today's leftovers
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It's FOSS ☛ Meet Open NotebookLM: An Open Source Alternative to Google's NotebookLM
Good to see an open source alternative arriving on the scene so soon.
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Content Management Systems (CMS)
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WordPress ☛ WordPress 6.7 Beta 2
WordPress 6.7 Beta 2 is now ready for testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you evaluate Beta 2 on a test server and site.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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CNX Software ☛ NXP RW612 Arm Cortex-M33 Wireless MCU offers Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and 802.15.4 radios
The NXP RW612 is an Arm Cortex-M33 SoC with three radios, namely WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and 802.15.4 for Thread and Matter connectivity. It also has a small sibling called the RW610 without the 802.15.4 radio. I first came across RW61x chips, when Debashis wrote about the Trimension SR250 UWB chip mentioning it can work with “host processors like NXP’s i.MX, RW61x, and MCX families”.
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Security
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Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 279 released
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version
279. This version includes the following changes:* Drop removal of calculated basename from readelf output. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#394)
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SANS ☛ macOS Sequoia: System/Network Admins, Hold On, (Mon, Oct 7th)
Last week, I was teaching for SANS and decided to not upgrade my MacBook to macOS 15.0 (Sequoia). Today, I had nothing critical scheduled and made the big jump. Upgrading the operating system is always stressful but everything ran smoothly. So far so good...
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Gentoo Family
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Gentoo ☛ Arm Ltd. provides fast Ampere Altra Max server for Gentoo
We’re very happy to announce that Arm Ltd. and specifically its Works on Arm team has sent us a fast Ampere Altra Max server to support Gentoo development. With 96 Armv8.2+ 64bit cores, 256 GByte of RAM, and 4 TByte NVMe storage, it is now hosted together with some of our other hardware at OSU Open Source Lab.
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Programming/Development
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Rlang ☛ Nested unit tests with testthat
The testthat package is the most widely used tool for unit testing in R.
However, many users may not be aware of the possibility to nest test blocks
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Jim Nielsen ☛ Ryan Dahl Talks Deno on The Changelog
Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me.
His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno
I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node.js served as the manifesto and launching point for Deno. And yet, he’s now re-introduced some of those regrets into Deno — out of practicality, a point he openly admits in the interview.
For example, here are some of his stated regrets from Node.js:
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Python
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LWN ☛ Python 3.13 released
Version 3.13 of the Python programming language has been released. The "What's New In Python 3.13" page has a summary of all the new features and changes. Highlights of the release include a basic JIT compiler, experimental support for free-threading, and much more. See the changelog for even more details.
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