today's leftovers
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Increasing 5G Quality of Experience (QoE) Using SONiC and Open Packet Broker [Ed: Linux Foundation is promoting Microsoft again, in a domain called Linux.com; Linux Foundation: join the Linux Foundation today (i.e. pay us money) to oppress or attack Linux from the inside, or distort the narrative for openwashing]
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Why We Need Open Source Mentorship Programs at the Linux Foundation [Ed: While the Linux Foundation keeps monetising FUD it is pretending to be for "social justice" (distracting from its class war or corporate occupation)]
Mentorship programs in open source are critical for the growth and development of the open source community, and the LFX Mentorship program is no exception. The program's participants find it so valuable that a whopping 99% of the graduates felt the program to be beneficial, and 47% said it helped them get a job.
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TDF position on EU’s proposed Cyber Resilience Act [Ed: OSI, which is bribed by and controlled by Microsoft, has too much influence in TDF, and by extension in LibreOffice. Italo Vignoli is connected to both and the statement from Simon Phipps resembles this.]
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) sets out a number of cybersecurity and vulnerability management requirements for manufacturers (Annex I) and will require products to be accompanied by information and instructions for users (Annex II). Software vendors will also be required to conduct a risk assessment and produce technical documentation (Annex V) to demonstrate compliance. Currently, the text implies that if a developer or supplier derives commercial benefit from OSS, it would be subject to the Cyber Resilience Act. It even implies, in relation to the distribution of software, that open source producers or developers could be held liable if their open source projects are used commercially.
If the Cyber Resilience Act becomes EU law without clarification, the impact on several European-based open source projects, such as products based on LibreOffice technology, could have devastating (unintended) consequences.
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Update your edge devices with this open source bootloader
Making updates to edge and embedded systems has historically been a painful process. Often, this involves working with multiple microcontrollers from different brands with different capabilities. Usually, each has its own custom bootloader, so it can be updated each board, one by one, with a specific firmware.
Another common issue is updating the system without physical access to the board.
Luos has developed an open source generic bootloader that addresses these issues by updating all the boards of your system through one connection to your device and without requiring physical access to the other boards. It can work for every microcontroller unit (MCU) covered by the Luos library. It allows for flexibility and adaptability in edge and embedded systems development, making managing and updating distributed systems easier. This article explains how the Luos bootloader works.
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Listening To A Flashlight — Lunar Flashlight
If you’ve been looking for a practical example of using GNU Radio, you should check out [Daniel Estévez’s] work on decoding telemetry captured from the Lunar Flashlight cubesat. The cubesat is having some trouble, but the data in question was a recording from the day after launch. We aren’t sure what it would take to eavesdrop on it live, but the 3-minute recording is from a 20-meter antenna at 8.4 GHz.
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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2022)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
Dennis Braun (snd) Raúl Benencia (rul)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Gioele Barabucci Agathe Porte Braulio Henrique Marques Souto Matthias Geiger Alper Nebi Yasak Fabian Grünbichler Lance Lin
Congratulations!