today's leftovers
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GNU/Linux
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Server
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Xe's Blog ☛ Hello again, Kubernetes
Yeah, yeah, we know; freight train to mail a letter, etc.
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Applications
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Medevel ☛ Kodbox - Free Self-Hosted Web File Manager & Code Editor with Full Desktop Experience, still Kicking Since 2013
Kodbox is an open-source web-based file manager that offers a Windows-like experience for seamless file operations within a web browser.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.4.3
See release notes here:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2024/6.4.3/release-notes.htm
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Barry Kauler ☛ Redshift/brightness tray applet fix
There was a recent report, that the redhsift/brightness tray applet does not "kick in" until it is clicked on. In manual mode, it does remember your selection, which is saved in /root/.rshift; however, those settings are not read until the tray icon is clicked on.
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Debian Family
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Thorsten Alteholz ☛ Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in October 2024
FTP master
This month I accepted 398 and rejected 22 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 441.
In case your RM bug is not closed within a month, you can assume that either the conversion of the subject of the bug email to the corresponding dak command did not work or you still need to take care of reverse dependencies. The dak command related to your removal bug can be found here.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu Summit 2024: A joyful experience filled with sorrow
Has this ever occurred to you? The most joyful moments of your life got filled with sorrow, a grief of loss…
Let’s talk about the Ubuntu Summit first, my international conference and solo travel outside my country. Probably I am the first from my entire extended family to visit a European country.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy Blog: Behind the Scenes of eIDAS: A Look at Article 45 and Its Implications [Ed: Mozilla still pretends to value privacy; does it still fool anybody?]
On October 21, 2024, Mozilla hosted a panel discussion during the Global Encryption Summit to explore the ongoing debate around Article 45 of the eIDAS regulation.
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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Avinash Sajjanshetty ☛ PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default
My friend, who claims to be a bigger fan of SQLite than me (debatable), said that my previous blog post was unfair. My fren is right in a way. I wrote about SQLite because that’s what I’m most familiar with and what I use every day. But here’s a follow-up: most databases don’t have checksums enabled by default. As explained earlier, even a single bit flip can be devastating, and your database or application won’t even know about it. Alice would have lost money even on Postgres.
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Avinash Sajjanshetty ☛ PSA: SQLite does not do checksums - blag
SQLite does not do checksums by default. I learned this from Alex Miller. What does this mean? If there is disk corruption, the database or application won’t be able to know that the database is ‘corrupt’.
Even a single bit flip can cause havoc. This can happen due to a faulty disk, a bug in the disk driver, or when another application (malicious or otherwise) modifies the database files.
This is not a bug - it’s properly documented: [...]
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ Eight more videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2024
We’re editing and uploading more videos from our recent conference – these ones covering the Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code, new Calc functions and optimisations, improvements to language support and more (use the icon in the top-right to choose videos from the playlist): Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video.
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Education
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Aaron Swartz Day ☛ Episode 7: Aaron Swartz Day 2024 | Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon
We will be celebrating this year’s Aaron Swartz Day with a podcast on Saturday November 9th at 2pm PST/10pm UTC.
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