today's leftovers
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Google Pixel sees huge sales growth, has 2% of North American market
Canalys' North American smartphone market share numbers are out, and the big mover for Q2 2022 is once again Google, which is seeing huge growth numbers thanks to the Pixel 6. Last quarter, Canalys had Google up 380 percent year over year, and this quarter, the company is up 230 percent.
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Authoritative Server 4.7.0-beta2 | PowerDNS Blog
this is the first Beta release for Authoritative Server 4.7.0, even though it is called beta2. (beta1 was never released because of bugs found during the release process).
4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the freshness checks in the Primary code were reworked, reducing them from doing potentially thousands of SQL queries (if you have thousands of domains) to only a few. Installations with lots of domains will benefit greatly from this, even without using catalog zones.
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EasyOS: Shotcut video editor now an SFS
I have created SFSs over the last few days. All that you need to do is click on the "sfs" icon to download and install. You get a choice to install to the main desktop or in a container -- I recommend the former, as these SFSs are configured to run the app as a non-root user, each app runs as its own user, which is fairly secure.
Note, you can do both, install on main desktop and container, if you wish to compare. It seems that openGL is only working with software rendering in containers, which will make apps slower -- but that is unconfirmed, as although the app reports cannot use hardware rendering, it may actually be using hardware rendering. In a container, the app has very limited capabilities, and may not be able to correctly probe how openGL is working.
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EasyOS:OpenShot video editor now an SFS
OpenShot is available as an appimage, that I downloaded and extracted the files. I intend to develop a script 'appimage2sfs', but first need to learn more about how appimages are put together. Figured this one out manually and it was straight-forward, created the SFS.
As usual, click on the "sfs" icon to download. Can be installed to run on the main desktop or in a container. In the former case, runs as user 'openshot'.
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Ignacy Kuchciński: GSoC 2022: Overview
Throughout this summer I've been working on making the New Documents feature discoverable in Nautilus, a file manager for GNOME as part of the GSoC project. This post is an overview with links of the work I did together with my mentor Antonio Fernandes.
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TSDgeos' blog: Come to Barcelona for Akademy-es 2022!
As previously announced, Akademy 2022 will be happening in Barcelona at the beginning of October.
On top of that, Akademy-es [the Spain spin-off of Akademy] is also happening in Barcelona the days before (29 and 30 of September). So if you're interested in KDE and understand Spanish a bit, please drop by https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2022 and register yourself at https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es2022/registro.php
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E50: HashiCorp - Building An Open Source Company at Scale [Ed: Fake "open" and Microsoft promotion]
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E51: Enhance Your Coding Skills by Playing Battlesnake [Ed: Outsourced to Microsoft proprietary software and all the code is still proprietary. Battlesnake: we're proprietary, but call us open, please.]
The rules and game docs for Battlesnake are all open source.