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Story | Programming Leftovers | Roy Schestowitz | 25/06/2022 - 6:50pm | |
Story | Android Leftovers | Rianne Schestowitz | 25/06/2022 - 6:48pm | |
Story | PeaZip 8.7.0 | Rianne Schestowitz | 25/06/2022 - 6:38pm | |
Story | Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Dimension | Rianne Schestowitz | 25/06/2022 - 6:34pm | |
Story | Where to Find Free Schematic Drawing Software for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Other SBCs | Roy Schestowitz | 25/06/2022 - 6:21pm | |
Story | today's howtos | Roy Schestowitz | 25/06/2022 - 6:19pm | |
Story | This Tool Allows to Customize Ubuntu 22.04 GNOME Desktop with Advanced Settings | Roy Schestowitz | 25/06/2022 - 6:12pm | |
Story | This week in KDE: a mad bugfixing spree | Roy Schestowitz | 2 | 25/06/2022 - 2:58pm |
Story | Pitivi 2022.06 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Object Tracking and Blurring | Marius Nestor | 25/06/2022 - 2:17pm | |
Story | Best Linux laptops of 2022 | Roy Schestowitz | 25/06/2022 - 2:16pm |
today's howtos
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 04:38:15 PM Filed under
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How To Install VNC Server on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install a VNC server on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, is a connection system that allows you to use your keyboard and mouse to interact with a graphical desktop environment on a remote server. VNC is working on GUI (Graphical User Interface) environments, it transmits movements of your mouse and keyboard input over the network using the Remote Frame Buffer (RFB) protocol.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the VNC server on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.
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How to Install Krita on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - LinuxCapable
Krita is a free and open-source graphics editing program for digital painting, 2D animation, or general image manipulation. It runs on Windows, macOS (both Intel 64bit), Linux hits, Android & Chrome OS and is one of the more popular paint applications for users with digital photos.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install Krita on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish using the official PPA to install the command terminal’s digital editor.
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How to Install Wireshark on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - LinuxCapable
Wireshark is a powerful and popular network communication tool that allows viewing individual recorded data packets or sorting them according to specific content. This networking software lets you see what’s going on on your computer, and it helps take apart any encrypted messages being sent around it through analysis of their contents with ease!
Some of the most common tasks Wireshark is used for amongst software users include troubleshooting networks with performance issues and cybersecurity tracing connecting, viewing contents of suspect network transactions, and identifying bursts of network traffic for further analysis.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install WireShark on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish Linux using the command line terminal.
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How to Install Insomnia on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - LinuxCapable
Insomnia is a free, open-source, cross-platform desktop application that makes interacting with GraphQL servers more straightforward than ever before. It provides you with gRPC and REST endpoints, so there’s no need to worry about which one will work best for your needs! One of the most common uses is to test GraphQL APIs and HTTP-based RESTful APIs.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install Insomnia on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish. The tutorial will import the official repository and gpg key and update and remove software using the command line terminal.
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How to Install Google Chrome on MX Linux 21 - LinuxCapable
Google Chrome is the most used Internet Explorer software on the earth, with a recent update in 2021 that Chrome is currently the primary browser of more than 2.65 billion internet users; as you would know, installing MX Linux, like most Linux distributions, only install Mozilla Firefox. However, installing Google Chrome on Chrome is a straightforward task.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Google Chrome on MX Linux 21 release series in three alternative ways: stable, beta, or unstable versions, along with some essential command tips for users.
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How to Install the Latest Python Version on Debian 11 - OSNote
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum in 1991.
Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS. Python can be used to develop desktop GUI applications and CGI scripts for the web. Also, it’s used for server-side scripting for Apache HTTP Server sites. Python is most popular for its elegance and simplicity.
The major advantage of using Python is that there are very few keywords to learn and easy to understand. It’s a general-purpose programming language, which means it can be used in any field of software development with ease and adaptability.
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Linux Crash Course - The df and du Commands - Invidious
In the Linux Crash Course series, we'll go over one important foundational Linux topic each episode. This series includes tutorials, demonstrations, and more!
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Search for Available Linux Commands With apropos
So you used a certain command but cannot remember its exact name anymore?
You can use the ctrl+r keyboard shortcut in the terminal and reverse search through the shell history.
This could work if you had used the command on the same system. But what if you used it on some other Linux system or just came across it in some forum or website?
The good thing here is that there is a dedicated Linux command that lets you search with a string in the available commands on your system.
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How to Create a Data Backup and Recovery Strategy for Linux
As the saying goes "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail," you should always be prepared with a data backup to avoid losing valuable data on your Linux PC or server.
A backup strategy is a simple plan that prepares you to quickly and easily recover your important data in the shortest amount of time possible. Let's look at how you can devise a backup and recovery plan for Linux that best suits your needs.
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Install LAMP on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 with a single command - Linux Shout
To run some popular web applications we need a lightweight LAMP server installation, here we learn how to do that on Ubuntu 20.04 focal or 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish using a single command.
LAMP sounds may be familiar but it is not for our table, instead, it is an acronym composed of the initial letters of the software Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. This stack is quite common when it comes to creating a web server environment for installing popular PHP-based web applications such as WordPress. We can use LAMP to provide static or dynamic web content.
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Lorien: Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding tool for Linux
Submitted by trendoceangd on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 04:16:52 PM Filed under
Lorien is a simple and open-source infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding brainstorming tool written in the open-source Godot Game Engine.
This tool is not like a standard tool that works on bitmap images like Photoshop, Krita, and Gimp; instead, it saves your drawn brushes as a collection of points and renders them at the runtime (kind of SVG), making it more performance-focused.
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Android Leftovers
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 03:49:40 PM Filed under
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[Gadget Battle] Best Android Phones of 2022 | Tech Times
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Make New Pen Pals With These 5 Android Apps
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OnePlus 10 Pro vs Xiaomi 12 Pro: Which Android flagship is better?
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I welcome Samsung Galaxy's 'Dream Team' as Android phones need shaking up | T3
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Samsung Android 13 beta is right around the corner - 9to5Google
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Security Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 01:15:30 PM Filed under
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Closing the Cybersecurity Talent Gap With New Candidate Pools [Ed: Decades of back doors have meant security failures and a lack of people traintd to understand real security]
HR and security leaders must deploy new strategies to attract, hire, and retain cyber professionals while looking for ways to leverage the transferable skills and potential of untapped talent.
Demand for cybersecurity talent has reached an historic high: 63% of businesses say they have unfilled security positions, and 60% experienced difficulties retaining qualified cybersecurity professionals in 2021, according to the ISACA State of Cybersecurity 2022 report. And information security analyst jobs are expected to grow faster than the average for all other occupations.
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Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 217 released
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 217. This version includes the following changes:
* Update test fixtures for GNU readelf 2.38 (now in Debian unstable). * Be more specific about the minimum required version of readelf (ie. binutils) as it appears that this "patch" level version change resulted in a change of output, not the "minor" version. (Closes: #1013348) * Don't leak the (likely-temporary) pathname when comparing PDF documents.
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On the Subversion of NIST by the NSA
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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firejail, and request-tracker4), Fedora (ghex, golang-github-emicklei-restful, and openssl1.1), Oracle (postgresql), Scientific Linux (postgresql), Slackware (openssl), SUSE (salt and tor), and Ubuntu (apache2 and squid, squid3).
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Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2022
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering.
Debian project funding
Two [1, 2] projects are in the pipeline now. Tryton project is in a final phase. Gradle projects is fighting with technical difficulties.
In May, we put aside 2233 EUR to fund Debian projects.
We’re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article.
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Enterprise Linux Security Episode 33 - Patch your Confluence Server! - Invidious
Atlassian software is constantly under attack, and often the source of many lost weekends for IT admins. Recently, a brand-new vulnerability has been discovered - CVE-2022-26134. This particular vulnerability is remotely exploitable, and has been listed as critical. In this episode, Jay and Joao discuss this vulnerability, as well as some of the struggles around Atlassian software in general.
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GitHub Copilot and open source laundering
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 01:10:41 PM Filed under

We have seen an explosion in machine learning in the past decade, alongside an explosion in the popularity of free software. At the same time as FOSS has come to dominate software and found its place in almost all new software products, machine learning has increased dramatically in sophistication, facilitating more natural interactions between humans and computers. However, despite their parallel rise in computing, these two domains remain philosophically distant.
Though some audaciously-named companies might suggest otherwise, the machine learning space has enjoyed almost none of the freedoms forwarded by the free and open source software movement. Much of the actual code related to machine learning is publicly available, and there are many public access research papers available for anyone to read. However, the key to machine learning is access to a high-quality dataset and heaps of computing power to process that data, and these two resources are still kept under lock and key by almost all participants in the space.1
The essential barrier to entry for machine learning projects is overcoming these two problems, which are often very costly to secure. A high-quality, well tagged data set generally requires thousands of hours of labor to produce,2 a task which can potentially cost millions of dollars. Any approach which lowers this figure is thus very desirable, even if the cost is making ethical compromises. With Amazon, it takes the form of gig economy exploitation. With GitHub, it takes the form of disregarding the terms of free software licenses. In the process, they built a tool which facilitates the large-scale laundering of free software into non-free software by their customers, who GitHub offers plausible deniability through an inscrutable algorithm.
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digiKam 7.7 Photo Manager App Released with AVIF Image and Olympus OM-1 Support
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 12:40:09 PM Filed under


Coming about three and a half months after digiKam 7.6, the digiKam 7.7 release is here with support for the AOM AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) open, royalty-free video coding format, which is support for reading and writing in all bundles (AppImage, macOS, and Windows).
digiKam 7.7 also appears to add read/write support for the JPEG-XL image format in all supported bundles, though JPEG-XL support was initially introduced in the digiKam 7.6 release, but there were some issues in handling animated JPEG-XL files which are now fixed.
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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 12:22:46 PM Filed under
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How to Install Rancher on Ubuntu 22.04 (Step by Step)
In this guide, we explore how you can install and set up Rancher on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish).
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How to Install Draw.io on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - LinuxCapable
Draw.io is a free and open-source cross-platform drawing software that can easily create various types of diagrams such as flowcharts or UML drawings for organizational structure analysis!
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Draw.io on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish using the command line terminal using the default Ubuntu APT repository or installing the Flatpak third-party package manager to get a newer version binary.
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How to install Insomnia on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips
Insomnia is an open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, and gRPC. It’s a free cross-platform desktop application that takes the pain out of interacting with the designing HTTP-based APIs.
Insomnia is an API client that allows you to send requests outside your terminal without writing code. What you need to know in the API world are the requests and endpoints.
An Endpoint is a requestable URL. Think of it like this, you have a domain name and inside that domain name, there are a few routes pointers taking you to a certain page. For example, for nextgentips.com, we have an endpoint like category/monitoring.
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How to install Wireshark on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout
Use the default system repository to install Wireshark of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish or 20.04 focal fossa Linux distros.
The Sniffer Wireshark is available in all Linux distributions to easily install. Apart from it, the executable can be downloaded for Windows and Mac OS. This open-source application is very useful for network administrators. IT can record the traffic, where you can look at the contents of a data packet. The IP address of the target system is always logged. Wireshark, for example, can be used to expose notoriously programs using networks to perform some unusual tasks. You can also statistically evaluate the collected data traffic, for example by searching for particularly large packets or picking out addresses that are frequently accessed. A counter-test of who owns such an IP address may then put you on the trail of an attack.
Wireshark logs the network traffic of the interfaces of the system on which it is installed. It can therefore examine all incoming and outgoing connections of the respective computer. At the same time, it also receives all data packets that are sent to all systems in the network (broadcasts).
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Mekotronics R58 review - Part 1: Rockchip RK3588 mini PC unboxing & teardown
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 12:20:42 PM Filed under

Mekotronics R58 is a cost-optimized Rockchip RK3588 mini PC and SBC that sells for as little as $169 with 4GB and 32GB eMMC flash. The company has now sent me a model with 8GB RAM and 64GB flash for evaluation, and in the first part of the review, I’ll do an unboxing, check out the hardware more closely, and boot it up for a quick check.
There’s no retail package so to speak with just a white box and a sticker reading “MINI 8+64G” indicating the RAM and storage capacity for the device.
The mini PC ships with a 12V/3A power adapter and cord, an IR remote control with two AAA batteries, two WiFi antennas, an HDMI cable, and a USB-A to USB-C cable probably to flash the firmware if needed.
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I Made A Home Assistant Hub Using The Atomstack X20 Pro
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 12:17:18 PM Filed under


I’ve been slowly adding more and more devices and sensors to my home automation setup and it’s gotten to a stage where I now have a pretty significant number of apps to control them on my phone and iPad. I’ve also wanted to set up automations and routines between devices, but the interfacing across platforms and between brands isn’t usually available or is buggy at best.
If you’ve done anything home automation related on a Raspberry Pi then you’ve probably heard of Home Assistant. It a free and open-source software package that is designed to be a central hub or control system for all of your smart home devices and it’s got a pretty substantial online community working on integration. So, for example, it allows you to do things you wouldn’t normally be able to do like use an Ikea motion sensor to turn on a Philips hue light. Something that isn’t supported by either ecosystem individually.
So today I’m going to be installing Home Assistant onto a Raspberry Pi and I’m going to use a new laser cutter, the Atomstack X20 Pro, to laser cut a housing for it so that I can put it somewhere convenient in my house without it looking like a jumble of wires, dongles and PCBs.
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Raspberry Pi 'Slimshader' Adds Real-Time Visual Effects to Your Music
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 12:00:12 PM Filed under
Custom synth projects are nothing new in the Raspberry Pi community but this open-source shader PCB known as Slimshader is definitely a breath of fresh air in the DIY synth world! Created by maker and developer Erik Oostveen, this project aims to provide custom visual effects to music in real-time.
According to Oostveen, Slimshader is a GlslViewer-based, open-source PCB designed to display shader files with a Eurorack design. It offers both analog and HDMI output for video, allowing users to add visual effects to music in real-time. If you’re new to shaders, these are graphic simulations that respond to audio input.
The Slimshader PCB was designed from scratch by Oostveen and features a graphics design printed across the top. It has a series of inputs available that can be used to program custom visual effects. On the reverse is a Raspberry Pi which powers the project. Slimshader has been tested and confirmed to operate with a Raspberry Pi Zero W, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, and a Raspberry Pi 3B.
A custom image file was created just for the Slimshader which, can be downloaded from a Google Drive link available on Oostveen’s website. Shaders can be displayed and modulated using audio input, potentiometers, low-frequency oscillators, voltage control and even via MIDI. Oostveen recommends glslsandbox for finding shaders to experiment with created by various artists who share their work online.
Also: Mekotronics R58 review - Part 1: Rockchip RK3588 mini PC unboxing & teardown
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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 11:43:55 AM Filed under
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How To Install Magento on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - idroot
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Magento on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Magento is a highly popular open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP and managed by Adobe Inc. The platform is flexible and has a large variety of features to build an online store. Magento offers a community and a commercial version of its platform the community version is free and is designed primarily for individuals and or small businesses. On the other hand, the enterprise version is mainly aimed at medium to large businesses and more of an enterprise environment.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Magento open-source e-commerce platform on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.
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Ask ext4 encrypt and simplified boot menu
Whether on a flash-stick or internal drive, EasyOS is now laid out in the drive in the same way, in what we call a "frugal" install. Easy no longer knows what boot-manager or bootloader was used to boot it. In the case of the image file that you write to a flash-stick, the bootloader is now Limine, in a 7MiB fat12 esp partition, and Easy is in a 816MiB ext4 partition.
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How to use Linux shell command exit codes | Enable Sysadmin
When you execute a command in Linux, it generates a numeric return code. This happens whether you're running the command directly from the shell, from a script, or even from an Ansible playbook. You can use those return codes to handle the result of that command properly.
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How to Install PHP Composer on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - LinuxCapable
Composer is an application-level package manager for the PHP programming language similar to NPM for Node.Js or PIP for Python. Composer provides a standard format for managing all dependencies of PHP software and the required libraries by downloading all the required PHP packages for your project and managing them for you. It is used by most modern PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Drupal, Magento, and Symfony.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install Composer on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish using the command line terminal, along with some basic usage examples working with composer.
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How to Install Apache (HTTPD) on AlmaLinux 9 - LinuxCapable
Apache, also known as Apache HTTP server, has been one of the most widely used web server applications globally for the past few decades. It is a free, open-source web application software maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache provides some powerful features with dynamically loadable modules, easy integration with other software, and handling of static files, among other popular features.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Apache Web Server on AlmaLinux 9 using the command line terminal for desktop or server and basic configuration and creating a TLS/SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt.
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Submit a Goal and Help Shape the Future of KDE
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 11:34:43 AM Filed under
I'm super excited to finally announce the start of the submission process for the brand new KDE Goals!
KDE sets goals that help the community focus on important things that need to get done in collaboration across many teams. Over the years, the community has set goals to tackle issues with usability, made it easier for new contributors to start working on KDE projects, implemented new tech that will serve us for years to come, and much more.
KDE Goals set a direction for the community and help concentrate efforts in areas deemed important by the KDE community itself. Every couple of years, new goals are selected to reflect the communities current priorities.
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Krita 5.1 Promises JPEG-XL Support, Improved Support for WebP and Photoshop Files
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 11:31:43 AM Filed under


Krita 5.1 promises to introduce lots of goodies for digital artists using this powerful software to create art. Highlights include support for the JPEG-XL file format, improved support for the WebP, OpenEXR, Photoshop layered TIFF, and Photoshop files, support for PSD fill layers and color labels, support for ASE and ACB color palettes, as well as improved painting performance through the use of XSIMD.
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Today in Techrights
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 10:13:54 AM Filed under
- Links 23/06/2022: Pango 1.90, First Beta for Krita 5.1 and Microsoft Bricks/Breaks Windows Server Again
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 22, 2022
- Links 23/06/2022: Open Hardware and More LF 'Fluff'
- Links 23/06/2022: 3,500 Games on Steam Deck Verified or Playable, Gemini on ESP32
- The EPO is Ceasing to Be a Patent Office
- EPO Abolishing Workers' Rights and Creating Second-Class Workers in Direct Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
- [Meme] Trying to Circumvent the European Patent Convention is Like Playing With Fire
- EPO Management Severely Harms the Health of Staff by Bullying Them
- [Meme] Executing the EPC (as in Killing It, Not Following It)
- At the EPO, “Bringing Teams Together” or “New Management of Office Space” is Another Step Towards EPO Outsourcing
- [Meme] Battistelli the Second (Battistelli II)
- The Future of the EPO's Work-to-Rule Industrial Action (Examiners Following the Law Rather Than Unlawful Instructions From Management)
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Android Leftovers
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 10:09:14 AM Filed under
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Wallpaper Wednesday: Android wallpapers 2022-06-22 - Android Authority
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The most interesting Android phone of 2022 won't be sold in the US
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Top 10 Sports Live Score Apps For Android (2022)
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Samsung could open the Galaxy S22 Android 13 beta program soon - SamMobile
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Samsung looks nearly ready for beta testers to try Android 13-based One UI 5 on Galaxy S22 phones
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Android 13's clipboard overlay could add a handy button for Nearby Share | Android Central
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Google has iPhone-like features on Android 12! Tap the back of your phone and see what happens | Mobile News
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MIUI 13 review: The Android 12 skin that balances tradition and modernity | NextPit
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Oppo Find X5 Lite review: a cheap and easy-going Android phone | TechRadar
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First Look at the Hanvon N10 E-Note with English and Android 11 - Good e-Reader
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Warning for MILLIONS of Android phone owners – these alerts mean someone may be watching you | The US Sun
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The Reason Your Android Phone Is Charging Slowly And How You Can Fix It
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Clear Your Android Phone's Cookies and Cache To Get Rid of Excess Junk Files - CNET
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Considering an older Android flagship smartphone? Here’s what to keep in mind | Technology News,The Indian Express
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10 Fun Free and Open Source Board Games
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 09:47:50 AM Filed under

We have always had a fascination with board games, in part because they are a device of social interaction, they challenge the mind and, most importantly, they are great fun to play. Many students gather together to escape the horrors of the classroom, and indulge in a little escapism. The time provides an outlet for tension and rivalry.
Board games help teach diplomacy, how to make and break alliances, bring families and friends together, and learn valuable lessons.
Let’s explore the 10 games. For each game we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screen shot of the game in action, together with links to relevant resources.
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today's leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 09:46:13 AM Filed under
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Recent Windows Server updates break VPN, RDP, RRAS connections
This month’s Windows Server updates are causing a wide range of issues, including VPN and RDP connectivity problems on servers with Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) enabled.
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BSD Now 460: OpenBSD airport folklore
Containerd gains support for launching Linux containers on FreeBSD, OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64, true minimalistic window manager does not exist, OpenBSD folklore, HardenedBSD May 2022 Status Report, DragonFlyBSD 6.2.2 out, and more
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How to use a circuit breaker pattern for site reliability engineering | Opensource.com
Distributed systems have unique requirements for the site reliability engineer (SRE). One of the best ways to maintain site reliability is to enforce a certain set of best practices. These act as guidelines for configuring infrastructure and policies.
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Chromebooks have become the Swiss Army Knife of computing [Ed: No, proper GNU/Linux did this and still does this. ChromeOS is spyware.]
11 years. 11 short years since the Chromebook was first released to the public. (ChromeOS was introduced in 2009 but the first consumer Chromebook actually launched in May of 2011.) In just over a decade, ChromeOS has evolved into a massive ecosystem the like so of which, not even Sundar himself could have predicted. You may have heard someone say “a Chromebook is nothing more than a browser” and once upon a time, that would have been fairly accurate. Problem is, that synopsis has stuck around entirely too long and has created a stigma around ChromeOS that prevents many from even giving a Chromebook a chance.
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Programming Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 09:44:34 AM Filed under
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The Rust Programming Language Blog: Call for testing: Cargo sparse-registry
The Cargo nightly sparse-registry feature is ready for testing. The feature causes Cargo to access the crates.io index over HTTP, rather than git. It can provide a significant performance improvement, especially if the local copy of the git index is out-of-date or not yet cloned.
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This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 448
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Vetting the cargo
Modern language environments make it easy to discover and incorporate externally written libraries into a program. These same mechanisms can also make it easy to inadvertently incorporate security vulnerabilities or overtly malicious code, which is rather less gratifying. The stream of resulting vulnerabilities seems like it will never end, and it afflicts relatively safe languages like Rust just as much as any other language. In an effort to avoid the embarrassment that comes with shipping vulnerabilities (or worse) by way of its dependencies, the Mozilla project has come up with a new supply-chain management tool known as "cargo vet".
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Rethinking Fedora's Java packaging
Linux distributors are famously averse to shipping packages with bundled libraries; they would rather ship a single version of each library to be shared by all packages that need it. Many upstream projects, instead, are fond of bundling (or "vendoring") libraries; this leads to tension that has been covered here numerous times in the past (examples: 1, 2 3, 4, 5, ...). The recent Fedora discussion on bundling libraries with its Java implementation would look like just another in a long series, but it also shines a light on the unique challenges of shipping Java in a fast-moving community distribution.
As is often the case with Fedora, the conversation started with the announcement of a Fedora change proposal; this one is authored by Jiri Vanek. The proposal is aimed at the Fedora 37 release, which is currently planned for late October. Vanek proposes to change Fedora's builds of the OpenJDK Java development kit (JDK) to link against several of that project's bundled libraries (including zlib, FreeType, libjpeg, and HarfBuzz) rather than the versions packaged separately in Fedora. The JDK would also be statically linked against Fedora's build of the libstdc++ library.
This proposal, however, is only the first step in a longer project to change how the JDK is built. In short, once the JDK (along with the Java runtime environment, or JRE) has been made to use its own libraries, the way these components are packaged will change. The RPM for a given JDK release will contain a single tarball that will be unpacked on the target system. Notably, this tarball will be the same for all Fedora releases, from the oldest supported release through Rawhide; the use of bundled libraries will help to ensure that this package will work the same way on all target distributions.
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Wielaard: Sourceware – GNU Toolchain Infrastructure roadmap
Mark Wielaard writes about improvements at Sourceware, the site that holds the repository for many projects in the GNU toolchain and beyond.
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Libre Arts - LSP Plugins 1.2.2
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 09:40:19 AM Filed under
Vladimir Sadovnikov released a new version of his free/libre LSP PLugins pack, this time featuring a multiband dynamics plugin in four variations: left/right, midside, mono, and stereo. Basically it’s an 8-band compressor (only 4 enabled by default to start small probably).
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First Beta for Krita 5.1.0 Released
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 09:35:04 AM Filed under

We’re releasing the first beta for Krita 5.1.0 today. Krita 5.1.0 is packed with new features! For the full list, check out the work-in-progress full release notes!
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Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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