today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 01, 2025

GNU/Linux

• Kernel Space

  • LWN ☛ McKenney: Speaking at Kernel Recipes

    Paul McKenney has put together a series of

    articles on how to improve one's ability to give a good talk at a

    technical conference.

    [...]

    There is a lot of speaking experience distilled into this set of posts.

• Instructionals/Technical

  • dwaves.de ☛ GNU GNU/Linux cross os harddisk performance monitoring script (show real time mbytes/s writing reading)

• Games

  • Hackaday ☛ What Game Should Replace Doom As The Meme Port Of Choice?

    DOOM. The first-person shooter was an instant hit upon its mrelease at the end of 1993. It was soon ported off the PC platform to a number of consoles with varying success. Fast forward a few years, and it became a meme. People were porting Doom to everything from thermostats to car stereos and even inside Microsoft Word itself.

• Desktop Environments/WMs

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • Felipe Borges: GNOME is participating in Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2025!

      The Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2025 mentoring organizations have just been announced and we are happy that GNOME’s participation has been accepted!

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family

    • PCLOS Official ☛ PCLinuxOS Recent Updates

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ Idea from FOSDEM: Power 11 Hey Hi (AI) workstation

      During CES Nvidia announced a new Hey Hi (AI) desktop supercomputer: Project DIGITS. Starting at $3000 it puts Hey Hi (AI) processing capabilities on the desktop what just recently needed multiple servers and a few more zeroes at the end of the price tag.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Programming/Development

    • R

      • Rlang ☛ You Don’t Need Airflow: Orchestrate Many Data Flows in R with Maestro

        Data never stays in one place for long. Any business or team that works with data needs to be thinking about how data moves from one place to the next. This often happens multiple times, continuously, and in multiple different streams.

      • Rlang ☛ Building LLM-Powered Applications with Shiny for Python: Practical Insights

        At Appsilon, we’ve been integrating Large Language Models into Shiny for Python applications for a while now. One thing became clear: the challenge isn’t in the initial integration. Shiny for Python’s ui.Chat component makes that straightforward.

      • Rlang ☛ rOpenSci News Digest, February 2025

      • Rlang ☛ Presenting ‘Online Probabilistic Estimation of Carbon Beta and Carbon Shapley Values for Financial and Climate Risk’ at Institut Louis Bachelier

    • Rust

      • Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 588

        Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust!