The Ruby ecosystem is rich with tools that make us developers more productive at what we do. Both Rails and Sinatra have been used to build web application proof-of-concepts and prototypes. But which one is better?
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OpenBSD in Canada
We all know the OpenBSD is lead from Canada, but what is the status in that country by and large?
Bringing up the subject, Katie McMillan wrote in, saying
I am looking for Canadian OpenBSD contributors for a Q&A, and they haven’t been easy to find. You would think that they would be, considering that the person who started the project is from Canada, but it hasn’t been. Does this mean that OpenBSD is dead in Canada?
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www @ Savannah: Linux-libre turns 15!
Linux-libre turns 15!
Shared from <http://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-02-Linux-libre-15>
It was February 2008 when Jeff Moe announced Linux-libre, a project to share the efforts that freedom-respecting distros had to undertake to drop the nonfree bits distributed as part of the kernel Linux.
> “For fifteen years, the Linux-libre project has remained dedicated
> to providing a kernel that respects everyone’s freedom and has
> become an essential part of the free software movement. Linux-libre
> is widely used by those who value their freedom to use, study,
> change, and share software without restrictions or limitations.
> These freedoms are essential to creating a just society.”
> — Jason Self
Since around 1996, Linux has carried sourceless firmware encoded as sequences of numbers disguised as source code. UTUTO and gNewSense pioneered the efforts of removing them. Cleaning Linux up is a substantial amount of work, so the existence of Linux-libre has alleviated one of the main difficulties in maintaining GNU+Linux distros that abide by the GNU Free Software Distribution Guidelines. The Linux-libre compiled kernel distributions maintained by Jason Self, Freesh (.deb), liberRTy (low-latency .deb) and RPMFreedom (.rpm), make it easy for users of other GNU+Linux distros to take a step towards freedom when their hardware is not too user-hostile.
> “Thanks to Linux-libre, we have entirely libre GNU+Linux distros.
> Thanks to Linux-libre, people like me who are not kernel hackers can
> install one of those distros and have a computer which never runs a
> nonfree program on the CPU. (Provided we use LibreJS as well to
> reject nonfree Javascript programs that web sites send us.)”
> — Richard Stallman
Early pieces of firmware in Linux ran peripheral devices, but some of the blobs loaded by Linux nowadays reconfigure the primary central processing units and others contain an entire operating system for the peripherals’ CPUs, including a copy of the kernel Linux itself and several other freedom-depriving programs!
After years of our denouncing the social, technical, and legal risks out of Linux’s misbehavior, most of the blobs got moved to separate files, still part of the kernel Linux, and then to separate packages, which mitigates some of the legal risks, but the problem keeps growing: more and more devices depend on nonfree firmware and thus remain under exclusive and proprietary control by their suppliers.
Challenge
For 27 years, the nonfree versions of Linux have shown that tolerating blobs and making it easy for users to install and accept them makes users increasingly dependent on user-hostile, blob-requiring devices for their computing. Refusing to give these devices’ suppliers what they wish, namely your money and control over your computing, is more likely to succeed at changing their practices if more users refuse.
If you’re the kind of software freedom supporter who demands respect for your freedom, keep on enjoying the instant gratification that GNU Linux-libre affords you, and supporting (or being!) those who refurbish old computers and build new ones to respect our autonomy.
However, if you’re of the kind for whom last-generation computers are hard to resist, even though you’d prefer if they were more respectful of your freedom, you may wish to consider a delayed gratification challenge: if you and your friends resist hostile computers now, you may get more respectful ones later, for yourselves and for all of us; if you don’t, the next generations will likely be even more hostile. Are you up for the challenge?
Present and Future
GNU Linux-libre releases are currently prepared with scripts that automate the cleaning-up and part of the verification. For each upstream major and stable release, we run the scripts, updating them as needed, and publish them, along with the cleaning-up logs and the cleaned-up sources, in a git repository. Each source release is an independent tag, as in, there are no branches for cleaned-up sources. This is so we can quickly retract releases if freedom bugs are found.
We have plans to change the cleaning-up process and the repository structure in the future: we’re (slowly) preparing to move to a rewritten git repository, in which, for each commit in upstream Linux main and stable repositories, there will be a corresponding cleaned-up commit in ours. Undesirable bits are going to be cleaned up at the commit corresponding to the one in which upstream introduced or modified them, and other modifications will be checked and integrated unchanged, mirroring the upstream commit graph, with “git replace” mappings for individual commits and, perhaps, also for cleaned-up files.
This is expected to enable us to track upstream development very closely, to get stable and major releases out nearly instantly and often automatically and to enable Linux developers to clone our freed repository instead of our upstream to write and test their changes. The same techniques used to create the cleaned-up repository can be used to fix freedom bugs in it.
Artwork
Jason Self has made several beautiful pictures of his version of Freedo, our light-blue penguin mascot, and we’ve used them for our recent releases.
Marking the beginning of the week in which we celebrate 15 years of Linux-libre, we had the pleasure of publishing a major release, 6.2-gnu, codenamed “la quinceañera”, with a picture of Freedo dressed up for the occasion: <https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2023-February/003502.html>
But there’s more! He also made a commemorative black-and-white wallpaper with classic Freedo, also dressed up for the occasion. Check them out, and feel free to tune the colors to your liking! <https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/#news>
He also modeled a 3D Freedo in Blender, and we’re looking for someone who could 3D-print it and get it to the FSF office in time for the LibrePlanet conference. Rumor has it that Richard Stallman is going to auction it off to raise funds for the FSF! Can you help?
About GNU Linux-libre
GNU Linux-libre is a GNU package maintained by Alexandre Oliva, on behalf of FSFLA, and by Jason Self. It releases cleaned-up versions of Linux, suitable for use in distributions that comply with the Free Software Distribution Guidelines published by the GNU project, and by users who wish to run Free versions of Linux on their GNU systems. The project offers cleaning-up scripts, Free sources, binaries for some GNU+Linux distributions, and artwork with GNU and the Linux-libre mascot: Freedo, the clean, Free and user-friendly light-blue penguin. Visit our web site and Be Free!
About the GNU Operating System and Linux
Richard Stallman announced in September 1983 the plan to develop a Free Software Unix-like operating system called GNU. GNU is the only
operating system developed specifically for the sake of users’ freedom: <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html>
In 1992, the essential components of GNU were complete, except for one, the kernel. When in 1992 the kernel Linux was re-released under the GNU GPL, making it Free Software, the combination of GNU and Linux formed a complete Free operating system, which made it possible for the first time to run a PC without non-Free Software. This combination is the GNU+Linux system: <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html>
About FSFLA
Free Software Foundation Latin America joined in 2005 the international FSF network, previously formed by Free Software Foundations in the United States, in Europe and in India. These sister organizations work in their corresponding geographies towards promoting the same Free Software ideals and defending the same freedoms for software users and developers, working locally but cooperating globally.
Copyright 2023 FSFLA
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this entire document without royalty, provided the copyright notice, the document’s official URL, and this permission notice are preserved.
Permission is also granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of individual sections of this document worldwide without royalty provided the copyright notice and the permission notice above are preserved, and the document’s official URL is preserved or replaced by the individual section’s official URL.
Odisha JEE To Begin On May 8, Admit Cards Releasing On April 20
Odisha JEE To Begin On May 8, Admit Cards Releasing On April 20.
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Zum Schoss Lamashtus. Pathfinder: Kingmaker #128
Mit Pathfinder: Kingmaker erleben wir ein klassisches Rollenspiel wie Baldur’s Gate, Fallout 1+2 und Arcanum. Wir sind dazu erkoren die Raublande zu erobern und darüber zu herrschen. Als kleiner Held mausern wir uns zum Baron und bauen ein Königreich auf.
Wir werden es mit alten Flüchen, frischen Intrigen und vielen Monstern befassen müssen…
Wir werden es mit alten Flüchen, frischen Intrigen und vielen Monstern befassen müssen…
Genre: Roleplay
Entwickler: Owlcat Games
Publisher: Prime Matter
Veröffentlichung: 25.09.2018
Offizielle Seite: https://kingmaker.owlcatgames.com/
Game-Tags: #Pathfinder #Kingmaker #DungeonsAndDragons
Ganze Reihe: https://dailymotion.com/rss/playlist/x7q819
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L2-DM-WordPress Website – 3rd Nov 2022
WordPress is a popular content management system that allows individuals and businesses to build and manage their own websites. In this course, you will learn how to build a website from scratch using WordPress. We will cover the basics of website design, WordPress installation, theme customization, and plugin integration.
You will learn how to create a website that is visually appealing, functional, and optimized for search engines. You will also learn best practices for website security, performance optimization, and content creation. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and skills to build your own website with WordPress and showcase your brand to the world.
Course Outline:
Module 1: Introduction to WordPress
What is WordPress?
Setting up a WordPress website
Navigating the WordPress dashboard
Module 2: Designing Your Website
Choosing the right theme
Customizing your website’s appearance
Creating a user-friendly layout
Module 3: Creating Content
Writing and publishing blog posts
Creating pages and menus
Optimizing content for search engines
Module 4: Extending Your Website’s Functionality
Installing and activating plugins
Customizing plugin settings
Creating custom forms and surveys
Module 5: Website Security and Performance Optimization
Understanding website security risks
Implementing website security measures
Optimizing website speed and performance
Module 6: Website Maintenance and Best Practices
Backing up your website
Updating WordPress and plugins
Best practices for website management
Course Delivery:
This course will be delivered online, with pre-recorded video lectures, quizzes, and assignments. The course will be self-paced, so you can learn at your own speed and complete the assignments when it’s convenient for you.
Course Requirements:
There are no prerequisites for this course. It is designed for individuals who want to build a website with WordPress, regardless of their technical skills.
Conclusion:
By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and skills to build your own website with WordPress. You will learn how to design your website, create content, extend its functionality with plugins, optimize website security and performance, and maintain your website effectively. With your newly acquired website-building skills, you can showcase your brand to the world and reach new customers online.
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ComputerMinds.co.uk: Drupal 10 upgrade: Defining the project scope
Let’s define the scope and goals of our project to upgrade this very website to Drupal 10.
Essentially, that’s it: we want to upgrade this website to Drupal 10 so that we can benefit from security releases etc.
At the moment we want to do so with the minimum of effort, so I don’t want to have to be writing lots and lots of code or changing fundamentally how the site works, but I am up for simplifying things if it gets us to a point where we have to maintain less code.
Since Drupal 9, major version upgrades now take this basic form:
- Update your code to be fully compatible with the last version of Drupal, removing all deprecations: hard.
- Upgrade to the new version of Drupal: easy!
I’m going to install and use the fantastic Upgrade Status module to get a detailed handle on what we need to change, upgrade and rewrite to get the site working in Drupal 9, but ready for Drupal 10. We’ll use that as a basis to see what we need to upgrade, the best plan for each component and go from there.
Upgrade status – First pass
We previously have composer require’d the upgrade status module into our codebase, so after enabling and running the report, here are the major findings that concern us for this series:
Environment
- We’ll need to upgrade to PHP 8.x, the site is currently running on PHP 7.4.
- We’re using deprecated or obsolete modules that come with core and will be removed in Drupal 10. This is a rather scarily long list for us:
- CKEditor
- Color
- RDF
- Seven
- Stable
But other than that, we’re good to go from an environment point of view.
Contrib projects
Upgrade status breaks the list of contributed projects down into a few sections, those are:
- Projects that need an upgrade that might make them Drupal 10 compatible:
- Better exposed filters
- Components
- Disqus
- Advanced link
- Entity browser
- jQuery UI Slider
- Scheduler
- Simple XML Sitemap
- Twig Tweak
- Webform
- Projects that don’t have Drupal 10 releases yet, so either require patches or work to get them to Drupal 10:
- Entity Embed
- jQuery UI Sortable
- Kraken
- Markdown
- Social media share
- Term Reference Change
- Unified Twig Extensions
- Video Embed HTML5
- Weight
- Projects that are compatible with Drupal 10 already, I’ll not list those, but there are plenty already, it’s great to see community support for Drupal 10.
Custom code
Upgrade status will scan your code and tell you if there are problems that can be spotted that will stop the code working with Drupal 10. This is static analysis, so isn’t perfect, but is a really good start.
We have a few custom modules doing very specific things on our site, but we have a custom theme, doing quite a lot of custom things, and that’s where the main bulk of the issues the scanner found are, so we’re going to need to set aside some time for that.
Simplifications
This site was built in the early Drupal 8 days, and we’ve not actually made too many changes since, specifically when we upgraded to Drupal 9 we basically did the smallest amount of work to get it there. How you’d typically handle media on a Drupal site has fundamentally changed since we built this site, in that you’d likely use the core Media module and add entity reference fields to your entities rather than adding image/file fields directly. However, we never had that luxury and never got around to changing our approach to use the core Media framework.
So, we’re going to allow ourselves a bit of scope creep to do this ‘sub project’ given that the benefits are that we’re going to be able to remove a bunch of modules: entity browser, file browser, etc. that will then mean that we don’t need to upgrade those modules and our dependencies will be better supported: since they’ll be in Drupal core. It’s no slight against those modules, it’s just that we don’t need the functionality they bring, for our site today.
The scope/plan
So roughly the scope/plan is shaping up to be:
- Convert our file/image fields to core media, and remove entity browser, file browser, etc.
- Update our custom code
- Evaluate the remaining upgradeable contrib projects to see if we can remove them, and if not, upgrade them.
- Evaluate the remaining non-upgradeable contrib projects to see if we can remove them, and if not, work with maintainers to get them upgraded.
- Handle the core modules that have been marked as deprecated or obsolete.
- Upgrade the PHP version we use to run the site
- Get the site running in tip-top condition with the latest Drupal 9 etc.
- Do the Drupal 10 upgrade.
Then we’ll have a shiny Drupal 10 install, ready for the next few years of security patching.