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Mourning Marina Zhurakhinsakaya
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 13th of June 2022 07:10:30 PM Filed underWe are sad to inform our community that Marina Zhurakhinsakaya died on Saturday.
CW: cancer - Marina died on Saturday after winning her struggle with cancer for three years. We
would like to elevate Marina's message to encourage people to test themselves for genetic markers
for breast cancer. You can donate in Marina's honor to Dana Farber's Metastatic Breast Cancer
Research Fund...
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In Memory of Shubhra Kar
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 10th of May 2022 07:00:54 PM Filed underThis past week, we lost our dear friend, colleague, and a true champion of the open source community. Our CTO, Shubhra Kar, passed away suddenly while he was with his entire LF family at our first in-person, all-hands gathering since before the pandemic.
Those who had the honor to work with him will know, he was a special leader and a wonderful human being. Above all, Shubhra was the kind of leader who quickly passed the credit for accomplishments to his team over himself. His humble spirit and ever-present smile was admired by all around him. He was so proud of the world class team he had built here, and did that in part with engineers who followed him from one organization to another throughout his career.
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PCLinuxOS Pays Tribute to Alain Baudrez (a.k.a. Wamukota)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 6th of May 2022 11:10:15 AM Filed under-
Alain Baudrez/Wamukota: In Remembrance
On April 20, 2022, we lost one of our longtime PCLinuxOS forum users. Alain Baudrez, who often went by the nickname Wamukota, chose euthanasia to end his suffering from ALS, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
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Linux IS Ready For The Desktop
I've read many postings and rants about Linux not being ready for the desktop, while my experience tends to state the opposite. Linux is -- and has been for the last couple of years -- ready for the desktop.
It all boils down to the type of audience you speak to.
Windows has been developed with the industry in mind. That implies that you have a group of well-trained IT guys who do the Windows laundry while you, at your desk, can work without bothering whether the latest patches are applied, the AV is up to date, Anti-malware filters are in place, ...
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WWW Collapse
On April 17, 2010, Alain Baudrez (a.k.a. Wamukota) sent me a short story he had written, and asked me if I would be interested in running it in The PCLinuxOS Magazine. Set in the not too distant future, it's a story depicting the collapse of the World Wide Web.
Liked it? I loved it! I read it through three times upon receiving the story, and each and every time, my mind envisioned this story being told via a comic strip. I definitely wanted to do this story justice, so I started "shopping around" for someone with some graphic skills who might be able to tackle such a project. This was no small task.
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PCLinuxOS Dutch Community:: PCLinuxOS.nl
Most of you will know the Netherlands as the country where Dutch is the native tongue, but Dutch is also spoken in the northern part of Belgium (Flanders). A total of 20 million people speak Dutch, so our community is an international community of 550 members with Dutch and Belgian admins, mods and users.
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Behind The Scenes: Wamukota & PCLinuxOS.nl
In 2001 I was diagnosed with ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) which resulted in both my kidneys shutting down in March 2002. I had to go to the hospital three times a week to have my blood filtered using dialysis. Luckily I got a donor kidney on April 23, 2003. I can not express how grateful I am towards the unknown donor who saved my life.
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Mourning Pedro Francisco
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 19th of April 2022 06:35:40 PM Filed under
These are very sad days for the Free Software and Social Justice
movements. Our beloved friend Pedro Francisco has passed away.
Pedro fought relentlessly for equity in our society. He was also a
Free/Libre Software activist.
Pedro created and managed MasGNULinux, a Spanish blog with news about
Free Software and GNU/Linux. MasGNULinux was the best reference in the
latest Free Software projects for the Spanish speaking community.
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The Free Software community mourns the loss of Pedro Francisco (MasGNULinux)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 19th of April 2022 12:36:18 PM Filed under
These are very sad days for the Free Software and Social Justice movements. Our beloved friend Pedro Francisco has passed away.
Pedro fought relentlessly for equity in our society. He was also a Free/Libre Software activist.
Pedro created and managed MasGNULinux, a Spanish blog with news about Free Software and GNU/Linux. MasGNULinux was the best reference in the latest Free Software projects for the Spanish speaking community.
Thank you for your integrity, your honesty and your dedication to make this world a better place for this and future generations. Pedro's legacy will live on forever, in every line of code of each Free Software project.
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RIP, Mr. GIF
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 24th of March 2022 08:19:26 AM Filed under-
Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, dies at 74
The death was confirmed in an obituary, which said Wilhite, one the chief architect of America Online, died March 14 — just days after his 74th birthday on March 3. He died of Covid, his wife, Kathaleen, confirmed.
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It's official. We've all been saying "GIF" wrong
Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the GIF, passed away last week from COVID at the age of 74. In his obituary page we learn some previously unknown bits of information about the inventor such as that he liked camping, traveling, and was known to be a humble and kind man. Left out of the obituary, but made abundantly clear in the majority of the write-ups pertaining to his passing, is that we've all been saying GIF wrong.
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Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died
Although GIFs are synonymous with animated internet memes these days, that wasn’t the reason Wilhite created the format. CompuServe introduced them in the late 1980s as a way to distribute “high-quality, high-resolution graphics” in color at a time when internet speeds were glacial compared to what they are today. “He invented GIF all by himself — he actually did that at home and brought it into work after he perfected it,” Kathaleen said. “He would figure out everything privately in his head and then go to town programming it on the computer.”
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Mary Coombs, first woman commercial programmer, dies at 93
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 12th of March 2022 08:32:38 AM Filed underBritish programmer Mary Coombs, the first woman to program a computer designed for commercial applications, passed away on February 28 at the age of 93.
Coombs (née Blood), was born in northwest London on February 4, 1929 to William Blood and Ruth Blood (née Petri). She graduated from Queen Mary University London with a BA Honors degree in French. After spending a summer teaching English in Switzerland, she returned home in 1952 and took a temporary job in the ice-cream sales office of food chain J. Lyons & Co.
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Sven Guckes RIP
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 21st of February 2022 02:45:31 PM Filed underLongtime FOSS contributor and advocate Sven Guckes has died at 55. A Twitter posting and news article (both in German) describe the Berlin-based Guckes as someone who was always ready to help users get the most out of their systems on Usenet and IRC. His home page and a Hacker News posting have more information as well. RIP. (Thanks to Martin Michlmayr.)
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[TUHS] Lorinda Cherry
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 16th of February 2022 05:15:34 PM Filed under
Lorinda Cherry, a long-time member of the original Unix Lab
died recently. Here is a slightly edited reminiscence that
I sent to the president of the National Center for Women and
Information Technology in 2018 when they honored her with
their Pioneer in Tech award.
As Lorinda Cherry's longtime colleague at Bell Labs, I was
very pleased to hear she has been chosen for the NCWIT Pioneer
Award. At the risk of telling you things you already know,
I offer some remarks about her career. I will mainly speak of
things I saw at first hand when our offices were two doors
apart, from the early '70s through 1994, when Lorinda left
Bell Labs in the AT&T/Lucent split. Most of the work I describe
broke new ground in computing; "pioneer" is an apt term.
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Hardware/Modding and 3D Printing (RIP, Sanjay Mortimer)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 1st of December 2021 11:56:41 PM Filed under-
Remembering Sanjay Mortimer, Pioneer And Visionary In 3D Printing | Hackaday
Over the weekend, Sanjay Mortimer passed away. This is a tremendous blow to the many people who he touched directly and indirectly throughout his life. We will remember Sanjay as pioneer, hacker, and beloved spokesperson for the 3D printing community.
If you’ve dabbled in 3D printing, you might recall Sanjay as the charismatic director and co-founder of the extrusion company E3D. He was always brimming with enthusiasm to showcase something that he and his company had been developing to push 3D printing further and further. But he was also thoughtful and a friend to many in the community.
Let’s talk about some of his footprints.
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Grafana Weather Dashboard on the reTerminal by Seeed Studio - The DIY Life
Today we’re going to be taking a look at the reTerminal, by Seeed Studio. We’ll unbox the device to see what is included and we’ll then set up a weather dashboard on it using Grafana. We’re going to use weather data that is being recorded by an ESP32 microcontroller and is being posted to an InfluxDB database.
The reTerminal is a compact HMI (human-machine interface) device that is powered by a Raspberry Pi compute module 4 (CM4). It has a 5″ capacitive touch display, along with four physical function buttons, some status LEDs, and a host of IO options.
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The Medieval History Of Your Favourite Dev Board | Hackaday
It’s become something of a trope in our community, that the simplest way to bestow a level of automation or smarts to a project is to reach for an Arduino. The genesis of the popular ecosystem of boards and associated bootloader and IDE combination is well known, coming from the work of a team at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, in Northern Italy. The name “Arduino” comes from their favourite watering hole, the Bar di Re Arduino, in turn named for Arduin of Ivrea, an early-mediaeval king.
As far as we can see the bar no longer exists and has been replaced by a café, which appears on the left in this Google Street View link. The bar named for Arduin of Ivrea is always mentioned as a side note in the Arduino microcontroller story, but for the curious electronics enthusiast it spawns the question: who was Arduin, and why was there a bar named after him in the first place?
The short answer is that Arduin was the Margrave of Ivrea, an Italian nobleman who became king of Italy in 1002 and abdicated in 1014. The longer answer requires a bit of background knowledge of European politics around the end of the first millennium, so if you’re ready we’ll take Hackaday into a rare tour of medieval history.
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