SMLR 318: Mad About MP3

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Tony Bemus, Tom Lawrence, Phil Porada and Jay LaCroix

Sound bites by Mike Tanner

Phils GitHub

The LawrenceSystems YouTube Channel Where videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTecknowledge

Jay’s Site

Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4

Show Notes

PinePhone Release Date & Price

PinePhone: What You Need to Know About This Linux Phone

sudo snap install kdenlive
Kdenlive is Now Available on the Snap Store

Kdenlive is Now Available on the Snap Store

Urgent security issue in NGINX/php-fpm
https://nextcloud.com/blog/urgent-security-issue-in-nginx-php-fpm/

Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4
https://ubuntu.com/blog/roadmap-for-official-support-for-the-raspberry-pi-4

On August 7, 2019, Linux Journal shut its doors for good. All staff were laid off and the company is left with no operating funds to continue in any capacity.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190812013229/https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication-awkward-goodbye

Google Open Sources Cardboard
https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/11/open-sourcing-google-cardboard.html

Microsoft: Defender ATP Is Coming To Linux In 2020
https://www.linux.com/news/microsoft-defender-atp-is-coming-to-linux-in-2020/

The GNOME Foundation has taken the extraordinary step of not just defending itself against a patent troll but to aggressively go after them. This is an important battle. Let me explain.

Let’s fight back against patent trolls

GNOME Patent Troll Defense Fund
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund

Calling all Tesla owners: let’s discuss the source code for the GPLed parts of your car!
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla-owners/

OpenSource Krita Artists forums
https://krita-artists.org/

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Tony:
Netflix Optimized FreeBSD’s Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Netflix-NUMA-FreeBSD-Optimized

Avast, NordVPN Breaches Tied to Phantom User Accounts
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/10/avast-nordvpn-breaches-tied-to-phantom-user-accounts/

SMLR 316: Interview with Ohio Linux Fest

Posted by Tom Lawrence on October 21, 2019 in Show-mp3, Show-ogg | ∞

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Tony Bemus, Tom Lawrence, Phil Porada and Jay LaCroix

Sound bites by Mike Tanner

Phils GitHub

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Jay’s Site

Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4

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SMLR 315 The whale in the room

Posted by Tom Lawrence on October 6, 2019 in Show-mp3 | ∞

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Jay’s Site

https://itsfoss.com/shotwell-lawsuit/

Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4

Show Notes

GNOME Foundation is Being Sued Because of Shotwell Photo Manager

11 Mini PCs That Come With Linux Pre-installed

https://itsfoss.com/linux-based-mini-pc/

Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn’t use its software

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_merula/

The Docker ship needs funding to stay afloat

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/docker-is-trying-to-raise-money-following-arrival-of-ceo-rob-bearden.html

Krita is now for sale on Steam for Linux!

https://steamcommunity.com/games/280680/announcements/detail/1602641040266097544

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d2ic2e/krita_is_now_for_sale_on_steam_for_linux/

German ministry hellbent on taking back control of ‘digital sovereignty’, cutting dependency on Microsoft

‘Pain points’ include data collection, lock-in and uncontrollable costs

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/19/german_government_report_digital_sovereignty/

New Video Demo of the Librem 5 Shows That …It Actually Works Okay?!

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/09/librem-5-aspen-video-demo

Huawei MateBook laptops now come with Linux

https://www.techradar.com/in/news/huawei-matebook-laptops-now-come-with-linux

What’s inside a Facebook Datacenter Open Compute Rack?

https://youtu.be/2l6gI-ksdKs

Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/moving-firefox-to-a-faster-4-week-release-cycle/

Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle

At Oracle OpenWorld 2019, tucked away in the Oracle Code One area, the company had something unique: a 1060 Raspberry Pi 3 B+ cluster it calls the Raspberry Pi Supercomputer.

https://www.servethehome.com/oracle-shows-1060-raspberry-pi-supercomputer-at-oow/

“Microsoft Linux Conference” — three words you probably thought you’d ever hear together but you just have, and it’s happening next March.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/09/microsoft-linux-conference-wslconf-march-2020

Must Read: PineTime is a $25 Linux-friendly Smartwatch, Coming Next Year (Updated)

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/09/pinetime-linux-smartwatch

Your own internal ACME compatible Certificate Authority!

https://smallstep.com/blog/private-acme-server/

Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos

Calibre 4.0 is out now for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows

https://news.softpedia.com/news/calibre-open-source-ebook-management-app-gets-major-release-after-two-years-527701.shtml

Pine64 Is Making a $25 Linux Smartwatch

https://www.pcmag.com/news/370763/pine64-is-making-a-25-linux-smartwatch

SMLR 314 Let’s Talk About Pie

Posted by Tom Lawrence on September 9, 2019 in Show-mp3 | ∞

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Phils GitHub

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Jay’s Site

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/08/microsoft-is-bringing-exfat-to-the-linux-kernel

Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4

Show Notes

Tom

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Microsoft is Bringing exFAT to the Linux Kernel (And No-One’s Getting Sued) Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing exFAT support to the Linux kernel, with code contributed licensed under GPLv2.

Dell made an index for their Linux Workstations and Laptops

www.Dell.com/linux

ARM-Powered Lenovo Yoga C630 Laptop To See Better Support With Linux 5.4

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.4-Yoga-C630-Lenovo-ARM

How to Install Shutter Screenshot Tool in Ubuntu 19.04

https://itsfoss.com/install-shutter-ubuntu/

Ubuntu 19.10 Planned Features

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/ubuntu-19-10-release-features

And the biggest single change in Ubuntu 19.10 is the decision to include NVIDIA drivers on the ISO install image.
Theme support for Snap apps

Ubuntu Dock trash & external drive icons

Updated Yaru GTK Theme

Guest Session support in login screen

Fwupd available as a Snap (Firmware Updater)

Experimental ZFS file system install option

WireGuard Releases New Snapshot While Not Expected For Linux 5.4 Mainline

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WireGuard-0.0.20190905

Python is eating the world: How one developer’s side project became the hottest programming language on the planet

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/python-is-eating-the-world-how-one-developers-side-project-became-the-hottest-programming-language-on-the-planet/

An Overview of Intel’s Clear Linux, its Features and Installation Procedure
Clear Linux is a product of Intel’s Open Source Technology Center focusing mainly on the cloud. It’s not your regular general-purpose Linux distributions, but a distribution that mostly suits various cloud use cases leveraging the best of Intel’s hardware and architecture. There are better power management and performance optimizations along with various other features.

https://itsfoss.com/clear-linux/

8-Way Linux Distribution Benchmarks On The AMD EPYC 7742 2P Server

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=8way-amd-rome&num=1

When taking the geometric mean from the dozens of tests carried out successfully on all eight Linux distributions under test, Intel’s Clear Linux was still the fastest distribution tested on this AMD EPYC 7742 2P “Rome” server.

Phil

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Pre-show discussion: Does a package mirror exist that transmits data via the torrent protocol rather than http(s)?

PPPoE = Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet. It is used mainly with DSL services where individual users connect to a DSL modem over Ethernet.

Rebuilt my barn radio https://philporada.com/imgs/barn-radio.jpg

Rebuilt my firewall

https://www.pcengines.ch/apu4c4.htm

4GB DDR3 ECC Ram

1 GHz quad Jaguar core with 64 bit and AES-NI support

4Gig-E ports

Deployed plex on my _old_ firewall https://hub.docker.com/r/plexinc/pms-docker/

https://www.satellitetoday.com/imagery-and-sensing/2019/09/05/sstl-releases-raspberry-pi-camera-image-and-video/

Surrey Satellite Technology today released an image and video of the Earth captured from Low-Earth Orbit by a Raspberry Pi camera and computer on board a satellite launched on a Soyuz rocket in July 2019.

The image includes the coasts of France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany with Denmark and is believed to be the first acquired in low earth orbit by a commercial off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi camera.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15846

Exim RCE THIS IS BAD

Exim is a popular MTA – mail transfer agent. An MTA directly receives SMTP from a client.

The SMTP Delivery process in all versions up to and including Exim 4.92.1 has a Buffer Overflow. In the default runtime configuration, this is exploitable with crafted Server Name Indication (SNI) data during a TLS negotiation. In other configurations, it is exploitable with a crafted client TLS certificate. Not currently on https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz and it needs to be because Exim is written in C.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-next-in-making-dns-over-https-the-default/

In 2017, Mozilla began working on the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol. The key findings from this study were to determine how Mozilla could best deploy DoH, honor enterprise configuration and respect user choice about parental controls.

Mozilla plans to gradually roll out DNS-over-HTTPS in the USA starting in late September. The plan is to slowly enabling DoH for a small percentage of users. If this goes well, Mozilla will announce when they’re ready for 100% deployment.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard-stallman-spoke-at-microsoft-research-this-week/

Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week

A day later, everyone’s seemingly alive but Windows still isn’t ‘free.’

The main topics of the discussion are the continued importance of free software, GPL v3, GNU vs. Linux. Stallman stated that “he had a list of ‘small requests’: make Github push users to better software license hygiene, make hardware manufacturers to publish their hardware specs, make it easier to workaround Secure Boot.”

If you’re wondering whether Stallman’s distaste for Microsoft has lessened over the years, his personal home page makes it clear that it has not. The front and center of his main page is a list of “Reasons not to use Microsoft.” The list is current, and includes “Microsoft recorded users of Xboxes and had human workers listen to the recordings,” and “Microsoft tricked users into ‘upgrading’ to Windows 10.'”

At one point he did state “Sometimes there is a use for windows.”

Tony

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FiftyOneFifty passed away on 9/5/2019, No details as of now but he will be missed.

Android Q/10 released

https://www.techradar.com/news/android-q

SMLR 313 Detroit Linux

Posted by Tom Lawrence on August 25, 2019 in Show-mp3 | ∞

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Tony Bemus, Tom Lawrence, Phil Porada and Jay LaCroix

Sound bites by Mike Tanner

Phils GitHub

The LawrenceSystems YouTube Channel Where videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTecknowledge

Jay’s Site

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RRrGA/SwRavCzVE7gJ

Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4

Show Notes

Triva: 28 year ago today Linus posted in a thread “What would you like to see most in minix?

“just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu”

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Arrives with Linux Kernsigel 5.0

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/08/ubuntu-18-04-3-point-release

Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-khara-moving-to-blender/

Blender and Next Gen: a Netflix Original

https://www.blender.org/conference/2018/presentations/467

When looking at the geometric mean for all the CPU-based renderer tests run for this article, the AMD EPYC 7742 2P server was delivering about 78% better performance than the dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 server and similarly for the previous-gen EPYC 7601 performance. Making the EPYC Rome processors even more compelling for render farms is the EPYC 7742 costs less than the Xeon Platinum 8280 and in general more favorite pricing than Cascade Lake at current retail prices.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=blender-epyc-7742&num=3

CutiePie is an 8-inch open-source tablet built on top of Raspberry Pi. For now, it is just a working prototype which they announced on Raspberry Pi forums.

https://itsfoss.com/cutiepi-open-source-tab/

Knoppix 8.6 Released – This Original Linux Live Distro Now Based On Debian Buster

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Knoppix-8.6-Released

Over the past few months, System76 has been developing a simple, easy-to-use tool for updating firmware on Pop!_OS and System76 hardware. Today, we’re excited to announce that you can now check and update firmware through Settings on Pop!_OS, and through the firmware manager GTK application on System76 hardware running other Debian-based distributions.

https://blog.system76.com/post/187072707563/the-new-firmware-manager-updating-firmware-across

Linux 5.3 Kernel Yielding The Best Performance Yet For AMD EPYC “Rome” CPU Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-EPYC-Rome-Linux-5.3-Perf

Since announcing its Red Hat acquisition, IBM has been on an open source roll, open sourcing everything from Kabanero, software to make it easy for enterprises to tackle Kubernetes deployments, to Razee, battle-tested software it’s been using in its cloud to manage applications in Kubernetes cluster deployments. This week the company went a step further and threw its big blue fedora into the open silicon ring by open sourcing its Power processor.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/ibm/ibm-open-sources-its-workhorse-power-chip-architecture

Jay

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Fedora Switching To The BFQ I/O Scheduler For Better Responsiveness & Throughput

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Switching-To-BFQ

Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10 – an introduction

https://ubuntu.com/blog/enhancing-our-zfs-support-on-ubuntu-19-10-an-introduction

Enhanced Livepatch desktop integration available with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

https://ubuntu.com/blog/enhanced-livepatch-desktop-integration-available-with-ubuntu-18-04-3-lts

System76 Unveils Graphical Firmware Updater for All Debian-Based Linux Distros

https://news.softpedia.com/news/system76-unveils-graphical-firmware-updater-for-all-debian-based-linux-distros-527046.shtml

Tony

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Breach at Hy-Vee Supermarket Chain Tied to Sale of 5M+ Stolen Credit, Debit Cards

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/breach-at-hy-vee-supermarket-chain-tied-to-sale-of-5m-stolen-credit-debit-cards/

Hackers Want $2.5 Million Ransom for Texas Ransomware Attacks

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/breach-at-hy-vee-supermarket-chain-tied-to-sale-of-5m-stolen-credit-debit-cards/

D-Link DIR-600M – Authentication Bypass (Metasploit)

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47250

SMLR 312 Merge branch ‘floppy’

Posted by Tom Lawrence on August 6, 2019 in Show-mp3, Show-ogg | ∞

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https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTecknowledge

Jay’s Site

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/08/02/system76-is-launching-an-insanely-powerful-linux-laptop-with-4k-oled-display-and-intel-i9-9980hk/#3e5038ed15e3

Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4

Show Notes

System76 Is Launching An Insanely Powerful Linux Laptop With 4K OLED Display And Intel i9-9980HK

Linux finally dropping floppy drive support

https://techreport.com/news/3464145/linux-dropping-floppy-drive-support/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc4d0f371bf773540a8f8f4

Proton 4.11 released, kernel packages available for testing

https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/2957094910196249305

Valve LKML post

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/30/1399

Kali Linux For Raspberry Pi 4 Is Now Officially Released

https://www.kali.org/news/raspberry-pi-4-and-kali/

Alibaba Chip Subsidiary Launches First Product Using Open-Source Architecture

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-07-25/alibaba-chip-subsidiary-launches-first-product-using-open-source-architecture-101443785.html

Deepin 15.11 Released
Deepin desktop environment (DDE) uses the Kwin (KDE Window Manager) for compositing and management. As well boasting a crop of bug fixes, the new version of dde-kwin is said to be lighter and less crashy than before.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/deepin-15-11-released-this-is-whats-new

Facebook open-sources algorithms for detecting child exploitation and terrorism imagery

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/1/20750752/facebook-child-exploitation-terrorism-open-source-algorithm-pdq-tmk

Apple joins the Data Transfer Project: an open source project to allow data portability

https://www.techspot.com/news/81221-apple-joins-data-transfer-project-open-source-project.html

IBM JUST MADE ITS CANCER-FIGHTING AI PROJECTS OPEN-SOURCE

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ibm-cancer-ai-open-source

Understanding Linux /etc/passwd File Format

https://www.2daygeek.com/understanding-linux-etc-passwd-file-format/

Phil

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Cool tool

Sampler is a tool for shell commands execution, visualization and alerting. Configured with a simple YAML file.

The license is pretty restrictive in that the software can only be used by a single user.

https://github.com/sqshq/sampler

Flame graphs are a visualization of profiled software, allowing the most frequent code-paths to be identified quickly and accurately.

The x-axis shows the stack profile population, sorted alphabetically (it is not the passage of time), and the y-axis shows stack depth, counting from zero at the bottom. Each rectangle represents a stack frame. The wider a frame is, the more often it was present in the stacks. The top edge shows what is on-CPU, and beneath it is its ancestry.

Flame graphs can be generated from any profile data that contains stack traces, including from the following profiling tools:

Linux: perf, eBPF, SystemTap, and ktap

Solaris, illumos, FreeBSD: DTrace

Mac OS X: DTrace and Instruments

Windows: Xperf.exe

https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph

In Episode 311 we mentioned that Epic Games awarded the Blender Foundation with $1.2 million dollars. This is the first big release since that award.

Blender 2.80 features a redesigned user interface that puts the focus on the artwork that you create. A new dark theme and modern icon set were introduced. Keyboard, mouse and tablet interaction got a refresh with left click select as the new default. Quick Favorites menus provide rapid access to often-used tools.

Following up on the

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/08/03/manjaro-linux-team-responds-to-libreoffice-versus-freeoffice-in-upcoming-version-18-1/#66e12542bf46

The Linux community was in a bit of an uproar this week when Manjaro Linux announced that it would be swapping out the open source office suite LibreOffice in version 18.1 and replacing it with the proprietary FreeOffice. It’s due to a new partnership between the Manjaro developers and FreeOffice creator SoftMaker.

After community backlash, the Manjaro developers decided on a solution that would be the best of both worlds, offer their users the choice to pick which

office suite to install. Softmaker went on to publicly state they will be adding save to DOC, XLS, PPT, ODT to their FreeOffice free tier as well.

Debian 10 Buster is now available on DistroTest

DistroTest allows you to take a look at the existing systems, test them live in your browser without any installation. Typically you wait up to 1 minute in a queue before being presented with a popup VNC browser.

https://distrotest.net/Debian/10.0

GitHub is blocking users in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria from accessing its services to comply with U.S. trade control laws.

The Microsoft-owned company disclosed the action on a support page as a courtesy, noting that GitHub users ultimately are responsible for ensuring that their use of GitHub’s products and services complies with all applicable laws and regulations.

The blocking is based on source IP address and payment history for GitHub Pro accounts. GitHub states that developers are not allowed to use VPNs to circumvent the ban. However, this is just an ongoing game of cat and mouse. The developers this ban has blocked are those technical enough to research ways to evade being blocked.

https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/GitHub-Blocks-Devs-in-US-Sanctioned-Regions-86154.html

SMLR 311 Dial 311 for Linux

Posted by Tom Lawrence on July 24, 2019 in Show-mp3, Show-ogg | ∞

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Tony Bemus, Tom Lawrence, Phil Porada and Jay LaCroix

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Phils GitHub

The LawrenceSystems YouTube Channel Where videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTecknowledge

Jay’s Site

https://kdenlive.org/en/2019/07/kdenlive-19-04-3-is-out/

Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4

Show Notes

Kdenlive update

How to Mirror & Control Your Android Phone using Scrcpy

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/scrcpy-mirror-android-to-ubuntu-linux

New Pinebook Pro Video Demos 4K Video, External Monitor, and WebGL

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/new-pinebook-pro-video-demo

Libinput update

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Libinput-1.14-Release-Candidate

AMD Releases BIOS Fix To Motherboard Partners For Booting Newer Linux Distributions

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Releases-Linux-Zen2-Fix

Open Source Bionic Leg

https://news.umich.edu/open-source-bionic-leg-first-of-its-kind-platform-aims-to-rapidly-advance-prosthetics/

https://opensourceleg.com/

Don’t ask why, ask why not!

https://twitter.com/MattisLind/status/1147536339291791361

Tony

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Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project and more

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-breach-fsb-contractor-expose-tor-deanonymization-project/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

Slack to reset passwords for tens of thousands of users

https://www.zdnet.com/article/slack-to-reset-passwords-for-tens-of-thousands-of-users/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/quickbooks-cloud-hosting-firm-insynq-hit-in-ransomware-attack/

Bar Camp Grand Rapids – August 9 & 10, 2019

https://barcampgr.org/

Phil

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Epic Games Awards Open Source 3D Creation Tool Blender With $1.2 Million

https://www.theouterhaven.net/2019/07/epic-games-awards-open-source-3d-creation-tool-blender-with-1-2-million/

GameMode – A Tool To Improve Gaming Performance On Linux

https://www.ostechnix.com/gamemode-a-tool-to-improve-gaming-performance-on-linux/

A muggle’s guide to AWK arrays

https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2019-07-12.html

EvilGnome

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-evilgnome-backdoor-spies-on-linux-users-steals-their-files/

SMLR 310 CAN_GOT_HAXXD

Posted by Tom Lawrence on July 7, 2019 in Show-mp3, Show-ogg | ∞

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Phils GitHub

The LawrenceSystems YouTube Channel Where videos
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Jay’s Site

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/

Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4

Show Notes

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/the-raspberry-pi-4-launch-site-runs-on-a-pi-4-cluster/

Pine64 Smartphone

https://liliputing.com/2019/06/pinephone-149-linux-smartphone-could-support-ubuntu-sailfish-maemo-luneos-and-more.html

Public Administrations will have to carry out a comparative assessment before acquiring new software, which will favor open source solutions (including those reused by other administrations).

The development of new software and the purchase of proprietary software licenses must be justified.

All software developed on behalf of the Public Administration must be made available through open source in a publicly accessible repository and included in the Developers Italia catalog.

https://medium.com/team-per-la-trasformazione-digitale/open-source-guidelines-for-acquisition-reuse-software-in-italian-public-administration-d6d5997d3e51

19.10 ZFS

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-19.10-Experimental-ZFS

The GopenPGP library makes it easy to perform simple operations, such as encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify messages, manage keys, etc without having to deal with complicated cryptographic concepts. This high-level interface is compatible with go-mobile, a popular tool for building mobile apps written in Go.

https://protonmail.com/blog/openpgp-golang/

FreeBSD’s Release Engineering Lead Departs The Foundation

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/144403/freebsd-s-release-engineering-lead-departs-the-foundation-joins-netgate

Samba has been undergoing work to improve its performance on the large scale for organizations with 100,000+ users and over one hundred thousand computer objects and memberships. Samba 4.11 will be able to scale a hell of a lot better than previous releases due to performance improvements around reindexing, domain joins, LDAP server memory, custom LMBD map size, better batch operation support, better LDB search performance, better sub-tree rename performance, and other tuning to allow Samba to perform at massive scales.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Samba-4.11-Features

Making Artificial Intelligence

Accessible To Everyone

https://www.acumos.org/

https://www.baturin.org/docs/iproute2/

LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux.

https://librecad.org/

I found a bug in OpenSSL! – https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/9187

Raspberry Pi4 is out

Firmware update to reduce power usage by 300mW and improve performance

https://www.pcgamer.com/if-you-bought-a-raspberry-pi-4-grab-this-firmware-update-to-improve-performance/

Latest Raspbian is built on Debian 10 “Buster” which has now been publicly released

https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706

4.19 kernel
In this release, GNOME defaults to using the Wayland display server instead of Xorg
AppArmor, a mandatory access control framework for restricting programs’ capabilities, is installed and enabled by default.

Microsoft asks to join Linux distribution security contacts list

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/microsoft-asks-to-join-private-linux-security-developer-list/

This list’s purpose is to “report and discuss security issues that are not yet public (but that are to be made public no more than 14 days after being revealed to the group)”. Examples include Intel’s CPU Meltdown and Spectre security bugs would not have been discussed on linux-distros. Security issues that are already publicly discussed are handled in the OSS-Security mailing list.

Azure Sphere – for IoT devices
Windows Subsystem for Linux v2 aka WSLv2
Azure HDInsight
Azure Kubernetes Service

SMLR 309 We are all a ‘Bit’ off

Posted by Tom Lawrence on June 17, 2019 in Show-mp3, Show-ogg | ∞

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