Uwe Hermann @uwehermann@fosstodon.org

Production data side band spaghetti?
🍝 Yeah I am hungry 😋 time for dinner 🥘

#OptiPNG is a lossless #PNG optimizer.

OptiPNG recompresses PNG files to decrease their size. This process is lossless, meaning the contents of the images are exactly the same once decompressed. OptiPNG can work on several formats, including #TIFF and #GIF, outputting an optimized PNG version of whatever input is given. OptiPNG can also verify the integrity of an image and recover metadata.

Website 🔗️: http://optipng.sourceforge.net/

apt 📦️: optipng

#free #opensource #foss #fossmendations

Peertube 1.4 just came out! Here’s a quick overview of what’s new… https://joinpeertube.org/en/news/#19-09-25

If you're wondering what's going on with the Olive video editor - you probably missed this post:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/29131633
#Olive #OliveVideoEditor

Two companies have begun a fight regarding GPL compliance, yet neither complies with GPL's most basic provisions. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/02/cambium-ubiquiti-gpl-violations/ #gplcompliance

Openclipart.org has finally been [properly] replaced with http://freesvg.org

It's a site, based on Laravel, providing CC0 and public domain SVG files, including the 55,000+ we scraped from openclipart.org

#openclipart #svg #inkscape

The #sigrok pre-built #Linux binaries in the form of #AppImages are now being built on a more recent OS (Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus from 2016) since we now require more recent versions of some libraries, e.g. #Qt.

The new AppImages should thus run fine on any somewhat modern Linux distro more recent than roughly 2016.

https://www.sigrok.org/blog/sigrok-appimage-updates

Downloads are available from here, as always:

https://sigrok.org/wiki/Downloads

If you notice any issues, please let us know.

just wanted to let you know that there's an url lengthener, in case you needed that: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com

#introductions #firsttoot

Hi everyone! I'm an embedded developer and #FOSS enthusiast from Germany. #Linux is my main OS for about 15 and #Arch with #Gnome for around 6 years now.

I care about #privacy and #sustaianability. My natural habitat is the #commandline. I prefer working with #plaintext files and use #vim for most editing tasks.

Things I enjoy: #tinkering #microcontrollers #reading #boardgames #gaming #cooking #baking and #brewing #beer

Genres of choice: #scifi #horror #cyberpunk

Pretty CPU pictures. Plus anti reversing protection.

So Intel must already have been pretty worried about people reading their ucode back when pentium(p5) was released, the ucode store is covered by a solid metal plane, after delayering the array becomes visible but the first layer under the metal is too thin to save

https://twitter.com/peterbjornx/status/1175375587227123714

By the numbers: ZFS Performance Results from Six Operating Systems and Their Derivatives http://callfortesting.org/log/vBSDcon-2019-Dexer-BytheNumbers.pdf

A real life Bobby tables! Someone registered a custom car license plate "NULL" and got assigned every speeding ticket where the image processing system was unable to determine a plate number.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/the-fashion-line-designed-to-trick-surveillance-cameras

Two flash clips, a flash emulator, a flash programmer, surface mount soldered test points, oscilloscope probes, cat5 crossover cable, and both a TTL serial adapter as well as an RS232 serial adapter with null modem & genderchanger. Finally got my emacs setup just how I like it.

How Can AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 Series Be Even Better? Open-Source BIOS / Coreboot

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-EPYC-Coreboot-Open-Austin

#AMD is a solid buy for me, now. All recommendations I make will be for AMD, too. I don’t care if those I convince don’t use core-boot or whatever, the gesture is not going unheeded.

Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plans_.html

Anyone interested to take over the maintenance of the driver for the floppy controller in the Linux Kernel?

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc4d0f371bf773540a8f8f4

Holy what!

"Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a “portal” that allows police to request footage from these cameras, a secret agreement obtained by Motherboard shows."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement

#infosec

Announcing #coreboot 4.10
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/126183 #freesw #hardware

Glad you asked!
1. Pages load twice as fast
2. Laptop battery lasts longer
3. My privacy isn't invaded by 50 different douchebro Silicon Valley companies
4. Your fucking site doesn't slow down my computer to a crawl and I can actually read your fucking articles

The OpenBIOS Project is an open source implementation of OpenFirmware, a Firmware based on Forth (used in SUN and PPC Apple computer, among others)

It can also be used as a hosted Forth running on top of a normal operating system.

OpenBIOS is used for booting Solaris and MacOS X PPC in QEMU.

The Homepage is at
https://www.openfirmware.info/OpenBIOS

The mailing list
https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/openbios@openbios.org/