The Register has unveiled their "cynic's guide to desktop Linux," which they ultimately concede is a snarky yet affectionate list of "the least bad distros."
 There is a huge range of open source free audio software available for Linux which is both mature and feature-laden. Linux has all the tools needed to be a serious contender in music production without a user having to venture into the commercial software world. Linux is a superior platform for professional audio production: rock solid, efficient, and you don’t get fleeced for software licenses. Software that creates music can often be expensive.
Linux also sports a wide range of useful audio tools. This article examines audio analyzers. This type of software lets you visualize audio spectrum for real-time signals. Some of the programs also lets you analyze amplitude and phase spectrum as well. Also, you can visualize audio spectrum in FFT spectrum, 2D spectrogram, Octave spectrum, etc. modes.
Just thought you guys would like to know that I have forked the bombadillo terminal browser to incorporate the spartan protocol. Uploads are not yet supported.
Heya! I'm officially releasing an alpha build of a little application I've been writing called rpgsheet. It still needs work, but it's usable now so I'm going ahead and sharing it!
 This type of software is a presenter’s best friend helping information to be communicated effectively at events, meetings, conferences, lectures, sales presentations, and more. Embellishing the presentation with smooth transitions, text, photo and video will help retain the attention of the audience, bring out the key ideas that are being shared, and make the presentation more professional.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 high quality open source Linux presentation software. The software listed below will help make your slides look stunning. Whether you are teaching a lesson, pitching a product, delivering a keynote, or trying to promote a worthy cause, these tools will help bring simplicity and engagement to your presentations. Hopefully there will be something of interest for anyone who needs to produce professional quality presentations.
Alma Linux OS is a free and open source Linux distribution which is built on from RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) source code. After the release of RHEL 9, CloudLinux community has released its latest operating AlmaLinux 9 which is based on RHEL 9. Code name for AlmaLinux 9 is ‘Emerald Puma‘.
Vim is one of the most glorified text editors, and for a reason.
Every task that you can think of (except for typing the text) can be done with just a few keystrokes - without ever touching the mouse or trackpad.
Moving your cursor from the beginning or the end of the line is not a crucial task, but something you might be doing often enough for the repeated mashing of h or l keys to feel irritating, or worse, unproductive.
Apache Kafka is an open-source, distributed event streaming platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation. This is written in Scala and Java programming languages. You can install Kafka on any platform that supports Java programming language.
This tutorial provides you with step-by-step instructions to install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux system. You will also learn to create topics in Kafka and run producer and consumer nodes.
Alma Linux OS is a free and open source Linux distribution which is built on from RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) source code. After the release of RHEL 9, CloudLinux community has released its latest operating AlmaLinux 9 which is based on RHEL 9. Code name for AlmaLinux 9 is ‘Emerald Puma‘.
In this guide, we will cover how to install AlmaLinux 9 step by step with screenshots. Before jumping into the installation steps, let’s look at new features and improvements of AlmaLinux 9.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install AngularJS on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, AngularJS is a JavaScript framework developed by Google for building dynamic web applications. Compared to other options such as jQuery, Knockout, Handlebars, or PagerJs, Angular integrates a complete solution that allows us to abandon the old PHP in our developments with modern technology.
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 AngularJS JavaScript framework on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.
Google’s services are used by a great number of people all over the world on a daily basis. The Google search engine, in particular, has a large user base, but online programs like Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and Sheets, are also part of many people’s standard productivity toolkit. It will therefore come as no surprise that many novice Linux users do not automatically switch to various Google alternatives. Many of the Linux switchers, Linux beginners and Linux doubters, will initially continue using Google services, so they probably want to know how to integrate their current Google account and associated services into their new Linux system. So in this article we will explore together to what extent it is possible to integrate Google’s services into your Linux setup.
Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new biweekly development release is out now with Wine 7.10. It's a major part of what makes up Steam Play Proton and enables a ton of games to work on the Steam Deck. Once a year or so, a new stable release is made.
The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 5.18. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week now through Sunday, June 12, 2022. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Read below for details.
With this release, Tails will fix current time and time zone by connecting to the captive portal detection service of Fedora, Updating to Tor 0.4.7.7, Fresh Homepage for disconnected Tor Network System, Associating OpenPGP files with Kleopatra in the Files browser, and many more.
 I started the NanoPi R5S review with an unboxing, a teardown, a quick try of the pre-installed OpenWrt-based FriendlyWrt, and some iperf3 benchmarks on the 2.5GbE interfaces that were rather disappointing. I test further I switched to the Ubuntu 20.04-based FriendlyCore image since I’m more familiar with Debian-based operating systems, and some tools will not run on OpenWrt. Note the performance is still not quite optimal, and that’s why I call this a preview since numbers should improve in the next few months as more people tweak the softwar
Seeed Studio is offering a STM32 based LoRa CAN with support for CAN 2.0 (up to 1Mb/s) and CAN-FD (up to 5Mb/s) protocols. The company introduced the initial product proposal not so long ago and the device was well received by the community. The dev kit has been designed to be used as a vehicle monitoring device and it’s now available for pre-order at $39.90.
The development kit accommodates the STM32WLE5JCTM, which combines the ultra-low-power Semtech SX126X LoRa and an ARM Cortex-M4 processor (up to 48MHz) into a single chip. The device has a coverage of up to 10km in an open area and it’s CE/FCC certified.€
Ronetix has recently released a large System on Module portfolio based on NXP processors. For example, the i.MX8MN-COMPACT-CM is based on the cost effective NXP i.MX8M-NANO while the i.MX8M-MINI-CM is based on the multicore NXP i.MX8M-MINI.
The COMPACT-CM and the MINI-CM offer similar I/O peripherals. The main differences are the form factors in which they are available and the processor systems integrated on them. The Mini-CM comes in a SODIMM 204 form factor while the COMPACT-CM comes as a stripped down module with Hirose 2x 100 DF40C connectors.€
Recently, I've got my hands on an Asus Eee PC 1215B from 2011, dual core CPU at 1 GHz, and 2GB ram, upgraded it to 4GB. I've decided to move to it as my main computer, coming from a decently powerful workstation. Here's my experience.
But I didn’t like the fact that they just gave you a random payphone, so I started perusing Ebay. I found a seller that had a handful of payphones. They appear to use a potato to take photos of them, but I took a chance and ordered a Pacific Bell payphone. It arrived pretty quickly.
It didn’t smell so great. It had seen some shit (hopefully not literally) but the handset seemed to be in pretty good condition. I looked up the address printed on it and it had come out of a casino in Vegas, which probably explained why it appeared to have personally smoked a pack of cigarettes. I put it on my balcony to air out and that seemed to help.
I’ve never opened up a payphone before, but they had given me the keys and a T-key, so I turned the key and slowly lowered the front of it down. It met some resistance and I had to unplug this plug, which seemed to connect the electronics on the front to the back: [...]
About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I eventually found a way to do it using AppleScript, but as Apple continues to remove open source components from its standard macOS distribution, this workaround isn’t likely to last.
newline1 is a version of Scheme’s newline that does nothing the first time it’s called.
?-> is a combinator that takes a predicate test and a transformer, and returns a unary procedure that transforms its argument if the predicate applies.
 In Linux, there are so many codecs, extensions, and libraries for processing images, audio files, and video files. Earlier, we have seen how to play videos smoothly on Linux with all media player codecs. When it comes to talking about the graphics and image section on Linux, you need to find out the suitable extensions or library tools for better performance. Suppose you’re a media enthusiast or you work in a sector where you need to process images in various ways. In that case, you can’t rely upon just the default image process libraries on Linu
Up until now, have built 'easy.sfs' with xz-compression, with an option in the QuickSetup app to rebuild it with lz4-hc compression. I recently used the expression "the elephant in the room" in reference to containers; however, this rebuilding of easy.sfs is "the horse in the room".
The reason is that I knew that resizing 'easy.sfs' from xz to lz4-hc compressed, was going to make it too big to fit in the working-partititon. On the flash stick anyway. It is the copy of 'easy.sfs' in the working-partition that gets resized, and that is the one loaded at bootup.
No problem, but the horse that I was ignoring is when do a rollback to an earlier version. The rollback copies the rollback 'easy.sfs' from the working-partition to the boot-partition. If that 'easy.sfs' has been resized, then it won't fit, and there will be a crash at next bootup.
lz4-hc compressed squashfs is noticeably faster than xz compressed. So, I thought why not build it with lz4-hc right from the start, and make sure that it is small enough to fit in the boot-partition.
Many of us have heard the name Archimedes’ screw — but not everyone knows the term screw conveyor.€ These folks (sadly, the videographer at [Breeze Media] doesn’t tell us their names, or the company name) has the process of building screw conveyors down to a fine art.
I started my new job on Wednesday June 1st. That was absolutely delightful in every way; this tale is about what happened afterwards.
The Internet lost a hero this week. Ned Freed and I were in our early thirties when we met. I was a researcher in Pittsburgh, passionate about extending email to include pictures, sounds, and rich text in any language. Ned was a young entrepreneur in California, passionate about improving interoperation between independently designed email-like systems. We were the closest of collaborators during the early 1990's, when we led the design of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) -- three years of intense partnership that turned out to be the career highlight that both of us would be best remembered for.
MIME is now used trillions of times daily, in virtually every web page and email message, and we've both long since recognized that it would feature prominently in our obituaries. But it isn't what I think of when I remember Ned. MIME was the product of our collaboration, but it was the collaboration itself that I most treasure.
Every once in a while, we here at Hackaday stumble across something that doesn’t quite fit in with all the other amazing hacks we feature, but still seems like something that our dear readers need to see as soon as possible. This video of homemade rockets in Thailand is one of those things.
[Robo] over at Tiny Transistor Labs has a fascinating look at what’s inside these modern, ultra low-power devices that consume absolutely minuscule amounts of current. Crank up the magnification, and go take a look at the dies on these two similar (but internally very different) devices.
An old adage says out of cheap, fast, and good, choose two. So if you’re like [Philip Moss] and trying to make a comedy series on a limited budget rapidly, you will have to take some shortcuts to have it still be good. One shortcut [Philip] took was to do away with the set and make it all virtual.
Organization i.e. knowing exactly what to do, is much more important than willpower. Make more concrete goals and more concrete steps.
Lack of willpower is our brain’s way of protecting us from overwork. Don’t force your way through stress.
But one way to do things when you don’t wanna is to let the resistance and “this is so boooring” feelings just wash over you and feel them fully. Both sides of you—the side that wants to do it and the side that don’t—need to feel fully heard & consulted, lest they subconsciously revolt (through guilt or procrastination, respectively).
TFT technology might be ancient news for monitors and TVs, but it’s alive and well when it comes to hobbyist electronics and embedded devices. They’ve now become even easier to integrate, thanks to the Universal TFT Display Backpack design by [David Johnson-Davies].
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about two different ways of conceptualizing the mind. On one hand, I have been diving back into psychoanalytic theory, and on the other, I have been reading and practicing Zen.
Critics often attack psychoanalysis as being "unscientific", or, under the Popperian criteria, "unfalsifiable". Some defenders will counter that, as it is the study of subjectivity itself, psychoanalysis cannot (and should not) be scientifically objective. Yes, psychoanalysis did very much start as a scientific project. Sigmund Freud was a neurologist by training, and his theories were based on the leading scientific paradigms of the time. His theory of drives flows naturally from the application of Darwinian evolution to the psyche, coupled with a physical energy metaphor for how desires are generated and satisfied. Most of all, psychoanalysis derives its theories through empirical observation of clients. It is not quantifiable, it is not statistical, but it is indeed observational and experimental.
The PiPi Mherkin really, really can’t get much smaller. The diminutive keyboard design mounts directly to the Pi Pico responsible for driving it, has a similar footprint, and is only about 9 mm thick. It can’t get much smaller since it’s already about as small as the Pi Pico itself.
On April 29, the Washington Post (4/29/22) reported that Covid deaths among the vaccinated have been up sharply in 2022—42% of deaths in January and February were among vaccinated people according to the Post’s analysis of state and federal data—and that “a key explanation for the rise in deaths among the vaccinated is that Covid-19 fatalities are again concentrated among the elderly.” The paper went on to report that “the bulk of vaccinated deaths are among people who did not get a booster shot,” noting that data showed that in California and Mississippi 75% of the vaccinated seniors who died of Covid in the first two months of 2022 were not boosted.
The commissioner's report, which was published Wednesday morning, states that Tim Hortons collected granular location data for the purpose of targeted advertising and the promotion of its products but that the company never used the data for those purposes.
"The consequences associated with the App's collection of that data, the vast majority of which was collected when the App was not in use, represented a loss of Users' privacy that was not proportional to the potential benefits Tim Hortons may have hoped to gain from improved targeted promotion of its coffee and associated products," the report read.
The publicly traded company, which sells Tasers and police body cameras, floated the idea of a new police drone product last year to its artificial intelligence ethics board, a group of well-respected experts in technology, policing and privacy.
School has gotten more difficult for students in recent years. Competitive pressures have increased, college acceptance rates have gone down, and inequalities between schools have risen.
I'm incredibly happy to hear the announcement that debt is being wiped out for defrauded Corinthian students. This should have happened in 2015 when this predatory school folded. Instead, it took almost a decade of vigorous grassroots organizing and legal maneuvering for borrowers to be relieved of crushing debt for worthless degrees.
Allies of former President Donald Trump sought to have voting machines seized by armed private contractors in the weeks after the 2020 election, according to new reporting.
As the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, draft executive orders dated December 16 and 17, 2020 regarding the seizure of voting machines appear to have started as an "authorizing letter" written on November 21.
One of the biggest things I've noticed since spending more time on the small web is the sheer lack of boundaries many people have on social media. Spending more time on here and other obscure sites has really put a lot of things in perspective for me.
Federal prosecutors reached a settlement agreement this week with the construction company that built a troubled private border fence along the Rio Grande in South Texas.
The settlement caps off two and a half years of legal wrangling after the federal government sued Fisher Industries and its subsidiaries, alleging that the 18-foot-tall and 3-mile-long fence led to erosion so significant that it threatened to shift the border and could cause the structure to collapse into the river, impacting a major dam.
"Self interest speaks all sort of tongues, and plays all sorts of roles, even that of disinterestedness." —François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
This episode is the first of a two-part series called "The Long Road Home," looking at the hurdles placed before those those who leave prison and struggle to reenter society.
"Truth in Black and White," a new original cartoon by the inimitable Mr. Fish, considers the big picture – in black and white.
Government watchdogs are intensifying calls on the U.S. Senate to confirm net neutrality defender Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission after a monthslong delay which has frustrated advocacy groups as the panel remains deadlocked and unable to pass crucial reforms.
Saturday marks the 500th day of the deadlock, media justice group Free Press said.
there isn't really a built-in mechanism through which you would be made aware whether your work is being noticed or not, and that's by design. I don't know how common this is, but I don't find it to require much effort to keep up with everything that shows up on the main CAPCOM/spacewalk instances so I keep up with it regularly.
So far I've got a Spartan server set up, and made bombodillo speak with the protocol. I noticed that there was some discussion on Gemini about having a modular browser.
It got me to thinking about how this could be best accomplished. The problem with languages like C and Go is that they're very static. If you want something that is more flexible, with pluggable architecture, then you really need a pluggable language, one that supports late binding.
This leads one to think about languages like Scheme and Lisp. Maybe Smalltalk and Forth would fit the bill, but I'm going to say "no" to that. On the less wacky end of the scale might be Python, Lua, or even Tcl. Tcl is actually an interesting choice, I think, because it is a very command-centric language.
Dozens of pirate IPTV suppliers and illegal streaming sites may be facing anti-piracy disruption in the weeks and months ahead. A fresh wave of documents filed in a US court shows that the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment is already investigating various platforms, including one that appears to pull videos from Warner Media's official CDN, using Google as a proxy.
Reddit has warned the U.S. Copyright Office that upload filters would harm free expression and creativity. The U.S. is considering whether to make technical protection measures mandatory for certain online services but according to Reddit and other stakeholders such as Google, the EFF, Wikipedia, and the BSA, this is a bad idea.