today's leftovers
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FOSS Weekly #22.36: Ubuntu 22.10 Beta, KDE Theming, Loop Devices and More [Ed: "FOSS Weekly" creates confusion ("FLOSS Weekly" is like 14 years old)]
Speaking of distributions, you get a word search puzzle centered around distro names in this edition. The answers for the previous week's crossword are also here.
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Gizmo makes overly silent computers noisy again • The Register
The best way to make a sluggish old computer quicker is to replace spinning rust with some flash chippery. The snag is that loses part of the experience: the sound.
It doesn't need to be a purpose-made SSD. In fact, right now, The Reg FOSS desk has a smallish CF card and an adapter to turn it into a 2.5" drive, waiting for a window in the diary so it can give an Amiga 1200 a new lease of life. While the speed boost is very gratifying, part of the authentic retro computing experience is the sound effects – such as hearing the hard disk head seeking.
But German hacker Matthias Werner has come up with a solution: the HDD Clicker. He designed a tiny PCB that attaches to the connector for the disk-access LED, and which uses a tiny piezo-electric buzzer to emit a brief click every time the LED flashes. An output connector allows it to drive the original LED in turn. The device is demonstrated in the video below by root42.
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Lyra V2 - a better, faster, and more versatile speech codec | Google Open Source Blog
Since we open sourced the first version of Lyra on GitHub last year, we are delighted to see a vibrant community growing around it, with thousands of stars, hundreds of forks, and many comments and pull requests. There are people who fixed and formatted our code, built continuous integration for the project, and even added support for Web Assembly.
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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move - TechCrunch
Penpot, an open source platform for designers and developers, got a big spike after the Adobe-Figma deal. Now it's raised $8M in funding.
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Apple's Korea Offices Raided by Antitrust Regulators Over Allegations It Charges Developers 33% Commission
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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2022/39
This week’s been a little different from Tumbleweed as our regular release wrangler, Dominique, has been sick. Therefore I’ve stepped in and picked things up without our usual handovers which made things a little challenging, but I’m proud to be able to say we still released 5 snapshots in the last 7 days, including some pretty big changes.
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Akademy IRL at Last! - ervin
Today is a great day! I’m in Barcelona (typing this from my hotel room) to meet a good chunk of KDE for Akademy 2022. I can’t wait… it’s been a long time since the last edition was in person.
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How Citrix dropped the ball on Xen ... according to Citrix
What's the difference between the Citrix Hypervisor and Xen? Well, one has quite a big crowd of upset current and former community members.
One of the more interesting talks at the Open Source Summit was from Jonathan Headland, software development manager at Citrix, with the unusual title "How to Disengage the Open-Source Community: The Citrix Hypervisor Experience." Given all the usual fist-pumping so many companies' marketing teams like to engage in, especially at an event like the Open Source Summit, The Reg FOSS desk was intrigued.
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Intel Invokes Linus Torvalds to Push Software Tools [Ed: Intel bribed Linus Torvalds recently (fake new award, made up for him). It wants to turn him into a marketing mascot.]
A visibly uncomfortable appearance by Linux legend Linus Torvalds at Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger‘s keynote was headline news at the company’s Innovation conference this week.
In a conversation with Gelsinger, Torvalds recalled using a PC with a 386 chip in 1991 to create an OS that eventually became Linux. The conversation had the desired effect — it showed that software development on x86 mattered back in 1991, and it still does now.