today's leftovers
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Unicorn Media ☛ What Craig McLuckie Is Doing Now and Why He Is Doing It
If you're wondering what Craig McLuckie is doing since leaving Heptio and VMware behind… well, he's not living full time in the Kubernetes world anymore, but he heads a startup that's very much involved in open source issues.
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Programming/Development
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Software Freedom Conservancy ☛ SFC Announces Aspirational Statement on LLM-backed generative Hey Hi (AI) for Programming
In 2022, Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) convened a committee in the wake of Microsoft's Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Copilot announcement, to meet and begin considering the complex questions that arise from the use of large language models (LLMs) in generative Hey Hi (AI) systems that seek to assist software developers.
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Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
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TecMint ☛ rbash – A Restricted Bash Shell Explained with Practical Examples
This article will explain what rbash is, how it differs from the regular Bash shell, and provide practical examples of its usage.
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Ubuntu Pit ☛ Linux Shell Roundup: 15 Most Popular Open Source GNU/Linux Shells
Unix systems have captivated the world since its inception in the 70s. One of the fundamental features that helped GNU/Linux and BSD distributions in securing their current stature is the GNU/Linux shell. The shell is one of the essential tools for many GNU/Linux aficionados due to its immense power and diverse applications.
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ Support.Mozilla.Org: What’s up with SUMO – Q3 2024
Each quarter, we gather insights on all things SUMO to celebrate our team’s contributions and showcase the impact of our work.
The SUMO community is powered by an ever-growing global network of contributors. We are so grateful for your contributions, which help us improve our product and support experiences, and further Mozilla’s mission to make the internet a better place for everyone.
This quarter we’re modifying our update to highlight key takeaways, outline focus areas for Q4, and share our plans to optimize our tools so we can measure the impact of your contributions more effectively.
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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KDE: Design System – Colors, Variables and Tokens!
This week, we realized that there are a few things we need to do to button-down our use of colors in a way that makes sense, not just for designers but also for developers.
As we find inspiration on what others are doing, we will make a couple of changes in the design system when it comes to colors.
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Games
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Hackaday ☛ Atari’s Pac-Man Flop: How A Classic Went Off-Course
For fans of retro games, Pac-Man is nothing short of iconic—a game so loved it’s been ported to nearly every console imaginable. But the Atari 2600 version, released in 1982, left players scratching their heads – as laid out in a video by [Almost Something]. Atari had licensed Pac-Man to ride the wave of its arcade success, but the home version, programmed solely by [Todd Fry], missed the mark, turning an arcade icon into a surprising lesson in over-ambitious marketing.
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Linux Foundation
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Linux partnering with Task 53 of the IEA on bidirectional EV charging [Ed: Conflating Linux with the Bill Gates-connected LF, which barely cares about Linux]
Aiming to overcome hurdles such as lack of standardisation and insufficient interoperability, the Linux Foundation Energy (LF Energy) EVerest Project is partnering with Task 53, launched by the International Energy Agency (IEA) Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Technology Collaboration Programme (HEV TCP) to improve interoperability of bidirectional charging.
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