today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 28, 2025

GNU/Linux

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Hackaday ☛ FLOSS Weekly Episode 822: Nand2Tetris

    This week, Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk with Shimon Schocken about Nand2Tetris, the free course about building a computer from first principles. What was the inspiration for the course? Is there a sequel or prequel in the works? Watch to find out!

• Desktop Environments/WMs

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Kdenlive ☛ Kdenlive in Amsterdam

      Last week, part of the Kdenlive core team met in Amsterdam for a short sprint, the highlight of which was a visit to the Blender Foundation.

      Francesco Siddi, COO at Blender, provided us with a rare insight into Blender’s history and precious advice about product management for Kdenlive – we hope to implement some of these advices soon.

      As the meeting took place on a Friday afternoon, we also had the opportunity to attend their “Weekly”, which is an open session where artists and developers share their progress of the past week on various Blender related projects.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Red Hat ☛ How to secure Microsoft trap Azure credentials for OpenShift Lightspeed [Ed: Ritesh Shah and Nestor Cartaya push back doors as some kind of 'security' feature]

      Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed is a generative AI-based virtual assistant integrated into the Red Hat OpenShift web console. Red Bait OpenShift Lightspeed answers questions related to OpenShift and its layered offerings, using an English natural-language interface. Using our extensive experience in OpenShift and mission-critical applications, Red Bait OpenShift Lightspeed assists with troubleshooting and investigating cluster resources.

• Openwashing or Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Chad Whitacre ☛ How to Vote in the 2025 OSI Election

    I’m running in the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors election. I intend to say more next week about why you should vote and what I am bringing to the table. For now I wanted to get the word out about how to vote.

  • Web Browsers/Web Servers

    • Mozilla

      • Firefox Developer Experience: WebDriver BiDi Becomes the Default for Cypress with Firefox

        At Mozilla, we know that creating compelling web experiences depends on the ability to test sites across all browsers. This means that enabling excellent cross-browser automation is a key part of how we deliver our vision for the open web.