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When you have located a file, you can use the touch command to edit its timestamps. For example, the command
touch ‑a grocery list.txt 1410311200.00
would change the access time to noon on October 31, 2014, and you can use the same date format after ‑m...
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Sixty percent of open source maintainers consider themselves to be unpaid hobbyists, says a new survey from Tidelift, as reported by Heather Joslyn.
According to the report, 44 percent of maintainers also say they are the only person maintaining their open source project, and more than...
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Google passkeys are now generally available for use with personal Google accounts. This means that “users can now use passkeys for a passwordless sign-in experience on apps and websites with fingerprinting, facial recognition or a local pin without the need to enter a password...
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GitHub’s private vulnerability reporting feature for open source repositories is now available to all project owners, says Helga Labus.
The feature, which has been available in public beta since November 2022, “provides a direct collaboration channel that allows researchers to more easily report vulnerabilities, and...
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Open source faces many struggles in developing countries in terms of perceptions and associations that are inaccurate or outdated, says Ahmed Sobeh.
These challenges can be divided into three main areas:
Society and culture
Resources and infrastructure
Governance
“It's no secret that the culture of tech in general, and...
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If you are responsible for protecting the corporate infrastructure, you probably have various security products in use to support you in this task – with a distinction made between network and host security. These terms primarily relate to where a security system is deployed....
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“Data centers are among the largest and fastest growing consumers of natural resources,” said D2iQ software engineer Zinnia Gibson in a recent talk at KubeCon+Cloud NativeCon Europe 2023, as reported by Loraine Lawson.
“The cloud now has a bigger carbon footprint than the entire airline...
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Linux systems can use a variety of file system types, says Sandra Henry-Stocker. “Some were built to replace older file system types with faster and more reliable ones. Others serve some very particular purposes.”
In this article, Henry-Stocker provides brief descriptions of several file systems...
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General Motors (GM) has announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation and contributing the open source, shared “uProtocol,” which is intended “to speed the development of software-defined vehicles,” reports Andrew Hawkins.
GM’s main related effort is Ultifi, a Linux-based software platform that “can power...
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Assembling a compelling, cutting-edge tech stack is an important part of attracting top developers, says Nancy Drees.
“Essentially, a tech stack is a group of technologies that work together to create your product. Primarily this means the different coding languages used for your front-end and...
