GitHub Advisory Database now supports Erlang and Elixir packages!
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more. ⌘ Read more
**Dito por @JornalMapa (e eu subscrevo):
“Na Conferência dos Oceanos que hoje começou em Lisboa, a Mineração no Mar é tema (e ameaça) afastado de um encontro que nada mais promete do que declarações “não vinculativas” à nossa relação com o mar.”
Em 2018: https://www.jornalmapa.pt/2018/01/15/turvar-as-aguas-parte-ii/**
Dito por @JornalMapa (e eu subscrevo):
“Na Conferência dos Oceanos que hoje começou em Lisboa, a Mineração no Mar é tema (e ameaça) afastado de um … ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Handy-Dandy Subscription Info-Graphic
Because, let’s face it, there’s almost too many Lunduke Journal perks to keep track of. ⌘ Read more
Highlights from Git 2.37
The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Gaining a Competitive Advantage in Fintech From Your Choice of Tech Stack
In our recent white paper ‘Technology Trends in Financial Services 2022’, we explained the importance of software engineering for gaining a competitive advantage in the industry. Since the start of the year, a lot has occurred on a macro level strengthening our belief that modern financial services must be based on a solid technical foundation to deliver the user experiences and business rel … ⌘ Read more
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Extended NFPA Hazard Diamond
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The XMPP Standards Foundation: On-Boarding Experience with XSF (Converse)
Hi, I am PawBud. I will be working as a GSoC Contributor with XSF. To know more about my project kindly read this blog. Feel free to contact me through my email to ask me anything you want!
Before I start, I feel that some things that I am going to write in this blog might offend someone. **Kindly … ⌘ Read more
Sem surpresas:
Sem surpresas:
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Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel
Linux would join Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook in usage of Rust as a disciplinary tool. ⌘ Read more
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In reply to: Oatmeal - That one time when Buffy the Vampire Slayer maybe saved my life?
After giving my brain bleed time to heal the neurosurgeon called me back in to hospital; the plan was to reassess, attempt to fix it using the minimally invasive technique that they tried once before, and if that didn’t work, do something a bit more squidgy dir … ⌘ Read more
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Teve Costa a lata de dizer “Convém termos a noção que a generalidade das pessoas hoje ainda tem veículos de combustão normal e esse esforço de transição é um esforço enorme e que vai pender sobretudo sobre as famílias”, para adiar uma norma que regula a venda de carros… novos.
Teve Costa a lata de dizer “Convém termos a noção que a generalidade das pessoas hoje ainda tem veículos de combustão normal e esse esforço de transição é um esforço enorme e que vai pender sobretudo sobre as famílias”, para adiar u … ⌘ Read more
Cosmic Queries – Pot Luck with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Dr. Staci Gruber ⌘ Read more
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Thank you to our maintainers
To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on. ⌘ Read more
PRGuy Unmasked ⌘ Read more
Roman Numerals
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I’m Shocked! ⌘ Read more
Cosmic Queries – NASA v. Billionaires with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Lori Garver ⌘ Read more
Google pulls plug on “Sentient A.I.” after it begins using Arch Linux
“BTW, I use Arch. Therefore I am.” ⌘ Read more
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Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.1 released!
Earlier today, version 1.8.1 of the Openfire REST API plugin was released. This version removes the need to authenticate for status endpoints, adds new endpoints for bulk modifications of affiliations on MUC rooms, as well as a healthy number of other bugfixes.
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the pl … ⌘ Read more
What’s new in Codespaces for Organizations
We’re releasing exciting functionalities that will enable organizations to confidently manage and scale with Codespaces. ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - June 22, 2022
Listen now (15 min) | Mozilla gobbles up Android E-Mail application K-9 Mail. For better or worse. ⌘ Read more
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Erlang Solutions: Contract Programming an Elixir approach – Part 1
This series explores the concepts found in Contract Programming and adapts them to the Elixir language. Erlang and BEAM languages, in general, are surrounded by philosophies like “fail fast”, “defensive programming”, and “offensive programming”, and contract programming can be a nice addition. The series is also available on Github.
You will find a lot … ⌘ Read more
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The Lunduke Journal Podcast - June 21, 2022
Listen now (19 min) | What are the minimum number of online services you could use? ⌘ Read more
The Ultimate Guide to Australia ⌘ Read more
What If? 2 Countdown
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[LIVE] Connecting Neurons to a Computer: The New Plan ⌘ Read more
Funny Programming Pictures Part VIII
They’re not “memes”, they’re “funny pictures”. I will die on this hill. ⌘ Read more
Telegram Premium cheaper and in Germany!
I have found a way, it is possible to subscribe to Telegram Premium at a cheaper price and in Germany (where it is actually not yet officially available)! ⌘ Read more
Browsing the World Wide Web via E-Mail. 1990’s Style.
A look back at “Doctor Bob’s Guide to Offline Internet Access”. ⌘ Read more
What is the Doppler Effect? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more
No more GitHub Copilot for me
I was an avid user of GitHub Copilot during the technical preview phase. Apparently, as many as 1.2 million developers used Copilot. But now Copilot is out of beta and suddenly costs money. ⌘ Read more
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[LIVE] Connecting Neurons to a Computer: The New Plan ⌘ Read more
GitHub Copilot is generally available to all developers
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects. ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Announcing ejabberd DEB and RPM Repositories
Today, we are happy to announce our official Linux packages repository: a source of .deb and .rpm packages for ejabberd Community Server. This repository provides a new way for the community to install and upgrade ejabberd.
All details on how to set this up are described on the dedicated website:
 and bug fixes.
– Improved MQTT, MUC, and ConverseJS integration
– New installers and container
– Support Erlang/OTP 25
When upgrading from the previous version please notice: there are minor changes in SQL schemas, the included rebar and reba … ⌘ Read more
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Briefly tempted to post here as a simple read-until-this-point marker.
Superintelligent AIs
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This is what Crayion thinks about me… ⌘ Read more
GitHub enables the development of functional safety applications by adding support for coding standards AUTOSAR C++ and CERT C++
GitHub is excited to announce the release of CodeQL queries that implement the standards CERT C++ and AUTOSAR C++. These queries can aid developers looking to demonstrate ISO 26262 Part 6 process compliance. ⌘ Read more
“2299: Act 1” – Comedy Sci-Fi with spaceships and stuff
Book released as a PDF for all Lunduke Journal subscribers ⌘ Read more
I tried bullet journaling for 30 days ⌘ Read more
TUIFI Manager: A file manager, in the terminal, with file icons made out of ascii characters.
Because… why not? ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Modernizing XMPP authentication and authorization
We’re excited to announce that we have received funding, from the EU’s
NGI Assure via the NLnet Foundation, to work on
some important enhancements to Prosody and XMPP. Our work will be focusing on
XMPP authentication and authorization, and bringing it up to date with current
and emerging best practices.
What kind of changes are we talking about? Well, there are a few aspects we
are planning to work on. Let’s start with “authent … ⌘ Read more
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The Big Gamble: Avi Yemini vs PRGuy ⌘ Read more
**What the…
“It’s not compulsory to get the app.
But EU countries will be required to offer a digital ID system to its residents. Likewise, public and private services will be required to accept the new ID, but they can’t make it compulsory for users either.”**
What the…
“It’s not compulsory to get the app.
But EU countries will be required to offer a digital ID system to its residents. Likewise, public and private services will be required to accept the new ID, but they can’t make it compulsory for use … ⌘ Read more
**“This decision is not only a hollow response to Covid-19, but it sends the message that intellectual property rights outweigh the rights to health and life.”
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/covid-19-wto-ministerial-decision-on-trips-agreement-fails-to-set-rules-that-could-save-lives/**
“This decision is not only a hollow response to Covid-19, but it sends the message that intellectual property rights outweigh the rights to health and life.”
[amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…](https://www.amnesty. … ⌘ Read more
Paul Schaub: Reproducible Builds – Telling of a Debugging Story
Reproducibility is an important tool to empower users. Why would a user care about that? Let me elaborate.
For a piece of software to be reproducible means that everyone with access to the software’s source code is able to build the binary form of it (e.g. the executable that gets distributed). What’s the matter? Isn’t that true for any project with accessible source code? Not at all. Reproducibility means that the r … ⌘ Read more
Telegram Premium is there, at least the announcement that it should be there, but the update on Google Play somehow not yet. Unfortunately, the announcement says that Premium is not (yet) available for users in Germany. ☹️ I’m especially waiting for the feature to be able to convert voice messages to text. 😅 ⌘ Read more
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Ask Me Anything
Inspired by Kev’s post, I’d like to give this a try as well: ⌘ Read more
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Something incredible is happening this week… ⌘ Read more
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Gajim: Gajim 1.4.4
Gajim 1.4.4 comes with many improvements: emoji auto-complete, automatic theme switching when your desktop switches from light to dark in the evening, a completely reworked Gajim remote interface, and many bug fixes.
After many emoji improvements in Gajim 1.4.3, this version comes with an emoji auto-complete while writing messages! As soon as you start typing a :, a popover will show you available emoji shortcodes, just like on Slack or Github 🎉
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Release Radar · May 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These projects can include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. We cover what the project is and some of their breaking changes. Read about the project, and browse their repositories. Without further ado, here are our top staff picks […] ⌘ Read more
Cosmic Queries – Big Bang Bonanza with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Brian Keating ⌘ Read more
I am a Bunny.net fan as they offer a CDN at a good price, are based in Europe and really care about privacy. The latest tool they offer: Bunny Fonts as a replacement for Google Fonts, because its use is illegal in Germany. 👍 ⌘ Read more
The Android kernel mitigations obstacle race
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-22057, a use-after-free in the Qualcomm gpu kernel driver, to gain root and disable SELinux from the untrusted app sandbox on a Samsung Z flip 3. I’ll look at various mitigations that are implemented on modern Android devices and how they affect the exploit. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Biggest Product in 1980: the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II
Before MS-DOS, Microsoft helped CP/M run on the Apple II. ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Announcing ejabberd DEB and RPM Repositories
Today, we are happy to announce our official Linux packages repository: a source of .deb and .rpm packages for ejabberd Community Server. This repository provides a new way for the community to install and upgrade ejabberd.
All details on how to set this up are described on the dedicated website:
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On my way to work… 🚲 ⌘ Read more
Git Merge 2022
Git Merge, the conference dedicated to bringing the Git community together returns on September 14-15 in Chicago, Illinois. ⌘ Read more
FSFE open letter: “The universal right to install any software on any device”
The Lunduke Journal has signed this letter and enthusiastically supports it. ⌘ Read more
Apple: “Sideloading is the DEVIL!”
Apple, Google, and others are attempting to demonize the act of installing software. We can’t let them succeed. ⌘ Read more
Prebuilding codespaces is generally available
Teams and GHEC customers can now create blazing fast codespaces, even for your largest and most complex projects. ⌘ Read more
GitHub now publishes malware advisories in the GitHub Advisory Database
To combat the prevalence of malware in the open source ecosystem, GitHub now publishes malware occurrences in the GitHub Advisory Database. These advisories power Dependabot alerts and remain forever free and usable by the community. ⌘ Read more
Amend 3.4 Released
Amend 3.4 has been released: ⌘ Read more
Neil deGrasse Tyson turns a lamp on… with the power of his MIND?! ⌘ Read more