Today's HowTos and Programming Leftovers
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Instructionals/Technical
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Dedoimedo ☛ How to create awesome GIF images via various methods
GIF my pic. This be a tutorial showing how to create animated GIF images using open-source tools like GIMP, ImageMagick convert, and ffmpeg, including RGB vs Indexed mode, dithering, framerate, delay and looping, file size and quality comparison, optional WebP conversion, and some other tips and tricks. Take a look.
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Medevel ☛ DNSCrypt Proxy 2: A Flexible DNS Proxy Supporting Encrypted DNS Protocols
DNSCrypt is a protocol that encrypts, authenticates and optionally anonymizes communications between a DNS client and a DNS resolver. It prevents DNS spoofing. It uses cryptographic signatures to verify that responses originate from the chosen DNS resolver and haven’t been tampered with.
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LinuxBuz ☛ Ansible yum localinstall: A Complete Guide to Install Local RPMs
Ansible simplifies package management on GNU/Linux systems, especially when using the yum module. Typically, Ansible’s yum module installs packages from remote repositories.
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Programming/Development
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Medevel ☛ Gitinspector: A Glimpse into Git Repo Statistics—Old but Gold!
Gitinspector is a statistical analysis tool for git repositories. The default analysis shows general statistics per author, which can be complemented with a timeline analysis that shows the workload and activity of each author.
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Bootlin ☛ Welcome to Antonin Godard
After Mathieu Dubois-Briand and Olivier Benjamin, a third engineer joined this September our team at our Lyon office in France: we’re happy to welcome Antonin Godard. After graduating from the french Telecom Paris engineering school in 2020, Antonin spent 4 years at Witekio, exclusively dedicated to embedded GNU/Linux system development.
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Rlang ☛ Enhancing Shiny Application Performance: Implementing Efficient Coding Practices
A website or application’s performance and loading speed play a crucial role in determining its user experience (UX) and success. Slow performance is the main reason why users lose interest in an application.
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GNU ☛ GNU libunistring-1.3 released
Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-1.3.tar.gz
This is a stable release.
New in this release:
- The data tables and algorithms have been updated to Unicode version 16.0.0.
- New function uc_is_property_modifier_combining_mark and new constant UC_PROPERTY_MODIFIER_COMBINING_MARK.
- Fixed a bug in the *printf functions: The %ls and %lc directives could lead to a crash on Solaris and MSVC.
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