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Amazon to acquire Ring video doorbell maker, cracking open the door in home security market — The surprise acquisition marks the latest move by the Seattle-based tech giant into the smart home technology market. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Reuters puts the deal at more than $1 billion.
Watch: “Shark Tank” judges reject Jamie Siminoff’s idea for Ring that Amazon just spent $1 billion — In his Shark Tank pitch, Siminoff said he was seeking a $700,000 investment for a 10% stake in his then-struggling startup—called DoorBot at the time—which he thought was worth $7 million.
Hangouts Chat, Google’s Slack competitor, comes out of beta — For all intents and purposes, Hangouts Chat is Google’s take on Slack, Microsoft Teams and similar projects
Spotify Files for Public Offering, to Be Listed As ‘SPOT’ — Spotify officially filed for a public offering with the Security and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The music service intends to trade under the “SPOT” symbol at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
‘Success’ on YouTube Still Means a Life of Poverty — In fact, 96.5 percent of all of those trying to become YouTubers won’t make enough money off of advertising to crack the U.S. poverty line * Drones for Space Operations by Gateway Foundation — Kickstarter — Our primary mission is to develop drones to be used at the International Space Station to retrieve objects that drift away during spacewalks and repair activities by astronauts.

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Owning Your Communications | Ask Noah 34

chris — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 20:30:28 +0000

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Mike the Botter | CR 266

chris — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:02:16 +0000

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Starbucks Should Really Open their API

Starbucks: A Javascript interface to the (private) Starbucks ordering API

Coder Listener Looking for Work

State of Dev Ecosystem 2017

Google Analytics is used to track users.

Google Analytics is used on the about:addons site while browsing not installed AddOns.

Firefox tracks users with Google Analytics in the add-on settings | Hacker News

My life the last 3 years…

Open a Tube

Chat systemshttps://t.co/7Yro5UE3z0 pic.twitter.com/nXdx5DKX0j

— Sameroom HQ (@sameroomhq) March 13, 2017

Pick one, connect the rest!

Amazon may give app developers access to Alexa audio recordings – The Verge

The change would be aimed at enticing developers to continue investing in Alexa as a voice assistant platform, by giving those app makers more data that could help improve their software over time. Amazon’s goal, according to The Information, is to stay competitive with more recent entrants in the smart speaker market, like Apple and Google.

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Home Sweet Gnome | LINUX Unplugged 192

chris — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:28:52 +0000

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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.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

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.”

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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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Agile Scapegoat | CR 218

chris — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:43:20 +0000

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217 Coding Challenge

Hoopla

Leaving Mycroft

I'm sorry to share the news that I'm leaving Mycroft. I've written a blog post detailing my departure. https://t.co/I4lNW10kSX

— Ryan Sipes (@ryanleesipes) August 15, 2016

Organizations can learn from Apple’s bug bounty approach

The #apple bug bounty program is a big shift their previous position of "file a Radar and go to Hell." @ChrisLAS #programming #mac #iOS

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) August 12, 2016

Apple Bug Bounty: Exodus Intel Pays More Than Double for iPhone Hacks

Slack-pocalypse Now – dominickm.com

Slack is reducing my productivity and is almost certainly having a material negative effect on my day to day performance as well as my job enjoyment. Things started so well with Slack and I and I still love the vision of reducing email but something’s change, something’s been twisted….

Does virtual presence lead to burnout?

Dat Scope Creep

I am all fired up for today's show @ChrisLAS It's going to be all about that scope creeping killer, the client

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) August 8, 2016

Facebook Investor Wants Flying Cars, Not 140 Characters

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Botpocalypse Now | CR 217

chris — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:24:32 +0000

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Special guest Ryan Sipes from Mycroft joins us to discuss his ambitious projects & fulfilling the mission of an open source project.

Plus our thoughts on the impending Bot revolution, the “Internet of APIs” it all depends on & the massive shift that bots could cause in the industry.

We start it all off with a new Coding Challenge!

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216 Coding Challenge

Meet Mycroft

The Adapt Intent Parser is an open source software library for converting natural language into machine readable data structures. Adapt is lightweight and streamlined and is designed to run on devices with limited computing resources. Adapt takes in natural language and outputs a data structure that includes the intent, a match probability, a tagged list of entities. The software was developed at Mycroft AI by a team led by Sean Fitzgerald, formerly one of the developers of both Siri and Amazon Echo.

Mycroft Core

Mycroft Core is the primary module that makes up the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform. Mycroft makes use of the Adapt Intent Parser, Speech-to-Text software, and Text-to-Speech. The idea behind the platform is to be able to voice enable any device and turn it into a smart personal assistant, able to perform a variety of tasks. Mycroft is often used to refer to the hardware product produced by Mycroft AI, Inc. – so to avoid confusion, the software stack is often referred to as “Mycroft Core”.

Mimic by Mycroft and VocaliD

Mimic is a fast, lightweight Text-to-speech engine developed by Mycroft A.I. and VocaliD, based on Carnegie Mellon University’s FLITE software. Mimic takes in text and reads it out loud to create a high quality voice. Mimic’s low-latency, small resource footprint, and good quality voices set it apart from other open source text-to-speech projects.

OpenSTT | An Open Source Speech-To-Text Project

The OpenSTT project is aimed at creating an open source speech-to-text model that can be used by individuals and company to allow for high accuracy, low-latency conversion of speech into text.

Currently there are no open source speech-to-text models available, instead this technology is locked deep within large companies either tied to only their own proprietary products and services or behind expensive APIs that, in many cases, don’t respect user privacy.

OpenSTT is being led by members of the Mycroft A.I. team as they strive to create a powerful voice interface and artificial intelligence platform. Our goal is to make this technology available to as many people as possible. We do this by leading development of open source projects, OpenSTT is one of these initiatives.

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One NAT to Rule Them | LINUX Unplugged 153

chris — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:33:48 +0000

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Chris discovers he’s being snooped on by his ISP, we discuss some Linux friendly solutions solve the situation. Is Linux Mint 18 really the best Linux distro every? Or should Ubuntu 16.04 be getting more of the credit?

Plus our chat with a Matrix.org developer, Solus goes rolling, Unity on Windows & building a long-term financially sustainable open source product.

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Linux Mint 18: The best desktop — period | ZDNet

I’ve been using Linux desktops since the leading desktop front-end was Bash. Things have changed in those 25 years. Today, the best Linux desktop is the latest version of Linux Mint: Linux Mint 18 Sarah with the Cinnamon 3.0 interface.

Linux Mint 18 reviews roundup | InfoWorld

Latest Vivaldi Browser Snapshot Improves Tab Hibernation on GNU/Linux Distros

“Good news for Linux users! You can now hibernate tabs while the browser is running,” said Magnus Peter Langeland. “Choose Hibernate Tab to hibernate the selected tab or Hibernate Background Tabs to hibernate all other tabs in the window. Oh and remember, you cannot hibernate a tab while you are viewing its contents.”

ICSI Netalyzr — Command-line Client

Debug your Internet.

Any good Linux friendly VPN providers?

3G and 4G LTE Cell Coverage Map – OpenSignal

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You Can Now Run Ubuntu Linux with the Unity Desktop on Top of Windows 10 – Updated

After doing all sorts of tricks in the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CSSM) GUI configuration tool for Compiz, and using a combination of VcXsrv and XLaunch, two applications for configuring and setting up a Windows X server, he has managed to run Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS with the Unity desktop environment on top of Windows 10.

Linux’s AV Stack Adding Awesome Features

Beamforming in PulseAudio | Arun Raghavan

Beamforming as a concept is used in various aspects of signal processing including radio waves, but I’m going to be talking about it only as applied to audio. The basic idea is that if you have a number of microphones (a mic array) in some known arrangement, it is possible to “point” or steer the array in a particular direction, so sounds coming from that direction are made louder, while sounds from other directions are rendered softer (attenuated).

Practically speaking, it should be easy to see the value of this on a laptop, for example, where you might want to focus a mic array to point in front of the laptop, where the user probably is, and suppress sounds that might be coming from other locations. You can see an example of this in the webcam below. Notice the grilles on either side of the camera — there is a microphone behind each of these.

Introducing GStreamer VR Plug-ins and SPHVR – Lubosz’s Blog

Pronounced sphere, SPHVR is a python video player using gst-plugins-vr. Currently it is capable of opening a URL of an equirectangular mapped spherical video.

CopperheadOS – Secure Android

CopperheadOS currently supports the Nexus 5, Nexus 9, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.

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Ting – mobile that makes sense

Nylas N1

Nylas Pro

But right now, Nylas N1 is also free as in free beer, and that’s a problem. Due to its popularity, the API traffic for N1 users has dramatically eclipsed the combined volume of all other apps built on the Nylas Cloud APIs. We already sync several hundred terabytes of data for our users and are adding tens of thousands of new users each month. It’s costing us real dollars.

Does anyone here use Nylas?

Dekko Is Shaping Up Nicely for Desktop Convergence

Dekko developer Dan Chapman shared some images of a new, converged Dekko for the desktop on Google+, under the title “An all new Dekko is coming!”.

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What’s Going on with Matrix.org?

Ruma – A Matrix homeserver written in Rust.

Matrix is an open specification for an online communication protocol. It includes all the features you’d expect from a modern chat platform including instant messaging, group chats, audio and video calls, searchable message history, synchronization across all your devices, and end-to-end encryption. Matrix is federated, so no single company controls the system or your data. You can use an existing server you trust or run your own, and the servers synchronize messages seamlessly. Learn more in the Introduction to Matrix.

Say Hello To Vector! — Medium

This week, we’re officially launching Vector, a forward-looking open source collaboration app, and the very first production-ready application built on top of the Matrix open standard. In fact Vector Web has been around for a bit, growing and being polished with the help of a passionate community of pioneers and they’ve done a great job of supporting us with useful feedback! And now the mobile apps are out! So today Vector is ready to be shared more widely as a proper beta.

Interview with Matrix Dev

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Bot Your Life | CR 200

chris — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 08:23:09 +0000

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Has the whole world gotten hot for bots? Slack’s recent $3.8B & Microsoft’s new Bot SDK suggests there is serious interest there. Mike and Chris share their thoughts & ask what makes a bot…. A bot?

Plus the surprising math that makes us shed a tear, feedback & more!

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Hoopla

Mobile Games Still Dominated By VIPs: New Report Finds Over 48% Of All In-Game Revenues Are Generated By Only 0.19% of Players | Business Wire

Slack’s New Funding Garners Nearly $4B Post-Money Valuation | Re/code

The round values Slack at about $3.8 billion

I am so hot on this: https://t.co/T28OX7smSZ #Microsoft nice job @MSDN

cc @Xaccary @ChrisLAS #ai #bots

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) April 2, 2016

Bot Framework

Build and connect intelligent bots to interact with your users naturally wherever they are, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services.

Microsoft Tay Lasts < 1 Day

Feedback

Mike Is Doing it Wrong re Swift

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Rocket Chat & Mattermost Cut the Slack | LAS 403

chris — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 18:42:54 +0000

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Teams collaborating over Slack is the new hot trend sweeping many open source projects, communities & others. We compare Rocket.Chat, Mattermost & Slack. See which best protects your privacy & makes it easier than ever to work with a group of people. Don’t hate, collaborate with this week’s episode!

Plus all the details on the announced Ubuntu Tablet, the Keybase filesystem & more!

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Mattermost vs RocketChat

RocketChat vs Mattermost vs Let’s Chat Stackup | StackShare

Setup

RocketChat Using their Offical Docker Image

For more information about this image and its history, please see the relevant manifest file (library/rocket.chat). This image is updated via pull requests to the docker-library/official-images GitHub repo.

Production Install on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS — Mattermost 1.3 documentation

Mattermost suggest you install on the OS for production use cases, and Docker for test/dev

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Linux Solves Rubics Cube

The fastest time for a human to solve a Rubik’s cube is 4.9 seconds. This robot can do it in 1.019 seconds.

Software engineers Jay Flatland and Paul Rose built this piece of kit, which uses four webcams to determine the state of the jumbled cube. The information is then fed into a computer, using the Kociemba Rubik’s cube-solving algorithm to work out a set of moves to solve the puzzle. A set of small motors mounted in a 3D-printed frame then swivel the, presumably extremely well-oiled, Rubik’s cube.

The previous quickest time for a robot to solve the cube is 2.39 seconds, so it looks like this could be a record breaker; however, they’re still waiting for official verification from Guinness World Records.

Pretty impressive. Although some super slow-motion footage wouldn’t go amiss.

Desktop App Pick

Wallpaper Timer

Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer for Linux

Hey, help me test the new kid in town – Variety Slideshow!

Variety is packed with great features, yet slim and easy to use. It can use local images or automatically download wallpapers from lots of online sources, allows you to rotate them on a regular interval, and provides easy ways to separate the great images from the junk. Variety can also display wise and funny quotations or a nice digital clock on the desktop.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install variety

Weekly Spotlight

Stikked: An advanced and beautiful pastebin written in PHP

Stikked is an Open-Source PHP Pastebin, with the aim of keeping a simple and easy to use user interface.

Stikked allows you to easily share code with anyone you wish. Based on the original Stikked with lots of bugfixes and improvements.

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Everything You Need to Know About The Ubuntu Tablet

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The ‘BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition’ (to give the model its full name) is a high-resolution 10-inch tablet —and then some.

Ubuntu’s first tablet doubles as a desktop, goes on sale in Q2

Introducing the Keybase filesystem

Every file you write in there is signed. There’s no manual signing process, no taring or gzipping, no detached sigs. Instead, everything in this folder appears as plaintext files on everyone’s computers. You can even open /keybase/public/yourname in your Finder or Explorer and drag things in.

Why The Internet of Things and the Cloud Should Break Up

For IoT developers, the cloud is like beer in a college dorm: a cold one is around every corner you turn and … beer just becomes a constant of academic life.

XCOM 2 System Requirements

Linux System Requirements

RECOMMENDED:

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit or Steam OS
Processor: Intel i3-3225 3.3ghz
RAM: 8GB
Graphics: 2GB NVIDIA 960

NOTE: AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at time of release.

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@ChrisLAS, It’s Lamda ([lam-duh] ), not “la bam da” and it’s pretty cool, Amazon’s take on serverless architecture!

Call Box

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

Were you around for today’s (10 January 2016) live show? If not, you should seriously consider taking some time with us on Sunday and watch the live show. Not only will you get more content, but you’ll be able to interact with Chris and Noah.
One of the things that came up today was Chris talking about his background in today’s episode.