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6 Ways Mr. Robot Is Putting Linux in the Public Eye

Whether you’re a novice, seasoned Linux pro, or something in between, here are six awesome times Linux appeared on the show.

Search & Rescue: SD Card Recovery

My old camera, a Canon EOS 300D is an old digital SLR camera, and it works really well and still takes a good picture. But last night I turned the camera on while on the train, and to my horror the camera crashed and became unresponsive.

Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines

• Linux Marketshare Is Above 2-Percent For Third Month in a Row – OMG! Ubuntu!

Net Market Share bases its data on the number of visitors to a mere 40,000 websites globally. While 40,000 is a fairly big sample on one hand, it’s also minute compared to the number of actual websites that are out there.

Wine 1.9.22 Lets Linux Users Play Star Trek Borg

and the Star Trek: Borg interactive movie/computer game and audiobook.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Google Online Security Blog: Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users

After 7 days, per our published policy for actively exploited critical vulnerabilities, we are today disclosing the existence of a remaining critical vulnerability in Windows for which no advisory or fix has yet been released. This vulnerability is particularly serious because we know it is being actively exploited.

Aspyr + Linux Gamers = Cookies

So… this came in the mail this morning. Thank you, you lovely Linux people you. The guilt trip has been accepted. ;D #NomNomNom pic.twitter.com/c4VaOOIXWJ

— Aspyr Media (@AspyrMedia) October 25, 2016

This has led more answers on the same thread on the linux_gaming subreddit, where folks got together to order a delivery of delicious cookies to motivate Aspyr to support Linux’s Civ6 port. They come from Tiff’s Treats in Austin, in case you want to make sure you get excellent cookies if you pass by the area.

New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac

The new MacBook Pro has a premium price for a Mac that’s still limited to 16 GB of RAM, has CPU performance that is likely lackluster because Apple didn’t talk about it in the keynote, and apparently doesn’t have such a great GPU, either. Apple prioritized thinness and lightness, which I care about hardly at all. I would rather have better performance, a good keyboard, more storage, a larger display, more ports so I don’t have to carry dongles, an SD card slot, etc. Double the weight and half the battery life would be fine with me. I’m not saying Apple shouldn’t make thin and light notebooks, but why do they all have to be that way?

Had website issues due to all the traffic following the #AppleEvent. This year rocks! #Linux #Ubuntu #YearOfTheLinuxDesktop

— System76 (@system76) October 30, 2016

Daring Fireball: Apples vs. Oranges — Thick, Heavy Oranges

There is a catch. The 15-inch Oryx Pro is 1-inch thick and weighs 5.5 pounds. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro is 0.6 inches thick and weighs 4 pounds. I’m not slamming the Oryx here — there are plenty of performance-hungry Mac users who wish that Apple made a MacBook this thick and heavy if it meant they could install up to 64 GB of RAM and had all the ports they wanted built-in.

The true reason the MBP doesn’t come with ddr4 or 32gb of ram, more technical then you think.

The true reason behind the lack of 32 GB or DDR4 is Intel. Skylake does not support LPDDR4 (LP for low power) RAM. Kabylake is set to include support, but only for the U category of chips. So no LPDDR4 support for mobile until 2018 I think.

One example is the Dell XPS 13. On the Dell XPS 13 version, you cannot go for 32 GB of RAM. Meanwhile, the 15 inches does give you that option, but you have to sacrifice battery life for it.

• Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About

Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller, in an email to MacRumors reader David, explained that for Apple to make a notebook with support for more than 16GB of RAM, it would have to use a memory system that consumes too much power. Regarding price, Schiller said in an interview that affordability is “absolutely something we care about” but that the company designs for experience rather than price.

• New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac

I was really disappointed with today’s Apple event. It seems like Apple has either lost its way, that it has lost touch with what (some of) its customers want, or that it simply doesn’t care about those customers. Developers are a captive audience, and creative professionals can switch to Windows, I guess. Apple no longer considers them core.

There’s nothing particularly wrong with what Apple announced. I like Thunderbolt 3. The display looks good. I’m not crazy about Touch Bar, but it does seem potentially useful. The problem is that the MacBook Pro is not a true Pro notebook.

• hungtruong/TouchFart: A fart app for the new Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar

A fart app for the new Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar. I’m usually the first one to make a fart app when the opportunity presents itself, so why not?

DigitalOcean

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

Remix IO – A 4K, Nougat-powered, All-in-One device

An Android Nougat-powered device exclusive on Kickstarter for $99. Engineered to be a 4K TV set-top box, gaming console, and PC in one.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

A Fireside Chat with Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux maintainer @gregkh talks #opensource compliance, the benefit of experience, and more: https://t.co/39XbpQ6gFR #LFelc pic.twitter.com/FjAngilLvV

— Linux.com (@LinuxDotCom) November 1, 2016

Fireside Chat: GKH Talks Licensing, Email, and Aging Maintainers

The Keynote Fireside Chat at ELC Europe, held Oct, 11-13 in Berlin, focused primarily on two issues: whether older kernel maintainers should hand their jobs over to younger developers, and how to best bring open source scofflaws into compliance (see below). Meanwhile, here are a few other edited quick takes from GKH about issues ranging from patch review technologies to the role of Linux on microcontrollers.

• 200 New People a month, lots from MS: https://youtu.be/s2I_7uCto5Q?t=7m37s
• Greg’s thoughts on licensing enforcement: https://youtu.be/s2I_7uCto5Q?t=10m10s
• Why the Kernel Team still uses email for everything: https://youtu.be/s2I_7uCto5Q?t=2m15s
• More in-depth LWN article about email usage: https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/

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Google’s big express shopping plans start to see the light of day, Apple has a new iPhone patent that might sound a little familiar.

Then we play some clips from a Fireside Chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Find out their thoughts on the future of self driving cars, Google getting into Health and more!

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Inside Google Shopping Express’ Big Plan to Race Amazon to Your Door | Re/code

Shopping Express. The service lets shoppers buy things from local retail stores through Google, which then delivers them to consumers from the physical retail store on the same or next day.

A source familiar with the company’s plans says senior Google execs have set aside as much as $500 million to expand the service nationwide. Google declined to comment on the size of the investment but made no secret of its ambition.

Google’s Fallows said a major goal of the initiative is to add more utility to product search advertisements on Google.com. On Amazon, you search for a product and can buy it immediately. On Google, that hasn’t been the case.

Eventually, Google may include some type of notification on product search ads letting shoppers know that a given product is available for same-day delivery, Fallows said.

Shoppers in cities where the service is available — mainly areas around San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City for now — visit a dedicated Google Shopping Express website where they can choose to buy goods like groceries, cameras and clothing from a selection of retail partners.

Apple developing system to automatically unlock iPhone at home

The system works by identifying where the iPhone is and allows users to set “safe” locations, where settings including security can be automatically changed removing the need for a passcode or Touch ID, for example.

“Based on the detected current location, the mobile device can modify settings and configurations. Security settings are one example of device behaviour that can be modified in accordance with embodiments of the present invention,” said Apple in the patent filing.

The patent could see iPhones unlocked within the vicinity of the home but locked while out on the street. The smartphone could determine its location using mobile phone signal, Wi-Fi networks, GPS, Bluetooth or the phone’s proximity to other phones.

At least two location indicators will be required to verify location and create the changes in security or other software features.

The patent also describes a system that could change a user’s home screen depending on where the phone is, with work related apps front and foremost when in the office or games and TV apps when in the home.

Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin | Khosla Ventures

At the annual KV CEO Summit, we were fortunate to have both Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit down to discuss a wide range of topics including the acquisition that never was (although not for lack of trying!), why computers today are still pretty bad, their partnership over the last 16 years, the future of Google, government 2.0 and how machine learning and technology will shape our future of abundance.

• Google Founders Talk About Ending the 40-Hour Work Week

He acknowledged, however, that people need “things to do” and “need to feel like you’re needed,” desires that are fulfilled through labor. One solution he offered: reduce the work week and perhaps split one full-time job into multiple part-time jobs.

“You just reduce work time,” Page said. “Most people, if I ask them, ‘Would you like an extra week of vacation?’ They raise their hands, 100% of the people. ‘Two weeks vacation, or a four-day work week?’ Everyone will raise their hand. Most people like working, but they’d also like to have more time with their family or to pursue their own interests. So that would be one way to deal with the problem, is if you had a coordinated way to just reduce the workweek. And then, if you add slightly less employment, you can adjust and people will still have jobs.”

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