today's leftovers
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The (GNU) Linux Foundation How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It December 2010
Every (GNU) Linux kernel is being developed by nearly 1,000 developers working for more than 100 different corporations. This is the foundation for the largest distributed software development project in the world. (src)
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Korean vaccine passport developer Blockchain Labs receives proposal from Linux [Ed: The Linux Foundation is undermining human rights; what does Linux stand for now?]
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Vivaldi 3.8 Released, Offers Relief From Cookie Dialogs And FLoC
Vivaldi 3.8 focused on an improved web browsing experience from all points of view. The new Cookie Crumbler blocks the most annoying cookie-related dialogs.
The web browser maker, Vivaldi, has announced the release of Vivaldi 3.8 on desktop and on mobile.
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Sébastien Wilmet - Blog post - Thoughts about WebAssembly outside-the-browser, inside-the-desktop
Some reflections about WebAssembly, the Bytecode Alliance and desktop application development.
To know more about the Bytecode Alliance (WebAssembly outside-the-browser), you can read this nice article by Mozilla.
Note that I don't plan to work on this, it's just some thoughts about what could the future bring us. If someone is interested, this would be a really, really nice project that would totally change the landscape of native desktop application development. I'm convinced that the solution isn't Rust or C++, or C# or Java, or whichever new language will appear in 20 years that will make Rust obsolete; the solution is some piece of infrastructure such as nanoprocesses.
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Sébastien Wilmet - Blog post - C dialects versus C++ dialects
Some developers say that since the C++ programming language is so large, containing lots of features, each C++ programmer ends up writing code in a different subset of C++, a different dialect.
This essay looks at whether the C language - which contains a much smaller set of core features than C++ - is any better with regards to the "dialects problem".
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Compute Like It Is 1975: 6th Edition Unix Reborn | Hackaday
If you crave experiencing or reliving what computing was like “back then” you have a lot of options. One option, of course, is to load an emulator and pretend like you have the hardware and software you are interested in. Another often expensive option is to actually buy the hardware on the used market. However, [mit-pdos] has a different approach: port the 6th edition of Unix to RISC-V and use a modern CPU to run an old favorite operating system.
It isn’t an exact copy, of course, but Xv6 was developed back in 2006 as a teaching operating system at MIT. You can find resources including links to the original Unix source code, commentary on the source code, and information about the original PDP 11/40 host computer on the project’s main page.
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Recently launched MagicHub.io offers free datasets for machine learning
Massive, diversiform datasets are released on MagicHub.io. The datasets are subdivided into multiple dimensions, offering AI engineers a more efficient way to find datasets for their various AI models, thereby reserves more energy on algorithm optimization.
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Math Selection Rendering
Towards 7.2 the Math edit window text selection is now drawn the same as the selection in the main applications. This affects the selection of similar uses of this EditView in LibreOffice such as the writer comments in sidebar.
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Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor Jumps From v0.14.1 To v15.0 To Signify Its Maturity, Stabilizing
The Rust-written Cloud-Hypervisor project led by open-source Intel engineers as a VMM designed for cloud workloads has broke well past the "1.0" milestone. Following a series of 0.x releases, Cloud-Hypervisor 15 was released this week.
The engineers involved in this open-source security and cloud minded hypervisor decided to shake up the version numbering. They went from v0.14.1 to v15.0 to "represent that we believe Cloud Hypervisor is maturing and entering a period of stability."
Moving forward they now say they will guarantee API stability by not removing or changing APIs without at least two releases notice and point releases will also be issued for substantial bug fixes or security issues.
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Ubuntu Blog: Taming unruly logo sections
Making logo sections can be tricky. Logos come in all shapes and sizes, and without proper care, it is easy to end up with a poorly balanced layout.
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With the baseline in place, we’d ideally want to scale the wordmarks to roughly the same height. To do this, we need to select a goal height to resize to – in the example above this is illustrated by the “Ag” letter pair.
But this leads to a problem – depending on how tall our goal height is, some logos won’t fit, or others will become too small. At this point it’s an iterative process of adjusting the goal height until most logos fit comfortably within the bounding box.
It’s worth noting that the longest wordmark isn’t always the best choice for goal height, as that would make other logos tiny. In my experience, it is best to find a size that works for the majority of the cases, and not worry about outliers too much.
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As a final step, if the order of the logos is up to the designer (sometimes it might be dictated by the nature of the relationships with the companies behind these logos), we can further increase balance by introducing different rhythms – alternations of colors, narrow vs wide, rounded vs angular, etc.
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Call for Code: The Weather Company and you
Exhaustive scientific research has confirmed changing weather and temperature patterns, rapidly rising sea levels, and an intensifying proliferation of extreme weather events around the world. The frequency of these weather events continue to increase year after year. And the impact they have on people and the amount of damage they cause are escalating.
Severe and devastating weather is not going away. It is only going to get worse, according to the National Climate Assessment. By the year 2100, global temperatures are projected to increase 3 to 5 degrees Celsius (5.4 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit).
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