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In the second article in this series, I talked about local control vs. cloud connectivity and some things to consider for your home automation setup.

In this third article, I will discuss the underlying technology for connecting devices to Home Assistant, including the dominant protocols that smart devices use to communicate and some things to think about before purchasing smart devices.

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Open source software (OSS) has been around since the 1990s and has thrived, quickly growing to become mainstream. It is now more well understood around the world than it has ever been before. Some refer to it as FOSS to highlight the Freedom part of open source (Free and Open Source Software). And in 2014, at OSCON, the term "inner source" was debuted, and people started talking about how to use the principles of open source, but inside of a company. It raised several questions for those unfamiliar with the term, which I hope to answer with this article.

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Firefox 83 vs. Chrome 87 On Intel Tiger Lake + AMD Renoir Under Linux  Phoronix

As a high school student, I've become very interested in artificial intelligence (AI), which is emerging as one of the most impactful innovations of recent times. This past summer, I was selected for the AI4ALL program, where we learned how to develop AI systems using Python.

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Linux 5.9 has been released. This release increases CPU performance with FSGSBASE support and includes various new features and improvements  myInvestorCircle

As part of Lenovo offering Linux pre-loaded on more laptops and desktops, they have been working on upstream improvements themselves along with their partners at Red Hat and others. One of the latest Lenovo-contributed improvements to the kernel is palm sensor support for newer ThinkPad notebooks...

Lenovo ThinkPad Palm Sensor Support Coming To Linux 5.11  Phoronix

Linux 5.10 will make the year 2038 problem the year 2486, adjusting the XFS timestamp will increase the UNIX system time by a few centuries.  myInvestorCircle

Ubuntu 20.10 “Groovy Gorilla” Raspberry Pi is available with images optimized for GNOME 3.38, Linux kernel 5.8 and preinstalled software such as Firefox 81 and LibreOffice 7.0.2.  myInvestorCircle

Linux 5.10-rc1 breaks with a decade-old feature that creates a security issue and supersedes the issue of 2038 from the year 2486 through the XFS timestamp settings.  myInvestorCircle

In Linux, there are many avenues for installing a software package. You can use the package managers such as APT for Debian-based distributions and YUM for RHEL-based distributions. If the packages are not available

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Argus: The Linux Commander – Manila Bulletin  Manila Bulletin

Argus: The Linux Commander – Manila Bulletin  Manila Bulletin

Microsoft Edge Made Available on Linux  InfoQ.com

Microsoft Edge Made Available on Linux  InfoQ.com

LibreOffice 7.1 Beta 1 for Linux, Windows, and Mac is here — get the FREE open-source Microsoft Office alternative now  BetaNews

Systemd 247 is out today as the latest major version of this Linux init system. Like most systemd releases, systemd 247 is very heavy on new features...

How to install Telegram Desktop App on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Lilbits: Black Friday, hacking Amazon’s tablets, and distro hopping on a Linux smartphone  Liliputing

PHP 8.0 is out today as expected as a major update to this widely-used programming language for server-side programming and other purposes...