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Killing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I’ve Ever Done

Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all Internet service from my home. It ended up being the best productivity decision I’ve ever made.

Now when I’m on the Internet, it has a purpose—it is a tool I use to enhance my life. Sure, sometimes I log on to watch some funny videos or laugh at memes, but I go to the Internet with the intention of doing these things.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Pinebook Linux laptop is ready to ship

The Pinebook is a cheap, low-power laptop with an ARM-based processor. First unveiled in November, the Pinebook comes from the makers of the Pine A64 single-board computer and it uses the same processor as that tiny desktop.

Prices start at $89 for a model with an 11.6 inch display or $99 for a 14 inch version… but shipping from Hong Kong can add as much as $37 to the price, depending on where you live.

OpenELEC 8.0 Linux OS Officially Out with Raspberry Pi Zero W Support, Kodi 17.1

Based on the latest Kodi 17.1 “Krypton” open-source and cross-platform media center software, OpenELEC 8.0 is here with a lot of updated internals, as well as support for new platforms, such as the recently launched Raspberry Pi Zero W single-board computer, WeTek Hub, and WeTek Play 2.

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 & 26

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with Fedora 24 and up.

Why use snaps?

Among other things, snaps make packaging, distribution and updates really easy for developers and automated for users. Which means you will get the latest version of your installed apps directly from upstream, on release day, or even daily if upstream has integrated snap publication into their CI process.

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Wes’ Picks

journal-triggerd: Runs trigger on systemd’s journal messages

journal-triggerd is a small daemon that runs in the background, listening to systemd’s journal, and will run “triggers” (i.e. exec a command line) when certain messages are added.

Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface

A quick search for “how to artificially slow down a Linux networking interface” produced a number of interesting results. Folks mostly discussed 3rd party tools like Wondershaper and Dummynet. Other suggestions involved proxying all HTTP/HTTPS traffic through Apache’s mod_bw — yuck!

Fortunately, most Linux distros ship with the tc command which is used to configure Traffic Control in the Linux kernel.

HashiCorp Packer 1.0

Packer 1.0 is a significant milestone. Packer is a powerful and full-featured tool to create cloud images and application packages. Today, Packer is in use by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide to automate their image creation.

Packer was started in 2013 and was the first project started at HashiCorp. Vagrant, our earliest project, was started prior to the founding of HashiCorp. We started Packer with the goal to create one workflow to build various types of deployment images.

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News

Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT ‘cowboys’ ride into sunset

The stakes are especially high for the financial industry, where an estimated $3 trillion in daily commerce flows through COBOL systems. The language underpins deposit accounts, check-clearing services, card networks, ATMs, mortgage servicing, loan ledgers and other services.

Of the 20 “Cowboys” that work as part-time consultants many have reached retirement age, though there are some “youngsters,” Hinshaw said. “Well, I call them youngsters, but they’re in their 40s, early 50s.”

The Companies That Support Linux and Open Source: Pinterest | Linux.com

Pinterest — “the world’s catalog of ideas” — is built on open source, according to Jon Parise, technical architecture lead and open source program lead at the company. In this interview, Parise explains how adopting open source has changed the company and helped the company’s engineers design software that is more modular, reusable, and well-documented from the outset.

Pinterest is built on open source. From our first lines of Django code over six years ago to the release of Rocksplicator, our latest open source project, we’ve directly benefited from open source projects and the supportive communities surrounding them. In turn, we’ve made significant contributions to the open source technologies we use and have pushed the limits of technologies like HBase. Internally, open source is part of a product cycle. We frequently open source the technologies we build as both a way to give back to communities and because it’s the right thing to do.

Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications

In the context of an open source project, Slack, HipChat, Gitter, etc, provide a forum for advocacy, gossip, informal discussion, and support. My complaints start when Slack and friends are promoted as the recommended way to communicate with the project.

• Slack, et al, are paid services with closed memberships.

• Slack, et al, are based on synchronous communication, which discriminate against those who do not or can not take part of the conversation in real time.

Instead of closed, synchronous, systems I recommend open source projects stick to asynchronous communication tools that leave a publicly linkable, searchable, url. The tools that fit this requirement best are; mailing list, issue trackers, and forums.

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Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year

Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ending development of Ubuntu software for phones and tablets, spelling doom for the goal of creating a converged experience with phones acting as desktops when docked with the right equipment.

“Work on the phone and tablet is also ending, the whole convergence story, really,” Hall said. “The desktop will continue, but like it was in the pre-Unity days where we took what upstream [developers] designed and developed.”

By switching to GNOME, Canonical is also giving up on Mir and moving to the Wayland display server, another contender for replacing the X window system. Given the separate development paths of Mir and Wayland, “we have no real choice but to use Wayland when Ubuntu switches to GNOME by default,” Hall told Ars. “Using Mir simply isn’t an option we have.”

• Ubuntu Abandoning Unity in Favor of GNOME: What This Means

• Mark Shuttleworth says some free software folk are ‘deeply anti-social’ and ‘love to hate’

• yunit – A community-driven unity8 fork

• UBports Community Q&A: April 8, 2017

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System76 Isn’t Giving Up On Ubuntu, Plans to Put its Own Spin on GNOME

“The Ubuntu Desktop team have always produced an incredible operating system, whether it be with GNOME or Unity. We’re excited to see their thoughtfulness, effort, and innovation added into the GNOME community,” – Carl Richell, System76 CEO

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Desktop App Pick

GScan2PDF

A basic scanning application that converts a document to a PDF file for archiving documents

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Major Upgrade to Wire

Calling has always been one of Wire’s most popular features. Today we’re happy to announce the rollout of a major upgrade to our calling protocol. It further improves the secure calling experience and takes a step forward for privacy.

This update means more successfully connected calls, even in challenging network conditions. Another iteration in a few weeks will significantly shorten the call setup time. When you call someone and they accept then you’ll be able to start talking almost instantly.

Telegram & WhatsApp Vulnerability

One of the most concerning revelations arising from the recent WikiLeaks publication is the possibility that government organizations can compromise WhatsApp, Telegram and other end-to-end encrypted chat applications. While this has yet to be proven, many end-users are concerned as WhatsApp and Telegram use end-to-end encryption to guarantee user privacy. This encryption is designed to ensure that only the people communicating can read the messages and nobody else in between.

BeagleBone Blue: A Linux Robot Computer

BeagleBone® Blue is a complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer. Community-supported and fully open-source, the real-time performance, flexible networking and rich set of robotics-oriented peripherals make building mobile robots quick and affordable.

Smartwatch OS

The news comes via an interview with Swatch CEO Nick Hayek, who stated, “there’s a possibility for wearables to develop as a consumer product, but you have to miniaturize and have an independent operating system.” The statement comes on the heel of Tag Heuer’s unveiling of a new super high-end modular timepiece.

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• Name: Shannon S

• Subject: Just some love

• Message:

Hey there Chris and Noah. I wanted to reach out to you and show some support and thanks for the time, energy, and money that you put into the research, production and high quality of your show.

My fiance Christopher has been listening for a few years now. He loves what you do, and so do I! As my fiance has become more knowledgeable and more passionate about Linux, security, etc, he has so few people in our real world social network to chat about it with. He can’t dig in deep and dork out over it without eyes glazing over. You guys have been guides and friends as he has worked on moving his career path towards tech.

it’s tough to feel the support of your viewers, especially when they become complacent with sharing on social media. Just know there is tons of love for you guys coming from over in Vermont (though not with social media shares, guilty as charged).

Also, I’ve always appreciated the time you have spent talking about women in tech and women using linux. I’ve got ubuntu gnome onto my laptop and I’ve become a much more knowledgeable and confident with my computer knowledge thanks to you both. This is coming from a very grudging tech user.

We also love love love Unfilter, and we both think the intro is fine as is

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• Subject: Firewall with Reverse Proxy

• Message:

Hey guys, I’m looking for a good open source firewall and reverse proxy that has a nice webUI that I can quickly configure and monitor from. I use cisco ASA’s and nginx combo normally but for the house and $ it doesn’t make sense. i have a limited number of external IP’s as you probably already know. I’ve now got a home setup that I’d like to start hosting some things on. I’m demoing cacheguard and it’s nice but only free for 5 users. Thanks! any help much

Noah’s Reccomendation

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How Low can You go? Cheap Linux Systems

• Dell XPS 410 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2 40GHz 8GB 320GB HDD No OS

• Computer Model Dimension 9200

• Shipping Date 6/9/2007

Inexpensive Video Card

• EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GAMING, 04G-P4-6251-KR, 4GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC)-Newegg.com

• GTX 750ti

Low Cost Laptop

• Intel® Core(TM) i5-6200U Processor 2.3GHz with turbo boost up to 2.8GHz
• 8GB DDR3L-SDRAM Memory
• More productive. Windows 10 is the best for bringing ideas forward and getting things done.
• 1TB 5400RPM Hard Drive, DVD Writer
• 15.6″ diagonal Full HD SVA antiglare WLED-backlit (1920 x 1080)

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• DIY Linux laptop: Build your own for $240 with fully open source Olimex Teres I

If you’re curious about building a cheap, entirely open-source laptop from scratch using step-by-step instructions, the Teres I could be just the ticket.

If buyers follow the instructions correctly, they should end up with a 980gm (2.16lb) laptop featuring a quad-core Allwinner A64 64-bit Ciortex-A53 processor, an 11.6-inch LCD screen, 4GB flash storage, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, a camera, and 7,000mAh battery.

Desktop App Pick

jam: Google Play Music console player for Linux and Windows

The features it has are:

• Last.fm scrobbling
• populating a local database with the artists and albums you saved through the web interface (or by any other means)
• searching within artists in the database
• playing, pausing (buggy, I need help with it) , stopping, previous track, next track
• the interface is Cmus rip off, I’ve only added a progress bar
• this player no longer lists artists in random order – if you want to randomize them press R

Distro of the Week

Whonix

Whonix is a desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy. It realistically addresses attacks while maintaining usability. It makes online anonymity possible via fail-safe, automatic, and desktop-wide use of the Tor network.

A heavily reconfigured Debian base is run inside multiple virtual machines, providing a substantial layer of protection from malware and IP leaks. Pre-installed, pre-configured applications are ready for use, and installing additional applications or personalizing the desktop will in no way jeopardize the user. Whonix is the only actively developed OS designed to be run inside a VM and paired with Tor.

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KDE – Plasma 5.9 Kicks off 2017 in Style.

KDE Plasma 5.9

Tuesday, 31 January 2017. Today KDE releases this year’s first Plasma feature update, Plasma 5.9. While this release brings many exciting new features to your desktop, we’ll continue to provide bugfixes to Plasma 5.8 LTS.

KDE and Slimbook Release a Laptop for KDE Fans

KDE Slimbook, together with KDE neon, offers us a unique opportunity to isolate and fix issues that users have with our software. When something in Plasma, a KDE Application or some software using a KDE Framework does not work as intended for a user, there are at least three layers that can cause the problem:

• The KDE software itself
• The operating system

• The hardware or its drivers

• Hardware

• Slimbook KDE

• i5 $786.26 US Dollar

• i7 $915.69 US Dollar

The Document Foundation announces feature-rich LibreOffice 5.3

LibreOffice 5.3 represents a significant step forward in the evolution of the software: it offers an introduction to new features such as online with collaborative editing, which increase the competitive positioning of the application, and at the same time provides incremental improvements, to make the program more reliable, interoperable and user-friendly.

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Noah Needs Help!

• Fixing a Trackpad

We recently purchased an Asus Republic of Gamer Laptop. Model G752V

The issue is when you press on the trackpad buttons they do not register a click right or left. If you place your finger even lightly on the trackpad the left button then registered but not the right. If you place TWO fingers on the trackpad and click with the left button it registers as a right click.

If you execute the command synclient ClickPad=0 the left button then works but still no right click.

We have researched the problem at length and basically what we’ve concluded is that it requires a Kernel patch.

• A description of the problem can be found here

• Another post

• and another

• More from the Gentoo guys

I have a meeting on Monday evening at which point I either need this problem fixed or I am going to have to find another solution, and I don’t have any more time to spend on it.

If there is someone out there that knows how to / is willing to help me fix this, I am willing to pay you! Get ahold of me via telegram, twitter, or email @Kernellinux or noah [at] jupiterbroadcasting [dot] com with a quote. BY MONDAY NIGHT I WILL HAVE ANOTHER SOLUTION!

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• Name: Paul D

• Subject: Bulletproof Linux

• Message:

Here’s my suggestion for your bulletproof Linux setup.

Stick with Arch that you know and love, but build it on a filesystem that supports snapshots (I’d recommend ZFS). Then setup auto snapshotting e.g. every day.

I rebuilt my main system just before Christmas on ZFS, then some weeks later as an after thought, enabled daily snapshots. The very next day I did something silly whilst browsing, clicked on a dodgy link, and started having windows opening by themselves. The solution – logout, drop to a terminal, issue a single “zfs rollback” command, and my home partition was restored to how it was when I’d booted that day!

Arch is pretty stable, despite being rolling. Providing you reboot when you update and follow the Arch Announcements list you won’t have any issues. I also only update monthly as I can’t see the point in doing so more frequently for a system that you want to keep stable.

• Name: Mark

• Subject: Help with Antergos

• Message:

Hello LAS! I catch the LAAS podcast every week. But right now I could use your assisatance. I just got a Oryx Pro 17.3 inch with 32 gb of ram, 512 SSD, and 1tb 7200rpm hard drive with a 8gb GTX1070 Nvidia gpu. The problem I am having is trying to get Antergos installed. even in the live boot, the cursor always is stuck in the upper left corner and even after installing it to the hard drive it is the same or will not boot at all. I have tried debian and other distros with the same issues, even tried Manjarro and it was no better.
Can you help me?

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Microsoft tells devs: Whatever you’re doing in Linux, Windows 10 will soon do it too

“Whatever it is that you normally do on Linux to build an application: whether it’s in Go, in Erlang, in C, whatever you use, please, give it a try on Bash WSL

Microsoft Azure bug put Red Hat instances at risk

The vulnerability was discovered by Irish software engineer Ian Duffy and reported to Microsoft as part of its bug bounty programme. Duffy discovered the glitch while working on a hardened RHEL image for use on both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Android security in 2016 is a mess.

if money is no object, my only sound advice can be to buy an iPhone. Apple is still shipping security updates, albeit on iOS 9, for the iPhone 4s which was released in 2011 (5 years ago). The iPhone 5 is still being kept up to date with iOS 10.

TING

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Core VLC Developer: ‘Noone Cares About Linux; OpenHMD Is a Joke’

Or also, that noone really cares about Linux. And, also, that we might need direct access to get powerful perf.

jbkempf comments on Core VLC Developer: ‘Noone Cares About Linux; OpenHMD Is a Joke’

Therefore, I have never ever ever said “Noone Cares about Linux”. This is the most stupid thing I’ve ever seen; especially outside of the VR context.

Debian putting everything on the /usr

Merging /usr is with a debootstrap compilation flag, --merged-usr.

Ubuntu Prepping Its 16.04 “Rolling HWE Kernel”

Ubuntu 16.04.2 and beyond will feature hardware enablement kernels back-ported from newer Ubuntu releases in order to allow new hardware to work on these older LTS releases, but now the Xenial Xerus is switching to a concept of a “rolling HWE kernel.”

You Can Now Package Your Apps as Snaps Without Bundling Their Dependencies

This is possible now because the latest ubuntu-app-platform snap build incorporates the standard Qt 5 libraries, the QML (Qt Meta Language) runtime, the Ubuntu UI (User Interface) toolkit, and their dependencies. The Oxide web engine library based on Chromium and related QML bindings is also bundled in the ubuntu-app-platform snap, so the new Snaps should now be significantly smaller.

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Fedora 25 images are now available in DigitalOcean! Read the Magazine here for useful tips: https://t.co/v8CYGBvlhq

— Fedora Project (@fedora) November 29, 2016

The New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada

Specifications — Next gen XPS 13 developer edition

Here is what the 6th generation developer edition (9360) features:

• 7th generation Intel(r) Core(tm)Processors
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS preloaded. Augmented with the necessary hardware drivers (drivers are upstreamed to allow a variety of distros to work)
• Killer Wireless cards*

• InfinityEdge(tm) display, FHD (1920×1080) and QHD+ (3200×1800) versions available

  Killer cards are a branding of Qualcomm Atheros. Their Linux drivers are open source and the firmware is now upstream.

US Configurations

As was the case last time, the US is offering four configs. This time around we are offering the following (including one in Rose Gold):

• i5/8GB/128GB, FHD — $949.99
• i5/8GB/256GB, FHD — $1,349.99
• i7/8GB/256GB, QHD+ (touch) — Rose Gold — $1,599.99

• i7/16GB/512GB, QHD+ (touch) — $1,799.99

• New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada | Hacker News

A word of warning: German magazine c’t tests this laptop in its newest issue, using the pre-installed Ubuntu but also with Fedora 25 Workstation Edition (also with a Linux 4.9 development kernel), as well as Windows 10. The results regarding Linux compatibility are pretty bad:

• The battery lasts for 13h under Linux, which is not too shabby. However, it lasts a whooping 22,5h with Windows 10.

• The headphone port is very noisy with Linux. No noise whatsoever with Windows.

• WiFi performance is dismal in Linux. No problem with Windows.

• The HDMI port on the separately sold docking station does not work correctly with Linux.

netdata backends

netdata supports backends for archiving the metrics, or providing long term dashboards, using grafana or other tools

DalmatinerDB – A fast distributed metric store

DalmatinerDB’s performance relies heavily on taking advantage of facilities like ARC, ZIL, checksums and volume compression. Expecting those things to be handled on a filesystem level makes it possible to remove most of the code for caching, compression, validation from the application improving code simplicity, stability, and performance significantly.

• DalmatinerDB documentation
• Playing with DalmatinerDB

Essentially the main difference is that it relies on some very well tested software as the foundation. Clustering is a first class citizen and complicated compression and checksumming code is kept out of the database where ZFS can do it instead.

Currently Dalmatiner is a great database if you are looking for a reliable time series metrics store that scales and is 100% open source and not backed by a commercial company.

Managing devices in Linux

This month I cover some fascinating aspects of the /dev directory.

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Microsoft’s Best Linux Laptop?

Surface 3’s touchscreen will soon work with Linux | TechRadar

There’s some good news for those of you who have been mulling the possibility of installing Linux on your Surface 3, as support for the touchscreen is included with the new release candidate of version 4.8 of the Linux Kernel.

Surface Pro 1 Specs

• Software – Windows 8 Pro. Upgradeable to Windows 8.1 Pro
• Exterior – Dimensions: 10.81 in (27.5 cm) x 6.81 in (17.3 cm) x 0.53 in (13.46 mm)

Weight: Less than 2lbs
Casing: VaporMg
Color: Dark Titanium
Integrated kickstand
Physical buttons: Volume, Power, and Windows button

• Storage* and Memory – 64GB, 128GB

• Display – Screen: 10.6 inch ClearType Full HD Display

Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 (widescreen)
Touch: 10-point multi-touch

3rd Gen Intel Core i5 Processor
4GB RAM
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)
Bluetooth®4.0 technology

Two 720p HD cameras, front and rear-facing
Microphone
Stereo speakers