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Falling for FastAPI | Coder Radio 433 Sep 29, 2021

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Mike's falling in love with FastAPI and gives us a hint at the next project he's building.

Plus, our thoughts on employee machine monitoring and building a transition plan when you are ready to quit your job.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — The newest addition to the @TheMadBotterINC team, he’s a QA Engineer with keen eyes and sharp claws to testing.
Apple CEO Tim Cook addresses workplace issues, pay equity, more in all-hands meeting — Cook, along with SVP of Retail and People Deirdre O'Brien, addressed a range of subjects from pay equity to Texas' new abortion law in a meeting broadcast to employees around the world, reports The New York Times.
Activist employees told the publication that Cook answered only two of a number of questions they wanted to ask. The report fails to detail what those two questions were, but notes the Apple chief did comment on pay equity, at least in part.
FastAPI — FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
Starlette — Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building high performance asyncio services.
pydantic — Data validation and settings management using python type annotations.
Typer — Typer is a library for building CLI applications that users will love using and developers will love creating. Based on Python 3.6+ type hints.
SQLModel — SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.
Street Coder — Software development isn't an "ivory tower" exercise. Street coders get the job done by prioritizing tasks, making quick decisions, and knowing which rules to break.
Coder to Developer — Coder to Developer helps you excel at the many non-coding tasks entailed, from start to finish, in just about any successful development project.
Will Monitoring the Workplace Improve Productivity? — According to technical talent recruiting company Apollo Technical, here are a couple of key research findings about remote workers and productivity.

Sad Server Stories | LINUX Unplugged 425 Sep 28, 2021

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Sometimes things go wrong; this week, we admit we've got a problem.

Plus new details about the Steam Deck everyone has missed, and an old friend stops by the show with an update.

Special Guest: Danielle Foré.

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Amazon’s Astro home robot is like having Alexa on wheels — Amazon claims the Astro can do a wide variety of things you might want from a home robot. It can map out your floor plan and obey commands to go to a specific room. It can recognize faces and deliver items to a specific person.
“Intel Software Defined Silicon” Coming To Linux For Activating Extra Licensed Hardware Features — The Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver is for supporting the "post-manufacturing mechanism for activating additional silicon features."
One of the Steam Deck’s biggest hurdles just disappeared: EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound — While developers would still need to patch their games, this immediately means some of the most popular games on Steam are now theoretically within reach, including Apex Legends, Dead by Daylight, and War Thunder, which are all among the top 25 games on Steam.
Syscall User Dispatch — The Linux Kernel documentation — Compatibility layers like Wine need a way to efficiently emulate system calls of only a part of their process - the part that has the incompatible code - while being able to execute native syscalls without a high performance penalty on the native part of the process. Syscall User Dispatch brings the filtering of the syscall dispatcher address back to userspace.
Steam Deck :: FAQ
Poll: Which “server” distro should we go with next? — So it's time to replace our garage server... We've been running Arch, and so far it's worked mostly great. Should we keep pushing our luck, or try something new?
PowerEdge R820 Rack Server Details
PhoneTrack - Nextcloud Apps — PhoneTrack is a Nextcloud application to track and store mobile device's locations.
Pick: tubearchivist — Your self-hosted YouTube media server.

Linux Action News 208 Sep 26, 2021

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Canonical gives Linux admins a lucky break, the details on Android's slow shift to an upstream Kernel, a breakthrough for Linux gaming, and our take on GNOME 41.

Plus how AlmaLinux just rounded out their offering.

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Canonical extends support for 14.04 and 16.04 LTS • The Register — Users still running on 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), released back in April 2014, now have until April 2024 (up from 2022) to make the move to something more recent. 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), which dropped into Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) in April this year, has had this extended from April 2024 to April 2026.
Google Finally Shifting To “Upstream First” Linux Kernel Approach For Android Features — Google's Todd Kjos talked today during Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC2021) around their Generic Kernel Image initiative.
LPC 2021 - Android MC - YouTube
Epic Games announce full Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux including Wine & Proton — Easy Anti-Cheat from Epic Games / Epic Online Services has officially announced a full expansion for Linux including native builds and Wine + Proton. This is big for Linux Gaming and the Steam Deck.
Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
BattlEye on Twitter — “BattlEye has provided native Linux and Mac support for a long time and we can announce that we will also support the upcoming Steam Deck (Proton). This will be done on an opt-in basis with game developers choosing whether they want to allow it or not.”
Valve Publishes New Steam Deck FAQ With A Few New Details Shared
Steam Client Beta updated with PipeWire desktop capture for Remote Play
AlmaLinux Container Images Update - Full RHEL UBI Compatibility — We are thrilled to announce that as of today, AlmaLinux now provides fully compatible alternatives for Red Hat Universal Base Images (UBI)!
Linode on Twitter — “We’re rolling out ultra-fast, better-performing, and more reliable NVMe block storage across all 11 of our global data centers 🚀
GNOME 41 Released With Wayland Improvements, More Performance Tuning — This morning's GNOME 41 release announcement sums up the new release as "Highlights in this release include improvements to the Software app, new multitasking settings and enhanced power management. Beyond that, there is a new Connections application, a refreshed Music application, performance improvements from the compositor to the toolkit, and much more."
GNOME 41 Released: The Most Popular Linux Desktop Environment Gets Better
GNOME 41 Released with New Settings, Power Savings, and More
GNOME 41 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Fedora Linux 35 Beta is GO
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Ultimate Off-Site Setup | Self-Hosted 54 Sep 25, 2021

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Alex is abroad and uses the opportunity to build out not one but two ultimate self-hosted off-site servers. We share the hardware, software, and networking details.

Plus, how Chris built a Nest-type thermostat using parts he already had.

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Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks — Create a secure network between your servers, computers, and cloud instances. Even when separated by firewalls or subnets, Tailscale just works.
headscale — An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale coordination server.
Intelligent Platform Management Interface — The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card — Supports 4 NVMe M.2 (2242/2260/2280/22110) Upto 128 Gbps
TRÅDFRI Shortcut button — Shortcut button, white
restic · Backups done right! — Restic is a modern backup program that can back up your files
autorestic: High level CLI utility for restic — Autorestic is a wrapper around the amazing restic. While being amazing the restic cli can be a bit overwhelming and difficult to manage if you have many different locations that you want to backup to multiple locations. This utility is aimed at making this easier 🙂.
Backing up your data with Restic (+ Autorestic) and Minio
Generic Thermostat - Home Assistant — The generic_thermostat climate platform is a thermostat implemented in Home Assistant. It uses a sensor and a switch connected to a heater or air conditioning under the hood. When in heater mode, if the measured temperature is cooler than the target temperature, the heater will be turned on and turned off when the required temperature is reached.
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That Time We Stepped In It | Coder Radio 432 Sep 22, 2021

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We’ve really had a week, one of those makes ya feel old kinda weeks.

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Companies may not want to hire in Colorado due to labor law — A 9Wants to Know investigation found at least 10 companies may be avoiding hiring Coloradans to get around a new labor law.
Colorado Revises Guidance on Job Posting Requirements
Apple Releases iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 — A new Focus mode cuts down on distractions by limiting what's accessible and who can contact you, and notifications can now be grouped up in daily summaries.
iOS and iPadOS 15: The MacStories Review - Section on Focus — What stood out to me when I started playing around with Apple’s presets for Focus (which include the basic Do Not Disturb, Driving, and Sleep, plus templates for Fitness, Gaming, and Reading) is the number of personalization options that were previously hard to find or not available at all with the classic Do Not Disturb.
Singularity – Microsoft’s Experimental OS — These are the type of questions that the Microsoft Research team was trying to answer around 18 years ago and it was then when they came up with a pretty cool name for their new OS — Singularity.
singularity GitHub — Clone of the MSR Singularity Project
PDF: An Overview of the Singularity Project — “what would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of dependability?”
As A Solo Developer, I Decided To Offer Phone Support, And This Is What Happened — As a matter of fact, when it comes to large problems, offering phone support enables you to understand that inconveniences that occur when the app’s behaviors and messages are hard to understand are more frequent than bugs in the programming (when bugs crash the application, it’s easy to identify them through the log, and no reports are made with a phone call).

Space for Theming | LINUX Unplugged 424 Sep 21, 2021

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A serious problem is brewing in Desktop Linux that hasn't impacted end users yet, but will soon. We break down why distribution makers are getting upset and explain what's next.

Plus, an update on Matrix and the recent upgrades we made to our server.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Joshua Strobl.

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Building an Alternative Ecosystem | Joshua Strobl — While we have been consistent in this vision, though certainly not without flaws in its execution, we have seen a significant shift from GNOME’s development efforts and vision being focused from their desktop experience, to a heavier focus on mobile-to-desktop application scalability and a more touch-oriented, almost iPadOS like user experience that does not (in our opinion) provide the most optimized experience for laptop and desktop users.
The Truth they are not telling you about “Themes” – Rust in Peace — There seems to be some confusion when it comes to libadwaita’s stylesheet and coloring APIs.
Red Hat’s Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35 - Phoronix — Fedora Workstation 35 will hopefully be out at the end of October (currently the beta is running behind schedule) and when it does ship it's once again at the bleeding-edge of Linux features.
GNOME 41 has new multitasking settings!
SeaGL is coming up soon, and is virtual this year — November 5th & 6th, 2021
This Week in Matrix
Spaces: The next frontier — Using Spaces and Subspaces to build hierarchies effectively turns Matrix into a global decentralised filesystem for conversations and other real-time data!
toger5/TheBoard — A collaborative Whiteboard powered by the [matrix] protocol and infrastucture.
Matrix Live
Compressing Synapse database | Levans’ workshop — Anyone running a federating instance of the Matrix homeserver Synapse will likely have seen this: synapse is database-hungry. It tends to take a lot of space. In this post, I'm documenting how I shrunk my homeserver database from 100GB to a little under 8GB, during a long maintenance cleanup.
Pick: Wayfire — Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
Garuda Wayfire Download

Linux Action News 207 Sep 19, 2021

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Desktop Linux graphics are about to get a significant investment, Mozilla and Canonical work together on a Firefox Snap, and some key new insights into the Linux port to Apple’s M1.

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Red Hat - Senior Software Engineer - HDR Enablement — The Red Hat Workstation Engineering team is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work on desktop, compositor, and GPU support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) formats and displays for Linux.
Jared Domínguez on Twitter — "It's that time again. I'm looking for someone to join my team to work on enabling HDR support in upstream Linux, Fedora and RHEL. Global applicants welcome. Underrepresented minorities highly encouraged."
Ubuntu to Make Firefox Snap Default in 21.10 — “Per Canonical’s distribution agreement with Mozilla, we’re making the snap the default installation of firefox on desktop ISOs starting with Ubuntu 21.10.”
Bug #1943840 “[FFe] Update the ubuntu-desktop-minimal seed to us…”
Feature Freeze Exception: Seeding the official Firefox snap in Ubuntu Desktop — This is the result of cooperation and collaboration between the Desktop and Snap teams at Canonical and Mozilla developers, and is the first step towards a deb-to-snap transition that will take place during the 22.04 development cycle.
Reverse Engineering, Open-Source Driver Writing Continues For Apple’s M1 GPU — Alyssa Rosenzweig spoke at the virtual X.Org Developers Conference about the ongoing work for bringing up Linux display and graphics support on the Apple M1 graphics processor.
XDC 2021 - Day 1 - September 15, 2021 - YouTube
Apple M1 USB Type-C Linux Support Code Sent Out For Testing — Sven Peter has sent out the initial USB Type-C enablement work for the Apple ACE1/2 chips used by Apple M1 systems.
Apple Silicon / M1 Port Planned For GCC 12 — While the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) supports AArch64 and macOS/Darwin, it hasn't supported the two of them together but there is a port in progress to change it.
Alyssa Rosenzweig on Twitter — Hello from Linux on my M1's internal storage! Thank you to @svenpeter42 for the NVMe driver. My daily driver now supports internal storage plus hotpluggable HDMI (native resolution), USB, and Ethernet.
X.Org Could Use More Help Improving & Addressing Its Security
LVFS Serves Up 2+ Million Firmware Downloads In The Past Month — Over the past thirty days, LVFS has served up more than two million firmware files to users.
LVFS joins Linux Foundation — The Linux Foundation welcomes the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as a new project.
Richard wrote on twitter — We hit 2 million firmware downloads in the last 30 days for the first time. There are now over 3000 firmware files available on the LVFS, with over 100 vendors using 50 different protocols. It's been a huge amount of work but it feels pretty awesome.
LVFS Supported Device List
Researchers Find Malware Hiding in Windows Subsystem for Linux | Tom’s Hardware
There’s now malware for Windows Subsystem for Linux — "These files acted as loaders running a payload that was either embedded within the sample or retrieved from a remote server and was then injected into a running process using Windows API calls,
KSMBD In-Kernel File Server Already Needs Important Security Fix - Phoronix — This "important security fix" was sent in today for the Linux 5.15 kernel, potentially landing in time for 5.15-rc2 later today.

Success is not Illegal | Coder Radio 431 Sep 15, 2021

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The more you read into it, the worse it gets.

At least we have new devices to keep us happy.

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GitKraken — Legendary Git GUI client for Windows, Mac & Linux
Apple Unveils iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max — Apple today announced the iPhone 13 Pro and ‌iPhone 13‌ Pro Max at its "California Streaming" event, featuring brighter Super Retina XDR displays with ProMotion, improved rear cameras, a more powerful variant of the A15 Bionic chip, up to 1TB of storage, a new Sierra Blue color option, and more.
All-new iPad Mini announced with 5G, USB-C — The big news is that it’s larger than the iPad Mini 5 with an 8.3-inch display
Breaking down the Epic v. Apple Fortnite trial ruling — Rogers clearly considers much of Epic and Apple’s behavior silly and many of both companies’ arguments bad.
Epic has appealed Friday’s ruling in the Epic v. Apple case — The court ruled Friday that Epic should pay damages
Java 17 / JDK 17 — JDK 17, the reference implementation of Java 17, is now Generally Available. We shipped build 35 as the first Release Candidate of JDK 17 on 6 August, and no P1 bugs have been reported since then. Build 35 is therefore now the GA build, ready for production use.
K-Duo — This versatile brewer is the best of both worlds, using both K-Cup® pods and ground coffee to brew a cup and a carafe of your favorite varieties.
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show — Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public

What Makes a Linux User? | LINUX Unplugged 423 Sep 14, 2021

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Why it might be time to re-think who is and who is not a Linux user, plus we do a reality check on the state of Linux phones.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Email from Purism — As previously announced, we will be increasing prices for all new orders of the Librem 5 in stages (the phone will be priced at $1199 from all orders received on or after Nov 1st, 2021 and we expect this price to go upward to $1299 in March 2022) as component prices change and as we deliver greater quantities of product.
Linux Phones | Madaidan’s Insecurities — Linux phones lack any significant security model and the points from the Linux article apply to Linux phones fully. There is not yet a single Linux phone with a sane security model.
Linux kernel needs more phones and tablets, says developer — "Especially for guys even running upstream kernel on RPI CM4 like me, more ARM devices with upstream kernel support will just be more happiness. Not to mention this also means super long time support, way longer than the lifespan of those devices."
Steam Deck dev-kits are on the move Valve say, as some already have it — "All packaged up and ready for devs! This is one of the limited batches of Steam Deck dev-kits heading out today for partners to test their games."
POKE 756,224 on Twitter — @ChrisLAS I admire your quest to get Linux running on your Thinkpad with the same battery life and perf you get on Windows. I've gotta admit, I've given up and just run Windows on mine, and the ugly truth is that Windows 11 is, for my needs anyway, really nice!
Pick: Flatseal — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.

Linux Action News 206 Sep 12, 2021

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Linus Torvalds attempts to get kernel developers to clean up their code, the performance regression that almost shipped, and the major production struggle Red Hat acknowledged this week.

Plus, we try out Microsoft’s Linux distro, and some thoughts on our editorial style.

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