today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 29, 2023

• Regulatory language cannot be the same for all software

  In reviewing the language and concepts being used in the various draft bills and directives circulating in Brussels at present, it is clear that the experts crafting the language are using their understanding of proprietary software to build the protections they clearly intend for Open Source.

• Debian Installer Bookworm RC 4 release

  The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the fourth release
  candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm".
  
  
  Improvements in this release
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   * cdebconf:
      - Improve banner display when the installer logo's width is smaller
        than the GTK window's width (#745359): instead of scaling, expand
        the banner on the side(s) specified in the theme (#1036321).
   * debian-installer:
      - netboot/x86: fix colors in GRUB submenus (#1036771).
      - netboot/x86: add /splash.png symlink to make GRUB load the splash
        screen (#1036215).
   * grub2:
      - When also installing to the removable media path, include the
        relevant mokmanager binary (#1034409).
      - Allow multiple initrd parameters (#838177, #820838).
   * partman-auto-raid:
      - Add support for LVM-on-LUKS-on-RAID, via a new "crypto-lvm"
        keyword, similar to the existing "lvm" (#1036347).
   * partman-basicfilesystems:
      - Install dosfstools if we have a FAT ESP.
   * rootskel-gtk:
      - Add banner metadata (#745359, #1036321).
      - Align dark banner colors with dark/high-contrast theme.
      - Fix document viewport, avoiding 1-pixel offsets.
  

• Ultimate Edition (GNU/Linux): Innovation at its finest

  New toy? I don't typically talk about products I buy - I do buy a bunch of them. This product is so good I have bought 2 of them and I am considering buying not just a third one, but a fourth one. I will be forthcoming, it is not cheap. What is it?

• Analyze the ambient sound around you with this Arduino setup

  You've probably heard that there isn't any sound in space. That's because sound is vibration traveling through a medium, like air or wood, and space is a mostly empty vacuum. The frequency of the vibration in a medium is the pitch of the sound and the amplitude is the volume.