Canonical, Mozilla, and Coding

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 24, 2024

• Canonical/Ubuntu Family

  • Canonical ☛ What is Ubuntu used for?

    The launch of Ubuntu in 2004 was a step-change for everyday users and developers everywhere. Nicknamed “Ubuntu Linux” in its early days, to differentiate it from its various cousins in the GNU/Linux world, it has since lost the need for its surname and grown to become a powerful force.

• Mozilla

  • Mozilla ☛ Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy Blog: Mozilla Participates to Ofcom’s Draft Transparency Reporting Guidance

    On 4th October 2024, Mozilla provided our input to Ofcom’s consultation on its draft transparency reporting guidance. Transparency plays a crucial role in promoting accountability and public trust, particularly when it comes to how tech platforms handle harmful or illegal content online and we were pleased to share our research, insight, and input with Ofcom.

    Scope of the Consultation

    Ofcom’s proposed guidance aims to improve transparency reporting, allowing the public, researchers, and regulators to better understand how categorized services  operate and whether they are doing enough to respect users’ rights and protect users from harm.

    We support this effort and believe additional clarifications are needed to ensure that Ofcom’s transparency process fully meets its objectives. The following clarifications will ensure that the transparency reporting process effectively holds tech companies accountable, safeguards users, fosters public trust, and allows for effective use of transparency reporting by different stakeholders.

• Programming/Development

  • Hackaday ☛ Tridora: A Full-Custom CPU Designed For Pascal

    [Sebastian Lederer] has created Tridora: an unusual stack-based CPU core intended for FPGA deployment, co-developed with its own Pascal compiler. The 32-bit word machine is unusual in that it has not one but three stacks, 16-bit instruction words, and a limited ISA, more like those of the 8-bit world. No multiply or divide instructions will be found in this CPU.

  • Content Management Systems (CMS)

    • WordPress ☛ WordPress Community Creates 1,000 Block Themes in 1,000 Days [Ed: WordPress clearly trying to change the topic to recover from a recent PR catastrophe]

      In nearly 1,000 days, the WordPress community has created 1,000 Block themes—coming together to use the full potential of the Site Editor and unleash new creative possibilities for everyone.

  • Databases

    • Evan Hahn ☛ How does SQLite's "changes" API handle no-op UPDATEs?

      SQLite has an API to count the number of rows modified by an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE. For example, if you delete 10 rows, SELECT changes() will return 10.

  • Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh

    • SANS ☛ Everybody Loves Bash Scripts. Including Attackers., (Wed, Oct 23rd)

      Today our "First Seen" page displayed a number of simple URLs: