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The Drop Times: FLDC Featured Speaker Aubrey Sambor on CSS Color Innovations

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Gain exclusive insights into Aubrey Sambor’s journey in Drupal and her upcoming session on “Color in CSS” at Florida Drupal Camp 2024. In this interview with Kazima Abbas, sub-editor of The DropTimes, Aubrey shares her experiences and expertise, offering a glimpse into the evolving world of web development and Drupal community contributions.

New code for SIGILL faults help identify misbranches

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If you run recent OpenBSD on certain amd64 or aarch64 platforms, indirect branching to an “unexpected” location will crash your program, in order to prevent ROP attacks and similar ways to have your program execute code where it shouldn’t.

The OpenBSD compiler will insert an extra instruction in all the places where a branch is supposed to land, and if it lands anywhere else, a CPU fault is raised and your program gets an “Illegal Instruction”.

Previously, crashes of this kind have looked more or less like any other kind of fault where code is executing random data or from random locations, but since the kernel knows when this has happened, we can make it explicit that the fault is due to missing branch target instructions, which will help a lot when debugging.

Link to the commit here.

Next steps for Mozilla and Trustworthy AI

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(In short: Mozilla is updating our trustworthy AI plan. Read the paper and share your feedback: AIPaper@mozillafoundation.org.) In 2020, when Mozilla first focused its philanthropy and advocacy on trustworthy AI, we published a paper outlining our vision. We mapped the barriers to a better AI ecosystem — barriers like centralization, algorithmic bias, and poor data […]

The post Next steps for Mozilla and Trustworthy AI appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

One nineteen suggested to all

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TWIF generated on Thursday, 22 Feb 2024, Week 8

F-Droid core

F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.19.1 to fix some theming issues, add more translations and polish something supersecret you’ll get to find about soon. In more important news, version 1.19.0 is now marked as suggested so the update is finally sent to all the F-Droid users out there, not just our loyal fan base that have “enabled Beta”. 🎉

Another change that 1.19.0 brought was related to the default repositories. Historically, given the Guardian Project’s involvement in F-Droid, we’ve shipped their repo in-app but not enabled by default. As time passed, Guardian’s needs to host apps have not aligned with F-Droid’s FOSS policies so it was finally decided to remove their repo from the default install, meaning that new installs will not have it. If you already do, it will stay put as you wish.

Our very own @eighthave has penned a post from the future to explain in detail what’s going on and also talk about the future of the most wanted apps from that repo, Orbot and Tor Browser.

Community News

@linsui extracts some news:

While Orbot might not be easily installed by default from now on, TorServices (alpha) was just updated to 0.2.1. It does not have all the bells and whistles of Orbot, but it offers the barebones in a light app. You can enable “Use Tor” in Conversations, SOCKS in Netguard or your own favourite app proxy settings, and you are ready to go.

ZipXtract FD was updated to 4.3.2 but this version is now lacking “RAR extraction, Multipart RAR extraction, 7z compression”, since these were based on proprietary code.

@Licaon_Kter is waving flags:

Jami was updated to 20240215-01, but did you notice that “the new conversation UI is now available for everyone on Android”? Yes, devs are hard at work to make it better for the eye and faster.

Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was mentioned as downgraded in TWIF24 week 4 per the developers wishes. This week it was brought back up to date to version 2024.02.06-11-FDroid hence make sure you update and download the updated maps as well, so your next trips are better guided. The F-Droid website has yet to detail why the app is flagged with an anti-feature (the client does explain), but it’s there because: “Map download service (cdn*.organicmaps.app) is free and open source, but not user changeable. Hotel widget includes a link to kayak.com not contained in original map data”. More about Anti-Features here.

Stitch, your handy tool for picture stitching on the go, is back after being gone for 8 months. (#2894)

Newly Added Apps

4 apps were newly added

Intermezzo from Licaon_Kter

As usual the next section is this huge dry wall of text listing the other updated apps. Many of you have complained that it’s a boring section, and we agree. The sections above are full of exciting (and hopefully new) information, but truth be told we can’t really follow up all the 100-200 app updates that get pushed weekly. We might use one of those apps so we follow its development, we might fix a build and thus get a spicy detail from the commit messages, but otherwise, it all might be on autoupdate and working surely, yet quietly. Each update can hold some beautiful or amazing feat that only you know about, because you care, so if it’s game-changing, or just scratches an itch, please drop by our special forum thread and let everyone else know about it. 🎁

Updated Apps

118 more apps were updated

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IBM begins work on Power11 enablement for upcoming Linux 6.9

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The first “Power11” patches were queued today into the PowerPC’s “next” Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle. The first of many IBM Power11 processor/platform enablement patches are beginning to flow out for the Linux kernel for enabling the next-generation Power processors. This shouldn’t be too surprising given that a few months ago IBM began posting “PowerPC Future” patches for the GCC compiler with speculating at the time it was for Power11 just as IBM previously called their “future” CPU target in GCC for Power10 prior to those processors officially debuting. ↫ Michael Larabel I really hope IBM learned from the POWER10 fiasco and will make sure POWER11 is properly and fully open again, because POWER9’s openness made it unique among the other options out there. Without it, there’s really no reason for an enthusiast community to developer around POWER11 as it did around POWER9, and that would be a shame. Again.

Best Note Counting Machine Suppliers in Mohali, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Patiala, and Jalandhar – AKS…

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New Lancia Ypsilon Edizione Limitata Cassina Design Preview

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NEW LANCIA YPSILON EDIZIONE LIMITATA CASSINA – available in Italy in 1906 certified and numbered units as a tribute to the year Lancia was founded – cements the bond between two outstanding brands in their respective sectors: automotive and interior design. It represents the next steps in a journey that began with the interiors of the Lancia Pu+Ra HPE concept car: the two brands are linked by shared values such as a vocation for research and innovation, respect for their past and tradition, as well as attention to environmental issues.
Combining tradition and innovation in line with the brand’s pure and radical design language, New LANCIA YPSILON EDIZIONE LIMITATA CASSINA is the first car inspired by the world of Italian furnishings. It epitomizes design, comfort, and onboard well-being.
The model reflects the utmost attention to every stylistic detail, from the selection of the materials to the choice of colors: blue is used as the iconic hue of Lancia tradition, appearing both inside the car and out.
A soft blue velvet in 100% recycled yarn envelops the seats with “cannelloni” pattern and double stitching, with the same color echoed in the accents on the door panels and dashboard creating an elegant and coordinated interior space.
Lancia blue also features in the model’s unique, elegant, and contemporary bodywork: it blends in with the black of the alloy wheels and their dark dressing, resulting in a refined and uniform visual impact, with no chrome plating.
Another of the greatest hallmarks of the New LANCIA YPSILON EDIZIONE LIMITATA CASSINA is the Cassina multifunctional “tavolino”, a new design element made of bio-based plastic that emphasizes the brand’s manufacturing experience. It is the first “tavolino” seen inside a car, used by Lancia to create a welcoming and hospitable space in line with its historical values. The passenger compartment therefore becomes an authentic ‘living room,’ to guarantee the comfort typical of Italian homes: a harmonious and elegant space.

Inland Marine Insurance Beyond the Open Seas

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Explore the ins and outs of inland marine insurance, a must for businesses that frequently ship goods.

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