today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 03, 2024

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Exploring the Latest proprietary trap AWS Console-to-Code Feature

    On November 2023 proprietary trap AWS announced the Preview going live for the new feature proprietary trap AWS Console-to-Code. Two months later, in this blog, we will explore this feature, learn about how to use it, what are the limitations, etc.

  • OMG Ubuntu ☛ VSCode Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support, Devs Feel “Screwed” [Ed: They were already screwed if they used this Microsoft spyware, which is proprietary. “Screwed” by Microsoft.]

    Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS — a move causing issues for scores of developers.

  • SUSE

    • SUSE's Corporate Blog ☛ Our Open Approach to Tracing AI

      The benefits of Generative Hey Hi (AI) are real and evolving. Businesses and people can level up their game by saving time, accessing expertise, finding new ideas, and expressing creativity across new mediums.

  • Games

    • Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients including Into the Necrovale and Ancient Warfare 3 - 2024-01-31 Edition

      Between 2024-01-24 and 2024-01-31 there were 29 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 365 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 7.9 % of total released titles. This week I find Into the Necrovale appealing as it reminds me somehow of the Gauntlet of old! Here’s a quick pick of all the titles worth checking out this week: [...]

    • Techdirt ☛ Palworld Modder Changes ‘Pokémon’ Mod To Include Generic Characters Instead

      Well, this is certainly moving fast. We had begun talking about the recently released PC game Palworld as a great example of the idea/expression dichotomy in copyright law, specifically as the game has both been described as “Pokémon, but with guns” while also not containing any specific Pokémon copyrighted expression within it. While the Pokémon people had begun making some noises about wanting to look into whether the game does infringe any of its copyrights anyway, modder ToastedShoes released a mod for the game that almost seemed perfectly designed to illustrate the point I was making. His mod specifically injected actual Pokémon characters and assets into the game. Nintendo promptly took down a video preview of the mod via a DMCA notice as a result.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ Towards SSH3: How HTTP/3 improves secure shells [Ed: Terrible idea, bad security]

    Guest Post: What would the SSH protocol look like if it was made today with recent network technologies?

  • SANS ☛ What is a "Top Level Domain", (Thu, Feb 1st)

    This reminded me to talk a bit about what a top-level domain is all about, and some different ways to look at the definition of a top-level domain.

  • MWL ☛ 32: Only Mildly Suspicious

    Rspamd is the best solution we have for managing spam, and that’s… kind of terrifying. Consider the first symbol, URI_COUNT_ODD. The description reads “Odd number of URIs in multipart/alternative message.” The message has an odd number of pieces. Why is that important, though? Rspamd does not say.

• BSD

  • The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 544: Geeky weather check

    The Geeks way of checking what the outside weather is like, Alpine on a

    FreeBSD Jail, DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s, Dealing with USB Storage

    devices on OmniOS, Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and

    ZFS

• Debian Family

  • Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky news 2024/01

    The 1st monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2024: – GNU/Linux kernel updated up to 6.7.2, 6.6.14-LTS, 6.1.75-LTS & 5.15.148-LTS – Sparky Locker doesn’t start automatically now [...]