today's leftovers
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NVIDIA 525.53 Beta is out now for Linux
NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux, it's your time to test something new. NVIDIA have released a Beta driver with version 525.53.
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Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Approves Bylaws and Charter for Open Community Control of Rocky Linux and Projects
The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today published its charter and bylaws, documenting the organization’s governing structure and rules for hosting open source projects, including its namesake project, Rocky Linux. The charter and bylaws also describe the RESF vision to create and nurture a community of individuals and organizations that are committed to ensuring the longevity, stewardship and innovation of enterprise-grade open source software that is always freely available.
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Poking at Performance Events from User land
Linux has a set of events you can query to look at performance of … well lots of things. Its a generic mechanism. Here’s a quick peek at the set of values I can see if I look at an AltraMax running Fedora 36.
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[Older] KDE Neon Is Now Based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
KDE Neon, the non-distro distribution, is now based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
KDE Neon is released by the KDE Community. While the developers say it isn’t a standalone distro, but rather a way for them to showcase the latest KDE technologies, many use Neon as they would any other distro.
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Mastodon Moment
My first Mastodon post (that I can find) dates from April 6, 2017. I try to check out interesting new life-online technologies, and this was one. But I found it sort of quiet and empty and didn’t say much. Now, following on Muskification, Twitter may become an unattractive online home, so it’s time to explore alternatives. I’ve been digging deeper into Mastodon (so have really a lot of other people) and this is a progress report.
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Mastodon, the Fediverse, and A Warning About Mastodon.social
Social.coop is my third Fediverse home. I joined Identi.ca in 2009, the same year I joined Twitter. Then, in 2017, I switched to Mastodon, moving to the flagship instance at Mastodon.social. It was easy to discover mastodon.social and to register an account, and for years I was fine with staying where I'd landed. I also found that my conversations in the Fediverse tend to be better than ones on Twitter -- people disagree more productively, for instance. And, even though I only had hundreds of Fediverse followers compared to a few thousand Twitter followers, I seemed to get more useful feedback and publicity from the Fediverse than from Twitter -- probably partly because Twitter's recommendations algorithm dislikes my hyperlink-heavy posting style and suppresses my tweets in people's timelines, relative to linkless tweets.
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Skip 1s - a new (old) way to control Kodi
The Skip 1s Universal Remote is our first remote built on a strong foundation with big future plans. We plan on having tight integration with Kodi and custom products as we continue our journey. But Flirc wouldn't exist if not for the Kodi community and their support.
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Preparing to Thrive by Collaborating with Local Universities
Vivek Patil is a Professor of Marketing at Gonzaga University, where he used to teach the SPSS to his students for marketing research in the School of Business. After learning about R and attending a course on Data Analysis from Coursera, he learned R to expand his knowledge and introduced R to his students in the Business School.
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What is a Research Summer School?
I've co-organised four in-person research summer schools, most recently as part of the Programming Language Implementation Summer School (PLISS) series, and spoken at two others, and one thing that I've realised is that many people don't really know what they involve. Indeed, I didn't fully realise what they are, or could be, even after I'd been involved in several! This post is my brief attempt to pass on some of what I've learnt about research summer schools.
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Use data from Wikipedia
Scrape and geolocate data from Wikipedia. We will map the active space launch sites.