Today in Techrights

• Links 3/3/2021: OpenSSH 8.5 and Absolute64 20210302 Released
• IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 02, 2021
• Links 3/3/2021: IPFire 2.25 Core Update 154, Red Hat Satellite 6.8.4, Kiwi TCMS 10.0
• Links 2/3/2021: KDE Plasma 5.21.2, Qt 6.1 Beta, Refund of Pre-installed Windows
• 'GatoKeeper'/IP Kat (AstraZeneca) Still Suppressing and Censoring the Public Views or Internal EPO Talks About EPO Corruption
• Pocock on Removing Cognitive Bias Around Consent
• IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 01, 2021
• Links 2/3/2021: Maui 1.2.1, RSS Guard 3.9.0
• ZDNet Really Hates Golang (Maybe Because Microsoft Does)
• Links 1/3/2021: KStars 3.5.2, ET: Legacy 2.77, Flameshot 0.9

today's leftovers

• mintCast 355.5 – McKnight in Shining Armor

  1:49 Linux Innards 27:06 Vibrations from the Ether 51:29 Check This Out 58:45 Announcements & Outro In our Innards section, we talk to community member Mike! And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions

• The small web is beautiful

  About fifteen years ago, I read E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful and, despite not being interested in economics, I was moved by its message. Perhaps even more, I loved the terse poetry of the book’s title – it resonated with my frugal upbringing and my own aesthetic.

  I think it’s time for a version of that book about technology, with a chapter on web development: The Small Web is Beautiful: A Study of Web Development as if People Mattered. Until someone writes that, this essay will have to do.

  There are two aspects of this: first, small teams and companies. I’m not going to talk much about that here, but Basecamp and many others have. What I’m going to focus on in this essay is small websites and architectures.

• PS2 Emulation Gets Even Nicer With Custom Textures

  PCSX2 has long been a fantastic PS2 emulator, but a recent advance has made it all the more appealing for anyone playing on a PC: the ability to swap textures in games. While the famous Dolphin emulator for the GameCube has long supported this feature, PCSX2 has only just brought it in, and it’ll allow modders to improve any kind of texture they want in an old PS2 game. In the example video below by someother1ne, we can see everything from the road in Gran Turismo to the helmets and jerseys in NFL2K5 get swapped out.

• Epic Games is buying Fall Guys creator Mediatonic

  According to the blog posts and FAQs detailing the announcement, Fall Guys will remain available on Steam for the time being, and the developer is still bringing the game to both the Xbox and Nintendo Switch platforms. Epic and Mediatonic say there are no plans right now to make the game (which currently costs $19.99) free-to-play, as Epic did with Rocket League. Epic later confirmed it plans to make the PC version of Fall Guys available on the Epic Game Store.

today's howtos

• Kushal Das: Get a TLS certificate for your onion service

  For a long time, I wanted to have a certificate for the onion address of my blog. Digicert was the only CA who was providing those certificates with an Extended Validation. Those are costly and suitable for an organization to get, but not for me personally, especially due to the cost.

• How To Install Nano Text Editor on CentOS 8 - idroot

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nano Text Editor on CentOS 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Nano comes with many powerful features and allows you to edit and create various files on your computer or server. It includes all the basic functionality same as other text editors such as UTF-8 encoding, syntax highlighting, search and replace with regular expression support, multiple buffers, spellchecking, and more. 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 through the step-by-step installation of the Nano Text Editor on CentOS 8.

• How to Install Terraform in Linux Distributions

  Terraform is a popular cloud orchestration tool in the world of automation, which is used to deploy your infrastructure through the IAC (Infrastructure as code) approach. Terraform is built by Hashicorp and released under Mozilla Public License. It supports public, private as well as hybrid cloud, as of now Terraform supports 145 providers, which includes popular providers like AWS, Azure cloud, GCP, Oracle cloud, and many others. Terraform architecture is very simple. All you need is to download the terraform binary to your local/server machine which is going to act as your base machine. We have to mention the provider to work within our syntax file. Terraform will download the plugin for that particular provider automatically and will authenticate with provider API to execute the plan.