Android Leftovers

• Best Ways to Make a Collage on Android

• Top 6 Ways to Fix There Was a Problem Parsing the Package Error on Android - Guiding Tech

• How to change display refresh rate of your Android smartphone – Phandroid

• Do This Android App Privacy Audit, I Beg You

• Are Third-Party Android Launchers Safe to Use?

• Google Play Store has a new logo, and it's already appearing in parts of Android

• Google Maps for Android adds nearby traffic widget [U: Live] - 9to5Google

• Android Auto issue shows huge icons for some users - 9to5Google

• Android 13's Restricted setting feature will block malicious apps from accessing your notifications

• Lava Blaze comes with glass back, stock Android 12 and agressive price - GSMArena.com news

• Motorola Edge 30: Extremely thin mid-range smartphone with stock Android 12 - NotebookCheck.net News

• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 suddenly looks like the ultimate Android foldable phone | T3

Fedora 37 Plans for Unfiltered Access to all Flathub Apps

The upcoming changes in Fedora 37 which would allow entire Flathub repository & its applications directly from GNOME Software.

today's leftovers

• A surprise: you can only have one Linux kernel serial console

  However, recently I discovered a limitation of Linux's serial console support, which is that you can only have one serial console, or to put it another way you can only have kernel messages going to one serial port, not two or more (this is one of the several 'consoles' that Linux has). This is relevant (at least to us) because many servers today have two serial ports you might want kernel messages to go to; one physical one, which you can connect to your console server, and one virtual one supplied by the BMC, which you can connect to over IPMI or sometimes see (perhaps including some scrollback) on the BMC's web interface.

• BSD Now 462: OpenBSD Sales Pitch

  The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system, selling OpenBSD as a salesperson, Speeding up autoconf with caching, Allowing non-root execution of a jailed application, Configure login(1) and sshd(8) for YubiKey on OpenBSD, and more.

• Release GnuPG 2.2.36

  Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.36 (2022-07-06) [...]

• CANBed M4 SAM E51 development board features MCP2542FD CAN transceiver - CNX Software

  CANBed M4 development board based on Microchip SAM E51 Cortex-M4 microcontroller and MCP2542FD CAN transceiver provides a more powerful alternative to the CANBed RP2040 with a Raspberry Pi dual-core Cortex-M0+ microcontroller introduced last year. The board supports both CAN 2.0 and CAN FD with a 4-pin terminal block or a DB-9 connector, and offers expansion capabilities though two Grove connectors, and an 18-pin IO header.

• Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)

  A good habit is to skim over the manual every few months. You'll pick up something new and useful every time.

• Dealing with the Undercurrent of Unwanted Traffic

  Over three years ago, the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) established a worldwide honeyfarm, with hundreds of sensors, to collect IoT attack traffic for analysis. GCA now has terabytes of data, with over a million hits a day on the honeyfarm sensors. If nothing else, it clearly communicates that the Internet is full of a lot of unwanted traffic, hammering unrelentingly on unsuspecting devices.

  In order to have a clearer picture of the global impact on any exposed IPv4 device, we analysed (approximately) five months of data from our honeyfarm sensor network. In that timeframe, our ~200 sensors, deployed across the globe, saw attacks from over 10% of the estimated active autonomous systems making up the Internet. While some were small-scaled offenders, approximately 20% of these networks fielded more than 1,000 attacks on our sensors. (Our sensors are passive collectors, not expecting any form of connection from elsewhere. We filter out “scan” traffic, and any other login or access attempts are considered “attacks”).

• Create and Maintain a Virtual Infrasturcture with bhyve in FreeBSD

  Although bhyve got a later start than Linux KVM, in most ways it has caught up with its primary rival—and in some ways surpassed it. When configured properly, bhyve guests perform similarly to KVM guests, and in some cases outperform them.

  The major remaining hurdle bhyve needs to overcome to reach parity with KVM revolves around the tooling and documentation needed for a system administrator to create and manage their virtual machines. Today, we’re going to take a crack at the latter by providing a full, newbie-friendly guide to setting up a bhyve-based virtual machine host on FreeBSD 13.1.