If your immutable Linux desktop uses Flatpak, I’m going to have a bad time
The openSUSE project recently announced the second release candidate (RC2) of its Aeon Desktop, formerly known as MicroOS Desktop GNOME. Aside from the new coat of naming paint, Aeon breaks ground in a few other ways by dabbling with technologies not found in other openSUSE releases. The goal for Aeon is to provide automated system updates using snapshots that can be applied atomically … ⌘ Read more

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rehrar releases Stack Wallet v2.1.1
rehrar1 has released Stack Wallet2 version 2.1.13 with various changes and optimizations.

Changes overview
Added .onion connection support
Added RBF and CPfP for Bitcoin
Added basic Dash functionality
Firo optimizations [..]

The release notes, binaries, and the SHA256 hashes can be found on Github3.

Consult the previous Monero Observer report4 to learn more about the project.

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jeffro256’s Q3 2024 Monero dev work CCS proposal fully funded
jeffro2561’s CCS proposal2 to work full-time on Monero development for 3 months (Q3 2024) is now fully funded:

146 XMR raised in 10 contributions (100%)

To learn more about jeffro256’s work, consult the previous Monero Observer report3.

  1. https://github.com/jeffro256 [↩](#fnref:1)

  2. [https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/jeffro256-full-time-2024Q3.html](https://ccs.getmonero.o … ⌘ Read more

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[LFF] [30 XMR] Help Claudia rebuild after devastating fire

I normally don’t do this, but I’m sharing the fund raiser of a friend. This poor German lady is really down & out. Her apartment burned down with many of her belongings so she is just sitting in her car thinking about life right now..

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Microsoft: all content on the web is fair use
When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman: With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the ’90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That’s been the understanding. ↫ Mustafa Suleyman This is absolute bullshit from the first word to the very last. None of t … ⌘ Read more

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Apple II graphics: more than you wanted to know
The Apple ][ is one of the most iconic vintage computers of all time. But since Wozniak’s monster lasted all the way until 1993 (1995 if you could the IIe card, which I won’t count until I get one), it can be easy to forget that in 1977, it was a video extravaganza. The competitors– even much bigger and established companies like Commodore and Tandy– generally only had text modes, let alone pixel-addressable graphics, and they certainly … ⌘ Read more

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It’s not unusual to port the Linux Vector Packet Processor (VPP) to FreeBSD
The Vector Packet Processor (VPP) is a framework for moving packets around at high rates. Its core concept is handling packets in groups known as “vectors,” which allows for the native use of vector processor instructions for packet classification and processing in different CPU architectures — currently amd64 and arm64. VPP can process packets at incredibly high rates and competes wi … ⌘ Read more

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Enable Night Shift on Apple Watch with Siri
Night Shift is a nice feature from Apple that warms the color tones on screens during the evening and nighttime hours, with the idea being that it may help to reduce eyestrain and blue light exposure. Night Shift has been around on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, for quite some time, but the feature has been … Read MoreRead more

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ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.06

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Introducing ejabberd 24.06: Deep Work Release!

This new ejabberd 24.06 includes four months of work, close to 200 commits, including several minor improvements in the core ejabberd, and a lot of improvements in the administrative parts of ejabberd, like the WebAdmin and new API commands.

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Brief summary

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