today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2023

• Linux Around The World: USA – New Jersey

  We cover events and user groups that are running in the US state of New Jersey. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.

• Going Linux #436 · Welcome to Linux! Pt7 - How Can Linux Be Free?

  Question: I want to use Linux but it's free and I've heard, "'Free' is not a viable business model." How can I put my trust in a Linux operating system if the developers don't charge for it? Answer: Offering substantial products and services that provide value for free only becomes a financial problem when the developer has no other revenue source to support the free product. Here is how Linux accomplishes that.
  

  Episode Time Stamps
  00:00 Going Linux #436 · Welcome to Linux! Pt7 - How Can Linux Be Free?
  02:16 The question: Free isn't a valid business model. How can open source software be provided at no charge?
  04:12 Microsoft's business model
  06:07 Google's business model
  06:32 The Killed By Google list
  07:40 Add-ons and 'crapware' to provide some missing features in Windows
  11:14 Offering free software is not unusual
  11:44 Examples of free Linux distributions backed by businesses with solid revenue models
  14:12 How open source software features are made available for other open source software to adopt
  17:13 Why Linux is not going away!
  18:53 Linux provides significant value to its users
  22:06 Not everything that's free is bad
  25:59 Switching to Linux is much like switching to macOS, Windows, or ChromeOS
  26:47 Linux fights planned hardware obsolescence
  28:29 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe
  29:30 End
  

• Screenshot Showcase

• PLC modular platform based on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX, Orin NX and TX2 NX

  The Ultron is a PLC system based on the NVIDIA Jetson designed for commercial and industrial AI edge applications. The main unit includes an IMU, dual RJ45 ports, CAN Bus and optional LTE, Wi-Fi and 5G connectivity. The system can be expanded with up to 7x additional I/O to suit diverse applications.

• Short Topix: Major Layoffs Announced Across Tech Industry

  Last month it was LastPass, and the dust has hardly even started to settle from that data breach. Now, it's someone else's turn. Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hackers access to customer password managers, the company revealed in a recent data breach notice, according to an article on TechCrunch. The information was also relayed on Slashdot.

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  Bitwarden and other password managers are being targeted in Google ads phishing campaigns to steal users' password vault credentials, according to an article on Bleeping Computer. User beware. It's vitally important to inspect links before you click on them to make sure they aren't a spoofed version just looking to grab as much of your data as they can.

• Merge Sort Tree with point update using Policy Based Data Structure

  A Merge Sort Tree (MST) is a data structure that allows for efficient querying of the number of elements less than or equal....

• Two C++ bugs I wrote

  Here's a short post about two bugs I wrote while writing C++ code for the external scanner of my TLA⁺ tree-sitter grammar. External scanners use handwritten C or C++ code to parse the non-context-free parts of your language. I'll try not to dump on C++ too hard but both of the bugs are highly ridiculous and exemplify why I hope to write as little of the language as possible for the rest of my career.