today's leftovers
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Barry Kauler ☛ Update PET for QV
QV is a quasi-full install that manages packages with the Void xbps package manager, with PKGget as a GUI frontend. Updating is tricky, as it is not just a matter of installing the latest packages from the Void repository. There are also .pet and .tar.xz (from Scarthgap) packages, plus all of the support scripts.
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Instructionals/Technical
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Medium ☛ Basic Ubuntu Firewall Rules
Linux Operating Systems may not have pervasive analytics, but it’s still important to configure a firewall to block unwanted traffic. This tutorial shows you how to configure your Ubuntu firewall to block everything except internet traffic and your VPN connection (ProtonVPN in this case).
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LinuxBuz ☛ Ansible for AWS: Create an EC2 Instance with Ansible
Ansible for proprietary trap AWS is a set of modules and playbooks designed to manage and automate tasks on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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PCLinuxOS
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PCLOS Official ☛ Today’s updates 10-05-2024
gnucash-5.9-2guile-2.0.14-3dhcpcd-10.1.0-1qt-creator-14.0.2-1lazarus-3.6.0-1thunderbird-128.3.0-1lyx-2.4.2.1-1mythes-1.2.5-1task-qt6-devel-6.7.3-1VSCodium-1.93.1.24256-1rustdesk-1.3.1-1heroic-2.15.2-1 sdl2-2.30.8-
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Audiocasts/Shows
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Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Free Software Security Podcast Episode 449 – The CUPSpocalypse
Josh and Kurt talk about the recent CUPS issue. The vulnerability itself wasn’t all that exciting, but the whole disclosure process was wild. There’s a lot to talk about, many things didn’t quite go as planned and it all leaked early.
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Programming/Development
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Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2024
This weekend "The KDE Alberts"[1] attended Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2024 in Sunnyvale, California.
The Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit is an annual unconference that every project participating in Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2024 is invited to attend. This year it was the 20th year celebration of the program!
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Python/R
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Rlang ☛ Gradient-Boosting anything (alert: high performance)
Gradient boosting with any regression algorithm in Python...
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Rlang ☛ Dudeney’s Remainder Problem
The description of this puzzle really cracks me up (Dudeney, Strand Magazine, January 1924).
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