Running darktable on RISC-V
How well does darktable work on RISC-V? Surprisingly well, if the hardware is fast enough…
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A look a the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware
I recently had the “pleasure” of helping a friend with his GNU/Linux box which was acting up. Turns out he had infected his machine with the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware, probably by installing an unofficial Kodi plugin.
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Open Source Color Management is broken
Since I am now in the business of photography and image processing (see my travel photography blog here), I thought
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What a GNU C Compiler Bug looks like
Back in December a Linux Mint user sent a strange bug report to the darktable mailing list. Apparently the GNU C Compiler (GCC) on his system exited with an unexpected error message, breaking the build process.
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Forgotten FOSS Games: Boson
In 1999 “Boson, our attempt to make a Real Time Strategy game (RTS) for the KDE project” was announced on the kde-announce mailing list. You don’t remember KDE having a full 3D RTS? Here’s why.
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How I sped up the PNG export in darktable using perf
I do a lot of photo editing nowadays, mostly for my travel blog over at One Man, One Map. I’ve always had the impression that the PNG export in darktable might be slower than it has to be, but it had become a real issue since I’ve upgraded my desktop PC to a six-core Ryzen 7 1600X CPU and an NVIDIA GTX 950 GPU.
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My Ubuntu for mobile devices post mortem analysis
Now that Ubuntu phones and tablets are gone, I would like to offer my thoughts on why I personally think the project failed and what one may learn from it.
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A look at the Year 2036/2038 problems and time proofness in various systems
On January 19, 2038 all signed 32-bit timestamps representing time and date relative to the “UNIX epoch” will roll over. Just 68 years later, in 2106, all unsigned 32-bit values will do so. But even before that, timestamps used by the Network Time Protocol will roll over in 2036. Since it’s only 19 years to Armageddon, I’ll lok at what this means for Linux, Windows and other systems and how problems are being solved.
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