen sharing.

        With regard to potential mitigations, the boffins say that Zoom already provides a video filter in its Background and Effects settings menu that consists of reflection-blocking opaque cartoon glasses. Skype and Google Meet lack that defense.

      • arXivPrivate Eye: On the Limits of Textual Screen Peeking via Eyeglass Reflections in Video Conferencing

        Using mathematical modeling and human subjects experiments, this research explores the extent to which emerging webcams might leak recognizable textual and graphical information gleaming from eyeglass reflections captured by webcams. The primary goal of our work is to measure, compute, and predict the factors, limits, and thresholds of recognizability as webcam technology evolves in the future. Our work explores and characterizes the viable threat models based on optical attacks using multi-frame super resolution techniques on sequences of video frames. Our models and experimental results in a controlled lab setting show it is possible to reconstruct and recognize with over 75% accuracy on-screen texts that have heights as small as 10 mm with a 720p webcam. We further apply this threat model to web textual contents with varying attacker capabilities to find thresholds at which text becomes recognizable. Our user study with 20 participants suggests present-day 720p webcams are sufficient for adversaries to reconstruct textual content on big-font websites. Our models further show that the evolution towards 4K cameras will tip the threshold of text leakage to reconstruction of most header texts on popular websites. Besides textual targets, a case study on recognizing a closed-world dataset of Alexa top 100 websites with 720p webcams shows a maximum recognition accuracy of 94% with 10 participants even without using machine-learning models. Our research proposes near-term mitigations including a software prototype that users can use to blur the eyeglass areas of their video streams. For possible long-term defenses, we advocate an individual reflection testing procedure to assess threats under various settings, and justify the importance of following the principle of least privilege for privacy-sensitive scenarios.

      • eSecurity PlanetSoftware Supply Chain Security Guidance for Developers

        Whether it’s package hijacking, dependency confusing, typosquatting, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) compromises, or basic web exploitation of outdated dependencies, there are many software supply chain attacks adversaries can perform to take down their victims, hold them to ransom, and exfiltrate critical data.

        It’s often more efficient to attack a weak link in the chain to reach a bigger target, like what happened to Kaseya or SolarWinds in the last couple of years. Attackers can implant an RCE (remote code execution) or harvest developers’ credentials to escalate privileges and perform malicious actions stealthily.

        Besides, they may only have to compromise a single package to distribute malware to a large range of users and organizations, because the current supply chain is insanely complex and interconnected.

      • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Defence/Aggression

    • Transparency/Investigative Reporting

    • Environment

      • ScheerpostThe Main Driver Behind Pakistan’s Floods Has a Familiar Name

        Juan Cole reports on a new paper regarding a third of Pakistan being under water as calls for debt relief and reparations grow.

      • The NationHolding Back the Tide of Water Privatization

        At the end of August, severe storms hit Mississippi, and the Pearl River flooded, rendering the city of Jackson’s water treatment facilities inoperable. Now approximately 150,000 residents do not have access to safe drinking water. The crisis in Jackson has exposed a long-standing history of racism, white flight, and state sabotage of a majority Black city. Tate Reeves, the Republican governor of Mississippi and himself the product of the suburbs to which white residents fled, has suggested that privatizing Jackson’s water supply could fix the problem. Water activists say this cure would likely be worse than the disease.

      • Common DreamsGroups Demand Ouster of 'Climate Denier' Leading World Bank

        Activists on Thursday unfurled a banner in front of the institution's building in Washington, D.C. that labels Malpass a "climate denier" and called on U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders to ditch the World Bank chief.

    • Finance

      • Common DreamsOpinion | Lives Are on the Line: It's Time for a National Paid Leave Policy

        My husband and I dreamed of starting a family for so long. Our beautiful son, David, is the light of my life. But when he was born 11 years ago, those first few months were a very difficult time for our family. I had a c-section, so I needed time to heal as we brought David home. But neither my husband nor I had jobs with paid leave, and there are many expenses that come along with having a child.

      • The NationUnionizing Starbucks
      • TruthOutUnionized Boston Starbucks Workers Celebrate Win After 64-Day Strike
      • The NationNo, America Doesn’t Actually Need “Sacrifice Zones”

        In the American ethos, sacrifice is often hailed as the chief ingredient for overcoming hardship and seizing opportunity. To be successful, we’re assured, college students must make personal sacrifices by going deep into debt for a future degree and the earnings that may come with it. Small business owners must sacrifice their paychecks so that their companies will continue to grow, while politicians must similarly sacrifice key policy promises to get something (almost anything!) done.

      • The NationFascists, Neofascists, and Postfascists: Italy’s Unreal Election Debate

        Rome—Ahead of Sunday’s general election, 92 percent of Italians say their top concern is rising energy prices. Even before the inflation crisis, millions of Italians avoided turning on their home appliances; now, they are discussing how to use less gas to boil pasta. Yet the importance of this issue doesn’t necessarily translate directly into partisan allegiances.

      • The Nation“You Strike So You Don’t Quit”: Across the Country, Nurses Are Fighting Overwork

        On the first day of a massive nurses’ strike across 16 hospitals in Minnesota, Emily Kniskern and her daughter arrived outside the hospital where she works, St. Luke’s Duluth, at 6:30 in the morning. Her daughter soon left to go to school, but after cross-country practice, she came back to rejoin the picket line. Other nurses brought their kids too. One had 4-month-old triplets in onesies emblazoned each with one of the unions’ three letters: MNA. Kniskern spotted children whose births she assisted. “Our kids get care there; this is the hospital that we go to when we are sick or when we are hurt,” she noted. The kids “are reminders of why we’re doing this.”

      • Counter PunchChina is Capitalist

        Before explaining his proofs, Brown engages in some general applause for the Chinese system—though the causes for his cheer-leading are basically beside the point regarding whether China is communist-socialist or capitalist. He states that “China has become, in one generation, the world’s largest economy in purchasing power parity (PPP)”—a measure economists question anyway when used in reference to production, as Brown does.

      • Common DreamsHouse GOP Agenda Signals Push for Social Security and Medicare Cuts

        A one-page summary of the agenda that House Republicans, led by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), are expected to formally introduce Friday includes a highly misleading line that expresses the GOP's commitment to "save and strengthen Social Security and Medicare."

      • Common DreamsFed Rate Hikes Won't Tackle the Corporate Profiteering Behind Inflation, Experts Tell Congress

        During his opening statement, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), chair of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, said that "we cannot ignore the reality that American corporations today are reporting higher profit margins than ever, while increasing prices more than necessary to cover costs—all at the expense of the American consumer."

    • AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

    • Censorship/Free Speech

    • Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

    • Civil Rights/Policing

      • The NationA Poet Confronts the Violent History of El Salvador

        In the early morning darkness of May 24, 2022, hundreds of people were camped on a street bordering a prison in San Luis Mariona, El Salvador. The encampment had been there for days, its inhabitants hoping for information about loved ones they suspected the state was holding on the other side of the prison walls. More than 50,000 Salvadorans have been arrested since late March in what President Nayib Bukele claims is a crackdown on gangs, but the administration refuses to share information about those detained. Most of the families that day in May couldn’t even be certain their relatives were in Mariona. But they had traveled hours by public bus from their rural homes to get here, where the only option was to sleep on the street, because the administration sometimes released prisoners by stealth at night.1

      • ScheerpostCaitlin Johnstone: America’s Perverse Poverty Draft

        Some lawmakers worry partial cancellation of student debts will harm military recruitment and they’ve written to the president and defense secretary about it.

      • ScheerpostDown for the Count

        "Down for the Count," a new original cartoon by the inimitable Mr. Fish, takes a closer look at the fabric of our justice system.

      • Papers PleaseFreedom to travel to get an abortion

        Both anti-abortion vigilantes and state laws criminalizing actions related to abortion, including facilitating abortion-related travel, are prompting women seeking abortions as well as those who support abortion rights to think about how to protect abortion travelers and their supporters against identification, surveillance, stalking, harassment, or legal sanctions.

      • Techdirt5th Circuit Awards Immunity To Cop Who Decided A Suicidal Man Should Be Tased While He Had A Noose Around His Neck

        Oh, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Whatever will you do next?

      • TechdirtNew Data From The Bureau Of Prisons Indicates Bail Reform Won’t Make Americans Less Safe

        Along with the call for law enforcement reforms following the inflection point created by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd, there has been increasing demand for bail reform.

      • TruthOutCongressional Staffers Are Holding Their First-Ever Union Vote
      • ScheerpostStates Need Constitutional Amendments to Protect Abortion From Right-Wing Judges

        Marjorie Cohn writes about state government and right to abortion from constitutional protection. Although the California Supreme Court has declared that the state constitution’s right to privacy protects abortion, that safeguard remains ephemeral.

      • Common DreamsOhio Court Filings Detail Dozens of Patients Put Under 'Extreme Duress' by Abortion Ban

        As the Ohio Capital Journal reported Thursday, abortion providers in the state have seen the effects of Senate Bill 23—which banned nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and is now temporarily blocked until mid-October—on dozens on patients facing fetal abnormalities, cancer diagnoses, and pregnancies resulting from rape.

    • Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

      • TechdirtCable Giant Charter Will Pay $1.1 Billion After Tech Murders Elderly Customer

        Back in the early aughts, when I wrote exclusively about the broadband sector, you literally couldn’t go a week without a story about a cable broadband technician € falling asleep on the job,€ blowing up homes,€ occasionally murdering people€ or€ getting arrested for torturing and spray painting kittens.

  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal

      • Tips for the bachelors degree?



        Soon I will need to write my bachelors degree. I have mixed feelings about it, curious but also a bit scared. All in all, I think I have a pretty interesting topic (using low-earth-orbit satellites for routing the internet), and also have some (minor) experience in reading and writing scientific papers, but the scale of a bachelors degree is something completely new to me.

        I therefore thought about what I could do to ease the progress of writing the degree, and also want your feedback on what would be sensible to do in such a situation, maybe it will help me (and maybe also others) for this and further scientific works.

      • ROOPHLOCH

        Here we are again, writing from the bus. I'm slowly tapping away as I take the 20 minute journey into Reykjavik to meet a friend for coffee. I've not spent time with her in months, so we have much to catch up on.

        I like the bus. I never used it in the US. I lived in 16 states but only twice in a town with any substanitial public transit. In neither case did it feel like this, like community. As I sit here there are four children with scooters traveling alone into the city. Perhaps another dozen scattered and talking. I relax into the atmosphere instead of dreading it. I go to see a friend, yo share my community experiences with her and the journey is fitting.

        Last night I listened to a talk by Pawel (look up last name later) at my local hackerspace, Hakkavélin, about Solarpunk. It was inspiring, hopeful, and a wake-up to tge possibilities in my own actions. It was also the first introduction to the idea for many of my friends. The thrill of seeing their excitement redoubled my own.

      • FHIOSTU Wordo: VAPID
      • Star Log 2022-09-23 04:00 AKDT (Fairbanks, AK, US)

        Having had only overcast skies for days and days, I was eager to latch on to any opportunity. OpenWeather had forecasted a brief drop in the cloud cover in the early morning, so I gave it a try, getting up around 2am. Unfortunately, the cloud cover was still pretty bad, around 80% I'd guess. I tried to work with it, but the problem was that the clouds were moving pretty fast, so that once I got my sights trained on something, it would get covered up by clouds within about five minutes. So, if you are looking for an exciting post, you'll want to skip the rest of this entry.

        On the whole, it was disappointing, but it was an interesting challenge to try to orient myself to the sky when only about a fifth of it is visible through random gaps in the cloud cover.

      • Media Rec: Severance

        Wasn't sure what to call this style of entry, but it's mainly going to be for raving about pieces of media that I've recently enjoyed. Severance was initially suggested to me by my parents, and I was curious about the concept, but oh boy did it exceed my expectations!

    • Politics

      • A rant about politics

        I am not a fan of politics, never have been. I don't like reading about it, hearing about it, seeing about it. Thats because people aren't interested in genuine heartfelt discussion and idealogical compromise, theyre interested in pointing fingers, playing with scapegoats and strawmen. Grown ass adults acting like children who would rather play the blame game with the polar opposite of their ideaology and say "this type of person is the reason for all the worlds problems! Look at how (insert political group) is to blame for our suffering! If only that country adopted Y economic system!"

        In my real life experience, ones who single mindedly talk about politics and ideaologies are arrogant and bullheaded people who think they are so much smarter and well informed than everyone else, and their opinions are the *right* ones.

    • Technical

      • Internet/Gemini

        • IDEA: Public Imageboard In Gemini

          There was once a gemini capsule called iich.space, it was run by sk! and is now defunct. It was another chan board inspired by 2chan. Now I would not be talking about a capsule dead for months if it did not do something special that has not yet re-appeared in gemini. A public *image* board.


* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.



Recent Techrights' Posts

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"In celebration of RMS's birthday, we've been playing a bit. We extracted some quotes from the various articles, comments, letters, writings, etc. and put them in the form of a slideshow in the home page."
Thailand: GNU/Linux Up to 6% of Desktops/Laptops, According to statCounter
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António Campinos is Still 'The Fucking President' (in His Own Words) After a Fake 'Election' in 2022 (He Bribed All the Voters to Keep His Seat)
António Campinos and the Administrative Council, whose delegates he clearly bribed with EPO budget in exchange for votes
Adrian von Bidder, homeworking & Debian unexplained deaths
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
 
Sainsbury's: It Takes Us Up to Two Days to Respond to Customers Upon Escalation (and Sometimes Even More Than Two Days)
It not only does groceries but also many other things, even banking
People Don't Just Kill Themselves (Same for Other Animals)
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 18, 2024
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Suicide Cluster Cover-up tactics & Debian exposed
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Gemini Links 19/03/2024: A Society That Lost Focus and Abandoning Social Control Media
Links for the day
Matthias Kirschner, FSFE: Plagiarism & Child labour in YH4F
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Linux Foundation Boasting About Being Connected to Bill Gates
Examples of boasting about the association
Alexandre Oliva's Article on Monstering Cults
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[Meme] 'Russian' Elections in Munich (Bavaria, Germany)
fake elections
Sainsbury's to Techrights: Yes, Our Web Site Broke Down, But We Cannot Say Which Part or Why
Windows TCO?
Plagiarism: Axel Beckert (ETH Zurich) & Debian Developer list hacking
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 18/03/2024: Putin Cements Power
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Flashback 2003: Debian has always had a toxic culture
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Sainsbury’s Epic Downtime Seems to be Microsoft's Fault and Might Even Constitute a Data Breach (Legal Liability)
one of Britain's largest groceries (and beyond) chains
[Meme] You Know You're Winning the Argument When...
EPO management starts cursing at everybody (which is what's happening)
Catspaw With Attitude
The posts "they" complain about merely point out the facts about this harassment and doxing
'Clown Computing' Businesses Are Waning and the Same Will Happen to 'G.A.I.' Businesses (the 'Hey Hi' Fame)
decrease in "HEY HI" (AI) hype
Free Software Needs Watchdogs, Too
Gentle lapdogs prevent self-regulation and transparency
Matthias Kirschner, FSFE analogous to identity fraud
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Gemini Links 18/03/2024: LLM Inference and Can We Survive Technology?
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
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IRC logs for Sunday, March 17, 2024
Links 17/03/2024: Microsoft Windows Shoves Ads Into Third-Party Software, More Countries Explore TikTok Ban
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Molly Russell suicide & Debian Frans Pop, Lucy Wayland, social media deaths
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Our Plans for Spring
Later this year we turn 18 and a few months from now our IRC community turns 16
Open Invention Network (OIN) Fails to Explain If Linux is Safe From Microsoft's Software Patent Royalties (Charges)
Keith Bergelt has not replied to queries on this very important matter
RedHat.com, Brought to You by Microsoft Staff
This is totally normal, right?
USPTO Corruption: People Who Don't Use Microsoft Will Be Penalised ~$400 for Each Patent Filing
Not joking!
The Hobbyists of Mozilla, Where the CEO is a Bigger Liability Than All Liabilities Combined
the hobbyist in chief earns much more than colleagues, to say the least; the number quadrupled in a matter of years
Jim Zemlin Says Linux Foundation Should Combat Fraud Together With the Gates Foundation. Maybe They Should Start With Jim's Wife.
There's a class action lawsuit for securities fraud
Not About Linux at All!
nobody bothers with the site anymore; it's marketing, and now even Linux
Links 17/03/2024: Abuses Against Human Rights, Tesla Settlement (and Crash)
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IRC logs for Saturday, March 16, 2024
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Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Gemini Links 17/03/2024: Winter Can't Hurt Us Anymore and Playstation Plus
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