Programming Leftovers

• How my students taught me to code

  "Hello, I'm Miss Jess, and my students taught me how to code." When I say this to new students, they often think I misspoke. But it's true. Coding always interested me, but it seemed inaccessible. Then my students taught me to code a video game during a few lunch breaks. Their encouraging advice and suggestions helped me create my first video game using Scratch. The game was simple. It was about a monkey catching bananas as they fell from the sky. If you caught a ripe banana, you earned points.

• ssh-copy-id: call for testing

  After a prolonged period of neglect, I've finally got round to putting the various patches I had laying around into some sort of order, and pushing them somewhere public, so it would be great if people could test them.

  There are two branches that I'd like people to try:

  https://gitlab.com/phil_hands/ssh-copy-id/-/tree/main

  and

  https://gitlab.com/phil_hands/ssh-copy-id/-/tree/bug/3201

• How to rename columns in Pandas Dataframe

  In this tutorial, we will cover various methods to rename columns in pandas dataframe in Python. Renaming or changing the names of columns is one of the most common data wrangling task. If you are not from programming background and worked only in Excel Spreadsheets in the past you might feel it not so easy doing this in Python as you can easily rename columns in MS Excel by just typing in the cell what you want to have. If you are from database background it is similar to ALIAS in SQL. In Python there is a popular data manipulation package called pandas which simplifies doing these kind of data operations.

• How to use Ansible to update your Django web app

  Now, as you have overcome or evaded the reefs, shoals and swirls of initial development and deployment and your appetite grows, you ask “How do I automate the update and restart of my web app when I change the code?” There is already one simple and elegant method on our blog, that uses one of the possible push to publish methods, but this time we will dip our toes into vast waters of Ansible automation. You may think that using Ansible for a simple task like this is overkill, and it’s a valid thought, but our example is a good practice case that introduces multiple elements that can be used later for much bigger projects. That’s why, instead of writing a simple bash or python script, we will build a full Ansible playbook with accompanying configuration.

• Popular Python Libraries for Data Science, Machine Learning and More

• Using bash’s shopt builtin to manage Linux shell behavior

  If you haven’t tried it yet, you might be surprised by the many features of shopt. While it works like a Linux command, it’s actually a bash shell builtin that allows you to change many things about that shell’s behavior. One option, for example, allows the shell to fix minor typos when you type directory names. To demonstrate, in the first cd command shown below, the directory name, bin, is typed with an extra letter and the shell complains and gives up:

Security and Tor

• Find security issues in Go code using gosec

  It's extremely common now to encounter code written in the Go programming language, especially if you are working with containers, Kubernetes, or a cloud ecosystem. Docker was one of the first projects to adopt Golang, Kubernetes followed, and many new projects select Go over other programming languages. Like any other language, Go has its share of strengths and weaknesses, which include security flaws. These can arise due to issues in the programming language itself coupled with insecure coding practices, such as memory safety issues in C code, for example. Regardless of why they occur, security issues need to be fixed early in development to prevent them from creeping into shipped software. Fortunately, static analysis tools are available to help you tackle these issues in a more repeatable manner. Static analysis tools work by parsing source code written in a programming language and looking for issues.

• NXLog Enterprise Edition 5.1: Providing capabilities to further harden enterprises’ security

  NXLog announces the first minor release in the new major version of NXLog Enterprise Edition, NXLog Enterprise Edition version 5.1 (EE 5.1). Even though it is a minor release, it is very significant, because along with EE 5.0, NXLog is now filling its new passive network monitoring module with additional protocol parsers focused on Industrial Control Systems.

• New Release: Tor Browser 10

  The new shiny Tor Browser 10 for Desktop is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory!

  Android Tor Browser 10 is under active development and we are supporting the current 9.5 series for Android until the new one is ready. We are informed by Mozilla of any issues they learn about affecting the 9.5 series. We expect to release the new Tor Browser for Android based on Fenix in the following weeks.

• New Release: Tails 4.10

Android Leftovers

• New Xbox App on Android allows for remote play

• Nokia 2.4 and Nokia 3.4 with Android 10 launched: Price, availability and more

• LG G8x ThinQ now receiving Android 10 update in India

• How to Find Android 11's Secret Hidden Cat Game

• How to get a fake GPS location for Snapchat on Android

• How to get Zoom virtual backgrounds working on Android

• Moto E7 Plus with Stock Android, dual cameras launched in India at Rs 9,499

• Reliance Jio is working on a $50 Android phone for the Indian market

• Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 review: A perfect companion for your Android smartphone

• 6 Best Video Editing Apps For Android Smartphones

• Looking to buy and sell bitcoins: here is how Android apps can help you

• Grab the OnePlus 8 Pro unlocked Android smartphone on sale for $900 for a limited time

Feature Requests, Submit Requests for openSUSE Jump Take Shape

The openSUSE Project is progressing with the state of openSUSE Jump, which is the interim name given to the experimental distribution in the Open Build Service. openSUSE Leap Release Manager Lubos Kocman sent an email to the project titled “Update on Jump and Leap 15.3 and proposed roadmap for the next steps” that explains the progress that has been made with Jump 15.2.1. “We have some exciting news to share about the openSUSE Jump effort!” Kocman wrote. “We will have a Jira partner setup (coming) for openSUSE this week!” Access to Jira will allow openSUSE Leap contributors to see updates on community feature requests and be able to comment on requested information or allow them to request information. The process will be tested initially by one of the community members to see if it works properly.