today's leftovers
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cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps
Thanks to the following commit by Todd Miller (millert@), cron(8) now supports random values in a range with a step value (i.e. "
~ /" in crontab(5) entries): -
Kubecon EU 2023: Operator Day hosted by Canonical - recordings available | Ubuntu
The Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2023, hosted by Canonical, took place on Monday, 17 April 2023. We thank everyone for attending the event. Our thanks go out especially to those who engaged with each other during the sessions, asked questions and contributed to our interactive event. If you missed this 6th edition of Operator Day, we have good news: The recordings are available as a playlist on YouTube!
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OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business
However, LLaMA models are licensed for research use only, which prevents commercial use of those models.
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Zoom flatpak fixed
I reported recently that unable to include Zoom in Flatpak Installer (Flapi), as only got a blank window. Did a search, and found this:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/696849/zoom-windows-launch-with-a-completely-blank-window
...that says the fix is required for wayland; however, it works in Easy for X11.
I have implemented a mechanism for applying a hack when install a flatpak, same as did for AppImage Installer. See commit: [..].
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: crc32c 0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package
Happy to announce a new package: crc32c. This arose out of a user request to add
crc32c(which is related to but differnt from crc32 without the trailing c) to my digest package. Which I did (for now in a branch), using the software-fallback version ofcrc32cfrom the reference implementation by Google at their crc32c repo.However, the Google repo also offers hardware-accelerated versions and switches at run-time. So I pondered a little about how to offer the additional performance without placing a dependency burden on all users of digest.
Lo and behold, I think I found a solution by reusing what R offers. First off, the crc32c package wraps the Google repo cleanly and directly. We include all the repo code – but not the logging or benchmarking code. This keeps external dependencies down to just
cmake. Which while still rare in the CRAN world is at least not entirely uncommon. So now each time you build the crc32c R package, the upstream hardware detection is added transparently thanks in part tocmake. We buildlibcrc32c.aas a static library and include it in the R package and its own shared library. -
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 786
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 786 for the week of April 30 - May 6, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here.