Leftovers and Software
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Boston Dynamics ‘Spot’ Goes on Sale for Just $74,500
Spot Core, for the curious, includes a Core i5 9th Gen Whiskey Lake CPU (unspecified model), 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, runs Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and connects directly to the payload port to draw power.
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Taking a stand on what its products can and cannot be used for is a smart move, particularly right now. Boston Dynamics has done significant work with the US military through projects like Big Dog and Spot, and while it’s always highlighted the ways its robots could be used to protect human life, it’s clearly considering how those products may be perceived by the public.
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Simple application sandboxing using AppArmor and Firejail
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QUIC with wolfSSL
We have started the work on extending wolfSSL to provide the necessary API calls to power QUIC and HTTP/3 implementations!
Small, fast and FIPS
The TLS library known as wolfSSL is already very often a top choice when users are looking for a small and yet very fast TLS stack that supports all the latest protocol features; including TLS 1.3 support – open source with commercial support available.
As manufacturers of IoT devices and other systems with memory, CPU and footprint constraints are looking forward to following the Internet development and switching over to upcoming QUIC and HTTP/3 protocols, wolfSSL is here to help users take that step.
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HomeBank personal accounting review
HomeBank is a completely free accounting software package aimed at helping people get their finances in order and who subsequently want to keep them that way. It features an easy-to-use interface that comes complete with lots of cool visual tools that let you produce charts to illustrate your current state of monetary play.
Admittedly, HomeBank doesn’t come with quite the same level of sophistication found within rival paid-for applications, but as a quick accounting resource for folks with basic requirements it ticks a lot of boxes.
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Input events on X have an old world and a new world
As part of X's evolution over time, input event handling has gone through a practical change, although one that is what you could call unevenly distributed. The original X protocol has input events, of course, which are sometimes now called core input events. You can see what core events are generated from various activities through the venerable xev program, and many straightforward X programs continue to interact only with core events.
However, core input events have limitations that date from X's origins. Core input events are only really designed to deal with straightforward keyboards and mice with buttons. Even mouse scroll wheels have an awkward representation in core X events; moving the scroll wheel actually generates mouse button events for pressing and releasing button 4 or 5 (for normal, implicitly vertical scroll wheels). I don't think there's anything in the X protocol that reserves these buttons for scroll wheels, it's just a convention that people came up with when they started needing to handle scroll wheels in X.
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New release: Tor 0.4.4.1-alpha
There's a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.4.1-alpha from the download page. Packages should be available over the coming weeks, with a new alpha Tor Browser release by early July.
Remember, this is an alpha release: you should only run this if you'd like to find and report more bugs than usual.
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