Build your own voice controlled HAL9000! Chromebooks reach EOL, mlocate gets ANGRY, and everyone gets a snap.
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Maru
https://blog.maruos.com/2016/06/08/maru-v0-2-3-is-now-public/
https://youtu.be/iF7yK7HAyVM?t=46
- That’s a nice idea.
- The only thing I’m iffy on is having both Android and Debian running on top of a phone.
- Especially if it’s running what seems to be a VM on top of Android.
- The Nexus 5 has a lot of humph but I don’t think it’s enough for that kind of workload.
- Aaaaaand it only works on the Nexus 5.
- Watch out Ubuntu, you got some competition on the convergence
- Anyone remember Ubuntu for Android? That seems very similar and it was a very neat idea. The main problem with Ubuntu Touch is that isn’t not compatible with Android apps. Add that and you got my attention.
- Looking at some Nexus 5 devices on ebay. Less than $150. Very interesting indeed.
- Is this really shipping with OpenShot 2.X? Why?
- Nevermind, it’s running the four year old version.
- Yes, that’s a good thing.
MSBSD
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/09/microsoft_freebsd
- Up next, MS QNX.
- This is all leading to Microsoft resurrecting BeOS
- Another *NIX OS for people forced to use Azure.
- “the majority of the investments we make at the kernel level to enable network and storage performance were up-streamed into the FreeBSD 10.3 release”
- Didn’t expect that.
- When it comes to providing support for Azure, Microsoft will contribute.
- Remember when they submitted patches to the Linux kernel a few years back? Exact same thing.
- There’s nothing to complain about, they got the right attitude. You use Open Source, you contribute. I wish more Linux users adopted that same attitude.
- Yoinked by Daetwyler Holding AG, a Swiss industrial component supplier.
- For the low low cost of $871 million.
- At the very least this will help with meeting demand.
- Someone got tired of waiting for a RaspberryPi Zero to be available, they bought the whole company.
- Now, don’t do anything silly with that, ok?
- MS will buy the Swiss company and force them to preinstall Win10 on every device.
Pi 9K
http://www.instructables.com/id/RaspberryPI-HAL9000/
- Neat looking but completely useless.
- Would be better off installing the Amazon Echo hack.
- I don’t get it, it really doesn’t seem to do much…
- Make this a custom case for the Mycroft and we’re talking
- Where was this when the in-browser pdf reader was exploited to read the contents of .ssh and other such folders?
- Mozilla, paying for security audits, because the companies who make millions using open source software won’t do it.
- They are being extremely generous, and a bit too optimistic when they say they are hoping that corporations and governments will join them.
- Corporations using open source (those who are not active contributors) are a bunch of freeloaders expecting efficient and secure software without spending a dime.
RIP Cromebook
http://betanews.com/2016/06/10/google-chromebook-end-of-life/
- The x86 ones are about as dead as any other laptop is dead.
- Boot up a live USB with your Fedoras or Ubuntus, install it and Chrome and you’re done.
- Five years of support sounds reasonable but killing security updates is borderline Bird culture.
- ChromeOS is based on ChromiumOS, right? So we should expect some kind of community support from the community, right?
- The whole point of having an open system is that you are tied to a particular vendor
- That said, the target audience of Chromebooks is not going to install an alternative OS on their machines.
ChromeCastic
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2016/This-week-in-VideoLAN-46
- Sorted a few security issues.
- Now supports external subs and audio over the network.
- Should now be able to detect ChromeCast from the QT interface and stream.
- For people without media servers?
- Hey! Jean Baptiste Kempf! I met this guy, he’s cool!
- I wouldn’t expect less from VLC, if there’s one thing that can handle network streaming it’s VLC.
If you bought one
https://blog.plex.tv/2016/06/09/nvidia-shield-you-complete-us/
- Google themselves praised NVidia for the SHIELD Android TV console type thing.
- And its sole purpose is to be a media box, so having Plex on it just makes sense.
- I was originally confused/impressed because I thought it was for the NVIDIA SHIELD not the NVIDIA SHIELD.
Redbuntuit
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/06/quick-reddit-indicator-applet-ubuntu
- Nope. Sorry but not interested. The only thing I would expect of a Reddit related software is to notify me of replies on posts or comments. I still haven’t found a good solution to that and every Reddit app fails at providing it.
- This could be useful if you use the Reddits for breaking news.
- Or you could, ya know, use Twitter.
Grr mlocate
https://github.com/DoTheEvo/ANGRYsearch
- Looks cool but do we need yet another file indexer on Linux?
- I already have 2 file indexers on my system: locate and tracker
- On Unity, you can have pretty much the same thing by pressing <super>+F
- Can we show XKCD 927 “Standards”?
- Can’t remember the last time I used anything outside of locate.
- I gave it a shot and it works.
- Better/faster than the Search plugin/function most DEs include.
- It does take sometime to fully populate the DB and if you want to map everything you need to give it sudo permissions, as is to be expected.
- Though, to be honest, the only search function I use is the one in the menu or Alt+F2.
- If I’m looking for a specific file I’ll just do the old find / | grep thing
- The Ars journalist who begins his article with “Goodbye apt and yum” seriously doesn’t get the point of snaps.
- “””””Ars journalist”””””
- Snaps (or appimages or flatpacks) complement the shortcomings of distribution packages.
- Universal distributable binaries are much needed in the Linux ecosystem but classic packaging systems aren’t going away!
- Static link all the things in all distributions.
- So the keystroke security issue will only be fixed when it’s running MIR? WAT?
