Musings on Technology
Google’s “Summer of Code” (GSoC) will be happening for the thirtheenth time this year, and the KDE project is yet again one of the 201 participating open source organizations. The project’s list of ideas students may tackle has currently grown to 54 entries.
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I bought “8-Bit Armies” from GOG today and installed it on a fresh Windows 10 64 Bit install. It didn’t work out of the box, claiming DirectX 11 was not installed, and it took me a while to make it work, so here’s what I had to do.
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On February 24, 2017 The Guardian Project (not to be confused with the newspaper) presented “Proof Mode”, an app for Android smartphones which promises to add cryptographic “proof” to ever image and video file recorded by the device as to prove the material is authentic and hasn’t been tampered with. Sadly, none of the promises have proven to be true to me.
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Many out there use TeX or one of its distributions like LaTex, MiKTeX or teTeX. Sharing TeX files between authors is common, and often conference organizers, journal editors or university institutes offer TeX templates for papers and diploma theses. So what if a TeX file could take over your computer?
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German YouTuber Alex has published a new (german) video on his “Warum Linux Besser Ist” (“Why Linux is better”) channel detailing how to install Ubuntu Personal 16.04 on the bq Aquaris M10 FHD tablet.
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The UbuntuFun.de team just brought back a lot of material from Mobile World Congress. Among it is a 40 minutes long podcast episode featuring interviews with Mark Shuttleworth, Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress from Canonical, and Pauline Buth from dutch company Smoose.
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GitHub’s new Terms of Service (ToS) went into effect two days ago, and now the git-annex, propellor, ikiwiki, etckeeper, myrepos, and github-backup projects have removed their repositories while other projects have started to discuss if and how the new ToS affect them was well. What’s going on?
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The KDE project has issued a security advisory for the HTTPS KIO Slave yesterday. KIO is a KDE-specific technology which allows applications to transparently access any content as if it was a file, through the use of helper applications (“slaves”).
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Since we now how to do basic management of an Ubuntu Core installation, let’s move to the interesting part: installing Mir, playing some games and trying to run Unity 8. I made a video for all those who just want to see what’s working and don’t have the time/don’t feel like repeating the instructions.
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As mentioned in part 1, ten years ago I decided to visit every member state of the European Union and
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