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Snaps in Solus — Occurs to me that I likely have to make some kind of statement or whathaveyou about the whole “Solus adopting snaps” thing.
Ubuntu Community Hub Proposal — I propose we replace the Community Portal with a dynamic and collaboratively maintained site. The site would raise the profile of conversations and content, to improve our onboarding and communication issues.
Ubuntu Artful Desktop Fit and Finish Sprint — First up is the Desktop Fit & Finish Sprint on August 24th and 25th.
50% CPU savings w/Hardware Accelerated Video Playback — We’re testing some patches to Chromium 60 in Artful to enable video acceleration and we’re seeing roughly a 50% saving in CPU overhead when using VA API.
Nextcloud push into education — Today we are very proud to officially announce the Nextcloud Education Edition, developed in collaboration with Moodle, DeiC, regio iT, the TU Berlin and Univention.
Firefox 55 — Performance changes include significantly faster startup times when restoring lots of tabs and settings that let users take greater control of our new multi-process architecture. We’ve also upgraded the address bar to make finding what you want easier, with search suggestions and the integration of our one-click search feature, and safer, by prioritizing the secure – https – version of sites when possible.
Firefox 55 Advanced Performance Features — Firefox 55 introduces several new low-level capabilities that help improve the performance of demanding web applications
Epiphany gets Firefox Sync — You can sync bookmarks, history, passwords, and open tabs with other Epiphany instances and as well as both desktop and mobile Firefox.
Photon UI — Version 57 of Firefox is slated to be released sometime in November and the biggest user facing change is its new user interface.
Android 8.0’s “streaming OS updates” will work even if your phone is full | Ars Technica — Starting with Android 8.0, the A/B system partition setup is being upgraded with a “streaming updates” feature. Update data will arrive from the Internet directly to the offline system partition, written block by block, in a ready-to-boot state.

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The Lesser Evil | User Error 20

chris — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:36:39 +0000

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The Stallman Line | LINUX Unplugged 208

chris — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:02:25 +0000

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Follow Up / Catch Up

Happy Bitcoin Fork Day!

A minority of bitcoin community are forking to create a new version of bitcoin, called Bitcoin Cash (BCC) on August 1 that splits blockchain in two. It will have no impact on bitcoin balances, just will create a new token. That community miners and developers plan to create an alternative network to increate network capacity. Bitcoin Cash (BCC) will fork bitcoin’s existing software and transaction history. It brings new cryptocurrency tokens on a new blockchain with different rules. Anyone who has already bitcoins will have coins in both BCC and BTC after the fork.

First Blocks of the new Chain

After running into roadblocks this morning, miners were able to successfully create a block on a new blockchain, called Bitcoin Cash, at roughly 2:14 p.m. ET today.

Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud t

Bitcoin Cash launches Tuesday in what is known as a “hard fork” from bitcoin, a virtual currency based on peer-to-peer transactions without any central authority or bank behind it. The new offshoot is a response to the increasing popularity of bitcoin, which is struggling to deal with massive numbers of transactions with its underpinning technology. The main bitcoin currency is adopting a system called Segwit2x that moves transactions out of the current blockchain, while bitcoin Cash will use bigger blocks within the blockchain.

Arguments against increasing the block size?

What exactly are the arguments against increasing the block size?

Gnome Lookin at GitLab

For a long time, GNOME has been using cgit for code hosting and Bugzilla for issue tracking. Over the years, these tools have become increasingly antiquated

Is Google Working on a JPEG Killer?

Pik is a new lossy image format for the internet. This directory contains an encoder and a decoder for the format.

Apache License

Windows Subsystem for Linux out of Beta

This will be great news for those who’ve held-back from employing WSL as a mainline toolset: You’ll now be able to leverage WSL as a day-to-day developer toolset, and become ever more productive when building, testing, deploying, and managing your apps and systems on Windows 10.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Meet Nitrux: The Most Beautiful Linux Distribution Ever

Nitrux is a new Linux distribution with focus on design. It introduces Nomad desktop which is built on top of KDE Plasma 5 and Qt.

Though Nitrux is based on Ubuntu, it is slightly different from other Ubuntu based distributions because it uses the unstable dev branch. So, the present release Nitrux 1.0 is based on still under development Ubuntu 17.10. Nitrux devs think that “this is close enough to a rolling release model”.

Krita Foundation in Trouble

In other words, because we’re mostly not a company, we should not have claimed back the VAT we paid; but we’re also considered fully a company, so we should have paid VAT in the Netherlands over Dmitry’s work, which we could not have claimed back because the Foundation is mostly not a company.

Firefox Test Pilot

Firefox Test Pilot – ⁨Send⁩

Send lets you upload and encrypt large files (up to 1GB) to share online. When you upload a file, Send creates a link to pass along to whoever you want. Each link created by Send will expire after 1 download or 24 hours, and all sent files will be automatically deleted from the Send server.

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Now that I really need it, Linux voice control is a nightmare.

I recently injured my hands and wrists and typing gets painful fast. Mouse use is not so bad but still sore. Need voice control and/or transcription software. Dictation (for writing) main need but voice control would be helpful too – I’d be glad of either.

Have tried 3: Simon, PocketSphinx, FreeSpeech. On Ubuntu 17.04. None work out of box. All may work with time & configuration but that hurts! I spent about 3 hours on each and needed a day’s break after each attempt. Usually like messing with command line etc but not right now.
It might work as a cool gimmick. But I think this prevents it helping those with disabilities. I am the only Linux user I know so can’t get help.

Hell. If any program needs to have simple (typing-minimal) setup/install it is a voice control program. I haven’t used Windows for years but may have to soon. So far all attempts to use Linux to ease my pain have hurt like balls.

Trying out Discord JupiterColony

Would like to test it as a feedback consolidator
Lets test out the HairCare channel.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Kicking off the Slackware Challenge

The Slackware Linux Project: Get Slack

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Careful Choices | User Error 19

chris — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:11:42 +0000

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