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How to prepare to write your first Mycroft AI skill using Python

opensource.com - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 15:02

With the recent worldwide pandemic and stay-at-home orders, I have been looking for things to do to replace some of my usual activities. I started to update my home electronics setup and, as part of that, to delve into home automation. Some of my friends use Amazon's Alexa to turn lights on and off in their house, and that is appealing on some level. However, I am a privacy-conscious individual, and I was never really comfortable with devices from Google or Amazon listening to my family all the time (I'll ignore cellphones for the sake of this conversation).


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Use your artistic skills to help open source

opensource.com - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 15:02

Are you a designer looking to share your talents? Open Source Design may just be the place for you. It is "a community of designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software."


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How to sell open source software

opensource.com - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 15:00

In 2010-2011, Mike Jumper started the Guacamole project, a multi-protocol gateway that allowed admins to securely serve up desktops remotely. The client interface ran in the browser, so it was a lightweight, easy-to-use replacement for some older remote access solutions. The project immediately started to grow, resulting in a number of incoming requests for support and help.


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How to Enable HTTP/2 in Apache on Ubuntu

Tecmint - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 13:49
Since the inception of the World Wide Web (www), the HTTP protocol has evolved over the years to deliver secure and fast digital content over the internet. The most widely used version is HTTP...

It's Looking Like FSGSBASE Support Might Finally Land In Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 12:09
It's looking like the Linux kernel support for the FSGSBASE instruction that has been present since Intel "Ivy Bridge" CPUs might finally see mainlining with Linux 5.9...

Running cloud-native network functions with confidence on Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat News - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 12:00

Earlier this year, Red Hat announced the creation of a cloud-based onboarding service and testbed for network functions with Intel, supporting both virtualized network functions (VNFs) and cloud-native network functions (CNFs). Since making this announcement, the world has changed.

Intel Volleys Latest Patches For Lighting Up Their DG1 Graphics Card On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2020 - 05:08
Building off the existing Gen12 graphics driver support that has accumulated in the Linux kernel and Mesa over the past year, last month Intel sent out the open-source patches for supporting the DG1 graphics card on Linux...

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