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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of June 2021 12:10:42 PM Filed under
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  • WordPress 5.8 Release Candidate

    The first release candidate for WordPress 5.8 is now available!

    Please join us in celebrating this very important milestone in the community’s progress towards the final release of WordPress 5.8!

    “Release Candidate” means the new version is ready for release, but with thousands of plugins and themes and differences in how the millions of people use WordPress, it is possible something was missed. WordPress 5.8 is slated for release on July 20, 2021, but your help is needed to get there—if you have not tried 5.8 yet, now is the time!

  • Top 7 free photo editors in 2021

    One of the most popular alternatives to Photoshop is GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), a free and open-source photo editing program with many powerful features. The software is available on multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac, as well as Linux.

    It can import and export various file formats without any issues, making the software extremely versatile. Unfortunately, there’s no smartphone app for GIMP, which is a bummer for those who would rather edit on their smartphones, and the software has a rather steep learning curve.

  • Madeline ‘Madds’ Holland: Everyone Struggles

    The theme for week 3 of the Outreachy internship was Everyone Struggles, and fittingly, I struggled a lot while writing this post. I almost had it done then my WordPress tab crashed and come to find out my clicking “save draft” every minute had not actually saved anything, so this is actually my second take for writing this post. When you’re writing something, make sure it’s actually saving when you hit the save button.

    [...]

    2) When context isn’t enough, search! I generally do DuckDuckGo searches with the unknown word or acronym along with the context I found it in, for example not too long ago I came across BBB in the GNOME project’s Rocket Chat webapp, so I knew from the context (it was the flavor text when hovering over a call button) that it had something to do with GNOME and video/audio calls, so I searched for “BBB GNOME” and a few variations in DuckDuckGo and Google, which didn’t give me meaningful results on account of BBB also standing for Better Business Bureau, which led me to:

  • AdaCore Qualifies C Compiler for Alstom’s Safety-Critical Railway Systems
  • 'Malicious' Actor Is Wiping The Data Of Countless Western Digital My Book Users

    Owners of the Western Digital popular My Book external hard drives aren't having a particularly good week. The company is advising customers to stop using the devices for now after customers mysteriously found their data deleted. According to complaints over at the company's website (first spotted by Bleeping Computer), many users say they woke up to find that the content of their external USB-connected storage drives had been completely wiped. Worse, they couldn't log in to the device's administrative systems to run any kind of diagnosis on the drives:

  • When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England

    French outsourcer Atos has been charging NHS England between £6,000 and £8,000 for packing up popular free and open-source software requested by workers in the non-departmental government body.

    According to documents seen by The Register, data workers in NHS England have to request FOSS packages via their line management. These are fulfilled by outsourcer Atos, as part of its £136m agreement with the Department of Health and Social Care signed in June 2019.

    [...]

    Baw said that NHSX, set up by former Health Secretary Matt Hancock to develop best practice in technology and data usage ("Allow Matt Hancock to access this device's location", anyone?), was a case in point.

    "They've hired directors of everything, and yet they still haven't actually turned out any particularly useful products. The NHS COVID app, something they brandish as a success of NHSX... well, that was delivered by NHS Digital."

    An Atos spokesperson told The Register: "In line with government and NHS policies, all software must be safely and securely deployed within guidelines provided to us. For a small number of users, the client does at times administer software deployment itself but we may be asked to package and deploy the software for a more significant proportion of the workforce.

    "This involves a number of steps including requirements capture, testing, UAT and verification. Such activities and costs associated are always carefully considered and are proportionate and are not on a per user basis."

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today's howtos

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    In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. In this guide, we are going to learn how to install golang 1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04. Go 1.19beta1 is not yet released. There is so much work in progress with all the documentation.

  • molecule test: failed to connect to bus in systemd container - openQA bites

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  • How To Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot

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