BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — March 27, 2024 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced Alyssa Rosenzweig, who reverse-engineered Apple’s current line of graphics processing units (GPU), as keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2024. LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community is the sixteenth edition of the FSF’s conference on ethical technology and user freedom and will be held on May 4 and 5 at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, as well as online.
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Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel
Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and AMD have all been pushing the idea of an “AI PC” for months now as we head toward more AI-powered features in Windows. While we’re still waiting to hear the finer details from Microsoft on its big plans for AI in Windows, Intel has started sharing Microsoft’s requirements for OEMs to build an AI PC — and one of the main ones is that an AI PC must have Microsoft’s Copilot key. ↫ Tom Warren at The Verge I lack the words in any of the languages I know to describe the utter disdain I have for this.
Innovazione: Tripoli (Unioncamere), ‘Approccio Open Innovation ha importanza globale’
(Adnkronos) – “L’approccio Open Innovation è un approccio importantissimo per tutti gli operatori, sia pubblici che privati e questo è un dato di fatto che riguarda non solo il nostro Paese e le Camere di commercio italiane, ma riguarda tutto il mondo. Negli Stati Uniti l’Open innovation ormai è la filiera di innovazione più importante anche delle grandi aziende, perfino più importante dei centri interni di ricerca e sviluppo”. Lo ha detto Giuseppe Tripoli, segretario generale di Unioncamere, a margine dell’Innovation Day con il quale si è conclusa la prima fase della Call for Data-Driven Innovation, l’iniziativa rivolta alle start-up e Pmi innovative, lanciata a gennaio da Unioncamere e InfoCamere in collaborazione con The Doers, società di consulenza di Digital Magics, che coinvolge le Camere di Commercio di Firenze, Messina, Milano, Padova e Torino.
Talking Drupal: Skills Upgrade #4
Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 4.
Topics
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Review Chad’s goals for the previous week
- Install Drush
- Setup git repo
- Examples module
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Review Chad’s questions
- .gitignore
- Core file naming
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Tasks for the upcoming week
- Reminder of the capstone goal: create MR for new automated test in contrib module.
- Examples module: field_example. New RGB field type with formatter and widgets. Focus on stuff in field_example/src/Plugin/Field
- Background info on Plugins: https://www.drupal.org/docs/drupal-apis/plugin-api
- Focus on the following sections:
Resources
Chad’s Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal Chad’s Drupal 10 Learning Notes
The Linux Foundation is offering a discount of 30% off e-learning courses, certifications and bundles with the code, all uppercase DRUPAL24 and that is good until June 5th https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification-catalog/
Hosts
AmyJune Hineline – @volkswagenchick
Guests
Chad Hester – chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello – DrupalEasy.com @ultimike
OnStrum::Healthcheck – simple configurable application healthcheck ❤️ rack middleware
OnStrum::Healthcheck allows you to embed healthcheck endpoints into your rack based application to perform healthcheck probes. Make your application compatible with Docker/Kubernetes healthchecks in a seconds: https://github.com/on-strum/ruby-on-strum-healthcheck
Plasma 5: the early years
With KDE’s 6th Mega Release finally out the door, let’s reflect on the outgoing Plasma 5 that has served us well over the years. Can you believe it has been almost ten years since Plasma 5.0 was released? Join me on a trip down memory lane and let me tell you how it all began. This coincidentally continues pretty much where my previous retrospective blog post concluded. ↫ Kai Uwe It took them a few years after the release of Plasma 5.0, but eventually they won me over, and I’m now solid in the KDE camp, after well over a decade of either GNOME or Cinnamon. GNOME has strayed far too much away from just being a traditional desktop user interface, and Cinnamon is dragging its heels with Wayland support, but luckily KDE has spent a long time now clearing up so many of the paper cuts that used to plague them every time I tried KDE. That’s all in the past now. They’ve done a solid job cleaning up a lot of the oddities and inconsistencies during Plasma 5’s lifecycle, and I can’t wait until Fedora 40 hits the streets with Plasma 6 in tow. In the desktop Linux world, I feel KDE and Qt will always play a little bit of second fiddle to the (seemingly) much more popular GNOME and GTK+, but that’s okay – this kind of diversity and friendly competition is what makes each of these desktops better for their respective users. And this is the Linux world, after all – you’re not tied down to anything your current desktop environment does, and you’re free to switch to whatever else at a moment’s notice if some new update doesn’t sit well with you. I can’t imagine using something like macOS or Windows where you have to just accept whatever garbage they throw at you with nowhere to go.