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  • GNU/Linux

    • Audiocasts/Shows

    • Kernel Space

    • Applications

      • OMG UbuntuAnnotate Files & Folders in Nautilus with this Extension

        Nautilus (also known as GNOME Files these days) used to have a built-in “notes” feature. This allows you to attach short written annotations to files and directories on your system, and view/edit/access them at a later date. This (admittedly little-known) feature seems to have been removed in Nautilus 3.2 back in 2011.

        Well, this week I found a new Nautilus extension that brings this (admittedly niche) feature back, and it works with the latest versions of GNOME’s famed file manager. When installed, you are able to annotate files, directories, and even storage devices with custom text inside of the file manager itself...

      • Linux LinksExcellent Utilities: Rnote - sketch and take handwritten notes - LinuxLinks

        This series highlights best-of-breed utilities. We cover a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides.

        Rnote is a vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures.

        The software is written in Rust and published under an open source license.

    • Instructionals/Technical

      • Linux Shell TipsHow to Backup and Restore Linux Commands History [Ed: Updated now]

        This article walks us through an understanding of the Linux terminal history, a demonstration of its backup and restore procedures, and why it is important.

        The Linux operating system is a feature-rich operating system environment. Its command line environment alone has the capability of transforming an ordinary user into a super user. In this case, we will look at the concept behind how to back up and restore Linux terminal history.

      • How to Install Audacity 3.2.2 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

        This beginner tutorial will help show you how to install Audacity 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Linux Mint 21.

      • Beginners Guide for mv Command in Linux

        In UNIX/Linux systems, the mv command shipped with the operating system is usually used for the following purposes:

        - Moving files from source to destination directory. Rename the file or directory name. - If you’re familiar with the cp command, you can use the same techniques to use the mv command.

        Even though you can use this article to learn how to use this command from the most basic to the most advanced levels.

      • Make Use Of8 Ways You Can Fine-Tune NGINX Performance on Linux

        NGINX is a popular, free, and open-source web server. The default NGINX configurations are good enough to get the web server working.

        However, if you want to use NGINX to its fullest, you need to play with its configuration files and set the parameters that will optimize the server’s performance. You will find the configuration files in the /etc/nginx directory on a Linux machine.

      • Wine Reviews : Steam and Lutris in EuroLinux Desktop

        The holiday season is approaching, so today we offer a slightly lighter, but interesting topic. After a period of tumultuous development, Linux gaming has finally managed to win the trust of gamers and convince them to the platform from under the penguin sign. Thanks to digital video game distribution services, gamers can enjoy their favorite Windows titles also on EuroLinux Desktop.

        However, before trying to install Steam, you should make sure that EuroLinux Desktop includes the required graphics drivers. If not, Nvidia users should download the company's official drivers, and AMD users should install the open Mesa drivers.

      • Continuing my familiarisation with GeckoLinux/openSUSE | Fitzcarraldo’s Blog

        As my old nettop only has an Intel dual-core Atom 330 CPU I wanted to install a spin with a lightweight desktop environment. I opted for the LXQt spin based on openSUSE Tumbleweed (see the aforementioned earlier post for details), and am pleased with its functionality and performance.

      • Daniel StenbergThe curl fragment trick | daniel.haxx.se

        curl supports globbing in the sense that you can provide ranges or lists in the URL that will make curl iterate, loop, over all the different variations and do a separate transfer for each.

      • ID RootHow To Install Vagrant on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - idroot

        In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Vagrant on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Vagrant is a command-line tool for building and managing virtual development environments. It allows developers to easily create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. By default, Vagrant can provision machines on top of VirtualBox, Hyper-V, and Docker too.

        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 Vagrant 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.

      • Make Use OfHow to Automatically Create Compose Files From Running Docker Containers

        Docker is an essential tool for easy installation of the apps which can run your sites and services, and it's even easier to manage with docker-compose.

        Some projects don't come with docker-compose files, and it's time-consuming to create one yourself. docker-autocompose can generate a working docker-compose file from any running Docker container.

      • ID RootHow To Change TimeZone on Rocky Linux 9 - idroot

        In this tutorial, we will show you how to install aaPanel on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, The time zone of a system is the geographic region where the system is located. It determines the local time, which is used to display the date and time on the system. By default, the time zone is set during the installation of the operating system. However, it may be necessary to change the time zone if you move to a new location or if the time zone was set incorrectly during the installation.

        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 change timezone on Rocky Linux. 9.

      • ID RootHow To Install Redis on Fedora 37 - idroot

        In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Redis on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, Redis is a popular open-source in-memory database that is commonly used as a cache and message broker and more. Redis supports different kinds of abstract data structures, such as strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, HyperLogLogs, bitmaps, streams, and spatial indices.

        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 Redis on a Fedora 37.

      • Linux Made SimpleHow to install the Palemoon browser on a Chromebook

        Today we are looking at how to install the Palemoon browser on a Chromebook.

      • H2S MediaHow to install Gnome GUI on Redhat 9 or 8 Linux Server

        Minimal users of RHEL will not have a GUI interface by default. In this tutorial, we learn the commands that we can use to install the popular GNOME Desktop UI on Redhat 9 or 8 Server Linux.

        Widely used Gnome desktop environment is also a part of RedHat Linux, if you are going for GUI desktop installation. I know most of the time RHEL is used as a server distro, preferably with a command line interface. However, if you are a beginner and need GUI on Linux but without reinstalling it then here in this article, we let you know how?

      • Wine Reviews : Manage Your Linux Game Library With Lutris

        Lutris is an open-source Linux game manager, but it’s more than that. It aims to provide a single unified way to handle gaming on Linux.

        It brings together all aspects of Linux gaming into one place. Steam, Wine, HumbleBundle, GOG, and even a whole range of emulators are all brought together for a relatively seamless experience.

        Lutris also provides methods for installing games. It integrates with Steam, and it provides installer scripts for even the trickiest Wine games.

      • Install OpenVAS on Rocky Linux 8

        We are going to use Atomicorp repository to install OpenVAS on Rocky Linux 8.

        OpenVAS is an open source full-featured vulnerability scanner.

    • WINE or Emulation

    • Games

      • The VergeValve answers our burning Steam Deck questions — including a possible Steam Controller 2 - The Verge

        We speak to Steam Deck designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais about their plans for the handheld gaming PC, after nine months of rapid updates that have made it a much easier recommendation.

      • Godot EngineGodot Engine - Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

        Happy holidays! We have been enjoing Godot 4.0 betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete.

        Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time. We will continue our work on the engine and will release a new snapshot every week in the upcoming year, just as before, to get fast feedback on bugfixes, and potential regressions they may introduce. Thank you for being an integral part of the dev process with your rigorous testing and timely reports!

    • Desktop Environments/WMs

      • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

        • TSDgeos' blog: Donate to KDE with a 10% power up! (1-week-offer)

          Hopefully by now, you know that in KDE we are running an End of Year Fundraising campaign.

          If you didn't, now you know :)

          The campaign has already raised around 16 thousand euros, but there's still a bit to go to the minimum goal of 20 thousand.

          So let's spice things up a little, I will donate 10% of every donation you make, you donate 1€, I will donate 0.1€, you donate 100€ I will donate 10€, etc.

      • GNOME Desktop/GTK

  • Distributions and Operating Systems

    • New Releases

      • HaikuOSHaiku R1/beta4 has been released! | Haiku Project

        After a year and a half since the last beta, Haiku R1/beta4 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just download the release (or upgrade to it from an existing install!)

      • HaikuOSR1/beta4 – Release Notes | Haiku Project

        The fourth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use. Over 400 bugs and enhancement tickets have been resolved for this release.

        Please keep in mind that this is beta-quality software, which means it is feature complete but still contains known and unknown bugs. While we are increasingly confident in its stability, we cannot provide assurances against data loss.

        For most of this release cycle, waddlesplash was employed as a contractor to work on Haiku. His contract is presently ongoing, supported by the generous donations of readers like you to Haiku, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit.

    • SUSE/OpenSUSE

      • The Register UKFresh preview of SUSE's new enterprise Linux distro arrives ● The Register

        As the end of the year and the holiday season both approach, so do new previews of both SUSE's new enterprise Linux distro, ALP, and the NetBSD OS.

        It's been a few months since Les Droites, the first prototype build of SUSE's next-gen enterprise Linux distro, appeared. ALP is SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform, the company's next-generation containerized enterprise distro.

        Now, the second prototype is here, and it's codenamed "Punta Baretti". (Like "Les Droites", the original of the codename is a mountain in the Alps.)

        This version has a new installation program, based on SUSE's YAST D-Installer project. This splits the installation program into separate layers which communicate over D-bus, so that same installater can be controlled by a local GUI, or a command line, or another machine over the network, or even by the Cockpit web management system.

        There's more information about D-Installer on the project's home on Github. Courtesy of a customized version of LUKS2, the new installer can install onto bare metal with full disk encryption, unlocking the disk with a key from the TPM chip – similarly to the system we described when talking about the new Unified Kernel Image system a few months ago.

      • Dominique LeuenbergeropenSUSE Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2022/51 - Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*)

        The winter holiday period is upon us, and the number of requests submitted to Factory is getting lower (I even managed to have an empty review queue for a couple of minutes yesterday). But small snapshots never stopped Tumbleweed – and it kept on rolling, again with 7 snapshots released during this week (1216…1222)

    • Fedora Family / IBM

      • Yum Extender - Rises Like a Phoenix

        Yum Extender (yumex-dnf) as retired 5 years ago from Fedora, as I did not have the time to handle development.

        Back in May 2021 i started up the development up again on yumex-dnf.



      • Fedora ProjectFedora Community Blog: Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2022-51

        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.

    • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

      • ZDNetLinux Mint 21.1: The better-than-ever Linux desktop | ZDNET

        You can keep your Windows 11 and macOS Ventura on your PCs. On my desktop, what I want is open-source Linux. In particular, I want Linux Mint. Why? Because, it's free, easy to use, and far more secure than its proprietary rivals.

        The latest version, Linux Mint 21.1, Vera, is better than ever. If you don't know it, let me introduce you.

    • Devices/Embedded

    • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

  • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    • FSF

      • FSFFSF job opportunity: Operations assistant

        The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect and promote computer-user freedom, seeks a motivated and organized Boston-based individual to be our full-time operations assistant.

      • FSFSharing is at the core of the free software community

        FSF program manager Miriam Bastian shares why she thinks the freedom to share is important Sharing is what makes a strong community. It has always impressed me to see how people in the free software community share their time, ideas, achievements, knowledge, and software with others. This sharing community is what attracted me in the first place to the free software movement: I wanted to know what it is that people spend so much time and joint effort on and why. What I found convinced me and won me over to free software.

        I started to climb the freedom ladder in 2014. Having profited from software like KeePassXC, Calibre, LibreOffice, F-Droid, Zotero, VLC media player, Privacy Badger, and TeXstudio for more than seven years, I wanted to give back to the free software community. When the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was looking for a program manager, I considered this to be the perfect opportunity to utilize my organizational, managerial, and interpersonal skills, and I am immensely grateful that I now have the privilege to contribute to the free software movement as the FSF's program manager.

    • Programming/Development

      • Meson 1.0.0 was released on 23 December 2022
      • Jussi PakkanenNibble Stew: After exactly 10 years, Meson 1.0.0 is out

        The first ever commit to the Meson repository was made 10 years ago to this day. To celebrate we have just released the long-awaited version 1.0.

        The original design criterion for doing a 1.0 release was "when Meson does everything GStreamer needs". This happened, checks notes, three years ago (arguably even earlier than that). That is not the world's fastest reaction time, but that comes mostly down to our development policy. Meson aims to make releases at a steady pace and maintains backwards compatibility fairly well (not perfectly). There is unlikely to ever be a big breaking change, so there is no pressing technical need to bump the major version number.

        Thus 1.0 is mostly a symbolical milestone rather than a technical one, end users should not not really notice that big of a difference. This does not mean that the release is any less important, though. To celebrate here is an assortment of random things that have happened over the years. Enjoy.

      • QtMoving to OpenSSL 3 in binary builds starting from Qt 6.5 Beta 2

        This is a short but an important note for all those who use the binaries from the Qt builds provided in Qt Maintenance Tool as a runtime for applications in the field.

        As some of you might know, Qt6 supports OpenSSL 3 since Qt 6.2.0. Starting from the next (second) beta of Qt 6.5, our binary builds will be based on OpenSSL 3. Since OpenSSL 3 is a new major version, it is not binary compatible with OpenSSL 1.x , see this link. This makes binary builds in Qt 6.5 beta 2 and later binary incompatible with applications using OpenSSL 1.x. If your application is using OpenSSL, you would need to rebuild it on top of Qt 6.5 binary builds from the Qt Maintenance Tool in order to run it on top of Qt 6.5 binaries or use your own builds based on OpenSSL 1.x. This is especially important for Linux applications, since Windows and macOS have other API for secure communications in addition to OpenSSL.

    • Standards/Consortia

      • Joe BrockmeierYear of the RSS reader? : Dissociated Press

        Well. Maybe? Certainly there’s an opportunity for something better. Between Twitter going to hell and the difficulty in keeping up with information, there’s opportunity. Something that unifies or improves ActivityPub and RSS and… all of the things, would be damn nice. I don’t see it on the horizon yet.

        And I don’t see droves of people going back to RSS. I still use it, where it’s available, but my habits aren’t the best predictor of what others will use.

        My prediction here is that 2023 is going to be messy as hell when it comes to social media and media consumption. Lots of parties will be vying for the top spot, and there’s a great deal of opportunity if someone gets it right. Will people have finally learned the lesson against centralization and letting the virtual town halls be controlled by entities like Twitter? Would love to see it, but I’m skeptical.

        Whatever wins I don’t think it’s going to be RSS or ActivityPub in its current form. I’m betting someone is tinkering with a contender right now, hopefully in the form of an open protocol with open source implementations. Maybe ActivityPub++ or maybe something entirely new.

  • Leftovers

    • Security

      • The StackIs this CVSS 10 Linux Kernel vulnerability going to ruin your Christmas? [Ed: It's more about SMB than Linux, and requires some access level]

        Every security researcher just knew some god-awful vulnerability was going to get lobbed into the mix just as people wind down for the holiday and it looked for a moment like it might have landed: A critical (CVSS 10) vulnerability in the Linux kernel that lets remote and unauthenticated hackers execute arbitrary code? Yikes.

      • ZDNetPatch now: Serious Linux kernel security hole uncovered [Ed: Most machines aren't impacted because of how they are set up]
      • Wladimir PalantLastPass has been breached: What now? | Almost Secure

        If you have a LastPass account you should have received an email updating you on the state of affairs concerning a recent LastPass breach. While this email and the corresponding blog post try to appear transparent, they don’t give you a full picture. In particular, they are rather misleading concerning a very important question: should you change all your passwords now?

      • The Register UKZerobot malware now shooting for Apache systems ● The Register

        The Zerobot botnet, first detected earlier this month, is expanding the types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices it can compromise by going after Apache systems.

        The botnet, written in the Go programming language, is being sold as the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model and spreads through vulnerabilities in IoT devices and web applications, according to the Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence (MSTIC) team in a report released on Wednesday.

      • LWNSecurity updates for Friday [LWN.net]

        Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-hawk and node-trim-newlines), Fedora (insight, ntfs-3g, and suricata), and SUSE (conmon, helm, kernel, and mbedtls).

      • NBCQueens: 2 Men Arrested for Working With Russian Nationals to Hack Taxi Dispatch System at JFK Airport - NBC New York

        Two men are facing charges for allegedly conspiring with Russian nationals to hack the taxi dispatch system at JFK International Airport, charging taxi drivers a fee to cut the taxi line, prosecutors said.

        Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman are facing two counts of conspiracy to commit computer intrusions in connection to the alleged plot, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John Gay, the Inspector General of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, jointly announced Tuesday.

        According to the indictment, from at least September 2019 through September 2021, Abayev and Leyman, who are U.S. citizens residing in Queens and Russian nationals residing in Russia engaged in a scheme to hack the Dispatch System at JFK.

      • Bruce SchneierHacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System - Schneier on Security

        Two men have been convicted of hacking the taxi dispatch system at the JFK airport. This enabled them to reorder the taxis on the list; they charged taxi drivers $10 to cut the line.

      • Make Tech Easier15 of the Best Hacking Apps for Android - Make Tech Easier

        The apps mentioned are some of the best Android hacking apps. None of them require your Android phone to be rooted and all are easy to use for beginners. They’re useful to network administrators, penetration testers, and white hat hackers. All are available on Google Play Store and work with the latest Android versions.

      • Privacy/Surveillance

        • AccessNowU.S. Congress takes additional steps to combat spyware - Access Now

          Access Now applauds the U.S. Congress for passing bipartisan legislation to counter foreign commercial spyware that poses a threat to human rights defenders around the world. This legislation will aid efforts to mitigate the threat posed by targeted surveillance technologies, like NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware.

          Sec. 6318 of the Intelligence Authorization Act, which was included in the broader 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), is primarily aimed at creating protections for U.S. intelligence community personnel. But it could also generate new avenues to address the abusive use of spyware around the world by mandating the U.S. intelligence community report to Congress on dangerous companies and promoting international governmental coordination. President Biden signed the 2023 NDAA into law on Friday, December 23.

          “The proliferation and use of spyware is one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time, and bold U.S. action is critical to meeting this challenge,” said Michael De Dora, Senior Campaigner at Access Now. “While designed to protect the U.S. intelligence community, this legislation will also bolster efforts to restrict the spread of spyware and hold perpetrators accountable. It is an important step that should serve as a standard for governments around the world to emulate.”

          [...]

          In June, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a public hearing on the threats posed by foreign commercial spyware like NSO Group’s Pegasus. NSO was added to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Entity List in November 2021 along with Candiru.

        • Citizen LabCatalanGate Report: Correcting a Case - The Citizen Lab

          On December 15, 2022, as part of our regular re-analysis of past cases to find additional spyware infection indicators and details, we discovered that a researcher had misread the labels assigned to two individuals’ results, leading to a confusion between phones owned by two people with the same initials who were part of the same group of potential targets in the CatalanGate investigation.

          The error originates solely from a single mistake in interpreting a system of working labels, which we used to protect the privacy of research participants during the research process, and to reduce potential researcher bias.

          We have exhaustively reviewed other cases analyzed and published by the Citizen Lab where any similar research participant labeling system was used. We found no similar errors either in the other 64 cases in the CatalanGate report, or in other Citizen Lab publications.

    • Environment

      • Energy

        • The Register UKCrypto craziness craps out – and about time too ● The Register

          With the quick one-two punch of FTX and Binance, crypto is finally losing its luster as the next revolution in money.

          I was recently in Manhattan at the Linux Foundation and Fintech Open Source Foundation's (FINOS) Open Source in Finance Forum New York (OSFF) 2022 event. There the topic of the day was fintech. It was all about how open source and the cloud are revolutionizing how banks, finance companies, and stock markets are working with money. Do you know what we didn't talk about? Crypto.

          Crypto bros still blather on about how their Bitcoin, Ethereum or what have you will go to the Moon. They also insist that with their diamond hands, they're going to Hold On for Dear Life (HODL) no matter what happens.

          That's cute. In a pathetic sort of way.

  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal

      • Donations
      • After being sick for a month

        The 5 year old caught some sickness from school the week before Thanksgiving. That eventually went through all of us, kids got strep, one had it infect their ears. At one point we were all on multiple antibiotics, made worse due to the fact that the kids and wife are allergic to most of the common ones.

    • Technical

      • Programming

        • Test Suite

          Suppose we wish to verify that a calculator application returns correct numbers. This will be a very simple calculator, as the verification is the important part, and a real test suite for a real calculator would be too long and too boring. So, our calculator specification:

        • R function to find nearest named colour

          I wrote an R function to find the nearest named colour to a given colour hexcode.


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



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A couple of months ago Windows was measured at 3.04%
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Withdrawing money will be possible as long as enough people use many ATMs (cash machines)
Expect Lots of Material From Daniel Pocock as Election Day Nears
The experiences of Daniel Pocock were an excellent example of reprisal or retribution against either whistleblowers or people who give a voice to whistleblowers
I've Been Promoting Free Software for Over 25 Years
I wrote my first computer program when I was about 14, maybe a little younger (I have visual memory of it)
Reminder: Richard Stallman's Talk is This Week in Paris (and in French)
Defending rms isn't the same as defending everything he has ever said
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 11, 2024
IRC logs for Saturday, May 11, 2024
Online Bullying (Trying to Make People Unhappy)
Narcissists and bullies behind mice and keyboards, no honesty or fact-checking required
Talk About Software Freedom
"Linux" and "BSD" may mean a lot to more and more people, but they're still just brands or acronyms
Windows in South Korea: From 98.5% in 2010 to About 30% (Android Rises to Almost 50%)
Samsung ships like a million Linux devices per day