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Firefox Browser On Linux And Mac Gets New Security Technology  Fossbytes

The logzero library makes logging as easy as a print statement, which is quite a feat of simplicity. I'm not sure whether logzero took its name to fit in with the series of "zero boilerplate" libraries like pygame-zero, GPIO Zero, and guizero, but it's certainly in that category. It's a Python library that makes logging straightforward.

You can just use its basic logging to stdout the same way you might use print for information and debugging purposes, and it has a smooth learning curve towards more advanced logging, like logging to a file.

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Product management is an interesting career. It's immensely rewarding to be the interface between users, business strategy, engineering, and product design. And it's also a highly lucrative career with increasing demand for ambitious and empathetic practitioners.

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How to Use SUID, SGID, and Sticky Bits on Linux  How-To Geek

Whenever you're learning a new programming language, it's easy to criticize all the boilerplate text you need to memorize. Before you can get comfortable starting a project, you have to remember the preambles that, in theory, ought to be easy to remember since they're usually relatively short and repetitive. In practice, though, boilerplate text is too obscure in meaning to become an easy habit, but it's essential for a program to run.

Sometimes the text is just one line. For example, a shell script opens with a simple "shebang":

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SHAREDed is an open-source, cross-platform solution for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders. This "shader IDE" is out this week with SHADERed 1.3 that presents new capabilities...

PostgreSQL is a powerful, widely-used, open-source, multi-platform and advanced object-relational database system known for its proven architecture, reliability, data integrity, robust feature set, and extensibility. pgAdmin is an advanced, open-source, full-featured, and web-based administration...

As an obstacle for upstreaming some particularly older NVIDIA Tegra devices (namely those running Android) is that they have GPT entry at the wrong location or lacking at all for boot support. That missing or botched GPT support is because those older devices make use of a NVIDIA proprietary/closed-source table format. As such, support for this proprietary NVIDIA Tegra Partition Table is being worked on for the Linux kernel to provide better upstream kernel support on these consumer devices...

Linux Kernel Seeing Patches For NVIDIA's Proprietary Tegra Partition Table  Phoronix

Cosmo Communicator 2-in-1 Phone/Mini Laptop can now Dual Boot Debian Linux and Android  CNX Software

Arch-based Manjaro 19.0 'Kyria' Linux distro is here with GNOME, KDE, and Xfce  BetaNews

Announced last March was Monado as an open-source implementation of OpenXR, the Khronos standard for AR/VR. Today marks the first release of Monado as version 0.1 so while it's still early on it is showing much progress...

BlackBerry Cylance Extends Capabilities with Solution Enhancements and Linux Coverage  Security Boulevard

How to create a Linux user that cannot log in  TechRepublic

Linux-ready SBCs and mini-PCs run Ryzen Embedded, including new 8-10W R1305G  LinuxGizmos.com

Intel Boosts Gen7 GPU Vulkan Compute Performance By ~330% For Geekbench  Phoronix

Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux doesn't see much attention for pre-Broadwell hardware but today it saw a big improvement for Vulkan compute on aging Gen7 Ivybridge/Haswell era hardware...

Intel just sent out their initial pull request of new feature changes/improvements to DRM-Next that in turn is for landing in about one month's time when the Linux 5.7 merge window kicks off. With taking longer than usual to send in their first round of feature updates, this first of several pull requests already amounts to over 400 patches...

Intel Has Accumulated 400+ Graphics Driver Patches So Far For Linux 5.7  Phoronix

How to Make the Switch From Windows to Linux  PCMag