today's leftovers

• Voyager Live 10 overview | The spirit of open source in the heart of the digital world

  In this video, I am going to show an overview of Voyager Live 10 and some of the applications pre-installed.

• Cantor and the support for Jupyter notebooks at the finish line

  Hello everyone! It's been almost three weeks since my last post and this is going to be my my final post in this blog. So, I want to summarize all my work done in this GSoC project. Just to remember again, the goal of the project was to add the support for Jupiter notebooks to Cantor. This format is widely used in the scientific and education areas, mostly by the application Jupyter, and there is a lot of content available on the internet in this format (for example, here). By adding the support of this format in Cantor we’ll allow Cantor users access this content. This is short description, if you more intersted, you can found more details in my proporsal. [...] This is all for the limitations, I think. Let's talk about future plans and perspectives. In my opinion, this project has reached its initial goals, is finished now and will only need maintenance and support in terms of bug fixing and adjustment to potential format changes in future. When talking more generally, this project is part of the current overall development activities in Cantor to improve the usability and the stability of the application and to extend the feature set in order to enable more workflows and to reach to a bigger audience with this. See 19.08 and 18.12 release announcements to read more about the developments in the recent releases of Cantor. Support of the Jupyter notebook format is a big step into this direction but this not all. We have already many other items in our backlog like for the UX improvements, plots integration improvements going into this direction. Some of this items will be addressed soon. Some of them are something for the next GSoC project next year maybe? I think, that's all for now. Thank you for reading this blog and thank you for your interest in my project. Working on this project was a very interesting and pleasant period of my life. I am happy that I had this opportunity and was able to contribute to KDE and especially to Cantor with the support of my mentor Alexander Semke.

• My Open-Source Activities from January to August 2019

  Debian is a general-purpose Linux distribution that is widely used on the planet. I am a Debian Developer who works on packages related to Android SDK and the Java ecosystem. I started a new package in an attempt to build the Android framework android.jar using the upstream build systems involving Ninja, Soong and others. Since the beginning we have been writing our own (very simple) makefiles to build the binaries in AOSP because their build logic tends to be simple and straightforward, until we worked on android.jar. Building it requires digging in so much code that it became incredibly hard to maintain, which is why we still haven’t brought in any newer version since android-framework-23. This is problematic as developers can’t build any apps that target Android 7+. After a month of work, this package is finally done. After all its dependencies are packaged in the future, it will be good to upload. This is where the students of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) come in!

• iMars Black is an Inexpensive Bluetooth 5.0 USB Audio Transmitter & Receiver

• This Linux computer plus router is the size of a ring box

  The VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer packs a wireless router and 16M of onboard storage into a cube about the size of a coin. Just hook it up to any display monitor through a standard USB2.0 port, and you're ready to put it to work. With 128MB of DDR2 memory and an MT7628AN MIPS processor, it's equally useful as a streaming station, VPN gateway, data storage - you name it.

• Dive into the life and legacy of Alan Turing: 5 books and more

  Another well-known fact about Turing was his conviction for "gross indecency" because of his homosexuality, and the posthumous apology and pardon issued over more a half a decade after Turing’s death. But beyond all of this, who was Alan Turing? Here are six books that delve deeply into the life and legacy of Alan Turing. Collectively, these books cover his life, both professional and personal, and work others have done to build upon Turing’s ideas. Individually, or collectively, these works allow the reader to learn who Alan Turing was beyond just a few well-known, broad-stroke themes.

• Security updates for Friday

  Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups, nginx, and openjdk-7), Fedora (httpd, mod_md, nghttp2, and patch), and SUSE (rubygem-loofah).

• Epyc Encryption | TechSNAP 410

  It's CPU release season and we get excited about AMD's new line of server chips. Plus our take on AMD's approach to memory encryption, and our struggle to make sense of Intel's Comet Lake line. Also, a few Windows worms you should know about, the end of the road for EV certs, and an embarrassing new Bluetooth attack.

Android Leftovers

• Save space and data with Google Go, now for regular Android devices

• Android Q security bulletin goes live, details some of September 2019's patches

• JioFiber Vs Airtel’s Android Set Top Box: Broadband Race Heats Up In India

• Google Open-Sources Real-Time Hand Tracking for Android and iOS

• When Is Your Smartphone Getting Android 10?

• Android 10 Confirmed to Arrive on All Nokia Smartphones

• Metz M55G2 4K Android TV Review: So Good, it Should Cost a Lot More Than Rs 42,990

• Google Stops Sharing Android Phone Data With Wireless Carriers Over Privacy Related Fears

• Does Xiaomi Really Want to Sell Its Android One Phones?

• Motorola One Action with "Action Cam", Android One launches in Indi

• Mi A3 sale today in India: 10 things you must know before buying Xiaomi's new Android One phone

• Google Photos just got an awesome feature that makes it a must-have Android and iPhone app

• Google Android, now with less sugar: Friday Wake-Up Call

• 5 things you need to know in SA business today and why the latest version of Android isn't named after a dessert

• 9to5Google Daily 290: Android is now completely dessert free

• Redmi Y2 Android Pie Update Rollout Halted, to Resume With Optimisations

• DRM is Coming to Android, Courtesy of Denuvo

• Owners Can Now Reply To Reviews On Google Maps Android

• Issue 65 Of Android Advisor Out Today

• Android 10: Google Confirms 193 Security Vulnerabilities Need Fixing

Xfce 4.14 Lands in Tumbleweed

Ahoy! openSUSE Xfce team is pleased to announce that the long awaited Xfce 4.14 has been released for Tumbleweed. After a long development cycle (4 years!), all of the core components and applications have been ported to GTK 3. Among the main new features and improvements, the xfwm4 window manager has finally gained support for VSync, HiDPI, hardware GLX and various compositor improvements. You can check out the neat new features in the official Xfce 4.14 tour and the official release announcement.