today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 10, 2025

• GNU/Linux

  • Applications

    • Petter Reinholdtsen: Some notes on GNU/Linux LUKS cracking

      A few months ago, I found myself in the unfortunate position that I had to try to recover the password used to encrypt a GNU/Linux hard drive. Tonight a few friends of mine asked for details on this effort. I guess it is a good idea to expose the recipe I found to a wider audience, so here are a few relevant links and key findings. I've forgotten a lot, so part of this is taken from memory.

    • Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts Weekly recap — 6 April 2025

      Week highlights: GIMP team started planning v3.2 development, new releases of jc303, Qtractor, and KnobKraft-orm.

  • Instructionals/Technical

    • Linux Handbook ☛ Port Mapping in Docker: When and How to Use it?

      Understand the advantages of using port mapping in Docker and learn various ways of doing it.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Openwashing

    • Open Source Initiative ☛ There are no “Degrees of Open”: why Openness is binary [Ed: Microsoft's Nick Vidal is back with openwashing nonsense for "AI" - the Microsoft Ponzi scheme that OSI gets bribed to prop up]

      For Hey Hi (AI) to be truly Open Source, it must uphold the same principles that have defined Open Source software for over two decades. There is no “80% open” or “open enough.” The freedom to use, study, modify, and share isn’t negotiable. It’s either there, or it isn’t.

  • Programming/Development

    • Python

      • Open Source For U ☛ NLP: Text Summarisation with Python [Ed: It is not "Summarisation"; it's "Shortening" for plagiarism's sake]

        Here’s a simple Python method based on the Natural Language Toolkit for extractive text summarisation in natural language processing. In natural language processing (NLP), frequency-based summarisation is a straightforward extractive text summarisation technique that selects sentences based on the frequency of important words in the text.