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Today we officially open-sourced the specs for Surround 360, our high-quality 3D-360 hardware and software video capture system. The open source project includes the hardware camera design and software stitching code that makes end-to-end 3D-360 video capture possible in one system — from shooting to video processing.

We believe making the camera design and stitching code freely available on GitHub will accelerate the growth of the 3D-360 ecosystem — developers will be able to leverage the code, and content creators can use the camera in their productions. Anyone will be able to contribute to, build on top of, improve, or distribute the camera based on these specs.

The fall of Open Source

The moment that Open Source becomes primarily about “my time” is the moment that Open Source is no longer a movement. It is no longer an ideology. It is no longer about fairness, freedom, equality, rights, or the greater good.

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ArchStrike Ethical Hacking Linux Operating System Gets Its First ISO Builds

_The ArchStrike 20__16.07.21__ISOs are __available for download today, distributed for 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (i686) hardware architectures, and are the first of their kind,_

OpenBSD 6.0 tightens security by losing Linux compatibility

ost significant among the latest security-related changes for OpenBSD is the removal of Linux emulation support. Prior versions of OpenBSD made it possible to run Linux applications via a compatibility layer, but the release notes for OpenBSD 6.0 indicate the Linux subsystem was removed as a “security improvement.”

DRM Shame and New Rig Troubles | Rover Log 16

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Tales from the Sprint

GNOME Software 3.22 Will Support Installation of Snaps, Flatpak Repository Files

it looks like GNOME Software now supports installation of Flatpak repository files in the .flatpakrepo format, launching of apps using the appstream:// URL, as well as installation of universal binary apps as Snaps.

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KeePass Password Manager is getting a code audit – gHacks Tech News

In light of KeePass and Apache Web server getting an audit, we ask our virtual LUG which projects they’d audit if given the means.

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Unspecified Video Error | LAS 427

chris — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 20:35:13 +0000

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This week we share a big project that blew up in our face, the technical speed bumps we faced & the ultimate goal to accomplish something a Mac could never do.

Plus the big snap sprint that might just push the format over the edge, a quick look at Korora 24 & more!

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Desktop App Pick

EncryptPad

EncryptPad is an application for viewing and editing symmetrically encrypted text. It also provides a tool for encrypting and decrypting binary files on disk. The application offers effective measures for protecting information with simple and convenient graphical and command line interface. The editor uses most widely chosen quality file format OpenPGP RFC 4880. Unlike other OpenPGP software which main purpose is asymmetric encryption, the primary focus of EncryptPad is symmetric encryption.

Spotlight

Simple Docker UI

Simple Docker UI is an unofficial developer tool for monitoring and managing Docker containers.

Main features:

Garbage collection for unused images, Keeping only the once used by a container.
Garbage collection for unused containers. Removing containers that haven’t been in use for the last few days.
Remove Images or containers
Support for Docker Swarm
Virtual terminal
Search & pull images from the Docker Hub
Start/stop/delete containers
Manage Container Volumes and Environment
List of running containers and containers history.
See Docker events.

This app uses Docker Remote API.

Thanks to: PCFreak Blog on Twitter: “@ChrisLAS Found a perfect working Docker GUI Chrome/Chromium Addon. Works perfect! https://t.co/VUrS7xmdYx #docker https://t.co/spZIkv4c4P”

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So I might have gone overboard with $1 Ting SIMs

Snap Sprint A Big Success

Snapcraft Account Google+ Lots of Info

Project Attendance

AppSteam
Arch Linux
Blue Systems
Debian
elementary
Fedora
KDE
MATE
openSUSE (OpenSUSE OBS can build snaps)
openWRT
Ubuntu
Frank Karlitschek from nextcloud met w/folks RE: NextCloud snap

Using snap with confinement on Arch Linux

So this week I worked in order to port the apparmor patches to the linux-lts kernel so I create some AUR package in order to have confinement working.
I also had to make upstream fix some weird bugs, eventually it was a complete success and confinement works perfectly.

Fedora about to get Snapd confinement?

Last day of the Snappy Sprint and the meta topic (in the track I’m following) is the review and continuation of the community outreach. We’ve heard more from KDE about their roadmap for snaps, snapd improvements for Fedora, integrating community snaps into the +Snapcraft CI to broaden the automated testing, dogfooding snaps and Snappy Schwaag!

The Snappy Sprint in Heidelberg came to a close yesterday. Here are my thoughts…

Snaps and Fedora – devel – Fedora List Archives

I’ve left the Snappy Sprint with a clear understanding of the road ahead, an enthusiasm and commitment to be a part of the snap journey, and most importantly, some great new friendships. Keep your ear to the ground about snaps, there is certainly big news to follow in the not too distant future…

S09E21 – Snapper Biscuit | Ubuntu Podcast

One of the key features worked on this week was Content Sharing. This is delivered via the Content Interface and is the mechanism by which “shared library” or runtime snaps are possible.

16.04.1 Released

In addition to the bugs listed below, this update includes all security updates from the Ubuntu Security Notice list affecting Ubuntu 16.04 LTS that were released up to and including July 19, 2016.

Bug #1576726 “[SRU] network-manager 1.2.0”

Microsoft given 3 months to fix Windows 10 security and privacy

The National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has given Microsoft 3 months to get its act together and to get compliant with the French Data Protection Act.

Korora 24 (Sheldon) is Now Available

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Pragmatic Idealism | LINUX Unplugged 154

chris — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:19:16 +0000

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Do you use desktop Linux for idealistic or practical reasons? We ask our virtual LUG & share our stories. Plus Chris’s new VPN solution & the hosted vs self hosted debate with a new twist.

Plus Canonical’s smart move to push Snap packages forward, tons of updates from our favorite projects & the disturbing news about Chrome.

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$49 DIY VR Game Console

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Microsoft blocks Linux installations

Microsoft has closed a backdoor left open in Windows RT even though the OS is pretty much dead in the water as Vole can’t be bothered with it any more.

Linux demo of the System Shock remake is now available on GOG

System Shock by Nightdive Studios — Kickstarter

System Shock is a complete remake of the genre defining classic from 1994 built by a team of industry veterans.
Remember Citadel.

System Shock Demo on GOG.com

After two decades, Nightdive Studios is rebooting and re-imagining the original System Shock. We will keep the new game true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved while giving today’s gamers the modern look and feel expected from a AAA title.

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kernel-4.6.4-301.fc24 – Fedora Updates System

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4

For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-kernel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware update before installing the kernel.

You Can Now Use Netflix on Vivaldi and Other Chromium-Based Web Browsers

In other news, your #Chrome browsing data will soon be used for ad tailoring. Time to act surprised, I guess. pic.twitter.com/kd2sgaKtYy

— Philipp Sackl (@phlsa) July 16, 2016

How are they acquiring this browsing data? Is it one of the following?

People who sign into Chrome
People who use opt-out services, like:
“Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors”
“Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed into the address bar or the app launcher search box”
“Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly”
“Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google”
“Protect you and your device from dangerous sites”
“Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google”

Vivaldi’s Ruarí Ødegaard has managed to create a handy script that would allow you to watch Netflix movies on Vivaldi as well as any other Chromium-based web browser.

Fetches Chrome and extracts out Widevine so that it can be used by Vivaldi. Also works with other Chromium-based browsers, see guide below. · GitHub

Fetches Chrome and extracts out Widevine so that it can be used by Vivaldi. Also works with other Chromium-based browsers, see guide below.

The best Linux laptop: The 2016 Dell XPS 13

Make no mistake about it. The 2016 Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop is wonderful. It’s fast, its display is gorgeous, and, at less than three pounds, you can carry and code with it anywhere. But, oh, that price tag!

Hands-on with the Linux-ready Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition | Opensource.com

Canonical Announces Snappy Sprint Event in Germany to Shape Up Universal Snaps

Today, July 5, Canonical’s David Planella has informed Softpedia about an upcoming event that aims to gather together developers and contributors from various well-known projects to work on shaping up the universal Snaps.

Just finished the first cross distro session on Day 2 of the Snappy Sprint. Sitting in this room are representatives from Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, openSUSE, elementary and Ubuntu. All working together to make sure that Snappy is well integrated into the various distro CI systems and provides a consistent experience everywhere.

The Snappy Sprint community team dinner. These are the people, not from Ubunt…

The Snappy Sprint community team dinner. These are the people, not from Ubuntu, who’ve been invited to represent their distro or project. Around this table are AppStream, Arch Linux, Debian, elementary, Fedora, openWRT, openSUSE, KDE and (me behind the camera) MATE. And some +Ubuntu of course

GitHub – ubuntu/snappy-playpen: A place to test, learn creating snaps and share best practices.

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Chris’ VPN Follow Up

AirVPN – The air to breathe the real Internet

A VPN based on OpenVPN and operated by activists and hacktivists in defence of net neutrality, privacy and against censorship.

Would I finally surrender to Intuit and start using Quicken? Was a Google Docs spreadsheet enough to get me through? I experimented with GNU Cash for a bit and found it very powerful but somewhat difficult to use. A search for other open source tools randomly led me to ledger and my interest was peaked.

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A Bearded Thinkpad | LAS 422

chris — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 18:16:11 +0000

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We review the ThinkPad x260 with Linux & compare it to the XPS 13.

Then we discuss Snaps, AppImage, Flatpak & the Universal Package war that’s brewing, what the major downsides are & why we think this concept of universal Linux apps is not going away.

Plus our picks of the week, a laptop giveaway & more!

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ThinkPad x260

Intel 8260AC+BT 2×2 vPro
Sierra EM7455 WAN Adapter
SIM Card for WWAN 2
Accessories 2 NONE
X260 IGPU i7-6600U
Camera 720p HD Camera
AC Adapter and Power Cord 45W 2pin US
Intel Core i7-6600U MB
12.5 FHD IPS Non-Touch
Smart Card Reader
Hard drive 512GB SSD SATA3
Backlit KYB ENG
16GB DDR4 2133 SoDIMM
Battery 2 6cell 72Wh Rear
Battery 3cell 23.2Wh Front

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ASM IV Series Automatic Scrap Monitoring System, Runs Linux

The ASM IV radiation detection system is designed to monitor a variety of
vehicles and/or scan for undesirable sources of radiation commonly found
in scrap metal and reject them before hey can cause harm to people, property or product.

Desktop App Pick

Taskwarrior

Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line. It is flexible, fast, and unobtrusive. It does its job then gets out of your way.

tasknc is a ncurses wrapper for task warrior written in C. It aims to provide an interface like the excellent ncurses programs mutt and ncmpcpp.

TaskWhisperer – GNOME Shell Extensions

Taskwhisperer is a extension for TaskWarrior Application https://taskwarrior.org to manage todos.

Spotlight

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Nextcloud 9 Available, Enterprise Functionality to be Open Source

Well ahead of the early July promise, today Nextcloud makes available Nextcloud 9. With this release we also announce to release all enterprise functionality as open source. Building on top of the open source ownCloud core and adding functionality and fixes, this release provides a solid base for users to migrate to. All enterprise functionality users and customers need will be made available over the coming weeks, fully developed in the open and under the AGPL license.

Introducing the Nextcloud bug bounty program

We offer some of the highest bounties in the open source software industry, rewarding responsible disclosure with up to $5,000 for qualifying vulnerabilities!

We have partnered with the HackerOne platform because of its extraordinary popularity among IT security professionals. More than 3,000 hackers have reported over 24,000 bugs via the platform. Running a program on HackerOne allows us to quickly leverage the collective knowledge of a huge amount of these security experts.

Snaps vs AppImage vs Flatpak

What am I missing (as a user) regarding the excitement over all these competing new universal packaging standards?

App distribution for Linux just got way better

Ubuntu’s “snap” package format now works on a bunch of other popular Linux distros, including Arch, Debian, Fedora, and most of the Ubuntu flavors. It’s also coming to CentOS, Mint, OpenSUSE, and even OpenWrt, among others.

Ubuntu’s ‘Snap’ packages may be the future of software installation on every Linux PC

This is big news. The Linux community has seen a constant stream of projects attempting to provide an easy software installation system across Linux distributions for more than a decade. But Ubuntu’s Snap package format is the first one that looks like it has some serious traction.

Ubuntu Snappy-Based Package Format Aims to Bridge Linux Divide

According to Shuttleworth, the “stunning” and “surprising” emergence of snap as a universal package format was not even on his roadmap a few months ago. He said that when he told ISVs that Canonical was extending snap to classic Ubuntu, the response was overwhelming.

Shuttleworth conceded that there are other universal open source packaging solutions available, such as AppImage and the newer Flatpak, but argued that most lack the security and/or transactional nature of snap. “The snap mechanism has sophisticated capabilities in the way it delivers updated versions,” he said. “Snaps are perfectly transactional.”

Kirta Packager on Appimage/Flatpak/Snap

The old rpm/deb way of packaging is excellent for creating the base system. For software where having the latest version doesn’t matter that much for productivity. It’s a system that’s been used for about twenty years and served us reasonably well. But if you are developing software for end users that is regularly updated, where the latest version is important because it always has improvements that let the users do more work, it’s a problem. It’s a ghastly drag having to actually make the packages if you’re not part of a distribution, and having to make packages for several distributions is not feasible for a small team.

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Community Reaction

Flatpak is the new name for GNOME’s XDG-App initiative, though ‘…95% of the commits come from one Red Hat employee,’ Shuttleworth cheekily noted.

flatpack currently has 29 different committers, most of them not Red Hat employees; one is even a Debian developer.
Alexander Larsson has 78% of the commits, not 95%.
snappy has 5 only committers, all of them Canonical employees.
If you want people to help you with your snaps, don’t require them to sign Canonical’s CLA, open all snap components (including the server side) and stop spreading FUD in first place.

Chris’ note: The above has some mistakes. He is confusing Snappy and snapd. Snapd has 30 contributors.

Typical Linux Shit Show with Evil Cononical Behind it All, Time for WAR

What’s going on is that Canonical beat us to market in development… and now their marketing folks have beat us in marketing, too. We of course have zero plans to adopt Snappy in Fedora, and in fact multiple Fedora developers
are working on a competing solution, Flatpak

On Snappy and Flatpak: business as usual in the Canonical propaganda department

That’s not being constructive or working together with others. That’s being a bunch of asshats and trying to present the rest of the community with a fait accompli – and notably, a fait accompli in which Canonical holds all the strings (by means of the Canonical CLA controlling contributions to the client end, and the closed source, closed shop server end that is owned entirely by Canonical).

Flatpak doesn’t have sandboxing enabled by default

Currently Flatpak doesn’t have sandboxing enabled by default, since
substantial parts of the implementation of interfaces that allow the
applications to access resources outside the sandbox in a secure way
(“Portals”) are missing.

Sandbox · flatpak/flatpak Wiki · GitHub

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10 Year Old ThinkPad T43 Rocks Today’s Tasks

Lenovo T43 Laptop Intel Pentium M 1.73GHz 2GB RAM 80GB HDD
1.73 GHz
2GB RAM
80GB Hard Drive
DVD +/-RW Optical Drive

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Snaps are Go! | LINUX Unplugged 149

chris — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:40:40 +0000

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Canonical drops a bombshell by making snap packages available for nearly all Linux distributions, Nextcloud has some serious momentum, Samsung is rumored to drop Android in favor of Tizen across all devices & Wes kicks the tires of elementary OS’ new Beta of Loki.

Then we try out Snap packages & discuss needs to happen next to really make them take off as the standard universal Linux installer.

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Nextcloud 9 Available, Enterprise Functionality to be Open Source

Well ahead of the early July promise, today Nextcloud makes available Nextcloud 9. With this release we also announce to release all enterprise functionality as open source. Building on top of the open source ownCloud core and adding functionality and fixes, this release provides a solid base for users to migrate to. All enterprise functionality users and customers need will be made available over the coming weeks, fully developed in the open and under the AGPL license.

After a slow start, Dell turns up the dial on Steam Machines

Samsung Planning To Replace Android With Linux-based Tizen OS On All Smartphones

The largest Android smartphone manufacturer Samsung is considering a shift from Google’s Android mobile operating system. According to a report, the South Korean tech giant is planning to expand its homegrown Tizen OS to all of its devices in future.

The executive said that Samsung launched Samsung Z1 and Z3 in the Indian market to see Tizen’s performance. “Samsung’s Z-branded Tizen-powered phones are popular with Indian consumers. During the first quarter of this year, Samsung sold about 64 million phones there. This means that Tizen is proving its competitiveness,” said the executive.

Apart from smartphones and smartwatches, the Korean giant wants to use Tizen in the Internet of Things applications. The company is soon looking to expand Tizen’s reach to more household devices like cameras, televisions, smart refrigerators etc.

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Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple’s new file system

Using Apple File System

An open source implementation is not available at this time. Apple plans to document and publish the APFS volume format when Apple File System is released in 2017.

you can use MPV to make a Picture in Picture video like the one apple showed off yesterday

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Loki Beta is Here

This release brings tons of fixes and new features for both users and developers. Over 20 blueprints were implemented and over 800 issues closed. Time to break it all down and reveal what the future holds for the next version of elementary OS!

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Universal “snap” packages launch on multiple Linux distros

“We hope today’s announcement will be surprising because it’s not about Ubuntu,” Shuttleworth said in a press calls held earlier today.

Adios apt and yum? Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere | Ars Technica

Ubuntu’s “snappy” new way of packaging applications is no longer exclusive to Ubuntu. Canonical today is announcing that snapd, the tool that allows snap packages to be installed on Ubuntu, has been ported to other Linux distributions including Debian, Arch, Fedora, and Gentoo among others.

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