Programming and Standards Leftovers
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Perl ☛ Randal Schwartz: Half My Life with Perl
As part of year 25 of The Perl Advent Calendar, Perl luminary and co-author of O’Reilly’s “Learning Perl” Randal Schwartz will be giving a presentation entitled “Half My Life with Perl”.
The presentation takes place on Saturday, Dec 14, 2024.
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Kernel Space
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Collabora ☛ Integrating kernels and minds at the 'Linux' Foundation Member Summit
The 'Linux' Foundation Member Summit is an opportune time to gather on the state of open source. Our talk will address the concerns and challenges of maintaining a stable kernel.
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K Desktop Environment
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Conclusion of KDE and Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2024
All of KDE's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects are complete.
GSoC is a program where students or people who are new to Free and Open Source software
This post summarizes the outcomes of KDE project participating in GSoC 2024.
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Education
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Eerie Linux ☛ EuroBSDCon 2024 report (2/2) – main conference & trip home
In the previous part I covered my arrival and the two tutorial days. This one is about the main conference, the social event, my trip home and a conclusion.
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Rlang ☛ R Dev Day @ SIP 2024
This year Shiny in Production hosted an “R Dev Day” split over the two days before the pre-conference workshops. R Dev Days are a new initiative of the R Contribution Working Group, providing an opportunity for R developers to get involved in contributing to the R Project. R Dev Day will be back at SIP 2025, so read on to find out what participants got up to and consider coming along next year!
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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The Kent Stater ☛ Students locked out of dorms due to system error
George Edmiston, director of Facilities and Capital Development and University Housing, said the issue stemmed from an incorrect copy of Kent’s housing roster being uploaded to their database.
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Arduino ☛ Receive an alert when your device goes offline in Arduino Cloud
Device Status Notifications allow you to receive instant alerts whenever one of your devices changes its connectivity status, whether it’s going offline or coming back online. You can customize these alerts for individual devices or all devices under your account, with the flexibility to exclude specific devices from triggering notifications.
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Standards/Consortia
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Wi-Fi 8 will not improve transfer speeds — the new standard will, however, enhance reliability and user experience
On a high level, Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) resembles Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be): it uses 2, 4, 5, and 6GHz bands, the same modulation (4096 QAM), eight spatial streams, MU-MIMO, multiple OFDMA, and a maximum channel bandwidth of 320MHz.
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C4ISRNET ☛ Space Force targeting more affordable GPS satellites
Four companies — Sierra Space, L3Harris, Astranis and Axient, which was recently acquired by Astrion — won study contracts in late September to draft early concepts for the Space Force’s Resilient GPS program, or R-GPS. In five to eight months, the service plans to choose at least two companies to finalize their designs and build prototypes. It will then pick one or more firms to build the first eight satellites, which it wants ready for launch by 2028.
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SparkFun Electronics ☛ Unlocking Global Positioning: Quadband GNSS RTK Breakout for Precise Location
Hello everyone and welcome back to another Friday Product Post here at SparkFun Electronics! This week, we are happy to bring you two brand new products, starting with our all new SparkFun Qwiic LG290P Quadband GNSS RTK Breakout. That's right, quadband! This Quadband GNSS RTK Breakout unlocks global positioning for precise location, regardless of where you are as long as you have a satellite lock! Following that, we have a new portable soldering station "FixHub" from iFixit that will help you build and fix projects on the go without a wall outlet or gas. Now, let's jump in and take a closer look at all of this week's new products, shall we?
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