today's leftovers

• Intel DG1 Sound Support Coming For Linux 5.10

  Intel continues bringing up the DG1 discrete graphics card under Linux with continued refinements set to hit for Linux 5.10. Besides all of the Intel (i915) DRM kernel graphics driver improvements coming for Linux 5.10 some of which explicitly benefit Gen12/Xe and the DG1 discrete graphics card, the sound subsystem updates for this next kernel cycle are bringing up the audio support.

• openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2020/39

  During this week we have released ‘only’ three Snapshot (0919, 0922 and 0923). But some of you might have noticed that we are finally sending the ‘build fail notification mails’ again, helping you be more laid back, not having to look at your packages all the time, as the bot does that for you. Unfortunately, due to some OBS issue, this feature was broken for a little while.

• Renovating payment services with microservices, cloud-native integration, and artificial intelligence

  Red Hat sees three fundamental areas of modernization that financial institutions should focus on in order to modernize their payment service and benefit from the same technologies that upstart new entrants to the payments industry already have: microservices, cloud-native integration, and intelligent process automation.

• Modernize telco business support systems for 5G with Red Hat

• What are containers and why do you need them?

  The best analogy for understanding containers is a shipping container. That’s why the majority of all container articles and blog posts show a photo of a shipping container. We’re sure you’ve seen the transport of those big steel shipping containers. (We’ve also seen some people use them to build houses and swimming pools.) The shipping industry standardized on a consistent size container. Now, the same container can move from a ship to a train to a truck without unloading the cargo. The container contents do not matter. Just like a shipping container, a software container is a standardized package of software. Everything needed for the software to run is inside the container. The software code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, and settings are all inside a single container.

• LHS Episode #369: The Weekender LVII

  It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our bi-weekly departure into the world of amateur radio contests, open source conventions, special events, listener challenges, hedonism and just plain fun. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you.

• Directing Traefik | Self-Hosted 28

  We get fancy with Traefik labels, and gush over some new Home Assistant features while saving our data from inevitable future failure.

• TikTok and App Censorship

  Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis about TikTok and who controls your phone.

Devices: Precursor Motherboard, Android and Raspberry Pi

• Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard

  We talk a lot about “verifiable hardware”, but it’s hard to verify something when you don’t know what you’re looking at. This post takes a stab at explaining the major features of the Precursor motherboard by first indicating the location of physical components, then by briefly discussing the rationale behind their curation.

• Amazon Fire TV Stick 3rd Gen is Powered by MediaTek MT8695D SoC

  Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K powered by a MediaTek MT8695 quad-core SoC for launched for $50 about two years ago. The company has now introduced two cheaper variants with Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite and Fire TV Stick powered by a similar MediaTek MT8695D quad-core processor designed for 1080p (Full HD) HDR video playback.

• DeskPi Pro Raspberry Pi 4 Case Comes with 2.5-inch HDD/SSD Bay, Full-sized HDMI Ports, PWM Fansink

  If you’d like to connect a 2.5-inch SSD or hard drive disk to your Raspberry Pi 4, and are not a fan of the micro HDMI ports, DeskPi Pro enclosure might be what you are looking for. The “Set-top Box” enclosure offers an alternative to the popular Argon One case, as it also re-arrange the ports in a more user-friendly way with most Raspberry Pi ports found on the rear panels, and the front panel adds an additional MicroSD card socket, plus two USB ports for a total of 5 USB ports, as well as a safe-shutdown & reset button.

• 17000ft | The MagPi 98

OSS: OSI, Cyphon and Swedish e-Krona

 

• OSI’s Joshua Simmons on the State of Open Source

  OSI’s Joshua Simmons examines the current state of open source in this presentation from the recent State of the Source Summit. Paragraphs In his keynote presentation at the recent State of the Source Summit, Joshua Simmons, President at Open Source Initiative, provided a thoughtful look at the state of open source today, acknowledging strengths and shared history and examining challenges with an eye toward conscious, collaborative improvement. Open source has gone “from fringe to mainstream,” Simmons said, and the ecosystem has understandably undergone many changes. In this moment, he said, open source is being tested, with questions being raised about the sustainability of projects, the health and safety communities, fair treatment of maintainers, and open source’s overall ability to weather attempts at redefinition.  In the talk, Simmons explored various open source narratives, discussed OSI’s role, and described the organization’s 

• Cyphon: An Open-source Incident Tracking Management System for the Enterprise

  Enterprise and often government are required to handle dozens of incident reporting sources at once, which is not resources or cost-effective at all. Some companies are still using emails, ticket systems, CRMs, or messaging systems for incident reports. To resolve this issue, they need a centralized incident tracking management system and here comes Cyphon. Cyphon is an open-source incident management and response platform. It helps the enterprise to track incident from different sources, prioritize them and automate the response system for them.  

• Sweden considers open source software for its digital currency proof of concept

  The BIS working paper compares digital currency initiatives by the central banks of China, Sweden, and Canada. Describing the Swedish e-Krona project, “preference will be given to solutions built on open source code,” the paper says. BIS refers to a study by senior advisers working for the Riksbank, published in June.

  The bankers outline their ideas for the e-Krona, which is intended as a complement to cash. They bank prefers an 'open architecture' (see 2018 report on the Riksbank’s e-krona project) but the researchers in June seem to be still undecided on the choice between proprietary or open source technology, listing weaknesses for both. (In the case of proprietary software: IT vendor lock-in, and for open source: the risk of the community being abandoned or the build-up of dependence on open source consultants.)