The idea that we should all be paid fairly for our work is kind of a no-brainer—but how can we as individuals actually make progress towards pay transparency and ensure equal pay for equal work?
Source: LifeHacker – You Should Know How Much Your Coworkers Make (and Vice Versa)
Over at Linux.com, Yocto Project architect Richard Purdie writes about various kinds of problems that the project is experiencing, some of which stem from its success and growth. It is a story that will likely resonate with other open-source projects.
Our scale also means patch requirements are more demanding now. Once, when the number of people using the project was small, the impact of breaking things was also more limited, allowing a little more freedom in development. Now, if we accept a change commit and something breaks, it becomes an instant emergency, and I’m generally expected to resolve it. When patches come from trusted sources, help will often be available to address the regressions as part of an unwritten bond between developers and maintainers. This can intimidate new contributors; they can also find our testing requirements too difficult.
We did have tooling to help new contributors—and also the maintainers—by spotting simple, easily detected errors in incoming patches. This service would test and then reply to patches on the mailing list with pointers on how to fix the patches, freeing maintainer time and helping newcomers. Sadly, such tools require maintenance, and we lost the people who knew how to look after this component, so it stopped working. We formed plans to bring it back and make the maintenance easier, but we’ve struggled to find anyone with the time to do it. I’ve wondered if I should personally try to do it; however, I just can’t spend the chunk of time needed on one thing like that, as I would neglect too many other things for too long.
Source: LWN.net – Maintainer confidential: Opportunities and challenges of the ubiquitous but under-resourced Yocto Project (Linux.com)
Behold, the final trailer for the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard.
Those watching the AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals were treated to the final trailer for the third season of Star Trek: Picard, most likely its last. This time around, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) has assembled his old crew from Star Trek: The Next Generation to take on a new adversary out to destroy not just Picard but Starfleet as a whole.
(Some spoilers for the prior two seasons below.)
As we’ve reported previously, Picard is set 20 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis. The first season’s notable guests included Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis, reprising their roles as William Riker and Deanna Troi and sparking rumors about the possible return of other Star Trek: The Next Generation characters. Patrick Stewart personally invited Whoopi Goldberg to return as Guinan in S2, with John DeLancie also returning as Q, keen to stage one last trial with his old friend Jean-Luc. We even saw the Borg Queen (played by Annie Wersching, who just died after battling cancer) and were treated to the briefest of cameos by Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton).
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Source: Ars Technica – The stakes couldn’t be higher in final trailer for Star Trek: Picard S3
A few weeks ago, as I was watching screeners for HBO’s new show, The Last Of Us, I immediately thought about this moment. Today. Right now. You reading this. The day after everyone else could see what I just witnessed.
Source: Gizmodo – The Last Of Us Showrunners Dive Into the Reasons and Meaning Behind Episode 3
Imagine that you’re forced into the emotionally turbulent situation of murdering your own evil parent. Right as you work up the nerve and give a heartfelt speech about it, some random ally kills them in front of your eyes. I should feel bad, but I haven’t stopped laughing. For a few unfortunate Fire Emblem Engage’s…
Source: Kotaku – Fire Emblem Engage Is Stealing Players’ Most Emotional Kill
One of the best ways to avoid mucking up your mobile device with malware is to only download and install software from official app stores. However, you still should never let your guard down, even when avoiding the side-loading scene altogether. If anyone needs reminding of this, a security firm is calling foul on several fraudulent rewards
Source: Hot Hardware – Security Firm Sounds Alarm On These Fraudulent Android Rewards Apps On Google Play
Some nighttime sky watchers will be privy to seeing a lunar occultation tonight, as the Moon passes in front of Mars. While the viewing of the occultation will be limited, many others will still be able to witness a conjunction or close approach of the pair of celestial objects.
A lunar occultation happens when the Moon passes in front
Source: Hot Hardware – Earth’s Moon Will Eclipse Mars Tonight, How To Watch The Lunar Spectacle
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is set to testify before a congressional committee in in less than two months, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. On March 23, Chew will appear in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a congressional spokesperson told the outlet. The TikTok head will be the sole…
Source: Gizmodo – TikTok CEO to Face Congressional Hearing in March
While The Last Of Us TV show has remained very faithful to the PlayStation, it’s occasionally deviated in significant ways. Episode three, which aired last night, showcased the biggest change from the source material yet, and co-creators Neil Druckman and Craig Mazin have tried their best to explain why in a new…
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of US TV Show Creators Explain Massive Change From The Game
An anonymous reader shares a report: Jonathan Kanter has been one of Google’s main legal foes for nearly 15 years. Last week, as the nation’s top antitrust cop, he delivered a threat to break up the internet company. Mr. Kanter, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for antitrust, filed a lawsuit alleging that Google is an illegal monopolist in the market for brokering ads on the internet. Some of the complaints trace back to early 2000s, when Mr. Kanter started questioning Google’s role in the digital economy on behalf of his then-legal clients, including Microsoft.
The 140-page lawsuit, which Google, a unit of Alphabet, has said includes untrue allegations and misstatements about its business, embraces charges the government once wrote off as far-fetched. In 2008, the Federal Trade Commission, which also polices threats to competition, said Google wouldn’t be able to smother rivals in the digital-advertising world and declined to block its purchase of DoubleClick, an ad broker that the Justice Department now says Google should be forced to sell. The DOJ’s lawsuit alleges that threats the FTC dismissed actually came to pass. The company built a moat around its business matching web publishers’ supply of ad space with advertisers’ demand, according to the DOJ’s lawsuit. When new companies tried to compete or customers sought better deals, Google responded by blocking rivals from its platform or buying them outright and forcing them to work only with its products, the lawsuit alleges.
Mr. Kanter, 49 years old, is one of the leaders of a movement that sees big technology companies including Google, Amazon.com, Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Apple as monopolists in the tradition of the 19th-century railroad and oil companies that inspired the original antitrust laws. “Today there is nobody in the world who knows more about that business and the antitrust issues surrounding it than Jonathan,” said Charles “Rick” Rule, who worked with Mr. Kanter in private practice. “He has been confronting Google for 15 years.” Mr. Kanter has spent most of his legal career in private practice, sometimes defending corporate clients from government investigations, but also representing companies in pressing law enforcers to go after rivals that have grown dominant. He began looking into Google during the 2000s decade on behalf of Microsoft, which the DOJ in 1998 alleged was an illegal monopolist in the personal-computer market in a lawsuit settled in 2001.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – DOJ Suit To Break Up Google Was Years in the Making for Antitrust Chief
If legacy networks are like individual homes with a few doors
where a handful of people have the key, then cloud-based environments are like
apartment complexes that offer both higher density and greater flexibility,
but which include more key holders and potential entry points. The importance
of protecting virtual machines (VMs) running in these environments — from
both the host and other tenants — has become increasingly clear.
The Linux Secure VM Service
Module (SVSM) is
a new, Rust-based, open-source project that aims to help preserve the confidentiality
and integrity of VMs on AMD hardware.
Source: LWN.net – [$] The Linux SVSM project
We all have a favorite video game that we’ve played through time and time again (for me, it’s Link’s Awakening) but for Kaze Emanuar, simply playing through the N64’s Super Mario 64 isn’t enough. Through modding, they’re trying to push the game to its absolute limits, and so far the results are unbelievable for a…
Source: Gizmodo – This Mario 64 Mod Almost Looks Like a Gamecube Game and Runs on Actual Hardware
There are five ‘Keys’ that the Disney theme parks teach their Cast Members. The Keys inform Guest relations, and they are ordered hierarchically, from most to least important:
Source: Kotaku – 10 Ways Small Ways That Disney Theme Parks Immerse You Completely
Who among us has never forgotten a friend or family member’s birthday? We all lead busy lives and it’s often all we can do to keep up with our own schedule of meetings, appointments, and deadlines. And even if you do fleetingly remember that it’s your father-in-law’s birthday while you’re in the middle of something…
Source: LifeHacker – Your iPhone Can Automatically Wish Your Friends Happy Birthday
Chinese-owned internet company Baidu Inc. is reportedly launching a ChatGPT-style bot in March to merge with the company’s search engine eventually, an unnamed source familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
Source: Gizmodo – New Chatbot Is Coming to Chinese Internet Company Baidu
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told lawmakers Monday it had made a series of changes to prevent a repeat of a key computer system outage that forced a nationwide Jan. 11 ground stop disrupting more than 11,000 flights. From a report: The FAA said it has implemented “a one-hour synchronization delay for one of the backup databases. This action will prevent data errors from immediately reaching that backup database.” The FAA also said it “now requires at least two individuals to be present during the maintenance of the (messaging) system, including one federal manager.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – US FAA Adopts New Safeguards After Computer Outage Halted Flights
Super Bowl Sunday is our nation’s biggest unofficial holiday, and it’s fast approaching on February 12. But football is a divisive sport, and Super Bowl parties can be a volatile mix of barely interested normies who came to see the commercials and super-fans so steeped in football that no one invites them anywhere …
Source: LifeHacker – The 7 Deadly Sins of Attending a Super Bowl Party
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Source: Gizmodo – How 19 ‘Cop City’ Activists Got Charged With Terrorism
ClearCube has launched two Mini PC models based on the 12th Gen i5/i7 Intel Cores. The DTi NUC Mini PC series support up to 64GB DDR4-3200 RAM, 2x HDMI 2.1 ports, 2x optional Thunderbolt ports and access to a copper network connection or fiber network connection. These new Mini-PCs from Clearcube are based on the […]
Source: LXer – Clearcube new NUC Mini PCs feature Alder Lake-P processors
