Tux Machines Bulletin for Thursday, January 02, 2025 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Fri 3 Jan 02:49:59 GMT 2025 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at http://news.tuxmachines.org ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Tux Machines - Algol 68 GCC Front-End ⦿ Tux Machines - Another Celebration This Month ⦿ Tux Machines - Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and GAFAM Discrimination ⦿ Tux Machines - Fedora and IBM: Filipe Rosset's Bug Fixes and Mark J. 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It is about time to have support for the best programming language ever designed in the best optimizing compiler ever made ;) Thanks to Marcel van der Veer for his awesome parser, that I took the liberty to borrow from Algol 68 Genie. Free Software for the win! WIP_patch_series_in_gcc-patches... * ⚓ An_Algol_68_front_end_for_GCC⠀⇛ While some people are focused on new and trendy languages, José Marchesi has, instead, gifted the world with a_GCC_front_end for_the_Algol_68_language. * ⚓ Algol_68_GCC_Front-End⠀⇛ Hello people, happy GNU year! This WIP is a GCC front-end for Algol 68, the fascinating, generally poorly understood and often vilified programming language. It is common knowledge that Algol 68 was well ahead of its time back when it was introduced, and anyone who knows the language well will suspect this probably still holds true today, but more than fifty years after the publication of the Revised Report the world may finally be ready for it, or perhaps not, we shall see ;) At the very least having support in GCC will make it easier for Algol 68 enthusiasts to write, share and use their programs in modern systems. This is work in progress, but the front-end can already compile most of the main language constructs and many full programs. Most of the predefined operators provided by the standard prelude are still missing. Adding these is a matter of filling in the gaps and should not require any fundamental change in the implementation. There is no transput, so the programs that can currently be compiled and ran are not terribly useful since they cannot operate on files. A proper transput implementation that integrates well in modern POSIX systems is in the works. The Revised Report didn't concern itself with mundane topics as separated compilation, so at this point each compilation unit is a full program. Early Algol 68 compilers supported separated compilation, each on its own way. The WG 2.1 also produced a proposal for a standard modules system for Algol 68, never implemented to my knowledge. A proper modules system is also in the works. The goal is for GNU Algol 68 to be a strict super-language of Algol 68, as blessed by the Report. At this point I am confident the implementation is viable and it is reasonable to continue the development in public without risking wasting anyone's time in vaporware. Speaking about the implementation. This is my first GCC front-end and I am still only moderately familiar with the applicable lore. Up to now I have focused in functionality rather than efficiency in order to assess the feasibility of the task and to get something working and suitable to be published. Therefore there are many parts of the implementation that are crude and can be made smarter, and places where I may have simply used the wrong approach, out of ignorance. The FE is also awfully slow and I haven't paid much attention to not leak memory. All of this will be fixed. In the meanwhile any feedback from actually knowledgeable FE gurus would be highly appreciated! The parser used in this front-end has been borrowed and adapted from Algol 68 Genie, an Algol 68 interpreter written by Marcel van der Veer. It is worth noting that this parser is not your typical garden variety parser, as it is capable of effectively parsing the two-level grammar of Algol 68, which is no small deal. Parsing Algol 68 is notoriously difficult, and without Marcel's careful work of many years this front-end would most probably not exist. It is also a beautiful implementation that is a delight to both read and work with. I certainly have learned a lot from it. The syntax tree built by the parser is then lowered into a GENERIC tree by a lowering pass, which then invokes the gimplifier and hands the resulting gimple IR over to the rest of the compilation, down the rabbit hole all the way to optimized assembly code. The DWARF currently generated by the compiler is not very useful. Emitting DWARF that accurately describes the Algol 68 data structures is still to be done. As is GDB support and its corresponding expressions parser, which by the way will be lots of fun to do, considering the language in question ^^ The mangling of symbols is currently very dumb. This is because we need to design and decide on a separated compilation model first in order to determine what information to encode in the symbols. The compiler driver is called `gac', for GNU Algol 68 Compiler. The compiler proper is called `a681'. The run-time library is called `libgac'. The front-end includes a testsuite for catching regressions, as well as an user manual and an internals manual, all of which is being expanded as the work progresses. A couple of tests are currently failing, sorry about that. Note that auto re-generated files like configure are not included in the series to not bloat the emails. These can be re-generated normally using autoreconf and the like. I have also dispensed with ChangeLog entries in this WIP patch series, as well as with detailed commit messages. These will be incorporated in a subsequent version if/when the front-end gets officially proposed for incorporation in GCC. All the C and C++ code is formatted following the GNU Coding Standards. The original parser is copyright Marcel van der Veer. The rest of the code is either copyright of yours humble or boilerplate taken from other GCC front-ends. All the code is licensed under GPLv3+, with the GCC Runtime Library exception for run-time components. The manuals are licensed under the GNU FDL like the rest of the documentation shipped with GCC. As to where to host the project, the obvious choice is perhaps a project at sourceware, but it would be nice if we could develop the front-end in a branch in the GCC git repo, to have a mailing list under gcc.gnu.org and to use a page in the GCC wiki to track the FE progress... please let me know if that is feasible. An Emacs mode for editing Algol 68 programs can be found at https://git.sr.ht/~jemarch/a68-mode. It supports automatic indentation, pretty-printing of bold tags, an auto-stropping minor mode and other useful features. The Algol 68 Jargon File at https://jemarch.net/a68-jargon aims to provide a comprehensive list of definitions for technical and non-technical terms used in the context of Algol 68, which are many. It contains few entries at the moment but I am progressively expanding it as time allows. Finally, I am using the #gnualgol channel in irc.oftc.net. Everyone is welcome to join and have fun with Algol 68. Salud! PS: many thanks to Iain, Andrew, Segher and others for their help and patience answering my FE related n00b questions in the IRC channel. You are the best. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 338 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Another_Celebration_This_Month.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Another_Celebration_This_Month.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Another Celebration This Month⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025, updated Jan 02, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Techrights_Turns_18⦈_ TWO weeks from now Rianne celebrates an anniversary in a local place near us. If you wish to join us and meet the people who run the site, then come chat in the_IRC_channel_of_Tux_Machines to make arrangements. The year started well for us. Let's hope it'll continue that way. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡉⣙⢧⠀⣿⣶⣯⣛⣿⠘⣿⣿⡟⣿⠆⢸⣿⣿⣿⢻⡿⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⠴⠟⠛⢿⣿⣿⣟⡻⣽⡧⠀⢻⠿⣿⣿⡿⠀⢻⡇⠛⠃⠀⢼⣿⡏⠉⠀⠁⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⡤⠴⠒⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⣿⠙⠋⠉⠘⠁⠀⠘⢃⠄⡹⢇⣶⣿⡿⠂⠀⠄⠸⠿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠔⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣤⢿⡧⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣀⠿⡋⢥⠎⣩⠀⠀⠀⠀⢁⣀⠠⠴⠚⠁⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠫⠄⠘⠀⠐⠂⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⢠⣦⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⣄⣀⡦⡆⡆⣀⡀⣤⣦⣤⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⣀⣤⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣉⡙⢻ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠾⠿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠓⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠛⠛⠻⠿⢿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠤⠤⠤⠄⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣒⣠⣤⣤⣾⣭⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠠⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠒⢒⣶⣿⠷⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⣀⠠⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣄⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⡀⠀⣤⢠⢠⡀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠈⢛⣭⣼⣿⣿⣭⢉⣉⣛⣛⠻⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡌⠛⠛⠛⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⡂⢸⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⡿⣆⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠟⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠛⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡾⣿⣿⣭⣮⣿⣿⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣞⢧⠀⢀⠐⡆⣲⣿⣿⣾⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡑⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⡥⣶⠜⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣁⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠈⢶⡻⠿⣿⣿⣀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠆⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠈⠀⠐⢺⣿⣿⡆⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢀⣼⣿⠻⢿⣿⣿⣷⠀⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⣿⣿⠟⠀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⣾⣿⣿⣷⣤⣄⠉⠋⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣌⠟⠒⠦⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢡⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⡏⠘⠁⠀⢠⣿⠹⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠊⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⣼⣿⣿⣶⣶⣄⣠⠂⠁⠙⠂⠿⠋⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠹⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢠⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠨⣯⣷⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⢿⡿⢛⡋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠔⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⢠⣄⣶⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠋⠁⠀⣼⣿⡟⠋⠀⠀⠘⢹⣿⡿⠋⣠⠀⠀⠀⠸⣶⠀⢸⣟⣫⢻⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠘⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣴⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠑⠻⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠁⣠⡾⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⢿⣤⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⣀⡤⠖⠂⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠏⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⣠⡾⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠉⠉⠛⠑⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠅⠈⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠙⠋⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⡀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠒⠐⠀⠉⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠁⠀⠠⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣶⡖⣾⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 396 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Audiocasts_Shows_FLOSS_Weekly_and_GAFAM_Discrimination.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Audiocasts_Shows_FLOSS_Weekly_and_GAFAM_Discrimination.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and GAFAM Discrimination⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ FLOSS_Weekly_Episode_814:_The_Banksy_Situation⠀⇛ This week, Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk with Alistair Woodman about FRRouting, the Internet routing suite that helps make all this possible. But also business, and how an open source project turns the corner into a successful way to support programmers. * ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Employees_Speak_Out:_Google,_Apple,_Microsoft,_& defective_chip_maker_Intel_Discriminate_Against_White_Men⠀⇛ "I'd love to hire you, but, unfortunately, you're a white male." ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 431 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Fedora_and_IBM_Filipe_Rosset_s_Bus_Fixes_and_Mark_J_Wielaard_Sh.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Fedora_and_IBM_Filipe_Rosset_s_Bus_Fixes_and_Mark_J_Wielaard_Sh.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Fedora and IBM: Filipe Rosset's Bug Fixes and Mark J. Wielaard Shills a Front Group of His Employer⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025, updated Jan 02, 2025 * ⚓ Filipe_Rosset:_Fedora_rawhide_–_fixed_bugs_2024/08⠀⇛ Bug 2301154 – python-ipmi: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f41 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2301154 * ⚓ Filipe_Rosset:_Fedora_rawhide_–_fixed_bugs_2024/10⠀⇛ Bug 2316041 – dmtcp-3.1.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2316041 Bug 2315585 – mbuffer-20240929 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2315585 Bug 2317034 – mbuffer-20241007 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317034 * ⚓ Filipe_Rosset:_Latest_Updates_on_Bugs_and_Packages_for_Fedora_– qbittorrent,_zmap,_homebank,_parallel,_etc⠀⇛ Bug 2322277 – qbittorrent-5.0.1 is available Update qbittorrent to 5.0.1 to fix CVE-2024-51774 and rhbz#2322277 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322277 * ⚓ Mark_J._Wielaard:_Supporting_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_in_2025 [Ed: Truly nonsense from employee of a monopoly; the SFC is fronting for this monopoly and actively censors community members who criticise this monopoly]⠀⇛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 488 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * § Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ Neowin ☛ Top_10_must-have_apps_for_new_GNU/Linux_users_in_2025⠀⇛ If you are new to Linux, this guide is for you! I list some of the key apps (and services) that you'll want to use to make your GNU/Linux transition more comfortable. * § Videos⠀➾ o ⚓ Harish Pillay ☛ Clever_tools_for_managing_your_video_viewing time⠀⇛ It is undeniable that youtube.com has become the main site for video content. A lot of those who create videos are also depending on the monetization aspects of that site. All of that is fine. [...] a) yt-dlp: a command line tool that is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. That project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. yt-dlp is in the public domain under a “unlicense license” which is pretty much like CC0. b) yt-x: Browse YouTube from your terminal plus other sites yt-dlp supports. It is on an MIT License – which is just fine. yt-x is a very well written bash script of about 1,600 lines. Really clever and really well done. What this has enabled me is complete control of my time in consuming videos – whether for leisure or for learning. I am far more productive and not being distracted by advertisements helps to keep me focused. * § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ o ⚓ Carnegie Mellon University ☛ Databases_in_2024:_A_Year_in Review⠀⇛ There is much to cover from the past year, from 10-figure acquisitions, vendors running wild in the streets with license changes, and the most famous database octogenarian splashing cash to recruit a college quarterback to impress his new dimepiece. I promised my first wife that I would write more professionally this year. I have also been informed that some universities assign my annual blog articles as required reading in their database courses. Let's see how it goes. * § Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)⠀➾ o ⚓ Joost de Valk ☛ WordPress_comments,_cookies_and_caching⠀⇛ This post explains how WordPress uses comment cookies and why that is detrimental to your site’s caching. It then shows you how to fix this. When I wrote my previous post about WordPress leadership, I had anticipated getting a lot of comments. It turned out there were even more than I expected. This led to some issues with my (admittedly rather aggressive) caching settings on my blog. When I approved a comment it didn’t clear my Cloudflare edge cache of my post, so people couldn’t see them. A few days after fixing that, I was alerted to the fact that Cloudflare was caching the details of the last commenter on a post. This led me down a rather deep rabbit hole. I was reading code that I’d not seen in quite some time, in the WordPress comment system. * § Education⠀➾ o ⚓ BSDCan ☛ BSDCan_2025⠀⇛ 12 February 2025: Proposal submissions ends * § Licensing / Legal⠀➾ o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Agencies_required_to_share_custom_software under_new_law⠀⇛ Biden signed the “Source Code Harmonization And Reuse in Information Technology Act” on Dec. 23. Known as the “SHARE IT Act,” the bill was first introduced by Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) in January 2024. In introducing the legislation, lawmakers pointed to the $12 billion agencies spend on software annually. That figure includes both commercial software and custom- developed products. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 630 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts_Weekly_recap_—_29_December_2024⠀⇛ Week highlights: the second release candidate of GIMP 3.0 is out, and so are the new stable releases of OpenShot, Mixxx, Overwitch. * ⚓ Ricardo García ☛ Year-end_donations_round,_2024_edition⠀⇛ Just in time before the year ends, I’ve gone ahead with my round of personal donations for 2024. I highly encourage you to do something similar and support the free and open source software and organizations that make a difference to you. * ⚓ kpcyrd:_2024_wrapped⠀⇛ Dear blog. This post is inspired by an old_friend_of_mine who has been writing these for the past few years. I meant to do this for a while now, but ended up not preparing anything, so this post is me writing it from memory. There’s likely stuff I forgot, me being gentle with myself I’ll probably just permit myself to complete this list the next couple of days. I hate bragging, I try to not depend on external validation as much as possible, and being the anti-capitalist that I am, I try to be content with knowing I’m “doing good in the background”. I don’t think people owe me for the work I did, I don’t expect anything in return, and it’s my way of giving back to the community and the people around me. Consider us even. * § Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ transgender_–_minimalistic_terminal_file_explorer⠀⇛ transgender is a minimalistic TUI file explorer with minimal dependencies, written by a Ranger hater. * § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ o ⚓ Jason Becker ☛ Transmit_is_Awesome,_Google_Drive_Sucks⠀⇛ The Dropbox app is terrible, and frankly, so are most cloud storage applications. What used to be “just” a folder on my Mac that I could trust to get synchronized to the cloud and all of my other devices became a resource hog and a UX nightmare. Frankly, I just don’t use “cloud storage as my file system” the way I think these things are intended. Instead, Dropbox and Google Drive are largely places where other people share files with me and vice versa. As it turns out, 99/100 times when I’m working in this setup, I don’t need constant two-way syncing. Instead, I just want to download something someone shared with me or upload something to share with someone else. So I added my Dropbox and Google Drive accounts to Transmit, dumped their apps, and happily upload and download files. * § Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)⠀➾ o ⚓ Brandon Quakkelaar ☛ Goodbye_Github_Pages,_Hello_Coolify⠀⇛ Coolify helps minimize the amount of headache self- hosting can be, and I’m very excited to have it. I’m excited to learn about all it can do, and I’m excited to start new personal projects. Maybe I’ll host my own finance app, or FreshRSS reader, Minecraft server, or NextCloud. These are all options in Coolify’s UI. And none of it will be data mined, or subject to the control of Big Tech. * § Education⠀➾ o ⚓ Archipylago ☛ Thanks_for_2024!⠀⇛ It's the last day of the first year of archipylago and I wanted to take a moment to say a few words. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 742 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Games_Steam_Deck_Gaming_With_Public_Domain_and_DOOM.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Games_Steam_Deck_Gaming_With_Public_Domain_and_DOOM.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Games: Steam Deck, Gaming With Public Domain, and DOOM⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Rain_Code_-_A_New_Danganronpa?!_Review_on_GNU/Linux_and Steam_Deck⠀⇛ Rain Code is a recently released game on PC after a first incursion on Switch. It’s a Japanese game published by Spike Chunsoft, who is well known for its great library of visual novels, including the famous Danganronpa. I have already covered Danganronpa twice before (First and Second one)- as they happened to have GNU/Linux ports made by Abstraction Games. And they were excellent games, too, which does not hurt. Why mention Danganronpa so much as part of my introduction? There is a very good reason for that. In many ways, Rain Code is just another take at making a Danganronpa game without the branding, and without the Monokuma character. But all the elements are there. * ⚓ Itch Corp ☛ Gaming_Like_It's_1929⠀⇛ This jam is open to both digital and analog games – choose the medium that excites you! For digital games, we’ll only be judging games that are playable in the browser. This includes interactive fiction using frameworks like Twine. and storytelling game platforms like Story Synth. You can submit desktop or mobile games but we won’t consider them for prizes. For purely analog games, we’re looking for tabletop RPGs, larps, board games, and everything in between. We encourage you to design something short and quickly playable. Our judges are only committed to reading the first four pages of your submission. Golden Cobra and Game Chef contain great examples of brief, compelling games. * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Is_There_Nothing_DOOM_Can’t_Do?⠀⇛ We all know that “Can it run Doom?” is the first question of a hardware hacker. The 1993 first person shooter from id Software defined an entire genre of games, and has since being made open source, appeared on almost everything. Everything, that is, except a Captcha, those annoying “Are you a human” tests where we’re all expected to do a search giant’s image classification for them. So here’s [Guillermo Rauch] with a Doom captcha, in which you must gun down three bad guys to proceed. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 812 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/I_measured_KDE_s_commit_stats_and_the_results_surprised_me.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/I_measured_KDE_s_commit_stats_and_the_results_surprised_me.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ I measured KDE’s commit stats and the results surprised me!⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Frameworks_commits_per_year⦈_ Quoting: I measured KDE’s commit stats and the results surprised me! – David Edmundson's Web Log — Whilst commit numbers aren't a perfect measure of anything whatsoever, they do still provide a good indication of whether a project is healthy or faltering. It's useful to keep an eye on them, and the start of the year is a good time to do that. I like graphs, everyone likes graphs, they need no further introduction. Read_on ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣤⣴⣦⣴⣤⣬⣴⣤⣬⣧⣥⣤⣴⣤⣦⣤⣼⣧⣤⣤⣷⣤⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣻⣿⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣻⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢸⣿⣿⣯⣭⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 871 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Kernel_GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Kernel_GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Kernel, GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * § Kernel Space⠀➾ o ⚓ Neowin ☛ Linux_removing_an_outdated,_insecure_Abusive_Monopolist Microsoft_USB_network_protocol_that's_still_on_Windows⠀⇛ The Linux foundation seems ready to finally axe a Microsoft-made remote network protocol for USB that is still a part of modern backdoored Windows operating systems. * § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ o ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ My_unusual_X_desktop_wasn't_made_'from scratch'_in_a_conventional_sense⠀⇛ There are people out there who set up unusual (Unix) environments for themselves from scratch; for example, Mike Hoye recently wrote Idiosyncra. While I have an unusual desktop, I haven't built it from scratch in quite the same way that Mike Hoye and other people have; instead I've wound up with my desktop through a rather easier process. o § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ kdesrc-build_with_3rd-party_applications⠀⇛ I use several non-KDE Qt-based applications which I tend to compile manually from source to use the same non-distro-provided Qt version that I compile KDE software against. I’ve noticed that I don’t update them as often as the rest of the system, so I decided to see if I can add them to kdesrc-build. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Liam Proven ☛ DOS_live_USB_image_with_tools_for_writers⠀⇛ I finally got round to publishing a version 1.0 of my long-running hobby project: a bootable DOS live USB image with tools for writers, providing a distraction-free writing environment. o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Orange-ball_menu_entries_install_bug⠀⇛ Alfons reported this. The Network menu category has an "orange-ball" menu entry for AnyDesk. He installed AnyDesk, and the menu entry changed accordingly, with the icon for the app. OK, except after reboot the menu entry had disappeared. This happens to all the orange-ball menu entries. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ What_Do_You_Want_to_See_From_Ubuntu_in_2025?⠀⇛ A new year has started, and who knows what kind of innovations and improvements it holds for for Ubuntu, which remains the world’s most used desktop GNU/Linux operating system. We get 2 new releases of Ubuntu each year, one in April and one in October. Plus, new point releases of the latest long-term support release rolling up bug fixes, app updates, and back-porting newer GNU/Linux kernels and GPU drivers. > ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 974 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/My_Linux_and_Open_Source_Resolutions_for_2025.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/My_Linux_and_Open_Source_Resolutions_for_2025.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ My Linux and Open Source Resolutions for 2025⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇archlinux,_slackware,_and_NixOS_logos⦈_ Quoting: My Linux and Open Source Resolutions for 2025 — A new year has arrived, bringing with it many new possibilities, and the occasional failure. However, we must always try our best to challenge ourselves to do something new, something that opens up the path to newer frontiers. It could be as simple as volunteering at a local shelter (for humans or animals) or starting your journey into the world of open source by contributing to projects that need help; it doesn't always have to be coding. There have been many defining moments in the world of open source and Linux in 2024 that have inspired me to set some resolutions for the year 2025 and beyond, which I intend to make good on. 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It contains package descriptions (PKGBUILDs) that allow users to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via the in-house pacman, a lightweight, simple and fast package manager that allows for continuously upgrading the entire system with one command The AUR package puts nerdfetch in the /usr/bin/ folder. We didn’t expect any installation issues as NerdFetch is simply a shell script. You don’t actually need a distro-specific package, as it’s easy just to download the shell script and place it in a directory in your PATH. This is cross-platform software. Besides Linux, it runs under Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and macOS. 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You can’t practice it beforehand (no, open source does not give you the same experience). Personal projects can never teach you how to do it, because they’re necessarily small and from-scratch. For the record, when I say “large established codebases”, I mean: [...] * ⚓ Murtuzaali Surti ☛ 3_Steps_To_Think_Like_A_Developer⠀⇛ If someone were to ask me, what does a software engineer do on a basic level and what makes a good software engineer? I would say, problem solving. Yes, it’s the most basic and the most important skill to have as a software developer/engineer, yet most people don’t think about it before getting into software. But, it’s not that hard. In this post, I will list down three steps to better approach the problem given at hand, find the solution, and then improve upon it. * ⚓ Rlang ☛ Some_of_the_more_useful_Tidyverse_functions⠀⇛ Tidyverse has long been an amazing collection of R packages, primarily for data engineering and data science. Common among these packages is the same language grammar, great design and structure, making data science easier. * ⚓ MaskRay ☛ Skipping_boring_functions_in_debuggers⠀⇛ In debuggers, stepping into a function with arguments that involve function calls may step into the nested function calls, even if they are simple and uninteresting, such as those found in the C++ STL. * ⚓ Sandor Dargo ☛ C++26:_user-generated_static_assert_messages_|_Sandor Dargo's_Blog⠀⇛ Our first quest into the world of C++26 was about =delete with an optional error message, which improves the readability of the source code and potentially the error messages. In this next part of our journey, we will continue to focus on readability improvements, particularly those for error messages. With C++26 and the acceptance of P2741R3, we are getting better error messages for static_assert. Compile time assertions were introduced in C++11 with a mandatory message. Since C++17, the message is only optional. And with C++26, static_assert evolves further and the message can be a constant expression instead of an unevaluated string. In other words, it can have some dynamic elements. This was not the first attempt to make such a feature part of C++, but back in 2014, when something similar was proposed, C++ didn’t have enough compile-time programming capabilities to make this easily implementable. * ⚓ Sean Conner ☛ A_preference_for_deterministic_tools_over_probabilistic tools⠀⇛ Last month, I added code to my assembler to output BASIC code instead of binary to make it easier to use assembly subroutines from BASIC. But I've been working on a rather large program that assembles to nearly 2K of object code, and it takes a bit of time to POKE all that data into memory. * ⚓ Groot Koerkamp ☛ Static_search_trees:_40x_faster_than_binary_search⠀⇛ In this post, we will implement a static search tree (S+ tree) for high-throughput searching of sorted data, as introduced on Algorithmica. We’ll mostly take the code presented there as a starting point, and optimize it to its limits. For a large part, I’m simply taking the ‘future work’ ideas of that post and implementing them. And then there will be a bunch of looking at assembly code to shave off all the instructions we can. Lastly, there will be one big addition to optimize throughput: batching. * § Perl / Raku⠀➾ o ⚓ Arne Sommer ☛ Zero_Step_with_Raku⠀⇛ You are given an array of binary strings, @str, and two integers, $x and $y. Write a script to return the size of the largest subset of @str such that there are at most $x 0’s and $y 1’s in the subset. * § Python⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 2024_Brought_Even_More_Customization_To_Boxes.py⠀⇛ If you have access to a laser cutter, we sincerely hope you’re aware of boxes.py. As the name implies, it started life as a Python tool for generating parametric boxes that could be assembled from laser-cut material, but has since become an invaluable online resource for all sorts of laser projects. Plus, you can still use it for making boxes. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1256 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Programming_Leftovers.2.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Programming_Leftovers.2.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Programming Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * ⚓ Rlang ☛ Leveraging_Hey_Hi_(AI)_to_Enhance_Functional_Programming_in 2025⠀⇛ Functional programming has always stood out as an elegant approach to software development. * ⚓ Rlang ☛ Unlocking_CBRT_Data_in_R:_A_Guide_to_the_CBRT_R_Package⠀⇛ The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) provides a wealth of economic data crucial for researchers, analysts, and policymakers. * ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Overview_of_Content_Published_in_December⠀⇛ Here is an overview of content I published in December: Blog posts: Update: 1768.py Version 0.0.22 Update: oledump.py Version 0.0.78 SANS ISC Diary entries: Extracting Files Embedded Inside Word Documents Compiling Decompyle++ For Windows * § Debian Family⠀➾ o ⚓ Guido_Günther:_Free_Software_Activities_December_2024⠀⇛ Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. The larger blocks are the Phosh_0.44 release and landing the initial Cell Broadcast support in phosh. The rest is all just small bits of bug, fallout/ regression fixing here and there. o ⚓ Chiark ☛ Colin_Watson:_Free_software_activity_in_December 2024⠀⇛ Most of my Debian contributions this month were Freexian, as well as one direct donation via Liberapay (thanks!). I issued a bookworm_update with a number of fixes that had accumulated over the last year, especially fixing GSS-API key exchange which was quite broken in bookworm. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1324 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Programming_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Programming Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * ⚓ Explain Extended ☛ Happy_New_Year:_Diffusion_Model_image_generator_in about_700_lines_of_pure_SQL⠀⇛ Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made art will soon go the way of the dodo. The same fate awaits SQL-made art, I'm afraid. But you can't stop the progress. If you can't beat'em, join'em. To make regular art, you need regular AI, and to make SQL art, you need SQL AI. So today, in an effort to save SQL art from extinction, we will be implementing a program capable of creating realistic images of butterflies from scratch—in SQL, of course. * ⚓ Andrew Stiefel ☛ The_Myth_of_the_Average_User⠀⇛ Enter Lieutenant Gilbert Daniels, who conducted a groundbreaking study of 4,063 pilots. His discovery was shocking: when measuring ten critical body dimensions used for cockpit design, not a single pilot fell within the average range across all measurements. Not one. This is the “flaw of averages” – the mathematical reality that designing for the average means designing for no one. The average user, like the average pilot, is a statistical ghost. * ⚓ Andrew Healey ☛ Building_Game_Prototypes_with_LÖVE⠀⇛ One of my goals for 2025 is to build a complete game. Complete as in, you can buy it on Steam or the App Store for $2.99 or so. I've made little games before but completing and shipping a game would probably be my largest side project yet (aside from this blog). Over the winter break, I spent some time building game prototypes with LÖVE — a framework for making 2D games in Lua. My goal was to research which game making tools fit my skillset, and to find where my strengths lie so that I can be efficient with my time in 2025. * ⚓ Rlang ☛ Generating_a_triangular_navigation_mesh_from_H3_hexagons_in_R⠀⇛ A navigation mesh is a data structure used to aid in pathfinding around obstacles. Originally used for video games and robotics, we can also apply the concept of this navigational mesh to the movement of animals through landscape, using methods such as FEEMS. * ⚓ Frank Delporte ☛ Coding_for_fun:_An_experiment_with_Virtual_Threads, JavaFX,_and_Music⠀⇛ When a nerdy dad and 14-year-old music-playing son join forces and start experimenting with music and code, some nice things can happen. Did you ever present your music piece in a business dashboard with charts? Did you know that the FXGL game library can be used to generate a piano with fireworks? And can Virtual Threads playback MIDI events with just a few lines of code and thousands of threads? * ⚓ SmartLogic ☛ Creating_Horizon:_Deploy_Elixir_Phoenix_Apps_on_FreeBSD with_Jim_Freeze⠀⇛ The Elixir Wizards welcome Jim Freeze, organizer of ElixirConf and creator of the Horizon library. Jim shares his journey from organizing Ruby conferences to founding and growing ElixirConf into the community cornerstone it is today. He reflects on the challenges of running a major conference, how COVID-19 shaped the event, and why the talks remain an evergreen resource for the Elixir ecosystem. We discuss Horizon, Jim’s deployment library for Elixir and Phoenix applications with Postgres on FreeBSD. Driven by a need for simplicity and cost-effectiveness, Jim explains how Horizon minimizes external dependencies while delivering fault-tolerant and streamlined setups. He compares it to tools like Fly, Terraform, and Ansible, highlighting its low cognitive load and flexibility—key benefits for developers seeking more control over their deployment environments. * ⚓ CCC ☛ Basics_of_software_publication⠀⇛ In this talk I want to give you an overview about the minimal steps you should take to prepare your code for publication. Covering what belongs into a repository, how to make your code sharable and which license to pick. * ⚓ Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar_H._Gunderson:_git.sesse.net_goes_IPv6- only⠀⇛ Following Dennis_Schubert's_post on how LLM bots are scraping the Internet continuously at full speed, I decided to take a look at my own server. If you exclude my_chess_site which naturally has a lot of unusual organic traffic right now (due to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship; every site update is a long-poll request), I am at a neat 86% of requests matching “crawler” or “bot” in the UA, and then more crawler traffic with spoofed UAs on top of that. (GPTBot at the top, of course, with 25x as many requests as Googlebot. MJ12Bot is in second place, which I'd never even heard of.) ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1466 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Security_and_Windows_TCO.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Security_and_Windows_TCO.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Security and Windows TCO⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * ⚓ Beta News ☛ Microsoft_issues_critical_.NET_installer_warning_to developers [Ed: Even the Microsoft boosters say "happy new year!" this way]⠀⇛ Citing an “unexpected change”, Microsoft has issued a warning to software developers to update their .NET Install links. Microsoft is describing the situation as “critical”, and it comes after the bankruptcy of Edgio, a company responsible for hosting some .NET-related Content Delivery Network (CDN) instances. Developers are being told to take immediate action in order to avoid problems. * ⚓ France24 ☛ China_rejects_accusations_it_targeted_US_Treasury_in cyberattack [Ed: Windows to blame, not China]⠀⇛ China on Tuesday rejected US accusations that it was behind a cyberattack targeting the Treasury, calling the claims “groundless”, lacking evidence. The breach occurred earlier in December and resulted in remote access to some of the department’s workstations. * ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (debootstrap) and SUSE (assimp-devel, grpc, libQt6Pdf6, and poppler). * ⚓ France24 ☛ Pro-Russian_hackers_target_websites_of_several_French cities⠀⇛ The websites of several French cities were taken down on Tuesday after being targeted by pro-Russian hackers. The NoName collective claimed the attacks, which they described as retaliation for French support for Ukraine. * ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Alleged_7-Zip_arbitrary_code_execution_exploit_leaked to_Ex-Twitter_—_the_7-Zip_author_claims_this_exploit_not_only_isn't_real but_was_generated_by_AI⠀⇛ An alleged 7-Zip Arbitrary Code Execution exploit gets leaked to Twitter. * § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ CCC ☛ How_Roaming_Agreements_Enable_5G_MitM_Attacks⠀⇛ End-users in cellular networks are at risk of connecting to fake base stations, and we show that mitigations pushed in 5G are insufficient. Machine-in-the-Middle (MitM) attackers aim to overhear and manipulate network traffic. The MitM position can also be used as an entry point for baseband exploitation. Proceeding from there, attackers can gain full control of a user’s phone. Standardization bodies pushed many mitigations against MitM into the specification of cellular networks. However, roaming agreements still enable powerful attackers to perform seamless attacks – even in 5G! In ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1558 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Security_Radio_and_Hardware.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Security_Radio_and_Hardware.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Security, Radio, and Hardware⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-django and python-tornado), Fedora (libxml2), and Red Hat (python- virtualenv and python36:3.6). * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 38C3:_Taking_Down_The_Power_Grid_Over_Radio⠀⇛ You know how you can fall down a rabbit hole when you start on a project? [Fabian Bräunlein] and [Luca Melette] were looking at a box on a broken streetlamp in Berlin. The box looked like a relay, and it contained a radio. It was a Funkrundsteueremfänger – a radio controlled power controller – made by a company called EFR. It turns out that these boxes are on many streetlamps in many cities, and like you do, they thought about how cool it would be to make lights blink, but on a city-wide basis. Haha, right? So they bought a bunch of these EFR devices on the used market and started hacking. * § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ o ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ You_can_customize_this_Raspberry_Pi_eInk_display with_tons_of_cool_plugins⠀⇛ Fatih Ak has created an open-source system for putting together Raspberry Pi-powered eInk displays with a selection of modular plugins. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ LED_Wall_Clock_Gets_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Upgrade⠀⇛ When [Rodrigo Feliciano] realized that the reason his seven-segment LED wall clock wasn’t working was because the original TG1508D5V5 controller was fried, he had a decision to make. He could either chuck the whole thing, or put in the effort to reverse engineer how the displays were driven and replace the dead controller with something a bit more modern. Since you’re reading this post on Hackaday, we bet you can guess which route he decided to take. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ What_is_Quadband?⠀⇛ GNSS signals are broadcast over multiple frequency ranges within the L-band, these ranges are referred to as “bands.” L1, L2, and L5 are common GPS bands that all transmit different types of data. As we talked about in our blog about l-band, we use this frequency band because these frequencies are low enough to penetrate atmospheric layers effectively, but high enough to provide reliable data transmission, even in challenging environments like forests or urban areas. The term “band” refers to a specific range of frequencies within the radio spectrum. This terminology originates from radio engineering, where the entire electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is divided into frequency “bands” (e.g., VHF, UHF, L-band) based on characteristics, regulatory allocations, and common uses.. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1648 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Sparky_news_2024_12.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Sparky_news_2024_12.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Sparky news 2024/ 12⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Sparky_Linux_logo⦈_ Quoting: Sparky news 2024/12 - SparkyLinux — Many thanks to all of you for supporting our open-source projects. Your donations help keeping them and us alive. Don’t forget to send a small tip in January too, please. To sum up our fundraiser for the servers, we still have 19% to collect and we have less than 2 weeks to do so, but we believe that with your help we will achieve our goal. 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So many things happened. So many updates, releases, changes, improvements. GNU/Linux Marketshare, in fact, got much better too. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Liam Proven ☛ Why_are_hobbyist_21st_century_8-bit computers so_constrained?⠀⇛ I learned about a new DIY machine to me, the Cody Computer. It looks kind of fun, but once again, it does make me wonder why it’s so constrained. Extremely low-res graphics, for instance. TBH I would have sneered at this for being low-end when I was about 13 years old. (Shortly before I got my first computer, a 48K ZX Spectrum.) * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Cohabitating_in_Passadena:_SCALE_22x’s Colocated_Events⠀⇛ At 2025's Southern California GNU/Linux Fest there will be at least eight colocated open source focused events in addition to the main attraction. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1762 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Today_in_Techrights.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Today in Techrights⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Vintage_Physical_World_Map.⦈_ ⚓ Updated This Past Day⠀⇛ 1. ⚓ Microsoft_FakeHub:_Identity_Theft_in_Microsoft_GitHub_(Microsoft_Won't Bother_Addressing_It;_It_Gives_a_False_Impression_of_Adoption_by_GNU/ Linux_Veterans)⠀⇛ This is the same company that kept intact deleted accounts and counted them as if they're live and active (to hide the gradual abandonment and demise of the "hub") 2. ⚓ Microsoft_Tries_to_Force_People_Into_Vista_11_by_Stopping_Vista_10 Patching,_Herding_Them_Into_TPMdom⠀⇛ It's backfiring 3. ⚓ CyberShow_Blog_Upgraded,_RSS_Feed_Added⠀⇛ CyberShow Blog has just had somewhat of a facelift 4. ⚓ [Meme]_The_Microsoft_Syndrome⠀⇛ Typical Microsoftism ⚓ New⠀⇛ 5. ⚓ Last_Day_of_2024_Was_Spent_by_Brittany_Day_Publishing_Only_Fake 'Articles'_(LLM_Slop)_About_"Linux",_Joined_by_Serial_Slopper_Brian Fagioli⠀⇛ Not even a holiday was enough to stop Day from "spamming" the Web with fake 'articles' (LLM slop) about "Linux" 6. ⚓ Gemini_Links_01/01/2025:_Looking_Back_at_2024_and_Happy_2025⠀⇛ Links for the day 7. ⚓ Addendum:_What_the_Software_Freedom_Law_Center_(SFLC)_Really_Is⠀⇛ Not serum free light chains (SFLC) 8. ⚓ Sitting_on_a_Mountain_of_Money_(Almost_8_Million_Dollars)_is_"Pro Bono"⠀⇛ Does the general public realise what SFC is? 9. ⚓ Software_Freedom_Conservancy_Inc_(SFC)_Lost_Revenue_and_Also_Got_Rid_of "Senior_Director_of_Diversity_and_Inclusion"_(Sage_A_Sharp,_Formerly Known_as_Sarah_Sharp,_Who_Ran_an_Ill-Spirited_Campaign_Against_Linus Torvalds,_Theodore_Tso,_and_Other_Prominent_Linux_Developers)⠀⇛ Not much needs to be said; a little needs to be shown (from an authoritative source, the IRS) 10. ⚓ In_Operating_Systems,_Google_Was_the_Biggest_Winner_in_2024⠀⇛ Nevertheless, 10% of the managers are to be laid off shortly (after a leak led to confirmation by the CEO) 11. ⚓ FSF-EEE_(Colonial_Splinter_Group_Based_in_Germany)_Promotes_Microsoft⠀⇛ New and misleading 12. ⚓ Did_GAFAM_or_IBM_'Downgrade'_Pensions_to_'Insurance'_(Which_Can_be Denied)?⠀⇛ 'Insurance' does not mean what it may sound like 13. ⚓ Gemini_Protocol_Continued_to_Grow_in_2024⠀⇛ it's no longer hosted from home 14. ⚓ GNU/Linux_Gained_About_0.5%_Last_Year,_According_to_StatCounter⠀⇛ 2024 ended with "proper" GNU/Linux at +0.4%, ChromeOS at +0.1% (based on statCounter/StatCounter) 15. ⚓ Geoffrey_Knauth,_FSF_President_and_Treasurer,_Comments_on_the_FSF Raising_Over_$300,000⠀⇛ Now almost $304,000 16. ⚓ Links_01/01/2025:_Whistleblowers_Shunned,_EU/Germany_Blasts_Twitter_(X, MElon)_Interference⠀⇛ Links for the day 17. ⚓ Mother_of_OpenAI_Whistleblower_Says_Her_Son_Was_Murdered_(He_Accused OpenAI_of_Copyright_Violations_at_a_Massive_Scale,_OpenAI_is_Running_Out of_Money_That_It_Borrowed)⠀⇛ "Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle" 18. ⚓ Housekeeping_and_Productivity⠀⇛ The less we tinker with those things (system administration tasks), the more we can write and curate links 19. ⚓ The_Engineering_Side_in_2024:_A_Look_Back,_Taking_Stock⠀⇛ uptime was somewhere around 99.95% 20. ⚓ Dr._Andy_Farnell_Nominates_Gromit_the_Dog_"as_an_Unlikely_Hacker Hero."⠀⇛ The world needs more decent engineers 21. ⚓ The_Free_Software_Foundation's_(FSF)_Holiday_Fund-Raising_Campaign Reaches_About_$303,000⠀⇛ in some parts of the US it's still 2024 22. ⚓ Gemini_Links_01/01/2025:_Reflecting_on_2024_and_FSMs⠀⇛ Links for the day 23. ⚓ Over_at_Tux_Machines...⠀⇛ GNU/Linux news for the past day 24. ⚓ IRC_Proceedings:_Tuesday,_December_31,_2024⠀⇛ IRC logs for Tuesday, December 31, 2024 ========================================================================= The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text. 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Then I want to relate what happened here (or rather at the Internet facing network interface of the server in question) during the initial few hours of the new year 2025. * ⚓ Murtuzaali Surti ☛ WebSockets_101⠀⇛ Back when websockets weren't a thing, HTTP polling was used for a similar purpose. HTTP is basically a uni-directional protocol wherein a client sends a request to the server, the server accepts the request and sends a response. The server can't send a response for which no request has been made by the client. In simple terms, it only responds to what it's asked for. This type of behavior poses a problem for real-time applications. What if the server needs to send some information to the client but the client doesn't know about it yet? It can't initiate a response without a request. * § linuxcapable⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ tail_Command_in_Linux:_Practical_Examples_and_Use Cases⠀⇛ o ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Visual_Studio_Code_on_Rocky_GNU/ Linux_9_or_8 [Ed: No, it's proprietary spyware controlled by the most hostile company; try KATE instead.]⠀⇛ * § idroot⠀➾ o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_LXDE_Desktop_on_Ubuntu_24.04_LTS⠀⇛ Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed “Noble Numbat,” brings significant improvements to the GNU/Linux desktop experience. While it comes with GNOME as the default desktop environment, many users prefer lightweight alternatives like LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) for better performance on older hardware or simply for a more minimalistic interface. o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_MediaWiki_on_Fedora_41⠀⇛ Setting up a collaborative platform like MediaWiki on Fedora 41 empowers individuals and organizations to manage and share knowledge efficiently. Whether you’re aiming to create a personal wiki, a community-driven knowledge base, or a documentation hub for your projects, MediaWiki offers a robust solution. o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Umami_Analytics_on_Ubuntu_24.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Umami Analytics on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Umami is an open-source web analytics platform that prioritizes user privacy and data ownership. Unlike conventional analytics tools, Umami doesn’t use cookies and is fully compliant with GDPR regulations. o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Drupal_on_Linux_Mint_22⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Drupal on Linux Mint 22. Drupal is a powerful and versatile Content Management System (CMS) that has become a cornerstone for web developers and content creators alike. o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Ajenti_Control_Panel_on_Ubuntu_24.04 LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ajenti Control Panel on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Ajenti is a powerful, open-source control panel designed to simplify server management. It provides a user-friendly interface to manage various aspects of your GNU/Linux server, making it an ideal tool for both beginners and experienced administrators. o ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_to_List_All_Users_in_MySQL_Database⠀⇛ Managing users in MySQL databases is a crucial task for database administrators, especially in multi-user environments where security is paramount. Whether you’re a seasoned DBA or a newcomer to database management, knowing how to list all users in your MySQL database is an essential skill. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2160 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/today_s_leftovers.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/today_s_leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ today's leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ o ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Dead_Internet_Theory_is_Facebook's_New_Business Model⠀⇛ Al Bots will soon have profile pictures & bios, "exist on [Facebook], kind of in the same way that accounts do." o ⚓ This_Year_in_Linux,_the_Top_GNU/Linux_News_of_2024⠀⇛ This year in GNU/Linux was a huge year. So many things happened. So many updates, releases, changes, improvements. GNU/Linux Marketshare, in fact, got much better too. So many things. So we're going to be covering everything in the super detail that we normally would on this week in GNU/Linux because there's just so many things to talk about. If you would like to learn more about each individual thing, you can check out the episode show notes. There will be links to every single time every single episode in the show notes so go check those out. * § Games⠀➾ o ⚓ XDA ☛ The_Steam_snap_is_now_much_better_for_gaming⠀⇛ If you're a fan of containerized packages on Ubuntu, you'll appreciate some changes Canonical made specifically for the Steam snap in October. Relaxing the Ubuntu AppArmor for Steam allows the software to run everything, essentially resulting in better overall performance. Snaps still have some way to go, for sure, but it's good to see more convenient options are improving for absolute Linux beginners (and no, I'm not suggesting the .deb route is difficult). * § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ o ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ I'm_firmly_attached_to_a_mouse_and_ (overlapping)_windows⠀⇛ In the tech circles I follow, there are a number of people who are firmly in what I could call a 'text mode' camp (eg, also). Over on the Fediverse, I said something in an aside about my personal tastes: [...] o § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Scarlett_Gately_Moore:_KDE:_Application_snaps_24.12.0 release_and_more⠀⇛ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0 I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! Your present from me is shiny new application snaps! There are several new qt6 ports in this release. Please visit https://snapcraft.io/store?q=kde o § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME ☛ Sophie_Herold:_This_was_2024⠀⇛ In non-chronological order [...] [...] A huge thanks to everyone who supported my work! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Slackware Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Quick_ungoogled_chromium_tips⠀⇛ Hey folks. While working I needed to find a historical page in my Chromium browser history and failed. I thought “here we go again” and decided to share some quick tips for users of Ungoogled Chromium at the year’s end. I run into this issue from time to time on computers where I use Chromium. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Monitor_air_quality_on_the_go_with_the Raspberry_Pi_Pico_2⠀⇛ Arnov Sharma has created a Raspberry Pi Pico 2- powered air quality monitor that is totally portable thanks to its internal battery. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2295 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Updates_From_GNU_Projects.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Updates_From_GNU_Projects.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Updates From GNU Projects⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 * ⚓ GNU ☛ www-zh-cn_@_Savannah:_Summary_2024⠀⇛ Dear GNU CTT: Thank you for your contribution and effort. I am very proud of the performance in 2024 for this team. Here is summary from GNU translation team for 2024. 2024 repeated the general traits of 2023: most active teams kept doing a good job updating the translations, and a few new translations were made. Currently, the total amount of translations is over 3350. Most new translations were made by the Chinese (zh-cn) team this year; then the Polish and French teams follow. The Turkish team, although it published no new translations this year, made a notable progress in terms of keeping its translation up-to-date. +-team--+-----new-----+--outdated--+ | de | 1 (9.7Ki) * | 124 (61%) | +-------+-------------+------------+ | es | 1 ( 5.2Ki) | 0.5 (0.2%) | | fr | 4 ( 42.0Ki) | 0.5 (0.1%) | | ja | 2 ( 9.9Ki) | 48 ( 34%) | | pl | 6 ( 85.4Ki) | 54 ( 37%) | | ru | 2 ( 20.7Ki) | 0.3 (0.1%) | | sq | 2 ( 17.1Ki) | 2.3 (2.9%) | | tr | 0 ( 0.0Ki) | 0.1 (0.1%) | | zh-cn | 23 ( 543Ki) | 0 & | +-------+-------------+ | total | 39 ( 723Ki) | I wish you all a freer, healthier, and more peaceful 2025. * ⚓ GNU ☛ dico_@_Savannah:_GNU_dico_version_2.12⠀⇛ GNU dico version 2.12 is available_for_download. This versions provides important improvements in the gcide module: [...] * ⚓ GNU ☛ gcide_@_Savannah:_GCIDE_version_0.54⠀⇛ Version 0.54 of GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of Englis is available_for_download. The dictionary corpus underwent a thorough spell-checking.  A number of articles has been fixed or upgraded.  All files has been reformatted to limit physical line length to 72 characters. If you are using GNU_dico to consult the dictionary, please upgrade to version 2.12. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2365 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Why_I_m_Not_Sold_on_Linux_Tiling_Window_Managers.shtml Gemini version at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/02/Why_I_m_Not_Sold_on_Linux_Tiling_Window_Managers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Why I'm Not Sold on Linux Tiling Window Managers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇tiled_windows⦈_ Quoting: Why I'm Not Sold on Linux Tiling Window Managers — Tiiling window managers have attracted dedicated Linux users because they offer keyboard-heavy workflows and maximize screen space. I can see the appeal of keeping my finger on the keyboard as a writer. The main reason that I stick with standard stacking window manager is that I'm not that obsessed with optimizing every last pixel. I tend to only have a few windows open, such as a terminal, browser, or Spotify. Of those apps, I tend to focus on one at a time. While computers are good at multitasking, I would much rather concentrate on the task at hand. For these reasons, I prefer to visually reduce the focus on the other stuff that I might need to come back to. I can either keep the thing I'm working on at the top and click into another window when I need to. A tiled window manager would probably just distract me with things that I could see and be tempted to jump to. 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