today's leftovers
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New update for Chromium to address 0-day exploit | Alien Pastures
Earlier last week Google released 108.0.5359.71. On friday, I had finally built and uploaded Slackware packages for this, when they released a quick fix to plug an already actively exploited hole (CVE-2022-4262).
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Chromium packages for Slackware 15.0 and -current will of course keep coming.
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Qubes Canary 033 | Qubes OS
We have published Qubes Canary 033. The text of this canary is reproduced below.
This canary and its accompanying signatures will always be available in the Qubes security pack (qubes-secpack).
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Linux Around The World: USA - North Dakota - LinuxLinks
We cover events and user groups that are running in the US state of North Dakota. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.
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Linux Weekly Roundup #212
Welcome to this week's Linux Weekly Roundup. We had these releases this week; NixOS 22.11, PCLinuxOS 2022.11.30, ArcoLinux 22.12.02, OpenIndiana 2022.10, Linux Mint 21.1 Beta, and KDE neon 20221202.
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How To Stop Being Addicted To My Phone?
Being addicted to one’s smartphone has now become a global problem. Eventually, psychologists have tracked down a new psychological disorder named nomophobia which refers to the fear of being without a smartphone. This problem is mostly seen in teenagers and young people. Eventually, most adults nowadays face problems in their work and productivity just for their smartphone addiction. As a result, the question of how to stop being addicted to my phone is now a global question.
However, there are many different ways you can follow to get rid of your phone addiction. We will talk about them briefly in this content. While most solutions are regarding self-control, there is a technical way to overcome it. And it’s all about the apps that help overcome phone addiction. So, our focus will be learning about those besides getting some tips to get rid of this problem.
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TheWeeklyChallenge/TWC 193: Evens and Oddballs
In which we revisit seventh grade, and sing in the key of "A".
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Rakudo compiler, Release #158 (2022.12) - Rakudo Compiler for Raku Programming Language
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the December 2022 release of Rakudo #158. Rakudo is an implementation of the Raku1 language.
The source tarball for this release is available from https://rakudo.org/files/rakudo. Pre-compiled archives will be available shortly.
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Nibble Stew: Color management, this time with PDF
In previous posts the topic of color management in Cairo was examined. Since then people have told me a few things about the issue. According to them (and who am I do to proper background research and fact checking, I'm just someone writing on the Internet) there are a few fundamental problems with Cairo. The main one is that Cairo's imaging model is difficult to implement in GPU shaders. It also is (again, according to Internet rumors) pretty much impossible to make work with wide gamut and HDR content.
Dealing with all that and printing (which is what I was originally interested in) seems like a too large a mouthful to swallow. One thing lead to another and thus in the spirit of Bender, I wrote my own color managed PDF generator library. It does not try to do any imaging or such, just exposes the functionality that is in the PDF image and document model directly. This turned out to take surprisingly little work because this is a serialization/deserialization problem rather than an image processing one. You just dump the draw commands and pixels to a file and let the PDF viewer take care of showing them.