LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #5 – Accessibility in Free and Open Source Software
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LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #5 – Accessibility in Free and Open Source Software
Mike Saunders talks to Michael Weghorn, who is working on improving accessibility in LibreOffice. What does "accessible" actually mean? In what ways does software need to be accessible? And how can users help out? We discuss these topics – and more. (Sorry…
It's easy to take image rendering in a terminal as granted, let alone video rendering. It's so cool when you think about it.
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mbwol - Multi boot Wake on LAN
Hey guys,
So for a long time, I wanted to be able to remotely boot my PC. The problem is, I dual boot Arch and Windows, so I was stuck with only being able to boot one OS remotely.
My first solution was to set Arch as the default boot option. If I wanted to boot into Windows, I had to wait for Arch to start, run a command to change the default for the next boot, and then reboot. It worked, but it wasn't great. Even if it could be automated, the PC needed to boot into Arch before it could boot into Windows, which made the boot time longer.
And one day I stumbled upon this superuser post. I tried it and it worked flawlessly !
Basically, you set up a TFTP server on another machine that serves a text file. In this file, you set the default boot option to use. Then, you configure your GRUB to request this file and source it. After that, the only thing you need is to wake your PC and find a way to modify the config file served by the TFTP server.
So for a few months, I ran a TFTP server alongside my Home Assistant instance and made a noscript that would send a WoL packet to the PC and change the content of the file served by the TFTP server to set the right boot option. This worked great, but I felt it was still a bit too hacky.
So I developed a Go service that handles the WoL and TFTP, mbwol !
https://github.com/bducha/mbwol
This is intended to run on an always on device on you network. You send an HTTP request to it, and it will boot your PC with your OS of choice. It also supports multiple machines.
I've been running it for several months now and it has been working great, so I think now is time to share it !
I agree that this is a niche use case, but maybe some of you will find this useful.
Enjoy ! And feel free to report bugs or suggest improvements !
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Hey guys,
So for a long time, I wanted to be able to remotely boot my PC. The problem is, I dual boot Arch and Windows, so I was stuck with only being able to boot one OS remotely.
My first solution was to set Arch as the default boot option. If I wanted to boot into Windows, I had to wait for Arch to start, run a command to change the default for the next boot, and then reboot. It worked, but it wasn't great. Even if it could be automated, the PC needed to boot into Arch before it could boot into Windows, which made the boot time longer.
And one day I stumbled upon this superuser post. I tried it and it worked flawlessly !
Basically, you set up a TFTP server on another machine that serves a text file. In this file, you set the default boot option to use. Then, you configure your GRUB to request this file and source it. After that, the only thing you need is to wake your PC and find a way to modify the config file served by the TFTP server.
So for a few months, I ran a TFTP server alongside my Home Assistant instance and made a noscript that would send a WoL packet to the PC and change the content of the file served by the TFTP server to set the right boot option. This worked great, but I felt it was still a bit too hacky.
So I developed a Go service that handles the WoL and TFTP, mbwol !
https://github.com/bducha/mbwol
This is intended to run on an always on device on you network. You send an HTTP request to it, and it will boot your PC with your OS of choice. It also supports multiple machines.
I've been running it for several months now and it has been working great, so I think now is time to share it !
I agree that this is a niche use case, but maybe some of you will find this useful.
Enjoy ! And feel free to report bugs or suggest improvements !
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Boot different OS if booted via Wake on LAN with GRUB
I have a PC running Windows and Linux. I want the Windows system to be the default system because this PC is mainly used for gaming.
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Should I switch from Windows 10 to Linux?
Hello, I think I want to switch from Windows 10 to Linux Mint. Later this month Microsoft wont support Windows 10 and my laptop has been slowing down. I dont have the money for a new PC to upgrade to Windows 11. I mostly just edit photo, video, draw, chat on discord and watch YouTube.
I am not sure if Mint is the right choice for me or if I should pick a different OS. I have 8 GB of ram and 1TB of hard-drive. I have used Ubuntu in the past but that was over 10 years ago, and I know things have changed.
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Hello, I think I want to switch from Windows 10 to Linux Mint. Later this month Microsoft wont support Windows 10 and my laptop has been slowing down. I dont have the money for a new PC to upgrade to Windows 11. I mostly just edit photo, video, draw, chat on discord and watch YouTube.
I am not sure if Mint is the right choice for me or if I should pick a different OS. I have 8 GB of ram and 1TB of hard-drive. I have used Ubuntu in the past but that was over 10 years ago, and I know things have changed.
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Linux 6.18 Kbuild Brings An Optimization For gen_init_cpio On Btrfs Or XFS
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Linux 6.18 Kbuild Brings An Optimization For gen_init_cpio On Btrfs Or XFS
The Kbuild changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel.
Security update (4 hours ago): Incident related to Red Hat Consulting GitLab instance
Source: https://access.redhat.com/articles/7132207
Intro: "We are writing to provide an update regarding a security incident related to a specific GitLab environment used by our Red Hat Consulting team. Red Hat takes the security and integrity of our systems and the data entrusted to us extremely seriously, and we are addressing this issue with the highest priority".
News found by: u/anvil30november on r/Fedora
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Intro: "We are writing to provide an update regarding a security incident related to a specific GitLab environment used by our Red Hat Consulting team. Red Hat takes the security and integrity of our systems and the data entrusted to us extremely seriously, and we are addressing this issue with the highest priority".
News found by: u/anvil30november on r/Fedora
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Security update: Incident related to Red Hat Consulting GitLab
We are writing to provide an update regarding a security incident related to a specific GitLab environment used by our Red Hat Consulting team. Red Hat takes the security and integrity of our systems
Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"
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Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"
After Linus Torvalds yesterday shot down RISC-V big endian prospects for the Linux kernel, today he has used his authority to wage a war on 'crazy' Rust code formatting as well as to critique poor text formatting.
v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich
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v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich · immich-app immich · Discussion #22546
v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich Watch the video Welcome Hello everyone, After: ~1,337 days, 271 releases, 78,000 stars on GitHub, 1,558 contributors, 31,500 members on Discord, 36,000 members on ...
Why are the economical benefits of Linux not talked about more?
Simply put, free.
It is astonishing to a lad like myself that one can have incredibly old "outdated" hardware, that refuses to run newer operating systems (e.g. Windows 10, 11, etc.) but works like a charm on a Linux distro.
Furthermore, Linux provides LTS that lasts for many years, which means you can continue to use your hardware for many more years to come.
I am stating this as a lad whom was contemplating throwing out my 10 year old laptop, because it doesn't support Windows 11 but find it magical that I do not need to purchase new hardware for $1K but rather can continue to use my existing hardware for many more years, thanks to Linux.
No one talks about the peace of mind you get on Linux with essentially no viruses existing so no need for anti-virus software, security concerns, etc. which could cost you lots of money in the long-run.
LibreOffice sure beats that crummy Microsoft Office recurring subnoscription too.
I feel like many huge financial burdens have been lifted off my shoulders after switching to Linux. Thank you for freeing up lots of money for me, so that I can continue to put food on the table and not on software and subnoscriptions that were created with an artificial expiration date that large corporations have set, when they need to pad up their P&L statements for shareholders.
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Simply put, free.
It is astonishing to a lad like myself that one can have incredibly old "outdated" hardware, that refuses to run newer operating systems (e.g. Windows 10, 11, etc.) but works like a charm on a Linux distro.
Furthermore, Linux provides LTS that lasts for many years, which means you can continue to use your hardware for many more years to come.
I am stating this as a lad whom was contemplating throwing out my 10 year old laptop, because it doesn't support Windows 11 but find it magical that I do not need to purchase new hardware for $1K but rather can continue to use my existing hardware for many more years, thanks to Linux.
No one talks about the peace of mind you get on Linux with essentially no viruses existing so no need for anti-virus software, security concerns, etc. which could cost you lots of money in the long-run.
LibreOffice sure beats that crummy Microsoft Office recurring subnoscription too.
I feel like many huge financial burdens have been lifted off my shoulders after switching to Linux. Thank you for freeing up lots of money for me, so that I can continue to put food on the table and not on software and subnoscriptions that were created with an artificial expiration date that large corporations have set, when they need to pad up their P&L statements for shareholders.
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Linux 6.18 will be a Big Improvement for Servers Encountering DDoS Attacks
Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-DDoS-Improvement
Intro: "A set of patches merged via the networking pull request for the Linux 6.18 will help servers better cope with distributed denial of service "DDoS" attacks. Thanks to a Google engineer there are some significant optimizations found in the Linux 6.18 kernel code for more efficiently handling of UDP receive performance under stress, such as in DDoS scenarios".
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Intro: "A set of patches merged via the networking pull request for the Linux 6.18 will help servers better cope with distributed denial of service "DDoS" attacks. Thanks to a Google engineer there are some significant optimizations found in the Linux 6.18 kernel code for more efficiently handling of UDP receive performance under stress, such as in DDoS scenarios".
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Linux 6.18 Will Be A Big Improvement For Servers Encountering DDoS Attacks
A set of patches merged via the networking pull request for the Linux 6.18 will help servers better cope with distributed denial of service 'DDoS' attacks
Why is it not standard for desktop files to have uninstall entry?
It would have been easier for DEs like gnome to implement a way to uninstall their applications within the shell. Even better if a separate
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It would have been easier for DEs like gnome to implement a way to uninstall their applications within the shell. Even better if a separate
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How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future
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How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future
This video digs into the research and design that went into gradually transforming Audacity 3 - a free and open source audio editor and production app - and how we've built on that work to develop Audacity 4.
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This Week in Plasma: 6.5 beta 2
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This Week in Plasma: 6.5 beta 2
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week we released the second beta of Plasma 6.5, and there are a lot of fixes in it! This week also sees some great bug fixes, as well as a number of UI improvements related to language and time.
This week we released the second beta of Plasma 6.5, and there are a lot of fixes in it! This week also sees some great bug fixes, as well as a number of UI improvements related to language and time.
Enhancing your internal notebook speakers without using an Equalizer (Easy Effects)
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How can someone have Git commits from 1998 if Git was created in 2005?
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I noticed that some GitHub repositories show a commit history starting from the late 1990s — even though Git was released in 2005 and GitHub launched in 2007.
How is that possible? Were those projects using a different version control system before Git and then imported the history, or can commit dates be manually faked somehow?
Curious to know how this works under the hood.
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https://preview.redd.it/ut70xp3jj4tf1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=bdd7d0938b0a0fd7cb2186e90557ffb139b35d2b
I noticed that some GitHub repositories show a commit history starting from the late 1990s — even though Git was released in 2005 and GitHub launched in 2007.
How is that possible? Were those projects using a different version control system before Git and then imported the history, or can commit dates be manually faked somehow?
Curious to know how this works under the hood.
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