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Linux Action News 241

Wes Payne — Thu, 19 May 2022 11:30:00 +0000

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Revenge of the Swift | CR 204

chris — Mon, 09 May 2016 14:54:27 +0000

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In a podcast far far away, you asked for it & this week we delivered. It’s code review time, with a twist!

Plus the FUD seems strong with the second Oracle v Google trial, we attempting to do some busting, Dropbox falling back to reality & 30 years later why we still love QBasic.

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Hoopla

Second Oracle V Google Trial FUD

Calling / using apis is the not the issue
Re-implementing them is.
Google Employees were found to have literally copy / pasted Sun / Oracle source and even failed to remove the copyright headers
No material impact on the average dev with the possible exception of Google moving to OpenJDK

Cost cutting at Dropbox and Silicon Valley startup

The change at Dropbox, last valued at $10 billion, shows even the most richly valued and highly funded startups are no longer immune to the changing tides of Silicon Valley.

A weaker VC funding environment and freezing tech-IPO market have forced startups of all sizes to take cost-cutting measures and focus more on profits – signifying a shift in the free-spending, growth-at-all-cost culture that had seeped through Silicon Valley over the past few years.

As startups cut back on perks and delay their IPO, employees could grow frustrated and decide to join larger, more established companies that offer better benefits and stock liquidity.

Swift School

CR204 Code Sample
? VS !
Swift and nil safety
Comparison to Objective-C nil system
Comparison to other languages

Mike’s First Swift .app

Swift as a language
Swift with AppKit
Swift vs ObjC

30 years later, QBasic is still the best

Yes, QBasic is a terrible procedural language. It introduces one to concepts widely considered harmful, uses awkward syntax for implicit declarations, is not case sensitive, is non-zero-based, etc. the list goes on… When developing a skill, it is much better to acquire the right reflexes from the start rather than have to correct years of bad practice. Following this advice, I should have probably started off with the basics of the ruby language which I love. Yet, while most of those QBasic concepts are today generally considered as red flags by our peers, they each served a very specific purpose at the time: to keep the language simple and accessible, a notion that every other language has left behind in favor of flexibility, complexity and logic.

I installed QBasic on my son’s 11″ HP Stream today, having to hack a DOSBox manual installation. He double clicked the icon on his desktop and in a split second, we were in the IDE, greeted with the introduction screen which brought back so many memories to my mind

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What is the TPP | Unfilter 162

chris — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:02:51 +0000

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The Trans Pacific Partnership, Obama’s big legacy making deal is signed. Early details about how it handles copyright law, the pharma industry & labor have been leaked. We dig into how the TPP will impact online intellectual property & consumers.

Plus deeper look at Russia’s involvement in Syria, a high note & much more!

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U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia – The New York Times

CIA Weapons now flooding into Syria since Russian support began.

The American-made TOW antitank missiles began arriving in the region in 2013, through a covert program run by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other allies to help certain C.I.A.-vetted insurgent groups battle the Syrian government.
The weapons are delivered to the field by American allies, but the United States approves their destination. That suggests that the newly steady battlefield supply has at least tacit American approval, now that Russian air power is backing President Bashar al-Assad.
“By bombing us, Russia is bombing the 13 ‘Friends of Syria’ countries,” he said, referring to the group of the United States and its allies that called for the ouster of Mr. Assad after his crackdown on political protests in 2011.

The C.I.A. program that delivered the TOWs (an acronym for tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided missiles) is separate from — and significantly larger than — the failed $500 million Pentagon program that was canceled last week after it trained only a handful of fighters. That was unsuccessful largely because few recruits would agree to its goal of fighting only the militant Islamic State and not Mr. Assad.

Rebel commanders scoffed when asked about reports of the delivery of 500 TOWs from Saudi Arabia, saying it was an insignificant number compared with what is available. Saudi Arabia in 2013 ordered more than 13,000 of them. Given that American weapons contracts require disclosure of the “end user,” insurgents said they were being delivered with Washington’s approval.

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Our Code is Your Code | BSD Now 98

chris — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:19:26 +0000

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Coming up this time on the show, we’ll be talking with the CTO of Xinuos, David Meyer, about their adoption of FreeBSD. We also discuss the BSD license model for businesses & the benefits of contributing changes back.

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Enabling FreeBSD on AArch64

One of the things the FreeBSD foundation has been dumping money into lately is ARM64 support, but we haven’t heard too much about it – this article should change that
Since it’s on a mainstream ARM site, the article begins with a bit of FreeBSD history, leading up to the current work on ARM64
There’s also a summary of some of the ARM work done at this year’s BSDCan, including details about running it on the Cavium ThunderX platform (which has 48 cores)
As of just a couple months ago, dtrace is even working on this new architecture
Come 11.0-RELEASE, the plan is for ARM64 to get the same “tier 1” treatment as X86, which would imply binary updates for base and ports – something Raspberry Pi users often complain about not having

OpenBSD’s tcpdump detailed

Most people are probably familiar with tcpdump, a very useful packet sniffing and capturing utility that’s included in all the main BSD base systems
This video guide is specifically about the version in OpenBSD, which has gone through some major changes (it’s pretty much a fork with no version number anymore)
Unlike on the other platforms, OpenBSD’s tcpdump will always run in a chroot as an unprivileged user – this has saved it from a number of high-profile exploits
It also has support for the “pf.os” system, allowing you to filter out operating system fingerprints in the packet captures
There’s also PF (and pflog) integration, letting you see which line in your ruleset triggered a specific match
Being able to run tcpdump directly on your router is pretty awesome for troubleshooting

More FreeBSD foundation at BSDCan

The FreeBSD foundation has another round of trip reports from this year’s BSDCan
First up is Kamil Czekirda, who gives a good summary of some of the devsummit, FreeBSD-related presentations, some tutorials, getting freebsd-update bugs fixed and of course eating cake
A second post from Christian Brueffer, who cleverly planned ahead to avoid jetlag, details how he got some things done during the FreeBSD devsummit
Their third report is from our buddy Warren Block, who (unsurprisingly) worked on a lot of documentation-related things, including getting more people involved with writing them
In true doc team style, his report is the most well-written of the bunch, including lots of links and a clear separation of topics (doc lounge, contributing to the wiki, presentations…)
Finally, the fourth one comes to us from Shonali Balakrishna, who also gives an outline of some of the talks
“Not only does a BSD conference have way too many very smart people in one room, but also some of the nicest.”

DragonFly on the Chromebook C720

If you’ve got one of the Chromebook laptops and weren’t happy with the OS it came with, DragonFlyBSD might be worth a go
This article is a “mini-report” on how DragonFly functions on the device as a desktop, and
While the 2GB of RAM proved to be a bit limiting, most of the hardware is well-supported
DragonFly’s wiki has a full guide on getting set up on one of these devices as well

Interview – David Meyer – info@xinuos.com / @xinuos

Xinuos, BSD license model vs. others, community interaction

News Roundup

Introducing LiteBSD

We definitely don’t talk about 4.4BSD a lot on the show
LiteBSD is “a variant of [the] 4.4BSD operating system adapted for microcontrollers”
If you’ve got really, really old hardware (or are working in the embedded space) then this might be an interesting hobby project to look info

HardenedBSD announces ASLR completion

HardenedBSD, now officially a full-on fork of FreeBSD, has declared their ASLR patchset to be complete
The latest and last addition to the work was VDSO (Virtual Dynamic Shared Object) randomization, which is now configurable with a sysctl
This post gives a summary of the six main features they’ve added since the beginning
Only a few small things are left to do – man page cleanups, possibly shared object load order improvements

Unlock the reaper

In the ongoing quest to make more of OpenBSD SMP-friendly, a new patch was posted that unlocks the reaper in the kernel
When there’s a zombie process causing a resource leak, it’s the reaper’s job to deallocate their resources (and yes we’re still talking about computers, not horror movies)
Initial testing has yielded positive results and no regressions
They’re looking for testers, so you can install a -current snapshot and get it automatically
An updated version of the patch is coming soon too
A hackathon is going on right now, so you can expect more SMP improvements in the near future

The importance of mentoring

Adrian Chadd has a blog post up about mentoring new users, and it tells the story of how he originally got into FreeBSD
He tells the story of, at age 11, meeting someone else who knew about making crystal sets that became his role model
Eventually we get to his first FreeBSD 1.1 installation (which he temporarily abandoned for Linux, since it didn’t have a color “ls” command) and how he started using the OS
Nowadays, there’s a formal mentoring system in FreeBSD
While he talks about FreeBSD in the post, a lot of the concepts apply to all the BSDs (or even just life in general)

Feedback/Questions

Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
If you’re in or around the Calgary, Alberta area in Canada, there’s an OpenBSD developer speaking event at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology on July 20th
It’s right after the hackathon, and they’ll be discussing some of the work that was done (maybe with a Q&A session)
We’re looking for some new interviews – get in touch if you’re doing anything cool with BSD that you’d like to talk about (or want to suggest someone else)

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Edgy BSD Users | BSD Now 31

chris — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 21:02:03 +0000

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This week we\’ll be talking to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect our software from being stolen. After that, we\’ll show you how to recover from those pesky ZFS on Linux corruption issues, as well as some tips on how to explain to your boss that all the production boxes were compromised. Your questions and all the latest GNUs, on Linux Now – the place to Lin.. ux.

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Preorders for cool BSD stuff

The 2nd edition of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is up for preorder
We talked to GNN briefly about it, but he and Kirk have apparently finally finished the book
\”For many years, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System has been recognized as the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative technical guide to FreeBSD\’s internal structure. Now, this definitive guide has been extensively updated to reflect all major FreeBSD improvements between Versions 5 and Versions 11\”
OpenBSD 5.5 preorders are also up, so you can buy a CD set now
You can help support the project, and even get the -release of the OS before it\’s available publicly
5.5 is a huge release with lots of big changes, so now is the right time to purchase one of these – tell Austin we sent you!

pkgsrcCon 2014 CFP

This year\’s pkgsrcCon is in London, on June 21st and 22nd
There\’s a Call For Papers out now, so you can submit your talks
Anything related to pkgsrc is fine, it\’s pretty informal
Does anyone in the audience know if the talks will be recorded? This con is relatively unknown

BSDMag issue for March 2014

The monthly BSD magazine releases its newest issue
Topics this time include: deploying NetBSD using AWS EC2, creating a multi-purpose file server with NetBSD, DragonflyBSD as a backup server, more GIMP lessons, network analysis with wireshark and a general security article
The Linux article trend seems to continue… hmm

Non-ECC RAM in FreeNAS

We\’ve gotten a few questions about ECC RAM with ZFS
Here we\’ve got a surprising blog post about why someone did not go with ECC RAM for his NAS build
The article mentions the benefits of ECC and admits it is a better choice in nearly all instances, but unfortunately it\’s not very widespread in consumer hardware motherboards and it\’s more expensive
Regular RAM also has \”special\” issues with ZFS and pool corruption
Long post, so check out the whole thing if you\’ve been considering your memory options and weighing the benefits
While we\’re on the topic of FreeNAS…

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Interview – Pierre Pronchery – khorben@edgebsd.org / @khorben

EdgeBSD (slides)

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD desktop

News Roundup

Getting to know your portmgr-lurkers

This week we get to hear from Frederic Culot, colut@
Originally an OpenBSD user from France, Frederic joined as a ports committer in 2010 and recently joined the portmgr lurkers team
\”FreeBSD is also one of my sources of inspiration when it comes to how
organizations behave and innovate, and I find it very interesting to compare FreeBSD with
the for-profit companies I work for\”
We get to find out a little bit about him, why he loves FreeBSD and what he does for the project

NetBSD on the Playstation 2

Who doesn\’t want to run NetBSD on their old PS2?
The PS2 port of NetBSD was sadly removed in 2009, but it has been revived
It\’s using a slightly unusual MIPS CPU that didn\’t have much GCC support
Hopefully a bootable kernel will be available soon

The FreeBSD Challenge update

Our friend from the Linux Foundation continues his FreeBSD switching journey
This time he starts off by discovering virtual machines suck at keeping accurate time, and some ports weren\’t working because of his clock being way off
After polling the IRC for help, he finally learns the difference between ntpdate and ntpd and both of their use cases
Maybe he should\’ve just read our NTP tutorial!

PCBSD weekly digest

The mount tray icon got lots of updates and fixes
The faulty distribution server has finally been tracked down and… destroyed
New language localization project is in progress
Many many updates to ports and PBIs, new -STABLE builds

Feedback/Questions

All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
If you\’ve got something cool to talk about and want to come on for an interview, shoot us an email
Also if you have any tutorial requests, we\’d be glad to show whatever the viewers want to see
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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Down with TPP | Unfilter 75

chris — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:04:22 +0000

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A Pivotal section of the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been revealed by Wikileaks, today. Shrouded in secrecy from the beginning some say the TPP would threaten access to information, the Internet, and cultural works. One thing is for sure, the world needs to challenge this controversial agreement, that’s on the fast track for the end of the year.

New leaks reveal the NSA and GCHQ Infiltrated OPEC’s Computer Network to perform economic espionage, and you won’t believe how they got in.

Plus your feedback, or follow up, and much much more. On this week’s episode of… Unfilter.

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NSA is CRAZY

How the NSA and GCHQ Spied on OPEC – SPIEGEL ONLINE

In January 2008, the NSA department in charge of energy issues reported it had accomplished its mission. Intelligence information about individual petroleum-exporting countries had existed before then, but now the NSA had managed, for the first time, to infiltrate OPEC in its entirety.

A secret GCHQ document dating from 2010 states that the agency had traditionally had “poor access” to OPEC. But that year, after a long period of meticulous work, it had managed to infiltrate the computers of nine OPEC employees by using the “Quantum Insert” method, which then creates a gateway to gain access into OPEC’s computer system. GCHQ analysts were even able to acquire administrator privileges for the OPEC network and gain access to two secret servers containing “many documents of interest.”

C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data – NYTimes.com

The cooperation is conducted under a voluntary contract, not under subpoenas or court orders compelling the company to participate, according to the officials. The C.I.A. supplies phone numbers of overseas terrorism suspects, and AT&T searches its database and provides records of calls that may help identify foreign associates, the officials said.

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TPP Property Rights Chapter Leaked

Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)

Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP. The WikiLeaks release of the text comes ahead of the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19–24 November 2013.

Concerned Citizens Want Congress to Flush the TPP | Kyle McCarthy

The TPP is being referred to as “NAFTA on steroids,” and concerned citizens all over the nation are organizing to stop this from being fast-tracked. Organizations such as Backbone Campaign, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, Fair Trade Coalition in Oregon and Washington, Popular Resistance and many others have joined together to form FlushTheTPP.org, an action campaign aimed at stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership. These organizations are also launching a coordinated day of action Tuesday, November 12 with light projections planned in Dallas, Spokane, Detroit, Olympia, Baltimore, DC, Seattle and other cities.

The draft contains US and Japanese proposals designed to enhance the ability of pharmaceutical manufacturers to extend and widen their patents on drugs and medicines.
US and AU seek to criminalise modifications of technology devices to circumvent region restrictions.
US and Australia oppose a clause stating that ISPs “cannot be held legally responsible for copyright infringement on their networks”
US pushes a clause to patent surgical methods.

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Public Citizen has some analysis here on the chapter, noting lengthening and extension of copyright and access to medicine.

Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement | Electronic Frontier Foundation

In the US, this is likely to further entrench controversial aspects of US copyright law (such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA]) and restrict the ability of Congress to engage in domestic law reform to meet the evolving IP needs of American citizens and the innovative technology sector. The recently leaked US-proposed IP chapter also includes provisions that appear to go beyond current US law.

The TPP would force the adoption of the US DMCA Internet intermediaries copyright safe harbor regime in its entirety. For example, this would require Chile to rewrite its forward-looking 2010 copyright law that currently establishes a judicial notice-and-takedown regime, which provides greater protection to Internet users’ expression and privacy than the DMCA.

EFF Page with Highlights

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Former Missouri governor takes on new role : News

Blunt last year became chief spokesman
and a lobbyist in Washington for Detroit’s Big Three automakers
just as the American automotive industry was enjoying a
resurgence.

David L. Carden – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Lee Carden is an American lawyer and diplomat who is the United States Representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He was nominated by President Barack Obama in November 2010 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March, 2011.

Flush the TPP! ← Stop the Global Corporate Coup!

MexiCoke Watch 2013!

The Mexican Coca-Cola Myth: It’s Almost American

America’s small but vocal Cult of Mexicoke freaked out. It was enough to prompt a reversal of sorts from Arca, which subsequently vowed to continue using only cane sugar in the Coke it exports to the U.S. Call it a New Coke moment in reverse for the maker of Mexican Coke. The uproar also revealed that much of the Coke sold south of the border already contains high-fructose corn syrup. Arca’s corn-to-sugar mix for the soda it sells at home is around 50/50.

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