today's leftovers
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Kernel Space
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Barry Kauler ☛ QV basic handling kernel version changes
Did some online reading about this; it is an awkward situation. With btrfs, there may be lots of snapshots, even hundreds. Some may be old, setup in a certain way, with certain apps, and working fine -- if you have updated the kernel, you may not want to bootup one of those old snapshots with the new kernel.
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Bootlin ☛ Welcome to Mathieu Dubois-Briand
We’re happy to announce that Mathieu Dubois-Briand has just joined the Bootlin engineering team! Mathieu graduated from the UTBM, Mathieu spend 12 years at Witekio, where he worked first on Android AOSP, and then on many Linux-based Board Support Package, based on Yocto or Buildroot, for various ARM and ARM64 platforms such as the NXP [..]
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Standards/Consortia
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Adafruit ☛ A JPEG XL software reference implementation
JPEG XL is a new image coding standard targeting capture, authoring, storage, archival, transmission, and distribution of photographic images as well as graphics, illustrations, mixed contents (e.g. screenshots) and animations. JPEG XL fills the specific needs for responsive web, wide colour gamut, and high dynamic range applications. It provides legacy transition features, and effective and reliable compression at high visual quality.
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Medevel ☛ Introducing Zstandard: A Fast and Efficient Compression Algorithm
Zstandard, often abbreviated as zstd, is a cutting-edge lossless compression algorithm designed for real-time compression scenarios.
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Licensing / Legal
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Niall Murphy ☛ Implicit SLOs and their dangers
SLOs, as you may know, have a dual nature: they have both social components and technical components. We spend a lot of time talking about the technical aspects, of course, but just as much as you use failure counts and worry about error budgets and exhaustion rates and so on, you are also using SLOs to signal to various audiences about your service.
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Openwashing
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Open Source Initiative ☛ The Open Source Hey Hi (AI) Definition RC1 is available for comments [Ed: The Microsoft front group, working on this Microsoft-sponsored openwashing of mindless buzzwords, has deliverables for Microsoft]
The Open Source Hey Hi (AI) Definition first Release Candidate has been published and collaboration continues online. Read what changes have been made, what to do next and how to get involved.
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ Passbolt supporting the LibreOffice Conference 2024
Our LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 is taking place next week in Luxembourg, and one of the sponsors is Passbolt S.A., which makes an open source password manager.
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FSF
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FSF ☛ FSF Blogs: September GNU spotlight with Amin Bandali
Fourteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of September 30, 2024): [...]
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