1. April 2017

G-Assist | GeForce

GeForce GTX G-Assist takes advantage of cutting-edge NVIDIA artificial intelligence to bring you the next revolution in gaming.

Link: www.geforce.com

A day in the life of a pen-tester

This is a typical day as a pen-tester. As a professional pen-tester I wanted to share how this work really looks like and what kind of skills are required. I...

Unknow parallel universe uses Debian

The space agencies running the International Space Station (ISS) reported that a laptop accidentally threw to space as waste in 2013 from the International State Station may have connected with a parallel Universe. This laptop was running Debian 6 and the ISS engineers managed to track its travel through the outer space. In early January, the laptop signal was lost but recovered back two weeks later in the same place. ISS engineers suspect that the laptop may had met and crossed a wormhole arriving a parallel Universe from where "somebody" sent it back later.

Eventually the laptop was recovered and in an first analysis the ISS engineers found that the laptop have a dual boot: a partition running the Debian installation made by them and a second partition running what seems to be a Debian fork or derivative totally unknown until now.

The engineers have been in contact with the Debian Project in the last weeks and a Debian group formed with delegates from different Debian teams have begun to study this new Debian derivative system. From the early results of this research, we can proudly say that somebody (or a group of beings) in a parallel universe understand Earth computers, and Debian, enough to:

Clone the existing Debian system in a new partition and provide a dual boot using Grub.
Change the desktop wallpaper from the previous Spacefun theme to one in rainbow colors.
Fork all the packages whose source code was present in the initial Debian system, patch multiple bugs in those packages and some patches more for some tricky security problems.
Add ten new language locales that do not correspond to any language spoken in Earth, with full translation for four of them.
A copy of the Debian website repository, migrated to the git version control system and perfectly running, has been found in the /home/earth0/Documents folder. This new repo includes code to show the Debian micronews in the home page and many other improvements, keeping the style of not needing JavaScript and providing a nice control of up-to-date/outdated translations, similar to the one existing in Debian.
The work towards knowing better this new Universe and find a way to communicate with them has just began; all the Debian users and contributors are invited to join the effort to study the operating system found. We want to prepare our Community and our Universe to live and work peacefully and respectfully with the parallel Universe communities, in the true spirit of Free Software.

In the following weeks a General Resolution will be proposed for updating our motto to "the multiversal operating system".

Link: bits.debian.org

Haptic Helpers: bringing you to your senses

We're taking virtual reality to the next level with Haptic Helpers. Using a modest set of everyday tools, these VR virtuosos can simulate more than 10,000 un...

Introducing Google Gnome

The smart yard has finally arrived -- Meet Google Gnome. See how Gnome can transform your yard: https://g.co/googlegnome. (Netflix streaming membership requi...

Link: lkml.org

LKML: Donald Drumpf: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Drain the swamp

From Donald Drumpf <>
Subject [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Drain the swamp
Date Sat, 1 Apr 2017 04:57:35 +1100
For too long, a small group of elites listed in the corrupt MAINTAINERS
file have reaped the rewards of maintainership, while the developers
have done all the real work. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Last year there was the great Linux Exit ("Lexit" movement. People all
over the Internet came together and demanded that power be restored to
the developers. They created a historic fork based on Linux 2.4, back
to a better time, before Linux was controlled by corporate interests.
The FAKE NEWS site LWN.net said it wouldn't happen, but we knew better.

The "Lexit" fork was an important first step. But now, we are taking
back what's rightfully ours. We are transferring power from "Lyin'
Linus" and giving it back to you, the people. With the below patch, the
job-killing MAINTAINERS file is finally being ROLLED BACK.

But that's only the beginning. For too long, the maintainers have
accepted patches from *anybody*. Criminals, drug lords, gang members,
RUBYISTS. These people are ruining the moral fabric of Linux.

It's time to do something about it. We must have LAW and ORDER. A
repository WITHOUT BORDERS is not a repository at all. We're going to
BUILD A WALL around kernel.org. And THE LINUX FOUNDATION IS GOING TO
PAY FOR IT.

And there's more:

- The bloated merge window process is very, very bad. It adds hundreds
of bugs every month. It will be REPEALED and REPLACED with a
fantastic release process. It'll be the best release process anybody's
ever seen.

- The code base is horribly complex and needs to be simplified. It
kills developer freedom. From now on, no more SPECIAL INTEREST device
drivers, or user space ABI regulations. And, for each new commit, two
more commits MUST BE REVERTED.

- The greedy distros have been taking advantage of our hard work for FAR
too long. From now on, all distros must pay an IMPORT TAX.

- We're going to recover 33,000 patch emails which were DELETED by
Linus. SAD!

- kernel.org will finally be moved to a STRONG server in the Kremlin.

Together, we will MAKE LINUX GREAT AGAIN!

Based on linux-next.

Signed-off-by: Donald Drumpf <trump.kremlin.gov@gmail.com>

Link: lkml.org

Microsoft: Windows 10 wird Open Source

In einem internen Memo hat Microsoft-Chef Satya Nadella die Bombe gezündet: Windows 10 wird Open Source und unter die freie GPL-Lizenz gestellt, unter der auch Linux verfügbar ist.

Link: t3n.de

When Pixels Collide

Last weekend, a fascinating act in the history of humanity played out on Reddit. For April Fool's Day, Reddit launched a little experiment. It gave its users, who are all anonymous, a blank canvas called Place. The rules were simple....

Link: sudoscript.com