KDE Eco Sprint May 2022

A week ago I attended the KDE Eco Sprint in Berlin for some experiments around power consumption measurements and tools for that. It has been the first in-person KDE sprint for me since the start of the pandemic, and even happened to be in exactly the same place as the last pre-pandemic one I have been to.

Portmaster: GlassWire Alternative for Linux to Monitor Network

GlassWire is a popular network monitoring app (with no support for Linux) that helps you track data usage, unusual network activity, malicious access to the network, and more. I wish it supports Linux, but for now, it only works on Windows and Android. For Linux, we do not have a full-fledged GUI-based application that helps us monitor the network in Linux. However, I recently stumbled upon “Portmaster”, an open-source network monitor available for Linux and other platforms. Interestingly, it offers some of the same abilities as seen with Glasswire, with some extras. Note that it is not exactly a replacement for “GlassWire” but a potential alternative in the making.

today's howtos

• How to Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Video Conferencing Station - Make Tech Easier

  Post-lockdown, with working and schooling from home as a matter of routine, more people are turning toward video conferencing as a way to keep in touch and get things done. Tools like Google Meet, Skype and Zoom mean we can keep in touch with people outside the confines of our home, across cities, time zones, and even countries, making the world smaller and allowing for remote collaboration. If you’re looking for another great Raspberry Pi project, I urge you to try this one. This tutorial shows you how to turn your Raspberry PI into a video conferencing station.

• How To Install phpMyAdmin with Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - idroot

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install phpMyAdmin with Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as well as some extra required by phpMyAdmin

• How To Install GIMP on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install GIMP on AlmaLinux 9, as well as some extra required packages by GIMP

• How I automate plant care using Raspberry Pi and open source tools | Opensource.com

  Automation is a hot topic right now. In my day job as an SRE part of my remit is to automate as many repeating tasks as possible. But how many of us do that in our daily, not-work, lives? This year, I am focused on automating away the toil so that we can focus on the things that are important. Home Assistant has so many features and integrations, it can be overwhelming at times. And as I’ve mentioned in previous articles, I use it for many things, including monitoring plants.

• How to flush the DNS cache on Ubuntu Server | TechRepublic

  Sometimes a network connection doesn’t seem to function how we expect them to. And it doesn’t matter how much you troubleshoot the issue, the problem doesn’t go away. You’ve configured a static IP address, you know that configuration is solid and you can ping your gateway, but something is causing that Linux server from reaching the outside world in the manner you expect. One problem could be the DNS cache. DNS is a crucial aspect of networking for all machines, as it translates names to IP addresses. When something goes wrong with DNS, your machine might have trouble reaching the outside world. I have experienced, on a few occasions, a DNS cache to be the problem. When that happens, what do you do? You flush the DNS cache.

• How to install Minikube on Ubuntu 22.04 - NextGenTips

  Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your local machine. Kubernetes quickly set up a local Kubernetes cluster on Linux, Windows, and macOS. It is always advisable before diving into Kubernetes, you will need a minimal Kubernetes setup. Such a setup should spin up fast and integrate well with other tools. In his tutorial, we are going to learn how to install Minikube on Ubuntu 22.04. I am going to use Docker as a containerization platform. You can either VirtualBox, Podman, KVM, etc.

• How to install Podman on CentOS 9 Stream?

  Podman is a container engine compatible with the OCI Containers specification. Podman is part of Red Hat Linux, but it can also be installed on other distributions. As you can expect, Podman is open source, and we can install it on almost any Linux distribution without too much trouble. We could say that Docker is Podman’s main rival. And it is that Podman pretends, with its philosophy, to be a reliable alternative to Docker which is one of the most important container solutions out there.

• Use Tag Editor to tag resources across regions on AWS

• Backup MySQL Databases to Amazon S3 (Shell Script)

  A shell script is a collection of commands to perform a specific job. MySQL is a relational database management system widely used on Linux systems. Amazon S3 is a cloud storage device provided by Amazon Web Services. It’s a good practice for the system administrator to back up databases at regular intervals and store them in a remote location like Amazon S3.

GNU Chinese Translators Team - Happy 20th Birthday GNU CTT [Savannah]

20 Year ago, May the 28th, GNU Chinese Translators Team was registered at Savannah. I joined the project from Help GNU. My original intention was to support this project and maybe help myself to understand more of GNU. At that time it was only me who worked actively in translating the GNU web pages into Simplified Chinese. I had even had to approve my own translation which was not the correct approach. I really wanted some other people to join the project like the project creators, and I started to really understand that to be a volunteer in a Free Software project means to be persistent and stubborn. Gradually we had some newcomers joining the project, like hagb, hahawang, psiace, shankangke, shi, wind, etc. I am very excited whenever there is a newcomer because I know I am the person to let them know the project and I am the person to encourage them contributing their time and talent in this project.