today's leftovers
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Steam Deck Beta update tweaks notifications, boot video length upped to 30 seconds
Fresh out the oven, Valve has put up a new Steam Deck Client Beta that tweaks how some notifications are accessed. This update is available in the Beta and Preview channels: you can opt into this in Settings >System >Steam Update Channel.
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Google debuts Chromebooks optimized for cloud-based game streaming services
Google LLC today debuted three new Chromebooks optimized to be used with cloud-based video game streaming services. Chromebooks are laptops that run on Google’s ChromeOS operating system. Initially released in 2011, the operating system is based on Linux and shares many interface elements with the search giant’s Chrome browser.
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BuildStream at ApacheCon 2022 New Orleans - Tristan’s World
This was my first real conference since worldwide panic spread a few years ago, and it is hard to overstate how exciting it was to be in New Orleans and meet real people again, especially since this was an opportunity to meet the Apache contributor base for the first time.
The conference took place at the Sheraton hotel on Canal street, where we had access to a discounted rate for rooms, a large room where everyone could attend the keynotes with a coffee/snack area outside where booths were also located, and on the 8th floor we had 6 small conference rooms for the various tracks.
The talks I attended were refreshingly outside of my comfort zone, such as big data workflow scheduling with DolphinScheduler, a talk about Apache Toree which is a Jupyter Kernel for Scala / Apache Spark (a framework for data analysis and visualization) and my personal favorite was a talk about the SDAP (Science Data Analytics Platform) which is a platform built to support Earth Science use cases, this talk explored some of the implementation details and use cases of an engine which can be used to search efficiently through Earth related data (collected from satellites and various sensors) which can be freely obtained from NASA. In case you’re wondering, unfortunately actually leveraging this data requires that you download and house the (immense) data which you intend to analyze, either in the elastic cloud or on-premise clusters.
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5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage Over Commercial Offerings
Storage is the most critical and sensitive component of your infrastructure. Applications that crash can be restarted, network packets that are lost can be retransmitted, but storage needs to be always on, and absolutely reliable. This is where it might seem to make sense to go with a popular commercial offering, even falling into the mantra of “Nobody ever got fired for buying $vendor”. However, being locked into a single vendor means you are utterly at their mercy when it comes to upgrades, price increases, and the quality of support they offer. If your storage vendor releases a new version of their software that causes issues for you, they may help you right away, or your issue might be exotic enough that it goes to the back of their support queue. The vendor might also release a newer product focused on a different use case and decide to end-of-life the product you are using. In any of these cases, you are left with just two choices: stay locked-in with the vendor, or take on the pain of a migration.
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Day 14: the difference between :is() and :where()
It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started #100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been around for quite a while already, but I just have little to no experience with it.
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How to Create Your Own Plugin for ONLYOFFICE Docs
Brief: In this article, you will learn how to create your own plugin for ONLYOFFICE Docs and how to publish it in the official plugin marketplace that is available starting from version 7.2.
ONLYOFFICE Docs is not an ordinary office suite in the traditional sense. Of course, it allows you to do what you can do using other office packages – create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, share and co-edit them online, makes fillable forms, browses and converts PDF files, and so on.
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Signal updates Android version, users can now export SMS messages
End-to-end encrypted messaging platform Signal has updated the version of the application available to Android users so they can transfer SMS messages to another messaging client, a spokesperson for the company says.
In response to a query pointing out that version 5.51.7 of the app, which was available to Android 11 users until Thursday did not offer a means of exporting SMS messages, the spokesperson said Signal had now been updated to make it possible to move these messages to a client of the user's choice.
As iTWire reported, Signal said in a blog post on Wednesday that it would be removing support for plaintext messages over the next few months.
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Diab is A Libre Diabetes Manager App for Android
Diab is a free Libre open-source journaling and logging application for Diabetes patients.
It allows users to log their blood sugar, insulin usage, their insulin injections, and then offers an overall insights on the records.
Diab records can be exported easily to a spreadsheet file that can be used with Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, and LibreOffice Calc. Furthermore, this portable format can be shared with doctors.
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BSD Now 476: Warren Toomey interview
This special episode of BSD Now has an interview with Warren Toomey. I just happened to sign up for the TUHS mailing list and let me tell you, there’s some history being reported there by the people that lived it.
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Rust Is Going To Destroy The Linux Kernel!!! - Invidious
This is this fear that rust is going to destroy the future of the Linux kernel but many are heavily in favour of it's introduction, I'm not a kernel developer so let's hear 2 polar opposite opinions and make a decision for ourselves