Failing at Mold Making… A guide on what not to do. ⌘ Read more
Git Version Control _final_new_final.new - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
Greek Letters
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Scomo’s Political Trainwreck ⌘ Read more
Cosmic Queries – Alien Worlds and Extremophiles with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Kennda Lynch ⌘ Read more
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** 2022-02-24 feature/6.0 Android test plan **
OverviewWill test the upgrade path from a known state to new version to ensure that settings and app state are maintained during upgrade process.
V. 6.0 of libro.fm android app introduces an entirely new local database. This testing is focused on ensuring that local data remains intact between versions.
NotesThis evening I was mostly focused on setting up a successful build of feature/6.0 on my test device or the emulator. So far, no dice. My next … ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Development News February 2022
February brought a unified Groupchat Details window, which offers all the configuration knobs you need. Also this month: less memory leaks and improved OMEMO QR codes.
In April last year, we introduced Gajim’s new Contact Information window. This month, we took on group chats and their various windows and management pages, introducing a unified ‘Groupchat Details’ window. Groupchat De … ⌘ Read more
Why didn’t I think of the very helpful Go module “net/http/pprof” earlier? This way I can profile my blog live. 🤓 (And hopefully find parts that I should or can optimize.) ⌘ Read more
A new way to understand your GitHub-hosted runner capacity
Explore and understand your overall GitHub-hosted Actions runner capacity with the new runner view. ⌘ Read more
Codespaces for the largest repositories just got faster
The ability to prebuild codespaces is entering public beta. Enable fast environment creation times, regardless of the size and complexity of your repositories. ⌘ Read more
AppDev Challenges and Trends to Watch in 2022
Over the last few years, development teams have been pushed to do a lot more with less. The global supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic and the chip manufacturing shortage in particular impacted the tech industry. These factors have moved developer workloads toward the cloud, created a more asynchronous and remote workforce, and increased […]
The post [AppDev Challenges and Trends to Watch in 2022](https://www.docker.com/blog/appdev-cha … ⌘ Read more
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Married at First Sight: BIGGER AND BETTER ⌘ Read more
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JMP: Why Bidirectional Gateways Matter
A big part of the vision of Sopranica, and Cheogram in particular, is bidirectional gateways. A bidirectional gateway is one that allows (at a minimum) any user of either protocol to contact any user of the other protocol without creating an account. This is not possible with all protocols, but works well when both sides are federated.
Take for instance sip.cheogram.com, which is a bidirectional gateway between XMPP and SIP. Any … ⌘ Read more
Rounding
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What a good feeling when the hours you have invested in optimizing and testing actually bear fruit. In other words, my blog now uses less than 100 MB of memory, even though I have quite a few features enabled. My diary for example needs less than 20 MB. And if you compare that with WordPress, where the database alone needs more than 300 MB… 😄 ⌘ Read more
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Freezing Water ⌘ Read more
Black Innovators That Paved the Way
While diverse experiences and perspectives should be sought after and celebrated every day, Black History Month is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the many contributions of Black Americans. Recognizing the ingenuity of Black people in technology is incredibly important – especially when a large diversity gap of historically overrepresented groups is so […]
The post [Black Innovators That Paved the Way](https://www.docker.com/blog/black-innovators … ⌘ Read more
Is it a UFO? Is it a plane? No, it’s Venus. ⌘ Read more
Get started with ease using security workflows!
In-line with the other categories, workflows in the Security category will be recommended based on a repository’s content. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Advisory Database now open to community contributions
Anyone can now provide additional information to further the community’s understanding and awareness of security advisories. ⌘ Read more
Travel Tips
A bunch of disorganized tips and product recommendations for when
traveling abroad:
Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 4/4 | Innovating with Erlang and Elixir
Why do companies use Erlang & Elixir for their blockchain solutions?Building a robust and scalable blockchain presents a number of challenges that a research and development team typically needs to address. Often the ambitious goals to drive decentralised consensus and governance require unconventional approaches to achieve extra performance and reliability.
Improved Transa … ⌘ Read more
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How I got Crostini to work in Chrome OS Flex
I blogged that I could not run Linux support (Crostini) on CloudReady and Chrome OS Flex. Every time I tried to enable Linux support in the settings, the activation failed with an error. ⌘ Read more
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Firefox on Chrome OS (Flex) using Flatpak
More for fun than being really useful, here’s a little tutorial on how to use Firefox on Chrome OS (Flex) (for me, it’s currently version 100 in the Dev Channel). But beware, the user experience really leaves a lot to be desired… ⌘ Read more
Why you’re so bad at managing your time. ⌘ Read more
Live Streaming a Macintosh Plus
Since recording a handful of C Programming on System 6 videos, I’ve occasionally wanted to live-stream the more casual daily programming being done on my Macintosh Plus. After getting all of the pieces together, I now have a working self-hosted broadcasting setup. ⌘ Read more
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BEES! ⌘ Read more
Why I renamed my blogs
After a bit of consideration and a poll on Fosstodon, which shows a clear result even before it ends, I decided to rename this blog from “jlelse’s Blog – Thoughts, stories and ideas” to “Jan-Lukas Else – Thoughts of an IT expert”. Likewise, my German blog from “einGeek – Mehr als nur Internet und Programmieren” to “Jan-Lukas Else – Gedanken eines IT-Experten”. ⌘ Read more
Ok, so I have now installed CloudReady, switched to the beta channel as well, but I can’t use Linux because my CPU is not secured against Spectre/Meltdown and CloudReady doesn’t come with microcode updates. Until that comes, my ThinkPad will probably only be for browsing, watching videos, and blogging… ⌘ Read more
How I got Crostini to work in Chrome OS Flex
I blogged that I could not run Linux support (Crostini) on CloudReady and Chrome OS Flex. Every time I tried to enable Linux support in the settings, the activation failed with an error. ⌘ Read more
How I can access Linux with Chrome OS Flex
I recently installed CloudReady on my ThinkPad. Unfortunately, the Linux feature is not available there because microcode updates are missing, there is no BIOS update and Crostini is quite strict about security. ⌘ Read more
Docker Captain Take 5 – Martin Terp
Docker Captains are select members of the community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others. “Docker Captains Take 5” is a regular blog series where we get a closer look at our Captains and ask them the same broad set of questions ranging from what […]
The post Docker Captain Take 5 – Martin Terp appeared first on [Docker Blog](https://www. … ⌘ Read more
Chorded Keyboard
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Scott Morrison’s 60 Minutes HUMILIATION ⌘ Read more
Ok, so I have now installed CloudReady, switched to the beta channel as well, but I can’t use Linux because my CPU is not secured against Spectre/Meltdown and CloudReady doesn’t come with microcode updates. Until that comes, my ThinkPad will probably only be for browsing, watching videos, and blogging… ⌘ Read more
Chrome OS Flex and CloudReady
At first I missed the news, but today I somehow stumbled across it: Google has released an early access version of “Chrome OS Flex”, as a result of the integration of CloudReady into Chrome OS. CloudReady also ran under my radar until today, but I did take the time to give both a try. ⌘ Read more
The Science in “Don’t Look Up” with Adam McKay and Dr. Amy Mainzer ⌘ Read more
Code scanning finds more vulnerabilities using machine learning
Today we launched new code scanning analysis features powered by machine learning. The experimental analysis finds more of the most common types of vulnerabilities. ⌘ Read more
Leveraging machine learning to find security vulnerabilities
A behind-the-scenes peek into the machine learning framework powering new code scanning security alerts. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Saving lives with Elixir
When you think about programming languages, you might not think about them literally changing people’s lives, but they do more often than you would expect. Elixir has empowered Linda Achieng and Sigu Mawa to build emergency software that is already saving lives in Kenya. What started with the death of a close friend, has expanded into an inspirational project, with Elixir being used to empower local com … ⌘ Read more
NSW Police Commissioner Exposed ⌘ Read more
How to make the most out of a mentoring relationship
Tips from our developer advocates on how and why to find a mentor. ⌘ Read more
Encoding and escaping untrusted data to prevent injection attacks
Practical tips on how to apply OWASP Top 10 Proactive Control C4. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.1 Released!
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.1 release of Openfire. This release fixes a number of bugs and represents our effort to provide a stable 4.7.x series while work continues on the next feature release of Openfire.
Notable fixes include security updates to bundled database drivers, logging configuration fixes, and an important fix for users experiencin … ⌘ Read more
Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD
I was trying to use a V4L2 Ruby module for a project on my OpenBSD laptop but ran into a problem where sending the V4L2 ioctls from this module would fail, while other V4L2 programs on OpenBSD worked fine. ⌘ Read more
Data Trap
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GitHub Enterprise Server 3.4 improves developer productivity and adds reusable workflows to CI/CD
The GitHub Enterprise Server 3.4 release candidate delivers enhancements to make life easier and more productive, from keyboard shortcuts to auto-generated release notes! ⌘ Read more
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Thermodynamics of Water ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: JMP is 5 years old today, and now with international calls!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone … ⌘ Read more
Hi-Fi!
Deezer announced today that it is raising prices in Germany and Austria for new customers. Premium now costs 1€ more. But (for new customers) Premium also includes Hi-Fi directly. ⌘ Read more
The GitHub Stars in our eyes ⭐️
Over the past year, the GitHub Stars have made a tremendous impact in the community with their influence, inspiring and building communities and creating content to help everyone. ⌘ Read more
Announcing the 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
The MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, is a 12-week internship alternative for aspiring software engineers. Meet the 2022 cohort! ⌘ Read more
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A Cosmic Bromance: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice’s Unbreakable Bond ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.7.1 released!
Moments ago, we’ve released version 1.7.1 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version fixes changes to the API (notably the JSON representation of some entities) that inadvertently sneaked into the 1.7.0 release. The API in 1.7.0 should closely resemble that of releases prior to 1.7.0!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternative … ⌘ Read more
Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files. ⌘ Read more
Health Stats
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NSW Police: Politician Protection Racket ⌘ Read more
Dino: Dino 0.3 Release
Dino is a secure and privacy-friendly messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive, clean and modern user interface.
The 0.3 release is all about calls. Dino now supports calls between two or more people!
Calls are end-to-end encrypted and use a direct connection between … ⌘ Read more
Inside SoFi Stadium and Other Stadiums of the Future with Neil DeGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
I probably spend more CPU cycles optimizing the program than the program optimization will save in CPU cycles. 🤔 ⌘ Read more
Getting started with project planning on GitHub
Stop context switching. Keep your team’s project planning next to your code. ⌘ Read more
Inside the Hidden Git Folder - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
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Rest and Fluids
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Brave Woman VS Free-Speech ⌘ Read more
Cosmic Queries – Quantum Queries with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Hakeem Oluseyi ⌘ Read more
How to start using reusable workflows with GitHub Actions
Reusable workflows offer a simple and powerful way to avoid copying and pasting workflows across your repositories. ⌘ Read more
New Docker Menu & Improved Release Highlights with Docker Desktop 4.5
We’re excited to announce the release of Docker Desktop 4.5 which includes enhancements we’re excited for you to try out. New Docker Menu: Improved Speed and Unified Experience Across Operating Systems We’ve launched a new version of the Docker Menu which creates a consistent user experience across all operating systems (including Docker Desktop for Linux, […]
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“How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook”
I read this very long article about Telegram today and somehow it left me with mixed feelings. The article is also from WIRED, but it offers more balanced coverage than an article from a year ago. ⌘ Read more
Livestream brought you by Starlink
I got Starlink/Soylink and I might, might be able to do a livestream from my house.
Come see if it works here:
Livestream brought you by Starlink
I got Starlink/Soylink and I might, might be able to do a livestream from my house.
Come see if it works here:
https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/6HaEr5NtP61H1fZC3FdXC9
I will start sometime soon once I get things set up. I should have a chat module open now on my PeerTube instance now. ⌘ Read more
Wallops 1.1 Released
A large update to my Wallops IRC client is available: ⌘ Read more
Monal IM: Funding campaign: Mac Mini for faster Monal development
Update 15.02.2022 Thank you very much. We reached our target of 1000€ within less than a week. We will order our new Mac mini tonight. Stay tuned for a big development blog post.
Dear Monal Community,
as you know the Monal project is developed by volunteers and has no general funding so far.
To improve the development situation it would be of advantage to have a physical build server for the developers.
This would have … ⌘ Read more