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Forward Momentum | LAS 449

chris — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 11:25:40 +0000

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High on NextCloud | LAS 448

chris — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 03:50:20 +0000

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NextCloud 11

Nextcloud 11 sets new standard for security and scalability – Nextcloud

This release introduces significant security improvements, attested by NCC Group, a global expert in cyber security and risk mitigation to “complement the existing security architecture” and “enhance the general standing of the security working environment.“

New security capabilities include:

Support for cutting edge browser security features CSP 3.0 and Same-site Cookies* Support for Kerberos authentication and Two-factor Authentication providers based on Universal 2nd Factor and Time-based One-Time Password* Expanded brute force protection to all API access points* More secure Federation through use of SSL/TLS* Our new app store automatically checks apps and enforces signatures

Scalability is a prime concern among our large enterprise customers. This release decreases database load by up to 80% and improves response time by up to 60% for common server operations. Combined with multi-bucket Object Store support, improved handling of previews and Collabora Online speed improvements Nextcloud 11 enables scaling to greater numbers of users and files, decreases the server load and improves the user experience.

Nextcloud 11 introduces Apache Solr powered Full Text Search, enabling users to find words or phrases in text, pdf and common office documents on internal, external, shared and encrypted storage. The next generation Federation technology introduces a central lookup server, enabling Nextcloud users to find each other irrespective of the server their account resides on. The experimental Spreed app integrates secure, peer to peer audio and video chat in Nextcloud.

How to Install from a SNAP

This Nextcloud snap is available in the store for release series 16 (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04).

$ sudo snap install nextcloud

Nextcloud 11 Snap

$ sudo snap install –candidate nextcloud

Or if you already have it installed (not recommended for production systems):

$ sudo snap refresh –candidate nextcloud

Nextcloud: the most active open source file sync and share project!* – Nextcloud

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Uber’s new Self Driving Cars, Run Linux

Uber is expanding its self-driving pilot to San Francisco, giving Bay Area residents the first taste of a driverless future. Anyone who hails an UberX could find themselves in the backseat of one of Uber’s self-driving Volvo XC90 SUVs.

Desktop App Pick

Hiri Email Client

Hiri is an email client that helps you master the art of email.

A complete replacement for Microsoft Outlook

Emails
Tasks
Calendars
Contacts

Collaborate with up to 10 members of your team for free. You can see our pricing here.
https://www.hiri.com/pricing/

Spotlight

Piler open source email archiving

Email archiving provides lots of benefits to your company. Piler is a feature rich open source email archiving solution, and a viable alternative to commercial email archiving products; check out the comparison with Mailarchiva.

Piler has a nice GUI written in PHP supporting several authentication methods (AD/LDAP, SSO, Google OAuth, 2 FA, IMAP, POP3). Be sure to try the online demo!

Piler supports

archiving and retention rules

legal hold

deduplication

digital fingerprinting and verification

full text search

tagging emails

view, export, restore emails

bulk import/export messages

audit logs

Google Apps

Office 365

and many more

installation-service – piler open source email archiving

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— NEWS —

0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt

The zero-day exploits, which Evans published on Tuesday, are the latest to challenge the popular conceit that Linux, at least in its desktop form

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape and a vulnerability in the Linux GPU Display Driver kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) | NVIDIA

Ubuntu 17.04 Swaps Swap Partitions for Swap Files

Canonical’s Dimitri John Ledkov announced today that **Ubuntu 17.04 will use Swap files by default **on non-LVM installs (which if you just click through the installer, is the default setting).

Open-Source Warsow Game Development Appears To End

The Warsow video game was powered by the Qfusion engine, which they evolved into an advanced version of the open-source Quake II code. Thus it was a GPL game engine while their artwork ended up being under the Creative Commons. While it was one of the better open-source FPS video games and saw routine updates — along with passing Steam Greenlight a few years back — it looks like it’s now game over.

Microsoft Office Ribbon UI Is Coming to LibreOffice

LibreOffice 5.3 hides a hidden, Microsoft Office-style ‘Ribbon’ interface — but we’reg going to show you how to enable it.

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Mail Bag

Name: Alex S.
Subject: School Presentation
Message:

Hey Noah and/or Chris,
So I have an anxiety disorder that make giving presentations a bit dangerous for me (think, passing out and bashing your face into things) so I get accommodations from my university’s RCPD that basically just add a little legal weight to any discussions I have with teachers to set up alternatives to giving presentations. This semester one of my teachers is allowing me to make a slide deck of the research I did and record me giving the presentation in audio only and turn that in rather than actually presenting in front of the class.
I wasn’t sure how I was going to manage the recording side of things since I run Linux exclusively so none of the teacher’s suggestions would work but then I remembered you guys talking about OBS and thought, since it’s in the AUR, I’d just install it and see if it could do what I needed.

AND IT DOES! It’s exactly what I need for my final presentation and I only knew it existed because you guys talked about it so I just wanted to say thanks! It’s not the first recommendation I’ve gotten from LAS but it is the first one that helps me with school work.
So, yeah, thanks again for the (indirect) help.

Name: Stefan R
Subject: Arch Help
Message:

Hey there Chris and Noah,

since I heard that Noah finally switched to Arch (Antergos) I decided it was time to ask this question.

How did you get hybrid graphics to work?

I have a nice 17,3″ ASUS Laptop (Intel i5-5200U, Nvidia 920M, Samsung SSD) which works just fine with every Linux-distro I’ve thrown at it so far, but the only thing that seems to work only on Ubuntu is the graphics switching.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love Ubuntu Mate (which it’s running now), but I’d rather have it run a rolling distro.

I simply cannot get it to work properly and trust me, I’ve tried everything:

Arch Wiki

Antergos Wiki

Ubuntu Wiki

forums

opensource drivers

proprietary drivers

bumblebee

prime

lts-kernel + lts-drivers

cutting edge kernel + cutting edge drivers

and ran into all sorts of problems:

bumblebee is working with os-drivers, but steam does not start

bumblebee is working with proprietary-drivers, but steam does not start

no drivers are working

steam does start, but only on Intel graphics

I’d like it to work like in Ubuntu where you choose the card in Nvidia-XServer-Settings, logout and log back in.

Thank you for your help and greetings from Austria (no Chris it’s not Australia)
thefenriswolf

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Linux Shadow Force | LINUX Unplugged 168

chris — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:39:26 +0000

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Freeablo

A work-in-progress free and open-source replacement for the Diablo I engine. Simply import the Diablo assets, and enjoy the same old game with faster performance and modern resolutions, and first class support for mods.

Android phones rooted by “most serious” Linux escalation bug ever

I__ndependent security researcher David Manouchehri told Ars that this _proof-of-concept code that explo__its Dirty Cow on Android_gets devices close to root. With a few additional lines, Manouchehri’s code provides persistent root access on all five of the Android devices he has tested.

Dirty COW and clean commit messages [LWN.net]

Dirty COW (which, naturally, has its own logo and web page, though this one is a
bit on the satirical side) is a race condition in the kernel’s memory-management
subsystem. By timing things right, a local attacker can exploit the
copy-on-write mechanism to turn a read-only mapping of a file into a
writable mapping; with that, a file that should not be writable can be
written to. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how the ability to
overwrite files could be used to escalate privileges in any of a number of
ways.

Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing | Ars Technica

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving

What’s your data archive strategy?

After Chris talked about wanting a Volt meter CPU monitor before LUP, so i made one

ioangogo/CPUMeter: The Files needed for a analog cpu meter

Loving deepin 15.3

Hi guys. Long term Linux user (+- 12 years), and huge openSuse and Arch Linux (Manjaro) fan. Been running Manjaro for the last couple of months. I’m always looking for a polished desktop experience. I installed the latest Deepin Linux version on my notebook. I’m blown away at how well polished this distro is.

The software store is amazing! Been running for two weeks, and loving it. I’ve never used WPS Office, always been Open Office user, and was blown away on how polished WPS Office were! Even the built in ‘guake’ like drop down terminal impressed me. I think I’ve found my new favorite distro. It almost feels ‘Apple’ like polished to me.

The one ‘niggle’ was that the default deepin file manager application is very basic. Probably the average user want’s it simple, but I quickly installed Nautilus from the app store, and replaced the dock on the bar.

Would be great if you guys did a review on Deepin 15.3. I’m stumped.

DigitalOcean

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

Coming around to home automation… On my terms.

How we built a truly Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi

Such a huge project cannot start without a good, long workshop about our needs and requirements. After a thorough workshop we decided to have the following features:

light control,
conference and call room occupancy signalization,
individual access codes for the main doors for each team member in a centralized database, * audio system with a wireless music streaming option,
separate, manageable audio experience in the restroom,
five TVs with the ability to manage the content displayed on them,
kitchen LED lamp color management,
ability to control everything via a web application (desktop, mobile, phone and panels mounted on the walls).

Linux Academy

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Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists

The Model 01 is the best keyboard we can make. It’s not like other keyboards. We mill the Model 01’s enclosure from two blocks of solid maple that are a joy to rest your hands on. Instead of shallow, uncomfortable keyswitches, we use gloriously tactile mechanical keyswitches similar to those found in the original Apple II. We’ve custom-sculpted each of the 64 individual keycaps on the Model 01 to gently guide your fingers to the right keys. After putting it all together, the result is a keyboard that is a pleasure to type on all day and all night.

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Get Swifty | CR 223

chris — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:50:20 +0000

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Microsoft is #1 on GitHub open source

And Microsoft weighs in at #1, with 16,419 contributors, edging out Facebook with 15,682.

GitHub Octoverse 2016

The Fall of Eclipse

Eclipse felt less like an IDE and more like a collection of plugins you somehow hobble together to form your own.

Thimble by Mozilla – An online code editor for learners & educators.

Thimble is an online code editor that makes it easy to create and publish your own web pages while learning HTML, CSS & JavaScript.

[Vapor.codes] (https://vapor.codes)

Swift3

Migrating to #swift3 is proving to be a nightmare #iOSDev #swift #programming

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) September 18, 2016

Swift.org – Migrating to Swift 2.3 or Swift 3 from Swift 2.2

iPhone 7 Train Leaves the Station

Back on the #iphone train @ChrisLAS @Xaccary

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) September 16, 2016

iOS wide password manager
Intense App installation performance, literally unbelievable.
No headphone jack bites ironically.
Speaker(s) are a lot better. Much better for listening to Podcasts. (Nearly as good as Nexus 6p)
New sounds (lock, type, etc).
Widget Screen, like your own custom Google Now. Reminder widget, combined with Siri = win

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Throwback Thursday… On Sunday! | LAS 431

chris — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:06:54 +0000

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Winning over at LA

Following Up On Our Reviews

OwnCloud
Mint 18
Android TV box update Re: Android TV showdown : LinuxActionShow
Hue Lights poinck’s Script and Hue Tap Switch
Our current thoughts on remote desktop on Linux:

@ChrisLAS Hi, I'm interested in a remote desktop/terminal server review. Like thinlinc, x2go,ltsp etc. What's your take on these OSS. Thanks

— Sandro (@MoSandro) August 14, 2016

Remotely Helpful | LAS 425
OSS Sync vs Dropbox

@ChrisLAS given how much you use proprietary Dropbox, interested to hear your thoughts on privacy and security, – the fine line of balance.!

— Broken Canoe (@BrokenCanoe) August 14, 2016

Apollo Notebook Follow Up
Apollo: Macbook Killer | LAS 406
What is / Where is the Mumble room you guys name drop all the time?

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Runs Linux

Black Hole Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets

Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or block devices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.

Spotlight

CumulusClips | Free Video CMS, Video Sharing Script, Video Sharing Software, YouTube Clone

CumulusClips is a video sharing script that allows you to start your own video website. It’s free and easy to use. You can build a YouTube clone where users can upload videos, rate videos, comment on videos, and much more.

— NEWS —

Google Is Developing A New Open Source OS Named “Fuchsia”

Codenamed Fuchsia, one can spot the new platform existing in Google’s Git repositories. However, at the moment, the repository doesn’t include any source code. This project was originally spotted on Hacker News.

If you go ahead and dig a little deeper, you’ll come across a line on Google’s Git repo that reads — “Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)”.

Upon further digging the GitHub repository, we came to know that Magenta is the new kernel that powers the Fushia OS. The kernel is designed to interact with the OS via object handles. The documentation from the same calls it an operating system targeting the modern phones and PCs.

Google is developing an OS called “Fuchsia,” runs on All the Things

Lithuanian police switched to LibreOffice

The police force in Lithuania have switched to using LibreOffice. This free and open source suite of office productivity tools is implemented on over 8000 workstations. The police has started to test the use of workstations running Ubuntu Linux.

Linux malware? That’ll never happen. Ok, just this once then

The good news is that while the Trojan targets Linux systems, it doesn’t rely on a Linux flaw to run.

Simplenote Now Open Source

we are announcing today that all of the official Simplenote client apps are now Open Source Software under the GPLv2 license. In addition to the previously open sourced Electron app, you’ll now find the source code for the iOS, Android, and macOS applications on our GitHub page.

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Call Box

Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background

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Sorry, I don’t do Windows | LINUX Unplugged 127

chris — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:07:48 +0000

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We react to Remix OS and give it a go on a few of our machines, discuss the surprise feature in KDE 5.6 & chat with some of the folks behind SCALE 14x.

Plus how to tell family and friends you’re not the Geek Squad, we get our filesystem geek on & using tech support opportunities to be an open source ambassador.

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Snapcraft 1.0 Ubuntu Snappy Creator Tool Officially Released

Canonical’s Snappy team had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the Snapcraft 1.0 Snappy creator tool for Ubuntu Linux.

KDE Plasma 5.6 to Feature Unity Launcher Support, Media Controls in Task Manager

Let’s start with the Uni__ty Launcher support, as it would appear that KDE Plasma 5.6 will borrow the Unity API from Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux operating system to implement support for app notifications in the Task Manager. For example, the Chromium web browser will display the download progress.

Why do you think btrfs is better than zfs for home use

In ep 399 you talk about how ZFS is more designed for enterprise. While btrfs is more suited for home use. But you never really said why you think that, could you try to explain why you think this?

Semi-Official SCaLE 14x Jupiter Broadcasting thread

Register![1] and use the coupon code LAS40 for a 40% discount; thanks /u/irabinovitch [2] !

SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

UbuCon portal

On the night before the event we will meet at around 19:00 for an informal gathering to get to know each other. Details to be added soon!

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Ilan Rabinovitch and Gareth J. Greenaway on what’s new for SCALE14x

We’re always looking for help! If you would like to volunteer for one of these SCALE committees, please email the committee chair.

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What’s Remix OS for PC? Remix OS for PC is built on the Android-x86

This is an alpha version intended for developers and early adopters who don’t mind a bug or two.

Android was designed for touchscreens and as there isn’t a touchscreen on most PCs, we want you to be aware that apps may perform differently. We’re asking for developers and testers to help us optimize Remix OS for Android PCs.
Join our Google Group for further discussion or give us your feedback here.We read all your messages and feedback but will not be replying to most due the volume of the feedback.

Remix OS—a multitasking, windowed Android OS—can now run on your PC

We tried Remix OS at the end of a recent article that looked at Android on the desktop. The OS definitely proved nicer than vanilla Android with a mouse and keyboard, but just like with Android tablets, the biggest software weakness is app support for the new environment. Remix actually comes out a little better here, since if you get stuck with a phone app, you can usually just shrink it down to a phone-sized window.

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The Open Pivot | CR 152

chris — Mon, 04 May 2015 13:44:59 +0000

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Mike and Chris reflect on Microsoft’s Build 2015 conference & discuss the undeniable shift to open industry wide. Mike also announces his new business with a focus on open source.

Plus we discuss Visual Studio Code a bit, bad app ports, new ways for developers to make money & more!

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Build 2015 Objective-C, Android apps, continuity, Visual Studio Code for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Microsoft hopes to court iOS apps to Windows 10 with Objective-C support
Microsoft’s new Code editor is built on Google’s Chromium | Ars Technica

What Microsoft didn’t say when announcing the new editor was how it built Visual Studio Code. In a move that might seem a little surprising, given the regular animosity between the two companies, the editor is built on top of Chromium, the open source version of Google’s Chrome browser.

The app is built using an open source desktop application framework developed by GitHub called Electron. Electron uses HTML5, JavaScript, and other Web technologies, using Chromium for presentation, and io.js (a fork of node.js) to tie it all together.

If you want Microsoft’s nifty Continuum for phones, you’ll have to upgrade | PCWorld

Continuum is a big deal for Windows Phone—both a technological advance and a means of escape from its lonely island of misfit apps. Microsoft’s plan to bring more Android and iOS apps to Windows 10 is another encouraging sign for the platform. It’s no fun for Windows Phone faithfuls to have to upgrade, but perhaps the right to brag about Continuum’s talents will be worth the expense.

Mike’s new company!
+ Microsoft Wants To Bring Azure To Your Data Center | TechCrunch

Azure Stack will bring Microsoft’s technologies for software-defined networking, pooling direct-attached storage, handling (and securing) virtual machines and monitoring this cloud to on-premise data centers. It’s essentially a new private cloud solution for IT pros and makes it easier for developers to scale their apps across their existing data centers and then boost to the cloud if they need more capacity on short notice.

Open source won.

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47 Freedom Hawks | Unfilter 136

chris — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:47:17 +0000

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Forty-seven Senate Republicans may have broken the law this week. We’ll look at the surprising move the made against the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton’s email scandal continues develop & we’ll look at the pressure she’s getting from top Democrats.

Plus a high note you won’t want to miss, an ISIS Update, cracking iPhones & much more!

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Tell Them to Pass the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act.
No Iran Nuclear Treaty Without Congressional Approval.

Hillary Clinton reveals she deleted 30,000 ‘personal’ emails

“Looking back, it would have been better if I’d simply used a second email account,” Clinton said during a press conference after her keynote address at the annual United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles meeting. “At the time, this didn’t seem like an issue.”

The press conference was Clinton’s attempt to calm a media firestorm stemming from a New York Times report that she did not use or even have a government email account while serving as President Obama‘s first Secretary of State and that her aides had not taken any measures to preserve four years’ worth of emails that were supposed to be archived for public review under federal record-keeping law.

Hillary Clinton Says ‘No’ to Independent Investigation of Her Family’s Home Email Server

But Clinton also refused to yield to calls for an independent investigator to examine the home server, which she said contains “personal communications from my husband and me, and I believe I have met all my responsibilities.

“And the server will remain private,” she said.

Prepare for Confidence-Shaking Cyber Attack: FBI’s Taddeo – YouTube

NY FBI Special Agent for Cyber, Special Operations Leo Taddeo discusses the increase in cyber security threats, how companies are combating cybercrime and the level of sophistication of data hacks.

US sending Humvees, radars, and drones to Ukraine’s front lines

The U.S. will provide more substantial arms and military equipment to Ukraine in the form of $75 million worth of armored Humvees, drones and counter-mortar radars. Much of it will help the Ukrainian military with situational awareness and targeting enemy artillery, but the list of goods does not include “lethal aid” that members of Congress and Ukraine supporters have asked President Barack Obama to authorize.

“This new assistance is part of our ongoing efforts to help sustain Ukraine’s defense and internal security operations and resist further aggression,” a senior administration official told reporters in an email. Missing from the announcement were Javelin portable anti-tank missiles requested by the Ukrainian military.

The announcement comes after months of pressure from Ukrainian officials and a recent push from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

“I think the administration has felt political pressure to do something…. This may well be a response to that political pressure,” Steven Pifer, Brookings senior fellow and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told Defense One. Pifer co-authored a report last month that is based on interviews with front line commanders in the Ukrainian military and argued that the U.S. should provide anti-tank and anti-battery weapons, but especially radars and unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, to detect enemy positions.

Putin reveals secrets of Russia’s Crimea takeover plot

Vladimir Putin has admitted for the first time that the plan to annex Crimea was ordered weeks before the referendum on self-determination.

Crimea was formally absorbed into Russia on 18 March, to international condemnation, after unidentified gunmen took over the peninsula.

Mr Putin said on TV he had ordered work on “returning Crimea” to begin at an all-night meeting on 22 February.

The meeting was called after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted.

Speaking last year, Mr Putin had said only that he took his final decision about Crimea after secret, undated opinion polls showed 80% of Crimeans favoured joining Russia.

The findings of these polls were borne out by the outcome of the referendum on 16 March, he told Russian state TV last April.

U.S.-backed Rebel Now ISIL’s Man in Libya

The leader of the al-Qaeda-linked rebel forces that brought down Moammar Gadhafi is now the Islamic State’s top man in Libya, according to various media reports, indicating a further unraveling of the Pyrrhic victory achieved by the U.S. and NATO air war on Libya in 2011.

Abdelhakim Belhadj, a Libyan known in the jihadi world as Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq, is the former head of the Libya Islamic Fighting Group and the Tripoli Military Council.

High-Note:

Big changes made to marijuana bill | Local News – KTUU.com Anchorage

Senate bill 30 is supposed to change the law to reflect a voter initiative legalizing marijuana which took effect last month.

Senate OKs PTSD as qualifying condition for medical marijuana

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Meet SELKS | Linux Action Show 351

chris — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:04:24 +0000

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The Co-creators of a Linux distribution that allows you to harness some of the most powerful open source security software join us to discuss bringing Enterprise grade security to the masses.

Plus building your own ideal Linux laptop, the Yolla Tablet surprise & more!

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Open Source | Stamus Networks

Stamus Networks believes in the innovative power and flexibility that Open Source Software posses. It also offers independence and great adaptability — critical when building security products you can trust. But taking from the community is not enough if you want more common good to emerge. This is why Stamus Networks makes its best to contribute back to the Open Source idea.

The main part of our contribution back to Open Source is our two projects SELKS, a live and installable ISO implementing a ready to use Suricata IDS/IPS, and Scirius, a web interface dedicated to Suricata ruleset management.

SELKS is both Live and installable Network Security Management ISO based on Debian implementing and focusing on a complete and ready to use Suricata IDS/IPS ecosystem with its own graphic rule manager.

From start to analysis of IDS/IPS and NSM events in 30 sec.

Interview

Peter & Eric co-founders of SELKS
Open Source | Stamus Networks

Stamus Networks believes in the innovative power and flexibility that Open Source Software posses. It also offers independence and great adaptability — critical when building security products you can trust. But taking from the community is not enough if you want more common good to emerge. This is why Stamus Networks makes its best to contribute back to the Open Source idea.

The main part of our contribution back to Open Source is our two projects SELKS, a live and installable ISO implementing a ready to use Suricata IDS/IPS, and Scirius, a web interface dedicated to Suricata ruleset management.

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Runs Linux

Scientist who are creating nanobots, Runs Linux

Sent in by Ionut

Meet Professor Brad Nelson, a pioneer in the field of nanorobotics who’s developing tiny robots to go places almost beyond our imagination.

Desktop App Pick

Virtual Machine Manager

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers).

Weekly Spotlight

Tails

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity,

Our Past Picks

These are the weekly picks provided by the Jupiter Broadcasting podcast, the Linux Action Show.

This site includes a separate picks lists for the “Runs Linux”, Desktop Apps, Spotlight Picks, Android Picks, and Distro Picks.

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Useable Specs FSF Laptop

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Libreboot X200 laptop. The RYF certification mark means that the product meets the FSF’s standards in regard to users’ freedom, control over the product, and privacy.

Libre Office for Android

The free app allows you to view Open Document files (.odt, .odf, etc.) and a number of alternative and proprietary file formats, including the ubiquitous .doc and .docx, on an Android smartphone or tablet. The app is available to download from the Play Store today.

Yolla Tablet Returns to Indiegogo

The Jolla Tablet, has returned to Indiegogo.com. After the successful first phase of our Indiegogo campaign in Nov-Dec last year, we’re now moved to the next phase, and continuing our campaign on Indiegogo at least until the end of February 2015.

Open Lunchbox Project

Open Lunchbox is the latest project attempting to do an open-source laptop design. Open Lunchbox is trying to do their laptop project in a modular, open hardware design.

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How Non-Devs Can Help Linux | LAS 350

chris — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 19:20:50 +0000

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What are the best options for non-coders and developers to contribute to their favorite open source project? We’ll break down some of the barriers we’ve faced & approaches we like to help out in a non-development capacity.

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Contribution to open source when your not a developer

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Problems we’ve faced trying to help

Who could use the money the most ie: Mozilla vs Tox
Abandoned IRC, unclear if anyone still “owning” the project.
Mixed ways of funding. I want to contribute, but each project has their own payment system, and way of handling it.

Non-Monetary ways to help

Advocation for software,
Documentation
Community outreach
Bug Triage, find dupes, discover missing information developers would need to fully troubleshoot.

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Samsung Smart Refrigerator

The Samsung 4-Door refrigerator with 8″ Wi-Fi Enabled LCD will allow you to browse the web, access apps and connect to other Samsung smart devices – opening up a world of interactive communication and entertainment.

Samsung’s new smart fridge mirrors your smart phone

Desktop App Pick

Gourmet Recipe Manager

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe-organizer available for Windows, Linux, and other Unix systems.

Weekly Spotlight

BeansBooks

Easily create invoices and purchase orders, pay bills and track sales tax. Import and automatically categorize bank transactions.

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WordPress, PHP Apps, Subject to Ghost glibc Attacks

“Less than 48 hours after the disclosure of the Ghost vulnerability in the GNU C library (glibc), researchers have uncovered that PHP applications, including the WordPress content management system, could be another weak spot and eventually in the crosshairs of attackers.

Ghost is a vulnerability in glibc that attackers can use against only a handful of applications right now to remotely run executable code and gain control of a Linux server. The vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow and affects all Linux systems, according to experts, and has been present in the glibc code since 2000. ???An example of where this could be a big issue is within WordPress itself: it uses a function named wp_http_validate_url() to validate every pingback???s post URL,??? wrote Sucuri research Marc-Alexandre Montpas in an advisory published Wednesday. ???And it does so by using gethostbyname(). So an attacker could leverage this vector to insert a malicious URL that would trigger a buffer overflow bug, server-side, potentially allowing him to gain privileges on the server.???”

LibreOffice gets a streamlined makeover, native alternatives for major Microsoft

The Document foundation announced availability of the latest version of LibreOffice on Thursday, which it says is the most beautiful version of the open source productivity suite yet. LibreOffice 4.4 also fixes some compatibility issues with files that are saved in Microsoft’s OOXML formats.

Official Google Drive Linux Client Screenshots Leaked

The screenshots above are bundled with the official Google Drive Mac client and they first appeared with version 1.18.7821.2489 (I checked the previous version and some random old versions and none contained these screenshots), released on October 30, 2014, which isn’t long ago and it most probably means that Google is testing Drive for Linux internally. So we might actually see an official release pretty soon.

Bill Gates Inadvertently Shows Off Ubuntu on His Facebook Page

The Internet is abuzz today after Bill Gates published an image on his Facebook page and a link towards his website with the text “15 years from now, most people in poor countries will be able to take classes online.” It’s a sound goal and it’s perfectly doable, but in the image posted on Facebook the operating system is Ubuntu.

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Predicting 2015 | LINUX Unplugged 73

chris — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:09:35 +0000

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Our bold predictions for Linux & open source over 2015. Thought provoking, sometimes a bit inspired or maybe just plain wrong, this edition of Unplugged promises to entertain.

Plus what goes into making a great & secure messaging system & more!

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Being good at going full Salesman on things comes with a certain responsibility if you care about your audience. Touting the security of Telegram should be avoided. By all means, use it if it fits your needs but please don’t portrait Telegram as something vetted and secure, that’s doing the audience a disservice.

Only half of the equation (the client) is open source and the protocol is full of weirdness and outright flaws. I believe their crypto contest charade was even featured and scoffed at on one of the network’s channels a while ago.

Its encryption score in the following table should be taken with a grain of salt since it’s vulnerable to ‘hostile server’ attacks, which are sadly just a subpoena away:

https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

Why isn’t Debian as popular as Ubuntu on LAS

I have been loving LAS for some time now, but it always bothers me that Debian (the mother of so many great Linux distros) isn’t discussed as a primary Linux distro option as Arch/OpenSUSE/Ubuntu and so on. What is the deal with that? // Thanks for a great year, keep up the good work LAS!

2015 VLUG Linux Predictions

HighDPI
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The COPPA Cabana | Tech Talk Today 101

chris — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:59:28 +0000

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Google is rebuilding some of its biggest products & services for kids under 13, Intel & Samsung feel the open source love. We’ll dig into major contributions both companies are making & their future commitments.

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Intel reinvents Stephen Hawking’s voice systems and will open source the software – IT News from V3.co.uk

Intel has reinvented the speech and text communication systems used by Professor Stephen Hawking, and plans to release the software as an open source project in 2015.

The Assistive Context Aware Toolkit has helped to double Hawking’s speech and text input times, and make it up to 10 times faster for him to open files, switch between applications and browse the web.

Hawking said at an event attended by V3 that the Intel developments are “life-changing” for him.

“The Intel team and I have been working for three years on upgrading my communication systems. My old system is more than 20 years old and I find it very difficult to communicative effectively and do the things I love to do.

“With the improvement I am now able to write much faster and I can continue to give lectures, write papers and books and speak with friends and family more easily.

“This new system is life-changing for me and I hope it will serve me well for the next 20 years.”

Intel began work on the project three years ago when Hawking contacted the firm’s founder, Gordon Moore, to ask for help in impro

One major improvement is a new system making it far easier for Hawking to access files, as ‎Lama Nachman, principal engineer and manager of the Anticipatory Computing Lab at Intel Labs, explained.

One aspect of the system that has not changed is the voice, which has become synonymous with Hawking. “He was actually adamant about us not changing his voice,” said Nachman.

The new software will be made open source next year, but Swiftkey said that its involvement in the project will not be included as the technology is too similar to its core product.

Google to launch kid-friendly versions of Chrome, YouTube, others in 2015 | Ars Technica

Google is currently working on versions of products like Chrome and YouTube tailored specifically for kids under the age of 13, according to a report from USA Today. Pavni Diwanji, a VP of engineering at Google, says that the new products are due at some point next year and that they are intended to help children “be more than just pure consumers of tech, but creators, too.”

It’s not clear how these under-13 products will work, but they may change the way they look or the kinds of data they present.

In the US, one of the biggest considerations when designing online products and services for kids is the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA. It dictates how information can be collected from and presented to kids under the age of 13—changes to the law effective in July of 2013 include multiple stipulations related to privacy policies, parental oversight, and security requirements for data collected from young children. Since the vast majority of Google’s revenue comes from advertising and the value of the company’s ads is tied to its trove of user data, COPPA compliance will obviously be important to users and Google alike (Yelp was fined $450,000 earlier this year for COPPA violations).

Dropbox eyes Google and Box with launch of Business API- The Inquirer

**DROPBOX HAS ANNOUNCED **an API for third parties wishing to develop and integrate apps to work alongside its business service.

The move is designed to appeal to users of proprietary office systems.

The API launched with 20 partner organisations including Microsoft and IBM.

It will allow Dropbox for Business apps to use some of the more advanced features not available on the free service, and will also integrate with existing enterprise security systems.

But given Dropbox’s colourful history with regards to safety, what does the company which Edward Snowden described as “hostile to privacy” do to win hearts and minds?

George O’Brien, product manager for Dropbox for Business, told The INQUIRER: “Dropbox for Business is a security first product.”

Stop laughing and nobody mention Condeleezza.

He added: “We encrypt data as it travels through the API. Only a Dropbox for Business system administrator can install a Dropbox for Business API app. We’re very aggressive about who has control over the API and who has access to it.

Samsung’s Open Source Group Is Growing, Hiring Developers – Slashdot

Almost two years ago, Samsung’s open source team was just one person: Linux and FOSS advocate Ibrahim Haddad, head of the open source group at Samsung Research America. The new Open Source Innovation Group at Samsung is now 40 people strong, including 30 developers, devoted full-time to working on upstream projects and shepherding open source development into the company. The group is hiring aggressively and plans to double the size of the group in the coming years. Their first targets are project maintainers and key contributors to 23 open source projects that are integral to Samsung’s products, including Linux, Gstreamer, FFmpeg, Blink, Webkit, EFL, and Wayland. They plan to eventually start hiring more junior open source developers as well. Just about every Samsung product, from phones and tablets to home appliances, uses open source software, said Guy Martin, senior open source strategist at Samsung. Martin also mentions the importance of funding: “You already see this in the Linux kernel, where most people who contribute are paid to contribute. And you’ll see that more and more.”

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Google Invades Your Nest | LUP 23

chris — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:50:18 +0000

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We follow up on some of the most innovative Linux powered devices at CES, and this discuss Google buying Nest Labs. Is the future of the “Internet of Things” locked down to proprietary devices running locked down software? And what are the ramifications for the home?

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The Closed Internet of Things

From the crockpot to your smoke detector, the famous “Internet of Things” is slowly, and half hazardly coming into reality. Unfortunately it’s dominated by sealed off devices you have no direct control over. As these devices fill our homes, are we taking something fundamental away from the homeowner, and from the open source community?

Google buys Nest for $3.2B — its key to the connected home | VentureBeat | Deals | by Devindra Hardawar

Google just announced that it\’s snapping up Nest, maker of smart thermostat and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion in cash. Nest has raised around $80 million from investors including Shasta Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Google Ventures.

Google purchases Nest for $3.2 billion | The Verge

It\’s not yet clear exactly how Google plans to use Nest, but the company obviously sees it as an important part of its future. A combination of Nest\’s home solutions coupled with Google\’s language recognition could give Google its strongest path yet into your home. \”Google will help us fully realize our vision of the conscious home and allow us to change the world faster than we ever could if we continued to go it alone,\” writes Fadell on the Nest blog. \”We\’ve had great momentum, but this is a rocket ship.\”

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License to Kill | CR 42

chris — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:01:28 +0000

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Mike and Chris contemplate how to gracefully kill a project, end a contract, or quit a job. Then they debate the merits of Google killing Reader, the challenges of Android, and reservations about open sourcing your code.

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Google Docs Alternative | LAS | s25e06

chris — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:25:11 +0000

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Google Docs has some powerful features, collaborative editing being chief among them. This week we’ll show you why Etherpad Lite is more than just multiplayer notepad.

Plus why Valve’s Gabe Newell thinks Apple might be a big threat, the major new feature landing in Ubuntu 13.04, and the tasty gift Google gave to some UK schools!

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The Open Google Docs Replacement:

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Up front: This is really focused on Google Docs’ collaborative features. As I have found these to be particularly a powerful competitive advantage of Google Docs. If you haven’t tried it, try it during your next meeting, or brainstorming session, or maybe just grocery shop list making from separate rooms. TRY IT!

First launched in November 2008, the software was acquired by Google in December 2009 and released as open source later that month. Several services now use the Etherpad software, including PiratePad, Telecomix Pad, Framapad, Mozilla Pad (MoPad), PrimaryPad, TypeWith.me, Sync.in, TitanPad and iEtherPad.com. Further development is coordinated by the Etherpad Foundation.

Etherpad Lite is an almost complete rewrite of the original Etherpad software, based on different technical foundations and written by different authors. While the original Etherpad is written in Scala and has quite big system requirements, Etherpad Lite is written in server-side JavaScript using node.js. The original realtime synchronization library (called Easysync) remains the same.

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