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The Linux Command Line by William Shotts 5th Ed (free PDF available) #Linux  Adafruit Blog

Merged just over a year ago into the Linux kernel was DAMON as an Amazon-developed solution for monitoring data accesses. In the year since being merged, DAMON has continued to see more functionality added and new users and developers becoming involved with this data access monitoring...

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What Is the CVE-2021-4034 Polkit Privilege Escalation Vulnerability?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Test shows you'd want Windows 11 over Ubuntu Linux in 2023 when gaming on AMD  Neowin

Steam Deck OS update fixes factory reset, Forza Horizon 5 OS ...  GamingOnLinux

Latest IPFire Hardened Linux Firewall Distro Release Future-Proofs VPN Cryptography  9to5Linux

Windows in 2023: here is what we know so far  Ghacks

Memfault Adds Embedded Linux to IoT Platform  RFID Journal

Radeon Gaming/Graphics Performance: Windows 11 vs. Linux GPU Benchmarks  Phoronix

With the end of the year upon us it's a great time to see how the Windows vs. Linux gaming performance is looking as we enter 2023. In particular, it's interesting on the AMD Radeon side with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack having made great gains this year thanks to the continued investment by AMD and heavy contributions by Valve to the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver that is used by the Steam Deck and commonly in general by Linux gamers. Here is a look at the Windows vs. Linux GPU performance both for the mature RDNA2 support as well as the recently-released RDNA3 graphics.

Valve developers investing heavily into the open-source 3D graphics driver stack, AMD continuing their big contributions to Mesa, the Apple AGX Gallium3D driver taking shape, Microsoft continuing to leverage Mesa for various purposes on Windows, Zink maturing for OpenGL atop Vulkan, and other efforts all culminated with the most ever code growth to Mesa in a single year as well as nearly the most ever commits to this 3D graphics driver project...

Earlier this month prolific open-source GPU driver developer David Airlie at Red Hat picked up work again on Vulkan Video support for the RADV driver. Initially that RADV Vulkan Video work was focused on H.264 and H.265 video decoding while since then he has shifted focus to initial video encode support with H.264...

How open source provides accessibility for the neurodivergent community AmyJune Thu, 12/29/2022 - 03:00

Not everyone uses the internet or digital assets in the same way. When some people think about accessibility, they only think of people with physical disabilities, which accounts for a portion of disabilities worldwide. According to the National Cancer Institute, 15-20% of people live with neurodivergence. This includes:

• Autism
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Dyslexia
• Dyscalculia
• Dysgraphia
• Mental health conditions like bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and more

We published some great articles in 2022 about how to include folks who live with neurodiversity. Here are my top picks.

Light and dark modes

Light sensitivity is common in people who are autistic, as well as folks who just had their eyes dilated or have a migraine. There are two articles from 2022 that support the configurability of light and dark modes.

In Ayush Sharma's A practical guide to light and dark mode in Jekyll, you walk through how to tighten up HTML and then utilize CSS and Sass to create classes. Once you consolidate your styles, you can reuse them, define the new styles, and apply them to the HTML elements. Lastly, you can add a toggle so folks can easily switch modes.

A beginner's guide to making a dark theme for a website by Sachin Samal introduces a beginner-friendly way of programming a dark theme. Samal gives you practical code examples of how icons can be inserted and how to toggle between themes. It reminds you that you can utilize your browser inspector to play around with styling.

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Amar Gandhi's 3 open source tools for people with learning difficulties outlines a few tools he uses to customize how he views and uses open source tools. NextCloud can be used on any device and can serve as a progressive web app (PWA). It also uses a dashboard so you can view everything at once. Photoprism can be used as a gallery and for storage. It is similar to NextCloud because you can use it as a PWA. This allows you to access any of your photos from any device. The last tool highlighted is the OpenDyslexic font which can help prevent confusion between letters (b and d, for example) through flipping and swapping.

My open source journey with C from a neurodiverse perspective is a memoir of Rikard Grossman-Nielsen's road to programming. As he moved from a student to a teacher, he realized that everyone learns to program differently. Addressing neurodivergent students, he recommends one way to learn C is to build games. But in the big scheme of how to learn, you should find what you're passionate about. You should also find what learning methods work for you. This will help you discover what works for you in the learning process.

Open source for neurodiversity

Open source software is an excellent resource for everyone including those on the neurodivergent spectrum. There are many programs available to help minimize the impact of symptoms that many people suffer from. If you're looking for a program that might help reduce your migraines or any other issue try looking into what open source software has to offer!

Here are four examples of how open source creates a more accessible environment for those on the neurodivergent spectrum.

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