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LG releases webOS Open Source Edition, looks to expand webOS usage — LG wants to expand the adoption of webOS and the company is working with the South Korean government to solicit business proposals from other companies interested in using webOS.
The Linux Foundation Announces an Open Source Reference Hypervisor Project Designed for IoT Device Development — ACRN is comprised of two main components: the hypervisor and its device model
Linux Foundation backs new ‘ACRN’ hypervisor for embedded and IoT
GNOME Shell memory leak — A number of Ubuntu users have reported that GNOME Shell 3.26.2, the version used in Ubuntu 17.10, has a “sneaky leak” that causes GNOME Shell’s memory usage to increase every minute following a Shell animation
A GNOME performance bug fixed — So, how can something as simple as updating the displayed time cause such a large increase in the time required to draw a frame?
Firefox Master Password System Has Been Poorly Secured for the Past 9 Years — For at past nine years, Mozilla has been using an insufficiently strong encryption mechanism for the “master password” feature.
Questionable changes coming to Firefox DNS queries — Nightly build fans’ hostname lookups piped to Cloudflare in limited security feature trial
Firefox plan to start blocking ads — Mozilla intends to add basic ad filtering capabilities to its Firefox browser later this year, according to its recently updated roadmap.
Bitcoin blockchain contains more than transaction data — Boffins warn of legal risks from arbitrary data distribution
CryptoGraffiti – Bitcoin Blockchain Messages as Text

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Linux Action News 40

chris — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:22:49 +0000

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MATE 1.20 — The theme for this release has been stabilising the MATE Desktop by replacing deprecated code and modernising large sections of the code base. We’ve also improved our window manager (Marco) and added support for HiDPI. Along the way we’ve fixed hundreds of bugs. Squished ’em dead!
Plasma 5.12 — Speed and memory improvements are the focus of this long-term release. The new Plasma LTS uses less CPU and less memory than previous versions. The process of starting the Plasma desktop is now significantly faster.
VLC 3.0 — Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS…)
Nextcloud 13 — This release brings improvements to the core File Sync and Share like easier moving of files and a tech preview of our end-to-end encryption for the ultimate protection of your data. It also introduces collaboration and communication capabilities, like auto-complete of comments and integrated real-time chat and video communication.
Android x86 7.1 — It’s a full port of Android, instead of being more of an application player like other solutions.
Bliss-x86 Oreo 8.x
Changes coming to elementary OS AppCenter — One of the primary goals of developing AppCenter Dashboard was to build a sustainable app ecosystem. I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that although the AppCenter ecosystem is growing, nobody can make a living on it yet. That’s what we mean when we say “sustainable”. Writing apps is a real, hard, full-time job. If we want to see more high-quality, Open Source apps then we need to prioritize getting third-party app developers paid.
Elementary OS Juno will be version 5.0, not 0.5 — Among them a small yet appreciable bump to the version number. Yes elementary OS 0.5 Juno will actually be elementary OS 5.0.
Announcing “Project Things” — We kicked off “Project Things”, with the goal of building a decentralized ‘Internet of Things’ that is focused on security, privacy, and interoperability.
Nintendo Switch runs Linux — According to fail0verflow, there’s a flaw in the boot ROM in Nvidia’s Tegra X1 system-on-a-chip. when your console starts, it reads and executes a piece of code stored in a read-only memory (hence the name ROM). This code contains instructions about the booting process.

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SSL Strippers | TechSNAP 344

chris — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:55:54 +0000

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How not to avoid browser security warning

Verbal passwords

Obscurity is a Valid Security Layer

Feedback

Round Up:

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Bite of the AR Apple | CR 276

chris — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 07:22:12 +0000

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APFS

Just what’s so great about APFS?
Prepare for APFS in macOS High Sierra
Apple is upgrading millions of iOS devices to a new modern file system today

iOS Dev X

Challenges of the iPhone X

The ‘nub’ and its implications
iPhone X
iPhone 8
Issues with FaceID

Abstractions And Leaks

Difficulties of multiple abstraction levels
Apache Cordova
Ionic Framework
React Native

AR as the future of iOS Development

Introducing ARKit

iPhone X and ARKit enable a revolutionary capability for robust face tracking in augmented reality apps. Using the TrueDepth camera, your app can detect the position, topology, and expression of the user’s face, all with high accuracy and in real time, making it easy to apply live selfie effects or use facial expressions to drive a 3D character.

Expect some Halloween fun from Mike

Wes is HomeKit Curious

Limitations of Alexa
Security Implications
iHome
HomeKit
Issues integration with Open Source

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Linux Action News 9

chris — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 19:38:14 +0000

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Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22 — On the UI side, there are big updates to its desktop with the re-basing process from GNOME Shell 3.8 to GNOME Shell 3.22. Moving forward, they intend to re-base their desktop changes much more often to allow for a smoother transition to using the newer GNOME code in their operating system.
Tuxedo Announces Its Own Ubuntu Flavor — “What we have done is [deliver a] desktop that is strongly adapted to the needs of our users. With [our] own theme, own icons, own boot logo and […] the latest firmware, the latest NVIDIA drivers (if necessary) and Linux kernel 4.11 preinstalled! Not to mention our configuration adjustments on the GRUB and optimizations to other system-relevant files.”
2017 Linux Laptop Survey Results — There are 30,171 responses, a lot of data to now sift through while in this article is an overview of the initial findings.
These Videos of Mycroft Are Just Too Funny — As an intended open-source alternative to Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and Google Home, the humble Mycroft AI has an awful lot of hype to live up to.
Youyota Sailfish OS 2-in-1 Tablet — The Youyota Tablet packs Quad-Core Intel chipsets, and runs on Sailfish OS.
Mozilla launches Project Things IoT framework on Raspberry Pi — Mozilla has now announced its own Project Things framework designed to pull together existing Web of Things specifications and code under a global framework comprised of device, gateway, and cloud components. As a starting point, it released a prototype version of a Things Gateway stack that runs on a Raspberry Pi.

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Internet of Troubles | LINUX Unplugged 194

chris — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:49:05 +0000

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The glEnd() of Zelda: Automatic 3Dification of NES Games

This about an emulator that renders NES games in 3D (with some manual steps), and techniques that can automate those manual steps. It’s a sidebar to my work on Nintendo AI.

Follow Up / Catch Up

This Theme Makes Qt Apps Feel at Home on GNOME – OMG! Ubuntu!

Adwaita-Qt is (as you might guess from the name) a theme that helps make Qt apps look like GTK apps by themeing them to match up with Adwaita, the default GNOME GTK theme.
+ GitHub – PapirusDevelopmentTeam/arc-kde: Arc KDE customization

Debian is shutting down its public FTP services

This decision is driven by the following considerations:
* FTP servers have no support for caching or acceleration.
* Most software implementations have stagnated and are awkward to use
and configure.
* Usage of the FTP servers is pretty low as our own installer has not
offered FTP as a way to access mirrors for over ten years.
* The protocol is inefficient and requires adding awkward kludges to
firewalls and load-balancing daemons.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Wait – we can explain, says Moby, er, Docker amid rebrand meltdown

DockerCon in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, the container bellwether _announced_the _Moby Project— a new name for the open-source software from which the commercial versions of Docker are derived. Moby also serves as a starting point to create customized container software for specific infrastructure._

Announcing LinuxKit: A Toolkit for building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems – Docker Blog

LinuxKit includes the tooling to allow building custom Linux subsystems that only include exactly the components the runtime platform requires. All system services are containers that can be replaced, and everything that is not required can be removed. All components can be substituted with ones that match specific needs. It is a kit, very much in the Docker philosophy of batteries included but swappable. Today, onstage at Dockercon 2017 we opensourced LinuxKit at https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit.

Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird based on web technologies

Summary:

Our base goes away. Gecko will change dramatically in the future, and dropping many features that Firefox does not need anymore, but that Thunderbird relies on.

Our codebase is now roughly 20 years old. It heavily and intrinsically relies on those very Gecko technologies that are now being faded out, more or less aggressively.

JavaScript and HTML5 have evolved dramatically. Entire applications in JS are now realistic, and have been done. There are several existing JS libraries we might leverage. JavaScript is an efficient language, which allows fast development. A rewrite in JavaScript makes sense now.

We will learn from shortcomings of existing Thunderbird, and solve them, for example a more flexible address book, and cleanly supporting virtual folders without overhead.

The goal of the rewrite is to be close to the existing Thunderbird, in UI and features, as a drop-in replacement for end users, without baffling them. They should immediately recognize the replacement as the Thunderbird they love. It will install and run as normal desktop application, like Thunderbird does today. It keeps user data local and private.

We can also make a new, fresh desktop UI, as alternative to the traditional one, for new users. The technology also gives us the option to run it as mobile app.

While we implement the new version of Thunderbird, the old codebase based on Gecko will be maintained until the rewrite is ready to replace the old one.

I expect this effort to take roughly 3 years: 1 year until some dogfood (usable by some developers and enthusiasts). 2 years until a basic feature set is there. 3 years until we can replace Thunderbird.

Thunderbird Redesign by Krystian Polański – Dribbble

We wanted to achieve more clarity and in effect reduce cognitive load making Thunderbird more friendly, especially for new users. Also, we based the redesign on FirefoxOS Style Guide to keep the identity somehow coherent.

There will be no logo decision

Seems that community is too stupid and irresponsible to decide even for the simplest things like a stupid logo, as there are many votes coming from random usernames like “dsfsdfsdf sdsdgdsfg”.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

The Linux Foundation launches IoT-focused open source EdgeX Foundry, Ubuntu-maker Canonical joins

The Linux Foundation launches the open source EdgeX Foundry — an attempt to unify and simplify the Internet of Things.

DigitalOcean

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

Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0.0 “Jessie” Just Around the Corner, Release Candidate Out

The Devuan project continues its vision of providing a libre Debian fork without using the systemd init system, and the Release Candidate (RC) version brings the GNU/Linux distribution closer to a final release. The interesting fact is that this RC appears to be stable enough to be used for production work.

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Java Rusts Over | CR 245

chris — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:21:20 +0000

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.NET Renaissance

@dominucco @ChrisLAS .NET is big in Healthcare which are huge applications

— mase (@mase_nocturnal) February 14, 2017

@ChrisLAS @dominucco totally getting my position changed to docker captain! Also i use c# @ wk. Pushing for mono / core to avoid irrelevance

— mase (@mase_nocturnal) February 14, 2017

Hoopla

Oracle has filed an appeal in its copyright lawsuit against Google – Recode

Oracle has appealed a May ruling that favored Google’s use of software that Oracle claimed did not fall under fair use.

Rust’s 2017 roadmap – The Rust Programming Language Blog

This year, the overarching theme is productivity, especially for early-stage
Rust users.

Mike’s new toy

Looking For a C++ Alternative on IOT

Mike’s New Project
Lulz Bot 3D Printer
Free as in Libre
Balancing ease of development with down to the metal power and cost of components.
What about the JVM?
Gobot
JetBrains Gogland: Up and Coming Go IDE

Up and Coming Go IDE

Tool of the Week

JetBrains Toolbox

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