HashiCorp co-founder's side project reaches 1.0 – er, 1.0.1Liam Proven (The Register)
This article looks at 10 free and open source command line HTTP clients useful for more than just downloading.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
Learn everything you need to know about MariaDB and MySQL Import Database and Export Database functions using our latest guide.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
GnuPG is a superb tool though it’s a command line affair. If you’re looking for a GUI frontend, check out these tools.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
Dead Meat is a murder mystery where you can talk to suspects through your microphone and ask anything you want, but it feels too reliant on generative AI.Nic Reuben (Rock Paper Shotgun)
⭐️ HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me
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In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.Tim Carmody (WIRED)
Justin Trudeau's Unexpected Resignation: A Political Earthquake in Canada
In a dramatic turn of events, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation, marking the end of an era characterized by both progressive strides and economic challenges. As the ...
IBM is doing to Fedora what it did to CentOS. It's still there, but only/mostly by name.Roy Schestowitz
After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his 'This Week in Plasma' series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week.lxer.com
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Stimulation Clicker
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⭐️ Principles Of Web Accessibility
A set of high-level guiding principles for approaching design and remediation for an accessible web.
By @heydon
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How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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See why you should use Linux if you give Windows the boot.Elliot Alexander (XDA)
How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local utilities and the US DOD's sensitive networks in Guam, a US territory vital for defending Taiwan militarily (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
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Small-scale telecommunications networks and utilities on a remote Pacific island are up against what US intelligence agencies say is an unprecedented Chinese cyberwar plan.Katrina Manson (Bloomberg)
Here's how to use the secure copy command, with SSH key authentication, for a more secure way to copy files to your remote Linux servers.Jack Wallen (TechRepublic)
Organizations prefer Linux because it's more stable and secure than nearly all operating systems. This OS is an excellent solution for managing databases, hosting websites, and game servers.Makenna Hensley (LinuxSecurity.com)
Bits from the DPL: Dear Debian community,
this is bits from DPL for December.
Happy New Year 2025! Wishing everyone health, productivity, and a
successful Debian release later in this year.
Strict ownership of packages
I'm glad my last bits sparked discussions about barriers between
packages and contributors, summarized temporarily in some post on the
debian-devel list. As one participant aptly put it, we need a way
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Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for December. Happy New Year 2025! Wishing everyone health, productivity, and a successful Debian release later in this year. Strict ownership of packages I'm glad my last bits sparked discussions about...Debian Project
This article shows you how to set, change, and recover secure passwords for your MySQL root account, so you'll never be at a loss.Jack Wallen (TechRepublic)
fffilm, František Fuka, Ilona Fuková, film, premiéry, recenze, Fuxoftwww.fffilm.cz
If you have an aging computer and want to give it new life, there are plenty of lightweight Linux distributions that will serve you for years to come.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Discover the importance of Bash scripting in Linux system administration. Learn how it automates tasks, improves efficiency, ensures consistency, and enhances security for seamless management.Lucas Rees (Linux Careers)
This dumb password rule is from Xfinity Modem.
Only letters and numbers are valid. No spaces or special characters.
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An Algol 68 front end for GCC
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Interrupted Fern” 2024.12. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains the fix for the broken installation wizard.
The highlights of Friendica 2024.12 are
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumblr and BlueSky.
If you are updating from an older version than the 2023.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version as it contained some breaking changes.
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.12 release would be
cd friendica
git pull
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
cd addon
git pull
If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.
Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
Due to unforseen changes in the CI not possible at the moment.
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script
bin/console dbstructure update
from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.
At the time of writing this, none with 2024.12
But the development branch is currently rather unstable and should be used with caution as the development diverged far (for Friendica terms) from the now stable branch. We will let our very valued ALPHA testers when the dev team things that the development branch is stable enough again.
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.
Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
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Here are our favorite JavaScript-based web content management systems. They are all free and open source software.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
Sonocotta's HiFi-Amped is a Raspberry Pi Audio HAT designed for Raspberry Pi single-board computers. It features dual PCM5100 DACs and TPA3110 (2x15W @Debashis Das (CNX Software Limited)
Privacy and security have never been more important—or more under threat. With headlines constantly reporting data breaches, hacks, and the unchecked collection of sensitive personal information, it’s easy to feel like your digital life is always at …Brittany Day (LinuxSecurity.com)
This dumb password rule is from Oracle.
*Should not* or *must not*? RFC 2119 may want a word with you.
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This dumb password rule is from MySwissLife.
User ID *has to* be 8 characters exactly, password *has to be* 8 characters and numbers only.
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Exwm is a minimalist window manager that uses Emacs for its base. Learn how to use Emacs as a bona fide Linux desktop with Exwm today.Ramces Red (Make Tech Easier)
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