> Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 857 for the week of September 8 - 14, 2024. > In this Issue > - Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS released > - Oracular Oriole (to be 24.10) now in Kernel Feature Freeze > - Ubuntu Stats > - Hot in Support > - Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports > - UbuCon North America 2025 Status Update > - LXD: Weekly news - 362 > - Starting of Ubuntu Bengal, a LoCo of Ubuntu based on Bengal, India > - Opportunity Open Source Conference - IITK 2024 > - UbuCon Asia 2024: My first ever conference! > - LoCo Events > - Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 5: Introducing Permissions Prompting > - Upstream release of cloud-init 24.3 > - ODH-029: Documenting a new project > - Dealing with spam on Matrix > - Advisory: Spam invite incident (2024-09-13) > - ... > - And much more!
> I've been using a Framework 13 laptop as my main/only computer for a little over 18 months now. > This is essentially a very personal review. I've broken it down into a summary of My Framework, a short Laptop Autobiography, then The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and The Rest. If you're impatient then skip to the end with the Bottom Line. ... > Where I'm critical of Framework in this post it's not because I want them to fail. They're a hardware startup that's proven their ability to ship good products, and I know how crushingly tough that is. I'm hopeful that they'll continue to grow into a mature hardware company with a strong maintenance track record, and demonstrated mature in-house development processes. I hope in a few years to write a follow-up post with even more "Good" points and barely a concern. > In the meantime, I'd encourage almost everyone to consider a Framework for their next laptop - but first read up on whatever features matter most for you.
fosstodon.org
> A new app was added to GNOME Circle: Binary by @fizzyizzy05@tech.lgbt! https://apps.gnome.org/Binary/ > > Binary makes working with numbers of different bases (like binary or hexadecimal) a breeze. No more counting binary digits on your fingers! > > Congratulations! 🎉
Overview of some of the new features in the upcoming GNOME 47 release.
> A lot has changed in the past two decades. A lot of new releases, new platforms and even a few new logos along the way. One thing stayed the same: the heart of Ubuntu. A global community of users, enthusiasts and contributors all helping to spread the mission of changing the world through open-source software. We couldn't have done it without you. More at: [20 Years of Canonical Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/20years)
> Canonical released today Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS as the fifth and last planned point release to the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) long-term supported operating system series bringing the latest security patches and updated components. ... > Apart from the security patches and updated packages that have been released during the past six months, the Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS point release is powered by a newer kernel from the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series, namely Linux kernel 6.8, to better support installations on newer hardware. > On the other hand, the Mesa graphics stack remains unchanged in this new Ubuntu 22.04 LTS point release, even though Ubuntu 24.04 LTS includes a newer version, namely Mesa 24.0. I don’t know why, but Canonical chose to ship Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS with the Mesa 23.2.1 graphics stack that was also included in the Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS point release.
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I wrote a Python script to parse the data and convert into RGB values. Here are the light mode values:
blue 00496c
red a0252b
green 3b6e43
yellow 966800
bright_green 00572c
bright_red 880418
bright_orange 782c00
ext_warm_grey 9b8e8a
ext_orange fab86c
ext_yellow f6e062
ext_blue 6acad8
ext_purple d48cff
ext_pink ff9bdd
ext_indigo 95c4fc
accent_blue 00525a
accent_red 78292e
accent_green 185529
accent_warm_grey 554742
accent_orange 624000
accent_yellow 534800
accent_purple 68217b
accent_pink 860439
accent_indigo 2e496c
Here are the dark mode values:
blue 94ebeb
red ffb5b5
green abf6d1
yellow fff19e
bright_green 5edb8c
bright_red ffa090
bright_orange ffa37d
ext_warm_grey 9b8e8a
ext_orange ffad00
ext_yellow fddb40
ext_blue 48b9c7
ext_purple ce7dff
ext_pink f93983
ext_indigo 3e88ff
accent_blue 63d0de
accent_red fca1a0
accent_green 92ce9b
accent_warm_grey cabab4
accent_orange ffad00
accent_yellow f6e062
accent_purple e79bfd
accent_pink ff9bb1
accent_indigo a1c0eb
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They have the RGB values as decimals in the light.ron and dark.ron files here: https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic/blob/master/cosmic-theme/src/model/
You would need to convert the numbers to hexadecimal manually.
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Yes, based on the diagrams on their blog, it looks like this only impacts Snaps.
> Over the past few years, the evolution of AI-driven tools like GitHub’s Copilot and other large language models (LLMs) has promised to revolutionise programming. By leveraging deep learning, these tools can generate code, suggest solutions, and even troubleshoot issues in real-time, saving developers hours of work. While these tools have obvious benefits in terms of productivity, there’s a growing concern that they may also have unintended consequences on the quality and skillset of programmers.
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From the Discourse Blog:
The Linux desktop provides XDG Desktop Portals as a standardised way for applications to access resources that are outside of the sandbox. Applications that have been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals will continue to use them. Prompting is not intended to replace XDG Desktop Portals but to complement them by providing the desktop an alternative way to ask the user for permission. Either when an application has not been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals, or when it makes access requests not covered by XDG Desktop Portals.
Since prompting works at the syscall level, it does not require an application’s awareness or cooperation to work and extends the set of applications that can be run inside of a sandbox, allowing for a safer desktop. It is designed to enable desktop applications to take full advantage of snap packaging that might otherwise require classic confinement.
So this looks like it complements and not replaces the XDG Desktop Portals, especially for applications that have not implemented the Portals. It allows you to still run those applications in confinement while providing some more granular access controls.
9to5linux.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1104312 > The upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 operating system promises a new feature called “permissions prompting” for an extra layer of privacy and security. > The new permissions prompting feature in Ubuntu will let users control, manage, and understand the behavior of apps running on their machines. It leverages Ubuntu’s AppArmor implementation and enables fine-grained access control over unmodified binaries without having to change the app’s source code. From Ubuntu Discourse: [Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 5: Introducing Permissions Prompting](https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-s-24-10-dev-cycle-part-5-introducing-permissions-prompting/47963) > This solution consists of two new seeded components in Ubuntu 24.10, prompting-client and desktop-security-center alongside deeper changes to snapd and AppArmor available in the upcoming snapd 2.65. The first is a new prompting client (built in Flutter) that surfaces the prompt requests from the application via snapd. The second is our new Security Center: > In this release the Security Center is the home for managing your prompt rules, over time we will expand its functionality to cover additional security-related settings for your desktop such as encryption management and firewall control. > ... > With prompting enabled, an application that has access to the home interface in its AppArmor profile will trigger a request to snapd to ask the user for more granular permissions at the moment of access: > As a result, users now have direct control over the specific directories and file paths an application has access to, as well its duration. The results of prompts are then stored in snapd so they can be queried and managed by the user via the Security Center.
9to5linux.com
> The upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 operating system promises a new feature called “permissions prompting” for an extra layer of privacy and security. > The new permissions prompting feature in Ubuntu will let users control, manage, and understand the behavior of apps running on their machines. It leverages Ubuntu’s AppArmor implementation and enables fine-grained access control over unmodified binaries without having to change the app’s source code. From Ubuntu Discourse: [Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 5: Introducing Permissions Prompting](https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-s-24-10-dev-cycle-part-5-introducing-permissions-prompting/47963) > This solution consists of two new seeded components in Ubuntu 24.10, prompting-client and desktop-security-center alongside deeper changes to snapd and AppArmor available in the upcoming snapd 2.65. The first is a new prompting client (built in Flutter) that surfaces the prompt requests from the application via snapd. The second is our new Security Center: > In this release the Security Center is the home for managing your prompt rules, over time we will expand its functionality to cover additional security-related settings for your desktop such as encryption management and firewall control. ... > With prompting enabled, an application that has access to the home interface in its AppArmor profile will trigger a request to snapd to ask the user for more granular permissions at the moment of access: > As a result, users now have direct control over the specific directories and file paths an application has access to, as well its duration. The results of prompts are then stored in snapd so they can be queried and managed by the user via the Security Center.
mathstodon.xyz
> #Forecast has been shaping up nicely this last week! If I didn't know better I'd say I'm ready for some Alpha testers to find me some bugs to work on! Head on over to the repo below to test it out now! > > https://github.com/cosmic-utils/forecast
www.phoronix.com
> Sysprof as the system-wide performance profiler for Linux systems is now set to be installed by default on Ubuntu 24.10 and moving forward with future Ubuntu Linux releases. Currently users need to sudo apt install sysprof to enjoy this GUI and command-line driven program but now is to be installed by default on the Ubuntu desktop.
> Indiana's law, which passed with bipartisan support, forbids students from using wireless communication devices during instructional time. There are exceptions for educational purposes, emergencies and students who need their phones for medical or disability reasons. It's up to schools to come up with their own discipline procedures for violations. ... > Phones aren't only a distraction from academics; educators and students say they've also driven interpersonal conflicts and contributed to poor mental health. ... > Students typically use their phones to listen to music, but that's no longer allowed during instructional time in Indiana. Grace says music helped her stay focused during quiet work time at school. Without it, she says, she's struggling to concentrate.
> Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 856 for the week of September 1 - 7, 2024. > - Upgrades to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Suspended / Re-enabled > - Ubuntu Stats > - Hot in Support > - Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports > - LXD: Weekly news - 361 > - Starcraft Clinic - 2024-Aug-30 > - UbuCon Asia > - LoCo Events > - Jammy Jellyfish (22.04.5 LTS) Point-Release Status Tracking > - Ubuntu Representation at EthAccra 2024 > - A desktop touched by Midas: Oracular Oriole > - Looking for more internship project ideas for Outreachy (December-March cohort) > - ... > - And much more!
> Last Wednesday, we temporarily suspended upgrades to Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS due to unforeseen issues with dependencies of installed kernel headers after release upgrades. These issues were tracked in [bug 2078720](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2078720) and have now been resolved, and upgrades to 24.04.1 LTS have been enabled again. ... > This issue has been fixed in the APT 2.4.13 update in 22.04 LTS, and upgrades from interim releases have been addressed by a fallback to the previous algorithm in the ubuntu-release-upgrader 1:24.04.23 stable release update. We are adding additional checks to our automated upgrade testing to prevent similar issues in the future. > If you are affected by this issue, you can run `apt install --fix-broken` to remove the old kernel headers and make apt operational again.
Pop!_OS (Linux)
Switching to Timeshift (LM)
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From what I can tell, Pop!_OS does not ship their own version of timeshift. Instead, it comes directly from Ubuntu. So if there is a change in maintainers, it should be reported to Ubuntu:
blogsystem5.substack.com
> NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case? ... > Which brings me to this article—a collection of thoughts comparing the design of NT (July 1993) against contemporary Unix systems such as 4.4BSD (June 1994) or Linux 1.0 (March 1994). Beware that, due to my background, the text is written from the point of view of a Unix “expert” and an NT “clueless”, so it focuses on describing the things that NT does differently. Long but interesting article that compares the Windows NT kernel to traditional Unix kernels such as that found in BSDs or Linux.
Photon
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As a moderator, you should see a "shield" on a post and from that sub-menu, you can choose to feature or unfeature a post:
Privacy
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I used to use VLC for music, but these days I use Symphony to play local files on my phone. VLC tended to struggle when scanning or indexing large folders (which it did all the time...), while Symphony is a bit better at that. That said, I still use VLC for video and for casting things from my DLNA server (VLC supports Chromecast).
For ebooks, I've used Librera FD and that has been mostly OK. I'll checkout the two you mentioned though. Thanks!
> As part of our outreachy internship program on the GNOME Community Udo Ijibike and Tamnjong Larry (myself) under the guide of our mentors Allan Day and Aryan Kaushik conducted usability tests to evaluate the user experience across three media applications: Decibels (Audio Player), Loupe (Image Viewer), and Showtime (Video Player). Our goal was to identify areas for improvement and enhance the overall usability of these applications to better align with users' natural workflows. ... > For this study, we recruited five participants from across the world who were GNOME users but had not used any of the media apps before the study. The participants were from diverse works of life from software developers, students, and a medical doctor, just people who use GNOME regularly. The participants were recruited through social media posts on GNOME's official channels on Twitter and Mastodon.
> How does Linux move from an awake machine to a hibernating one? How does it then manage to restore all state? These questions led me to read way too much C in trying to figure out how this particular hardware/software boundary is navigated.
Ubuntu Linux
What's the easiest way to update bios on my Ubuntu laptop without a USB?
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On Ubuntu, there is a program called "Firmware Updater" which uses LVFS to retrieve and install firmware updates (including BIOS/UEFI).
According to this page: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/com.lenovo.ThinkPadN23ETXXW.firmware your Carbon X1 Gen 6 should be supported.
news.itsfoss.com
> elementary OS may not be as much as popular as it used to be. > That being said, elementary OS 8 release is still on the horizon with some useful changes based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ... > However, amidst disagreement between co-founders during the pandemic in 2022, co-founder Cassidy quit the elementary OS team. > Right after that, the development pace took a big hit, and we saw elementary OS 7 being released almost a year after Ubuntu 22.04 LTS came up. ... > A good indicator about its development activity is its upcoming major release, elementary OS 8, based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. > I took a sneak peek at it using the daily build, and elementary OS 8 is almost ready to have an RC release. ... > You can expect things like: > - The settings app handles system updates (instead of AppCenter) > - AppCenter is now Flatpak only > - New toggle menu icon giving you easy access to the screen reader, onscreen keyboard, font size, and other system settings > - WireGuard VPN support
College Football
[GAMEDAY] Saturday, September 8, 2024 (Texas @ Michigan, El Assico, CU @ NU, and others)
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Holy hurdle! TY J-LOVE!
www.phoronix.com
> The new Slimbook Plasma 6 laptop is detailed on Slimbook.com and features an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS SoC with integrated Radeon 780M graphics, a 2560 x 1600 display, an aluminum chassis, and non-soldered DDR5-5600 memory. There are two DDR5 slots allowing for up to 96GB of memory as well as two NVMe M.2 2280 slots. The laptop is equipped with a 68Wh battery. More details at Slimbook website: [Excalibur](https://slimbook.com/en/excalibur)
ml4711.blogspot.com
> The biggest change since last release is that we now use the vector-based map by default and the old raster map has also been retired since we wanted to move forward with things like enabling, and relying on clickable POIs directly in the map view so we could the remove the old tedious “What's here?” context menu doing a reverse geocoding to get details about a place (which is also a bit hit-and-miss with regards to how close to where you point the actual result is). > Apart from this other benefits we get (and this has already been mentioned in earlier posts) localized names (when tagged in OpenStreetMap) and finally a proper dark mode with our new GNOME map style.
Pop!_OS (Linux)
Will there be 24.04 with gnome Cosmic ??
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All my servers moved to 24.04 and I wanted my desktop to keep in line with them (so they all had the same packages). Likewise, I've been following the development of GNOME and I really liked what they have done with versions 45 and 46, so I wanted to try a more modern version of that desktop environment (Pop 22.04 is still on GNOME 42 and is now missing out on some cool features like the quick settings menu).
Finally, I wanted to try out Wayland and the experience on Pop 22.04 is not great with Wayland, especially since it is missing out on the more recent fixes and updates in Ubuntu 24.04.
If you are happy with Pop 22.04 and willing to wait for COSMIC to stabilize and become feature complete, then that is what you should do. For me, I used this delay in releasing Pop 24.04 as an opportunity to try out something different and for the most part, I'm pretty happy with the experience.
Pop!_OS (Linux)
Will there be 24.04 with gnome Cosmic ??
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Unfortunately, there will not be a release of Pop 24.04 with GNOME before COSMIC is released. In fact, System76 has stopped development of Pop-shell as referenced here:
https://reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1eo59wj/will_xorg_still_be_an_option_in_2404/
Once, Pop 24.04 is released, you will be able to install gnome-session to get GNOME, but it will be the version from Ubuntu and not Pop-shell (though you can install the unsupported extension yourself).
Basically, the development of COSMIC is delaying the release of Pop 24.04... which means the whole distro update probably won't come until 2025 as the desktop matures.
For this reason, among others, I've decided to switch to Ubuntu until COSMIC matures and Pop 24.04 is released.
> Grade inflation at American universities is out of control. The statistics speak for themselves. In 1950, the average GPA at Harvard was estimated at 2.6 out of 4. By 2003, it had risen to 3.4. Today, it stands at 3.8. ... > All of this contributes to the strikingly poor record of American colleges in actually educating their students. As Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa showed in their 2011 book “Academically Adrift,” the time that the average full-time college student spent studying dropped by half in the five decades after 1960, falling to about a dozen hours a week. A clear majority of college students “showed no significant progress on tests of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing,” with about half failing to make any improvements at all in their first two years of higher education. ... > In one of the oldest jokes about the Soviet Union, a worker says “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.” To an uncomfortable degree, American universities now work in a similar fashion: Students pretend to do their work, and academics pretend to grade them. It’s high time for a radical reboot of a broken system. ... > But grades don’t just have an important signaling function to the outside world; they are, first and foremost, meant to give students a clear sense of how they’re doing. When excellent, good and poor students get very similar grades, it is hard for students to know whether they are doing excellent, good or poor work. ... > By the same logic, grade inflation also punishes students for uneven performance over time. If you are a middling student with few major life challenges and strong mental health, you will wind up with a high GPA. If you are a brilliant student who really struggles during one term because of a family crisis or some mental health problem, your GPA will tank, never to recover. The current grading system favors mediocre kids from stable homes over talented ones from less stable backgrounds. ... > The best solution would be to take the simple, if somewhat brutal, step of ending grade inflation. But if that is not in the cards, then it’s time for universities to admit that the emperor has no clothes. The second best option may be to put an end to the whole charade: Universities could make all of their courses pass-fail.
A blog post about all the official and community wallpapers in the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole.
www.omgubuntu.co.uk
> Last week, the first point release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS arrived and with it, upgrades from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS enabled. > Only, those upgrades didn’t go work out well for everyone. > So Canonical has hit pause on upgrades to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ... > In reply, Canonical says it halted upgrades “due to a critical bug in ubuntu-release-upgrader in the way it’s using the apt solver” (though other, recurring, issues have been filed on Launchpad and mentioned on social media since last week).
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I think you meant Pop!_OS (is developed by System76). TuxedoOS is developed by Tuxedo Computers, which is a European Linux focused hardware company.
That said, the point stands... there are hardware companies making Linux supported devices.
> In this article we will explore some lesser known, but interesting and useful corners of Python standard library. ... > To provide more powerful containers for storing data in memory Python ships a `collection` module ... > Python has `with` keyword to create context manager that will auto-cleanup things within lexical scope ... > To address this problem, Python ships `decimal` module that allows us represent decimal numbers as Python objects with operator overloading ... > Likewise, we can run into problem when dealing with fractions - one third is not exactly equal to 0.333… Python ships with `fractions` module to represent them as Python objects with operator overloading ... > The standard Python installation ships with `dis` module that takes Python code units (e.g. a function) and disassembles the code into a kind of pseudo-assembler ... > Python `statistics` module provides a small toolkit of statistical algorithms for relatively simple applications where it is an overkill to use Pandas or Numpy: standard deviation, several kinds of average of numeric data, linear regression, correlation, normal distribution and others ... > To make this easier Python ships a `webbrowser` module with simple API to make a browser show a page ... > To make this less terrible Python ships `zipapp` module with CLI tool and Python API to package Python code into single file packages ...
www.omgubuntu.co.uk
> The default wallpaper of Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’ (and its official mascot artwork) has been revealed — along with an extra 20th anniversary surprise!
github.com
Via https://social.ndlug.org/@BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social/113085431469719912 > That's one more thing to knock off the checklist of things annoying me in COSMIC, now we have focus follows mouse as an option https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-settings/pull/560
catfox.life
> I have completed an initial new port of systemd to musl. This patch set does not share much in common with the existing OpenEmbedded patchset. I wanted to make a fully updated patch series targeting more current releases of systemd and musl, taking advantage of the latest features and updates in both. I also took a focus on writing patches that could be sent for consideration of inclusion upstream. > The final result is a system that appears to be surprisingly reliable considering the newness of the port, and very fast to boot. ... > And that is how I became the first person alive to see systemd passing its entire test suite on a big-endian 64-bit PowerPC musl libc system. ... > While the system works really well, and boots in 1/3rd the time of OpenRC on the same system, it isn’t ready for prime time just yet. ... > There aren’t any service unit files written or packaged yet, other than OpenSSH and utmps. We are working with our sponsor on an effort to add -systemd split packages to any of the packages with -openrc splits. We should be able to rely on upstream units where present, and lean on Gentoo and Fedora’s systemd experts to have good base files to reference when needed. I’ve already landed support for this in abuild. This work is part of [Adélie Linux](https://www.adelielinux.org/)
news.itsfoss.com
> Introduced as part of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS roadmap late last year (but couldn't make it to the final release), the Flutter-based Security Center is a dedicated application for Ubuntu meant to bring out the hard-to-access “ninja security” features of the distro. > The developers want to focus on four key areas with this app. One is that they aim to make it easy to handle full-disk encryption. The second is that they are planning to move the Ubuntu Pro settings from the “Software & Updates” app into a dedicated section in the new security app. > The third is a dedicated “Network” section for facilitating easy firewall control and enabling “Stealth Mode”. The final one is to introduce a prompting mechanism for apps; more on this one later. > Currently, the Security Center features only a single experimental option to require Snap apps to ask for system permissions. I tried enabling it after installing Security Center on an Ubuntu 24.04 installation on a virtual machine, but it just sent me into a loading loop.
Ubuntu Linux
Flatpak support in the Software app on Ubuntu 24.04?
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The default "App Center" does not support flatpaks (only snaps). However, if you install the GNOME software center with the suggested dependencies:
$ sudo apt install --install-suggests gnome-software
Then you will be able to install flatpaks, debs, and snaps.
www.wvpe.org
> Indiana State Parks will receive $50 million from the Lilly Endowment to improve and enhance facilities statewide. ... > Half of the money will go towards Prophetstown State Park in Tippecanoe County. It will include the creation of a heritage area with a Native American village recreation. ... > $25 million for the statewide system: > - **Campground improvements, $10 million**: More campsites will be upgraded to be full-service, with electricity, water, and sewer connections to better serve today’s campers. > - **Playground replacements, $11 million**: Playgrounds across Indiana State Parks will be renovated and repaired to address aging equipment and improve accessibility. > - **Historic structure repairs, $3 million**: Historic stone and log structures, retaining walls, and stone staircases that were built in the 1930s will receive masonry repairs and accessibility improvements. > - **Motorized wheelchairs, $1 million:** Motorized wheelchairs will enable individuals to access trails that might otherwise be inaccessible. Several state parks have these chairs, and some need to be replaced or repaired. Funding will place more motorized chairs across state parks.
www.omgubuntu.co.uk
> For those unfamiliar with it, power-profiles-daemon is a low-level component to provide power handling over DBus. Ever used the Power Mode options in the Quick Settings menu in GNOME Shell? Those options interface through this. From [0.22 Release Notes](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/power-profiles-daemon/-/releases/0.22): > Since this release power-profiles-daemon is also battery-level aware and some drivers use this value to be smarter at tuning their optimizations. In particular both the AMD panel power action now uses a progressive approach, changing the the ABM based on the battery percentage. > AMD p-state received various features and improvements: > - it supports core performance boost when not in power-saver mode. > - uses minimum frequency to lowest non-linear frequency > - it is more impervious to faulty firmware and kernel bugs This should be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release.
> There has been a steady uptick of people stating that they will migrate (or already have) to Debian – seeking refuge from what they see as greedy corporate influence. I understand the sentiment fully. However, there’s a problem here that I want to talk about: security. > The ugly truth is that security is hard. It’s tedious. Unpleasant. And requires a lot of work to get right. > Debian does not do enough here to protect users. > Long ago, Red Hat embraced the usage of SELinux. And they took it beyond just enabling the feature in their kernel. They put in the arduous work of crafting default SELinux policies for their distribution. ... > However, its default security framework leaves much to be desired. Debian’s decision to enable AppArmor by default starting with version 10 signifies a positive step towards improved security, yet it falls short due to the half-baked implementation across the system. ... > The fundamental difference between AppArmor and SELinux lies in their approach to Mandatory Access Control (MAC). AppArmor operates on a path-based model, while SELinux employs a significantly more complex type enforcement system. This distinction becomes particularly evident in container environments. ... > The practical implications of these differences are significant. In a SELinux environment, a compromised container faces substantial hurdles in accessing or affecting the host system or other containers, thanks to the dual barriers of type enforcement and MCS labels. TLDR: According to the author, Debian's use of AppArmour is not as effective as RedHat's use of SELinux when it comes to security.
www.wvpe.org
> Virtual schools in Indiana are seeing a boom in enrollment this year. Parents and administrators say online classes give some students more flexibility and opportunities for one-on-one learning. ... > Hawf said students who switch to virtual school because they think it’s easier may be disappointed. He said Stride schools pride themselves on providing rigorous classes and coursework. > However, he added that virtual school can be a great option for students who want to work at their own pace or receive a more personalized education.
Pop!_OS (Linux)
Keyboard customization in profile not working until manually sourced
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If you are using Pop!_OS 22.04, then you are using gdm. You can just create the file if it doesn't exist.
Pop!_OS (Linux)
Keyboard customization in profile not working until manually sourced
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If you are using gdm as your login manager, you can put the command in ~/.xprofile... which is sourced by gdm3.
> Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 855 for the week of August 25 - 31, 2024. > - Ubuntu 22.04.5 final point-release delayed until September 12 > - Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS released > - Ubuntu Stats > - Hot in Support > - Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports > - Rocks Public Journal; 2024-08-27 > - Convocatória para apresentação de propostas (Call for proposals) > - UbuCon Asia 2025 - Call for Bids! > - LoCo Council approved and formalized LoCo Handover process > - LoCo Events > - Introducing Kernel 6.11 for the 24.10 Oracular Oriole Release > - ... > - And much more!
world.hey.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1064425 > And Linux isn't minimal effort. It's an operating system that demands more of you than does the commercial offerings from Microsoft and Apple. Thus, it serves as a dojo for understanding computers better. With a sensei who keeps demanding you figure problems out on your own in order to learn and level up. ... > That's why I'd love to see more developers take another look at Linux. Such that they may develop better proficiency in the basic katas of the internet. Such that they aren't scared to connect a computer to the internet without the cover of a cloud. Related: [Omakub](https://omakub.org/)
world.hey.com
> And Linux isn't minimal effort. It's an operating system that demands more of you than does the commercial offerings from Microsoft and Apple. Thus, it serves as a dojo for understanding computers better. With a sensei who keeps demanding you figure problems out on your own in order to learn and level up. ... > That's why I'd love to see more developers take another look at Linux. Such that they may develop better proficiency in the basic katas of the internet. Such that they aren't scared to connect a computer to the internet without the cover of a cloud. Related: [Omakub](https://omakub.org/)
www.theverge.com
> Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system has passed Windows 10 usage for Steam users for the first time since its launch in 2021. Windows 10 has been holding strong in recent years, despite Microsoft’s plans to end support for Windows 10 in October 2025. There are now signs that Windows 11 adoption is finally heading in the right direction for Microsoft. > Steam hardware survey data for August puts Windows 11 usage at 49 percent, an increase of more than 3 percent over the previous figure in July of nearly 46 percent. Windows 10 usage has dipped by around 3 percent to 47 percent, while macOS and Linux Steam usage has largely remained the same during August.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19331906 >Ubuntu Core Desktop is an immutable distro, takes a different path than most other immutable distros. > - The entire OS is built using snaps, including the kernel and bootloader > - Uses snaps instead of flatpak > - Prefers LXD over distrobox and other projects that use podman
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For a simple IRC web client, I would also add Gamja, which I self-host along side with the Lounge (mentioned in the article) for a few users.
That said, my primary client is WeeChat and WeeChat-Android.
itsfoss.com
> Looking to host your own IRC? Here are the options you can explore. > [The Lounge](https://thelounge.chat/) is a modern web IRC client that packs in useful features like push notifications, file uploads, link previews, and multi-user support. Regarding the user experience, I find it similar to the Rocket.Chat experience, which is an open-source Slack alternative. ... > [Convos](https://convos.chat/) is a unique chat application with IRC support that lets you make video calls as well. It manages to keep you online even when you have closed the web browser. So you can still get all the messages, and activities logged. ... > [Kiwi IRC](https://kiwiirc.com/) is a more traditional-looking web IRC client with versatile features, and plugin support to extend functionality. The good thing about it is, you get static files, so it should be a hassle-free and reliable experience to host it. You get it with a default IRC network, but you can always use your own. ... > If you want a feature-rich support, and a traditional experience at the same time, [WeeChat](https://weechat.org/) can be a nice pick. It is also incredibly small and lightweight to use.
gitlab.gnome.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19327308 >Notable changes > - Add experimental color management protocol support > - Use libadwaita for server-side decorations on GNOME (on Xorg and Xwayland apps) > - Let scaling-aware Xwayland clients scale themselves > - Add initial PipeWire explicit sync support
www.phoronix.com
> Back in May the Steam on Linux marketshare returned to passing the 2% threshold and remained above 2% through July. But the August 2024 survey results are out this evening and point to a drop for Linux. The August 2024 numbers show a 0.16% drop for Linux gamers, landing at a 1.92% marketshare. Windows meanwhile rose to 96.78% and macOS dropped a tiny bit to 1.3%. > As we have seen in months past when Linux takes a sizable dip, it's correlated to a rise in the Simplified Chinese use. In August the Simplified Chinese use further grew and helping out Windows at the cost to the Linux percentage. Steam Hardware & Software Survey: [August 2024](https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam)
Pop!_OS (Linux)
I want to enable the Cosmic login screen
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Hi! Did you read my reply in the other post you made in !system76@lemmy.ml?
Was is this article How to install the Rust Cosmic Desktop environment on Pop!_OS?
Either way, if you want to use the new COSMIC login screen, you can install the cosmic-greeter package:
sudo apt install cosmic-greeter
Once that is installed, you should be able to switch back and forth between cosmic-greeter and gdm3 with:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
and selecting whichever login manager you wish to use.
College Football
[Game Thread] August 29, 2024 - UNC @ Minnesota, NDSU @ Colorado, and others
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Looks like Bison > Buffalo... for now.
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What is this article How to install the Rust Cosmic Desktop environment on Pop!_OS?
Either, if you want to use the new COSMIC login screen, you can install the cosmic-greeter package:
sudo apt install cosmic-greeter
Once that is installed, you should be able to switch back and forth between cosmic-greeter and gdm3 with:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
and selecting whichever login manager you wish to use.
Android
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I've been using Weechat-Android to connect to my self-hosted Weechat for over a decade. This is one of the killer mobile apps that keeps me on Android and I love it.
I also have a couple instances of thelounge that people use on mobile via the PWA (progressive web app).
Programming
Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims
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Oh. I'm sorry if this was discussed previously... I only returned to lemmy a few weeks ago and didn't see the story covered yet.
Open Source
Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
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I think the WINE project was maintaining a fork of Mono that was used to support running certain Windows applications:
So in addition to translating traditional WIN32 system calls, WINE also supports .NET applications, which a number of Windows programs require.
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Depends on your perspective, I guess. To me, GNOME is now pretty mature, stable, and reliable. That is one of the reasons why I left Pop-shell for a more vanilla GNOME experience.
COSMIC has a lot of hype right now, but based on my experience (and others), it is not at all stable or ready as daily driver. That is not to say it isn't exciting but at this point in time I value stability and being able to just use my computer and GNOME provides that.
As the Linux luddites used to say, not all change is progress :)
Old School Runescape
Behind the Scenes of Sailing: Volume 1
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Hmm. Why is that?
I'm not 100% sold on sailing... then again I've played OSRS < a year, so I still have a lot of other content left to explore.
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As a regular Costco customer, I enjoyed reading this article. Thanks for sharing!
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Coincidentally, I received a firmware (EFI) update from Dell today via LVFS. Really nice that it works so smoothly on native Linux (no more manually downloading firmware to USB drives, or relying on Windows).
Ubuntu Linux
Plex log reporting network problems
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This reddit post seems relevant. A user mentions:
I found out that only the containers having these kind of networking problems where all running the container in "host" networking mode.https://docs.docker.com/network/drivers/
Since I don't need host mode, I can just comment that line out, and it will start using the standard Bridge (which will be used by default if you don't specify any networking settings for your containers)
This is running under docker as you had in your initial configuration.
Another reddit post mentions setting the gateway and DNS server if you have a static IP:
It turned out to be nothing to do with Plex but rather was the fact that there was missing information on my static IP setup. Once I added in the gateway and DNS information those extraneous messages went away.
I'm not sure if that will help, but it's perhaps something you could consider as you debug this issue. Good luck.
Free and Open Source Software
European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects
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The reasons for this shift in budget away from funding Free Software and the NGI initiative seems to be an allocation of more funds for AI, leaving internet infrastructure by the wayside. Meanwhile, the EC has thus far declined to comment to share its official reasoning for striking this funding from its budget.
Sigh. It appears that they are chasing after the latest "shiny" thing instead of investing in existing infrastructure. Not surprising, but disappointing.
Cybersecurity
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
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Pretty happy that we opted out of the Slack AI "feature" at work.
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+1 For xournal++. That is what I usually use for annotating slides and drawing with my wacom tablet.
Technology
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse
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I agree that the amount of work for many students can get quite out of hand and to be honest when I first started teaching, I was pretty guilty of having very work intensive courses.
That said, over the years, I've worked to streamline my courses to only have what I believe to be absolutely critical to learning and have added a lot of scaffolding and automated tests (for immediate results). In general, I try to have no busy work and make sure everything assignment is meaningful (as much as it can be anyway).
Additionally, because I understand that sometimes life happens, I have built-in facilities for automate extensions for assignments and even have a system for dropping certain homeworks.
This not to say that there isn't work in my classes... it's just that the work is intended to be relevant and reasonable, which most students seem to agree with these days.
I think students should be expected to work less over a longer period of time.
I think this would be a great idea. Or rather, I think it would be great to allow students to learn at different rates... some may want to go faster, some may want or need to go slower.
I think the modern course-based education system is often too rigid and not flexible enough to adequately accommodate the needs of students with different experience levels, resources, or constraints. Something like a Montessori model would be a lot better IMHO.
Technology
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse
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First off, 10 is an integer square root. Of 100.
Right, what I was trying to say is that 10 itself is not a perfect square. You cannot take the square root of 10 and get an integer (ie. 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, etc.).
I was told by multiple English teachers (including the head of the department) that I was a math student and should never attempt to write because I saw through the regurgitation assignments, didn't agree with teacher assessments of what Dickens "was trying to do" and had zero interest in confirming their biases.
I think that is unfortunate and probably inappropriate. I try to avoid classifying students as particular types and generally try to encourage them whenever possible to pursue whatever their interests are (even if I disagree or don't have the same interest myself).
College coursework on the whole is a waste of time reinventing wheels. I don't need to spend a couple of weeks working up to "Hello, world!" in C and as such left CS as a major my first quarter at uni.
There is a reason for reinventing wheels; it is to understand why they are round and why they are so effective. To build the future, it helps to understand the past.
That said, perhaps the course was too slow for you, which is understandable... I frequently hear that about various classes (including ones I've taught).
But teachers do this shit every day, year after year, and we blindly say they're doing important work even as they discourage people from finding their path and voice, because god forbid a 16-year-old challenges someone in their 50s.
Again, I think you've had an unfortunate experience and I think it's a good thing to challenge your teachers. I certainly did when I was a student and I appreciate it now when students do that with me. I recognize that I am not perfect nor do I know everything. I make mistakes and can be wrong.
I wish you had a more supportive environment in secondary school and I have a better understanding of your perspective. Thanks for the dialogue.
Technology
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse
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Sure, some people acquire the capability through repetition. But all that matters in the end is if you are capable or not.
I guess the question is how do you develop that capability if you are cheating or using a tool to do things for you? If I use GrubHub to order food or pay someone else to cook for me, does it make sense to say I can cook? After all, I am capable of acquiring cooked food even though I didn't actually do any of the work nor do I understand how to well, actually make food.
The how is relevant if you are trying to actually learn and develop skills, rather than simply getting something done.
No, the point is to get an irrelevant piece of paper that in the end doesn't actually indicate a persons capabilities.
Perhaps the piece of paper doesn't actually indicate a person's capabilities in part because enough students cheat to the point where getting a degree is meaningless. I do not object to that assessment.
Look, I'm not arguing that schooling is perfect. It's not. Far from it. All I am saying is that if your goal is to actually learn and grow in skill, development, and understanding, then there is no shortcut. You have to do the work.
Technology
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse
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Sure. If you do enough basic math, you start to see things like how 2/8 can be simplified to 1/4 or you recognize that 10 is not a perfect square root or how you could reorder some operations to make things easier (sorry, examples from my kids). Little things like that where you don't even think about it... it becomes second nature to you and that makes you a lot faster because you are not worrying about those basic ideas or mechanics. Instead, you can think about more complicated things such as which formulas to apply or the process to compute something.
As another example, since I teach computer science, a lot of novice students struggle with basic programming language syntax... How exactly do you declare a variable? What order do things go? How does a for loop work? Do you need a semicolon or parentheses, etc. If you do enough programming, however, these things become second nature and you stop thinking about it. You just seemily, intuitively, know these things and do them naturally without thinking, even though when you first started, it was really complicated and daunting and you probably spent a lot of time constructing a single line of code.
Once you develop a foundation however, you don't need to worry about these low-level things. Instead you worry about high-level issues such as how to organize larger pieces of code into functions or how to I utilize different paradigums, etc.
This is why a basketball player, for instance, will shoot thousands of shots in practice or why a piano player will play a piece over and over for many hours. It's so they don't have to think about the low-level mechanics. It becomes muscle memory and it's just natural to them.
I hope that makes sense.
Technology
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse
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Thanks for the thoughtful response.
Using AI to answer a question is not necessarily preventing yourself from learning and developing mastery and understanding. The use of AI is a skill in the same way that any ability to look up information is a skill. But blindly putting information into an AI and copy/pasting the results is very different from using AI as a resource in a similar way one might use a book or an article as a resource.
I generally agree. That's why I'm no longer banning AI in my courses. I'm allowing students to use AI to explain concepts, help debug, or as a reference. As a resource or learning aid, it's fine or possibly even great for students.
However, I am not allowing students to generate solutions, because that is harmful and doesn't help with learning. They still need to do the work and go through the process, AI assisted or not.
This is a particularly long winded way of pointing out something that's always been true - the idea that you should learn how to do math in your head because 'you won't always have a calculator' or that the idea that you need to understand how to do the problem in your head or how the calculator is working to understand the material is a false one and it's one that erases the complexity of modern life. Practicing the process helps you learn a specific skill in a specific context and people who make use of existing systems to bypass the need of having that skill are not better or worse - they are simply training a different skill.
I disagree with your specific example here. You should learn to do math in your head because it helps develop intuition of the relationship between numbers and the various mathematical operations. Without a foundational understanding of how to do the basics manually, it becomes very difficult to tackle more complicated problems or challenges even with a calculator. Eventually, you do want to graduate to using a calculator because it is more efficient (and probably more accurate), but you will be able to use it much more effectively if you have a strong understanding numbers and how the various operations work.
Your overall point about how a tool is used being important is true and I agree that if used wisely, AI or any other tool can be a good thing. That said, from my experience, I find that many students will take the easy way out and do as you noted at the top: "blindly putting information into an AI and copy/pasting the results".
Technology
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse
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The how is irrelevant.
What I usually tell students is that homework and projects are learning opportunities. The point isn't for them to produce a particular artifact; it's to go through the process and develop skills along the way. For instance, I do not need a program that can sort numbers... I can do that myself and there are a gazillion instances of that. However, students should do that assignment to practice learning how to code, how to debug, how to think through problems, and much more. The point isn't the sorting program... it's the process and experience.
How do you get better at say gymnastics? You do a bunch of exercises and skills, over and over.
How do you get better at say playing the guitar? You play a lot songs, over and over.
How do you get better at say writing? You write a lot, some good, some bad, over and over.
To get better at anything, you need to do the thing, a lot. You need to build intuition and muscle memory. Taking shortcuts prevents that and in the long run, hurts your learning and growth.
So viewing homeworks as just about the artifact you submit is missing the point and short-sighted. Cheating, whether using AI or not, is preventing yourself from learning and developing mastery and understanding.
Technology
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse
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Maybe. It is true that people who would have cheated in the past are now just using AI in addition to the previous means. But from my experience teaching, the number of students cheating is also increasing because of how prevalent AI has become and how easy it is to use it.
AI has made cheating more frictionless, which means that a student who might not have say used Chegg (requires some effort) or copied a friend (requires social interaction) in the past, can now just open a textbox and get a solution without much effort. LLMs have made cheating much easier, quicker, and safer (people regularly get caught using Chegg or copying other people, AI cheating can be much harder to detect). It is a huge temptation where the [short-term] benefits can greatly dwarf the risks.
Pop!_OS (Linux)
any way to change keyboard layout with win+space or alt + shift in new cosmic DE?
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According to this post on reddit from about 5 days ago:
There is not one yet. -- ahoneybun (s76 happiness architect)
Cybersecurity
Windows Critical Vulnerability: CVE-2024-38063
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Based on what I can tell (I don't usually use Windows), a patch was released on August 13th. As long as you are current with your Windows Updates, this shouldn't be an issue.