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Zabbix is a free and open-source monitoring solution for IT infrastructure. It allows you to monitor networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services. In this guide, we'll show you how to install and configure Zabbix on Ubuntu 24.04 server.

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By Andrew Moran

President-elect Donald Trump has filled several high-level Cabinet positions in the two weeks since Election Day. The announcements have been riveting and popcorn entertainment from Matt Gaetz as Attorney General to Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence. But one senior administration role is leaving Wall Street in suspense and stopping investors from staring […]

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that extracts readable text from images, scanned documents, and even hand-written notes. This article will cover the top seven OCR libraries in Python, highlighting their strengths, unique features, and code examples to help you get started.

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There are lots of budding developers who have developed software to improve on du in a number of regards. The tools featured here are all command line tools or ncurses interface.

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Python, with its simple syntax and powerful libraries, is one of the best programming languages for creating automation scripts. In this article, I’ll share 20 Python scripts that I’ve used to automate various tasks.

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Shotcut 24.11 open-source, free, and cross-platform video editor written in Qt is now available for download with various bug fixes from previous releases to improve the software’s existing functionality and features.

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Linus Torvalds announces the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.12, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel that introduces several new features and improvements.

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Arun Gupta, Vice President and General Manager for Open Ecosystem, Intel, discusses the company’s commitment to fostering an open ecosystem as a cornerstone of its software strategy. He explains how this approach empowers developers and shapes Intel’s broader technology and business objectives, enhancing platform innovation.

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I posted a feature request on Bluesky that has gotten a lot of flow.

• Bluesky devs..
• How about a compromise.
• Support inbound RSS.
• Let me enter the URL of an RSS feed in settings.
• I'll ping a fixed location when the feed updates.
• Would allow the same flow to go to other systems.
• This would help a lot.
• PS: I'll help.

Discussion

• Imagine a Bluesky-like network that you could post to through any blogging tool that can create an RSS feed. Imagine the new tools that could be created. All of a sudden a whole world of writing tools opens up.
• It should happen faster than the proprietary format that Bluesky defined, because RSS is so well understood in the developer world. Lots of software out there for reading and writing. I have a couple of toolkits of my own, for JavaScript, MIT licensed. In use in deployed software so they work pretty well. (Knock wood.)
• Also it would create an incentive for competitors to follow suit, and if they do we suddenly have a strong and simple and broadly understood basis for interop. It's a brilliant competitive move, if they really intend to give users choice, to not lock them in. It challenges their competitors to follow suit. I don't doubt that Mastodon would do it. And Threads might even do it if they're feeling competitive with Bluesky. They've already chosen ActivityPub as a basis for interop, but that's been slow to develop. RSS is so simple and well understood it should take a small fraction of the time to adapt.
• Bluesky has already pioneered in providing excellent outbound RSS support. I helped them do it, a while back, before the huge onslaught of users.
• The fact that so many users loved the idea is enough to have made it worthwhile to suggest it. But I wouldn't be tremendously surprised if they actually did it.

Why I haven't created an account on sez.us yet.

• They ask for my first and last name before I sign up. Ask for that info later, after I've created an account. I gave it a fake name to get to the next screen.
• Then they ask for my phone number. That's when I hit the back button. I already get too much spam on my phone, and the filters aren't good there. I am happy to provide an email address as my identifier as I do on all other systems. Later, if I become a regular user, I don't mind providing the phone number as part of 2-factor identity, but not up front.
• Also I don't like white on black letters. It's hard for me to read. All the competitive systems use black on white background. Offer it as an option if it's important to you, but please default to black on white.

And – just like that – Keeeeeeeeeevvvv is back in the “news.” And the news is not good. The regime fronted by the senile old grifter has reportedly given the regime in Keeeeeeeeeeeevvvvv the “green light” to fire missiles provided by America and almost certainly fire-controlled by Americans inside Russia. Russia has already stated that […]

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The digiKam team announced the release and general availability of digiKam 8.5 as a new maintenance update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform professional photo management software.

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