Top 12 Things to Do After Installing Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa)

Linux Mint is one of the highly rated Linux distribution for desktops. Recently Linux Mint 21, code name Vanessa has been released. We have already covered an article which shows Linux mint 21 Installation steps. In this article, we will learn what are the Top 12 things to do after installing Linux Mint 21.

Creating a NixOS live USB for a full featured APU router

At home, I'm running my own router to manage Internet, run DHCP, do filter and caching etc... I'm using an APU2 running OpenBSD, it works great so far, but I was curious to know if I could manage to run NixOS on it without having to deal with serial console and installation.

Internxt – Web3 Ready Privacy-centric Cloud Storage with Linux client

Cloud storage has grown in importance in our daily digital lives. Almost all of us utilise some form of cloud storage service to ensure that our crucial information are kept forever. While cloud storage allows us to keep our data and retrieve them whenever and wherever we want, not all of them are as private and safe as Internxt.

How To Enable Dark Mode on Chromebook

Link: The MGR Window System

The MGR Window System (via) is a brief introduction to MGR, an interesting and under-mentioned Unix windowing system, including a screenshot. I once used MGR myself and have reasonably fond memories of it, so it's nice to see more writing about it on the Internet.

BaCon dependency removed from OE

Many years ago, I was keen on BaCon. It converts traditional BASIC language to C and then calls gcc to create an executable. The problem I have is that it is cross-compiler-unfriendly. Host x86_64 and target x86_64, compiled in OE, it would generated executables, but some simply didn't work. Host x86_64, target i686, compiling in OE is broken. I have previously rewritten some in C, however, there still remained picscale', 'popup', 'pup_event_ipc', 'find_cat' and 'debdb2pupdb'.

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RApiSerialize 0.1.1 on CRAN: Updates

A new release 0.1.1 of RApiSerialize is now on CRAN. While this is the first release in seven years (!!), it brings mostly minor internal updates along with the option of using serialization format 3. The package is used by both my RcppRedis as well as by Travers excellent qs package. Neither one of us has a need to switch to format 3 yet so format 2 remains the default. But along with other standard updates to package internals, it was straightforward to offer the newer format so that is what we did.

coarse or lazy? -- wingolog

One of the things that had perplexed me about the Immix collector was how to effectively defragment the heap via evacuation while keeping just 2-3% of space as free blocks for an evacuation reserve. [...] To Immix, a "recyclable" block is partially full: it contains surviving data from a previous collection, but also some holes in which to allocate. But when would you have recyclable blocks at evacuation-time? Evacuation occurs as part of collection. Collection usually occurs when there's no more memory in which to allocate. At that point any recyclable block would have been allocated into already, and won't become recyclable again until the next trace of the heap identifies the block's surviving data. Of course after the next trace they could become "empty", if no object survives, or "full", if all lines have survivor objects.

Type-On Typewriter Animation in Nuke

Users of AfterEffects are used to a plethora of presets for text animation. Unfortunately, text animation in Nuke is significantly limited in that the contents of the text field cannot be easily animated. I was working on producing a music video in which type-on text shows the lyrics in time with the music and ran into the limitation. I was not willing to mask letters individually using roto tools and instead decided to write a small python program that generates the animation in side of Nuke.

Multiple Inline SVGs (From QuickChart)

I’m working on generating some stats and accompanying graphs for my blog (blog post to come on this…). For the charts, I’m using the quickchart.io API (a tool I’ve used before) and it’s beautifully simple: pass data as a URL, get back a chart. It’s working. My build hits the quickchart API, gets an SVG, and inlines it into my HTML. It looks great!

Porting Doom to a payment terminal

For the past half a year or so I have been playing around with a specific type of payment terminal, the VX820 from Verifone. I randomly bought a couple of second-hand devices, and found out that they are wonderful pieces of hardware with lots of potential for alternative uses. I figured that a fun goal for myself would be to port Doom to it, which would nicely showcase the device’s unexpected computational power.

Lilah? Is that you? This place... it's... amazing...

Obsidian, the first supported game of the mTropolis engine, is ready for public testing! Created in 1996 by Rocket Science Games and published in early 1997, this ambitious 3D-rendered first-person adventure has you journey through 4 surreal, dream-like worlds in search of your lost colleague.

Everything we know about the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, as of August 2022

Debian Suicide FYI: Lucas Nussbaum & Debian attempted exploit of OVH Hosting insider

When Debian cabalists wanted to steal the domain debian-multimedia.org in 2014, they didn't go to a lawyer or the World Intellectual Property Organization. The Debian Project Leader (DPL), Lucas Nussbaum, who is a professor at Université de Lorraine, France, relied on another Debian Developer to tap the shoulder of an insider at OVH, which is also a French company, to see if the domain registration could be hijacked covertly. According to the email below, OVH managers didn't want to get involved in Debian dirty politics.

Ownership of debian.community domain [Ed: This statement was issued on a Sunday; they've solved none of the underlying issues, they're just gagging those who speak about Debian issues]

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under its Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP), decided that ownership of the debian.community domain should be transferred to the Debian Project. The appointed panel found that the disputed domain name is identical to a trademark in which the Complainant has rights.