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• Rust-Based 'Resources' is a New, Modern System Monitor for Linux

  15-10-2023 23:24 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this article from the Linux blog OMG! Ubuntu:The System Monitor app Ubuntu comes with does an okay job of letting you monitor system resources and oversee running processes — but it does look dated... [T]he app's graphs and charts are tiny, compact, and lack the glanceability and granular-detail that similar tools on other systems offer.
  Thankfully, there are plenty of ace System Monitor alternatives available on Linux, with the Rust-based Resources being the lat
  
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• Dropbox CEO Defends 90% Remote-Work Model, Says 'Future of Work' is Here

  15-10-2023 22:23 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from Fortune:
  What would Drew Houston, CEO of Silicon Valley software giant Dropbox, say to fellow CEOs — like Google's Sundar Pichai or Meta's Mark Zuckerberg — who seem to believe that three days a week in-person is crucial for company culture?
  "I'd say, 'your employees have options,'" Houston told Fortune this past week. "They're not resources to control."
  While Dropbox used to work near-entirely at its Bay Area headquarters, Houston
  
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• Two 'Godzilla' Scifi Novellas Finally Get English Translations, Capturing 1950s Horror at Nuclear Weapons

  15-10-2023 21:23 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again — two novellas based on Toho's first two Godzilla movies — were finally published in an English translation this month.
  Both were written by science fiction author Shigeru Kayama, "who also penned the original scenarios from which the films in question were based," according to Our Culture magazine. And the book's translator calls Kayama both "a figure who is a little bit like Philip K. Dick in this country" and "the key person who developed the cont
  
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• 'OK, So ChatGPT Just Debugged My Code. For Real'

  15-10-2023 20:08 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  ZDNet's senior contributing editor also maintains software, and recently tested ChatGPT on two fixes for bugs reported by users, and a new piece of code to add a new feature, It's a "real-world" coding test, "about pulling another customer support ticket off the stack and working through what made the user's experience go south." First...
  please rewrite the following code to change it from allowing only integers to allowing dollars and cents (in other words, a decimal point and up to two digits
  
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• Report Finds Few Open Source Projects are Actively Maintained

  15-10-2023 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "A recent analysis accounting for nearly 1.2 million open source software projects primarily across four major ecosystems found that only about 11% of projects were actively maintained," reports InfoWorld:In its 9th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain report, published October 3, software supply chain management company Sonatype assessed 1,176,407 projects and reported an 18% decline this year in actively maintained projects. Just 11% of projects — 118,028 — were receiving acti
  
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• T2 Linux Discovers (Now Patched) AMD Zen 4 Invalid Opcode Speculation Bug

  15-10-2023 17:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  T2 SDE is not just a Linux distribution, but "a flexible Open Source System Development Environment or Distribution Build Kit," according to a 2022 announcement of its support for 25 CPU architectures, variants, and C libraries. ("Others might even name it Meta Distribution. T2 allows the creation of custom distributions with state of the art technology, up-to-date packages and integrated support for cross compilation.")
  And while working on it, Berlin-based T2 Linux developer René Rebe (
  
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• To 'Evolve' Windows Authentication, Microsoft Wants to Eventually Disable NTLM in Windows 11

  15-10-2023 16:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Neowin:The various versions of Windows have used Kerberos as its main authentication protocol for over 20 years. However, in certain circumstances, the OS has to use another method, NTLM (NT LAN Manager). Today, Microsoft announced that it is expanding the use of Kerberos, with the plan to eventually ditch the use of NTLM altogether.
  In a blog post, Microsoft stated that NTLM continues to be used by some businesses and organizations for Windows authent
  
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• GNU's 40th Anniversary: the FSF's Meeting with Old and New Friends

  15-10-2023 13:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Devin Ulibarri, the Free Software Foundation's outreach and communications coordinator, writes up an event he describes as meeting with some old and new friends:
  On Sunday, October 1, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) hosted a hackday to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the GNU Project. Folks came from both near and far to join in the festivities at FSF headquarters, Boston, MA... Sadi moma bela loza, the Bulgarian melody from which The Free Software Song is set, could be heard faintly pla
  
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• Climate-Driven Heat Extremes May Make Earth Too Hot for Billions of Humans

  15-10-2023 09:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Phys.org:
  If global temperatures increase by 1 degrees Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will be exposed to heat and humidity so extreme they will be unable to naturally cool themselves, according to interdisciplinary research from the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, Purdue University College of Sciences and Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future... Humans can only withstand certain combination
  
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• Climate-Driven Heat Extremes May Make Earth to Hot for Billions of Humans

  15-10-2023 09:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Phys.org:
  If global temperatures increase by 1 degrees Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will be exposed to heat and humidity so extreme they will be unable to naturally cool themselves, according to interdisciplinary research from the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, Purdue University College of Sciences and Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future... Humans can only withstand certain combination
  
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• C# Challenges Java in Programming Language Popularity

  15-10-2023 06:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  "The gap between C# and Java never has been so small," according to October's update for TIOBE's "Programming Community Index".
  "Currently, the difference is only 1.2%, and if the trends remain this way, C# will surpass Java in about 2 month's time."
  Java shows the largest decline of -3.92% and C# the largest gain of +3.29% of all programming languages (annually).The two languages have always been used in similar domains and thus have been competitors for more than 2 decades now. Java's decline
  
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• How a Series of Air Traffic Control Lapses Nearly Killed 131 People

  15-10-2023 00:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Due to an air traffic control mistake in February, a FedEx cargo plane flew within 100 feet of a Southwest Airlines flight in February. The New York Times reports that the flight's 128 passengers "were unaware that they had nearly died."
  In a year filled with close calls involving US airlines, this was the one that most unnerved federal aviation officials: A disaster had barely been averted, and multiple layers of the vaunted US air-safety system had failed... But the errors by the controller &m
  
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