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GNU Taler news: Video interview with Özgur Kesim on age-restricted digital cash
GNU Taler news: Video interview with Isidor Walliman, creator of the Netzbon regional currency in Basel
Dave Hibberd: What I've been up to in Open Ham Radio - July 2024
Drupal.org blog: Drupal.org login flow is changing
The Drupal Association engineering team is preparing to switch over to our new single sign-on solution for user login. This is an important step in our work to upgrade Drupal.org, and in the future will give you the ability to use your Drupal.org identity in new ways.
The Drupal Association engineering team is preparing to switch over to our new single sign-on solution for user login. This is an important step in our work to upgrade Drupal.org, and in the future will give you the ability to use your Drupal.org identity in new ways.
The switch-over is scheduled for:
- Thursday 25 July - from 9am to 11am Pacific (4pm-6pm UTC).
During this window you will be unable to login to Drupal.org or edit your profile, and may not be able to access related services which use your Drupal identity, such as git.drupalcode.org.
When we make this change, the login experience will look different.
If you are an existing userWhen you click to login or create an account you will be redirected to: accounts.drupal.org
You will log in with your existing Drupal.org username or email and your current password, and your two factor authentication code if you have TFA enabled.
Once you log in, you will have to change your password.
If you have Two Factor Authentication enabled, you will also have to set up a new seed.
After that, you'll be taken back to Drupal.org as normal. You should be directed back to the path you came from.
If you are creating a new accountWhen you click 'create account' on Drupal.org you will be taken to the new account creation page:
After you complete the basic information, you will be taken to the Drupal.org welcome page to fill out the rest of your user profile.
If you need to change your account informationThe majority of your account information will continue to live in your Drupal.org profile, however, some basic account information will now be stored and updated in the Drupal.org SSO system.
When you click to edit your first and last name, username, password, email address, or enable two factor authentication you'll be taken to the account page:
Setting up Two Factor AuthenticationThis account settings page is also where you can change your Two Factor Authentication settings. You can use the 'Account Security' tab in the sidebar to navigate to the Two Factor setup process:
If you need to reset your passwordIf you have forgotten your password, you can reset your password from the login page:
You will receive a password reset email from noreply@drupal.org allowing you to change your password.
If you encounter any issues with your account, please contact us at help@drupal.org
We want to thank two of our partners for supporting this project.
Cloud-IAM is our SSO partner. Cloud-IAM is a privacy centric provider of hosted solutions for Keycloak, an open source identity management service. They are enthusiastic supporters of the Drupal community, and would like to offer any site owners and agencies who are looking for their own identity and access management service 10% off, with promo code: DRUPAL10.
Our implementation partner on this project was Tag1Consulting. Tag1Consulting is a global team of Drupal experts working with clients from non-profits to the Fortune 500, and is one of the top contributors to Drupal. They have been the Drupal Association's infrastructure partner for many years.
tasklist @ Savannah: Cleaning out old jobs
When I opened this Savannah project I imported items from the old GNU tasklist document. 20 years later all of the context has been lost (if there ever was any) so now if anyone asks about these tasks it just leads to frustration on everyone's part.
I therefore deleted the original help wanted entries that date back to 2003. If anyone wants to help the GNU project, the best way to do that is to pick one of the FSF's High-Priority projects:
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects
LabPlot 2.11 released
Say hello to LabPlot 2.11!
This brand new release comes with many new features, improvements and performance enhancements in several areas, as well as support for more data formats and visualisation types.
The main new features are outlined below. For a more detailed overview of the changes in this release, please refer to the ChangeLog file.
The source code of LabPlot, the Flatpak and Snap packages for Linux, as well as the installer for Windows and the image for MacOS are available from our download page.
What’s new in 2.11? WorksheetThis release includes more visualisations, usability improvements and a new worksheet preview panel:
- You can now use Lollipop, Q-Q and KDE plots
- We have implemented error bars for bar plots
- There is a new preview panel for all available worksheets in the project
- You can use the navigation panel in the presenter widget to select, zoom and navigate in the presenter mode
- You can lock worksheet elements to prevent accidental changes
- LabPlot 2.11 allows you to show or hide the entry in the legend for all supported plot types and not just xy-curve
- You can give your worksheets a fresh new look with the Dracula theme
Spreadsheets gain more functions and operations to modify, generate and understand the data:
- We have extended the search and replace features
- You can check statistical properties of the parent in a new child spreadsheet
- We have added sparklines in the header of a spreadsheet
- LabPlot 2.11 comes with spreadsheet linking to synchronize the number of rows across multiple spreadsheets
- We have implemented triangular distributions for PDF, CDF, and pseudorandom number generation
- Equidistant value generation has been extended
Analysis tools added to LabPlot 2.11 include:
- Note showing the fit results
- Faster computation of the baseline removal (we switched to Eigen3 internally)
LabPlot 2.11 adds support for new file formats and multiple optimizations to improve the handling of edge-case scenarios:
- You can now import Open Document Spreadsheet (ODS) files.
- Templates for ASCII and Binary import filters allow you to save and load current filter settings
- There is a new feature that allows you to to specify the data range to be read (start/end values for columns and records) when importing from SQL databases
- LabpPlot can now gracefully handle out-of-memory situations when importing large amounts of data
- LabPlot 2.11 displays better error messages during the import
- We provide additional information about BLF files (application name with which the file was created with, etc.)
- We have made several fixes and improvements to the import of Origin’s OPJ files
The 2.11 release adds a number of usability enhancements to the Notebook interface:
- You can now export the notebook to PDF
- We provide statistics and a “plot data” action from the context menu in the project explorer for variables created in the Notebook
- There is a new option in the application settings to run a selected CAS engine on startup
Real Python: Exercises Course: Introduction to Web Scraping With Python
Web scraping is the process of collecting and parsing raw data from the Web, and the Python community has come up with some pretty powerful web scraping tools.
The Internet hosts the greatest source of information on the planet. Many disciplines, such as data science, business intelligence, and investigative reporting, can benefit enormously from collecting and analyzing data from websites.
In this course, you’ll practice:
- Parsing website data using string methods and regular expressions
- Parsing website data using an HTML parser
- Interacting with forms and other website components
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Specbee: Personalizing Experiences in Drupal: CRMs, E-commerce Integration, and UTMs
GNU Taler news: Video interview with Christian Blättler on his work on tokens for unlinkable discounts and subscriptions
GNU Taler news: Video interview with Nic Eigel, co-author of the GNU Taler real-time auditor
Bits from Debian: Wind River Platinum Sponsor of DebConf24
We are pleased to announce that Wind River has committed to sponsor DebConf24 as a Platinum Sponsor.
For nearly 20 years, Wind River has led in commercial open source Linux solutions for mission-critical enterprise edge computing. With expertise across aerospace, automotive, industrial, telecom, more, the company is committed to open source through initiatives like eLxr, Yocto, Zephyr, and StarlingX.
With this commitment as Platinum Sponsor, Wind River is contributing to make possible our annual conference, and directly supporting the progress of Debian and Free Software, helping to strengthen the community that continues to collaborate on Debian projects throughout the rest of the year.
Wind River plans to announce an exiting new project based on Debian at this year's DebConf!
Thank you very much, Wind River, for your support of DebConf24!
Become a sponsor too!DebConf24 will take place from 28th July to 4th August 2024 in Busan, South Korea, and will be preceded by DebCamp, from 21st to 27th July 2024.
DebConf24 is accepting sponsors! Interested companies and organizations should contact the DebConf team through sponsors@debconf.org, or visit the DebConf24 website at https://debconf24.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/.
Kushal Das: Friends, the most important part of any conference
At the beginning one goes to the conferences to listen to the talks and make new contacts. You meet a lot of new faces every time. Over time a few of them will become great friends and then all conferences will become about friends.
We wait for the conferences so that we can meet our friends. I went back to PyCon US this year after 5 years, means I met many friends after 5 years. It was so happy feeling to see them again.
Last week I went to my first ever Euro Python in Prague, finally the visa was good in the right days of the year. This means I managed to meet more friends, a few of them just after a month (as they were present in PyCon US) and some after many many years. Really enjoyed the social event place selections by the organizers.
Personally the social events allowed me to go full scale nerd out on technical and social issues with friends. I was really missing these discussions. Heard more stories and discussed about fun ideas. One is below :)
$ python Python 3.12.4 (main, Jun 7 2024, 00:00:00) [GCC 14.1.1 20240607 (Red Hat 14.1.1-5)] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> hello 🤌🤌🤌 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'hello' is not defined. Did you mean: 'help'? >>> [].set("different exception") 🤌🤌🤌 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'set' >>>KDE Plasma 6.1.3, Bugfix Release for July
Tuesday, 16 July 2024. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.1.3.
Plasma 6.1 was released in June 2024 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds two weeks' worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
- KWin Plugins nightlight: Relax custom times constraints. Commit. Fixes bug #489366
- Fix KCM Clock save on non-systemd distros. Commit.
- KWin Tiling: Don't put maximized windows in tile. Commit. Fixes bug #489463
How to: Profile your display in the Plasma Wayland session
Profiling displays is already not a super simple thing on its own, but things get more complicated when you try to profile your display in Wayland - profiling applications don’t support Wayland yet, some APIs on the compositor side to make it work well are still missing, and there’s a general lack of information on the topic. So today I’ll show you how to profile your display in the Plasma Wayland session.
I did this in Fedora 40, but you can follow these steps in other distributions as well.
Step 1: Install DisplayCal and start itThis sounds easy, but
- it’s not packaged for Fedora. That’s being worked on, but right now it’s not an option | edit: turns out there is a COPR for it
- installing it with pip just gave me a bunch of compilation errors, and I haven’t figured out how to fix them
- the package on Flathub is really old and broken
To work around that, I used distrobox to install the Arch Linux package for DisplayCAL:
sudo dnf install distrobox distrobox create --name archinabox --image archlinux:latest distrobox enter archinabox sudo pacman -S displaycal distrobox-export --app displaycal exitAfter running these commands, DisplayCAL can be started from any app launcher, like Kickoff or KRunner.
Step 2: SetupTo get correct measurement results, the compositor needs to pass the pixel data from the profiling app directly to the display, and not do any color management itself. This will be automated at some point, but for now you need to manually ensure that
- HDR is disabled
- the color profile of the display is set to “None” in the display settings
- night light is off, or at least suspended in the system tray
- all KWin effects that modify colors, like the color blindness correction effect, are disabled
- if you’re on a new-ish AMD laptop and want to profile the internal display, that you’re either plugged in to a power source, or have the power profile set to performance, to disable a power saving feature that changes the colors
Now start DisplayCal and head to the Calibration tab. Here it’s important to set the tone curve to “as measured”, and untick interactive display adjustment, as those don’t work correctly right now and will mess up the profile.
You’ve done everything correctly if the button on the bottom of the application shows “Profile only”.
Last but not least, you also need to adjust the display settings to what you want to use with the profile later, as the profile is only correct for one specific set of display settings. This includes the brightness of the display!
Step 3: ProfileIn the profiling tab of DisplayCAL, select your desired settings - in most cases the default will be sufficient - and click “Profile only”. When it asks if you want to continue with the current calibration curves, select “use linear calibration instead” and de-select “embed calibration curves in profile”. Then put the colorimeter in the center of the screen, and let it do its thing.
Once it’s done, it’ll ask you to install the profile. Installing it will not automatically enable that profile to be used, but it’ll save the profile in ~/.config/color/icc/devices/display/ and you can select that file in the display settings.
Step 4: Verification (optional)If you’d like to make sure the profile is correct or accurate enough, you can use DisplayCAL to verify the result. Make sure you’ve set the profile in the display settings, switch to the verification tab in DisplayCAL and select your newly created profile in the “settings”
Here again, because DisplayCAL doesn’t support Wayland yet, you need to adjust a few settings for everything to work correctly. You need to select the simulation profile “Rec.709 ITU-R BT.709”, select “Use simulation profile as display profile” and set the tone curve to “Gamma 2.2”. Afterwards, click on “Measurement report”, choose a location to save it in, put the colorimeter in the center of the screen again and wait for it to complete.
Don’t be alarmed if the result says the whitepoint is wrong, this is simply caused by DisplayCAL assuming we want to target the whitepoint of the simulation profile, which doesn’t necessarily match the whitepoint of your display.
What about calibration though?To calibrate the display, that is, to adjust brightness, tone curves for non color managed applications and the whitepoint of the display, DisplayCAL uses an X11 API to set the gamma lookup tables of the GPU. That API doesn’t work in the Wayland session and the profiling process doesn’t handle that situation properly, which is why all calibration needs to be disabled for the created profile to be correct.
DisplayCAL (or ArgyllCMS, which does the actual profiling) could add support for applying a lookup table in the application instead of having the compositor do it, but we can also handle calibration entirely on the compositor side instead, which offers a bit more flexibility.
Changing the tone curves for non color managed applications doesn’t make sense in the Plasma Wayland session, as all windows are always color managed, so that part is already dealt with. Adjusting the brightness on screens that don’t have any native means of brightness control is already implemented for Plasma 6.2, and I have a working proof of concept for changing the whitepoint of the display without needing a new ICC profile too, so we should be at feature parity soon. I’ll talk more about these adjustments in a future post.
The Open Source Initiative joins CMU in launching Open Forum for AI: A human-centered approach to AI development
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to share that we are joining the founding team of Open Forum for AI (OFAI), an initiative designed by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to foster a human-centered approach to artificial intelligence. OFAI aims to enhance our understanding of AI and its potential to augment human capabilities while promoting responsible development practices.
The missions of OSI and OFAI are well-aligned; at the heart of OFAI is a commitment to ensuring that AI development serves the public interest. With the support of renowned partners like Omidyar Network, NobleReach Foundation, and internal CMU funding, OFAI is positioned to serve as a pivotal platform for shaping AI strategies and policies that prioritize safety, privacy, and equity.
The OSI is proud to be part of this project. Stefano Mafulli and Deb Bryant from the OSI will participate in OFAI, integrating their efforts toward a standard Open Source AI Definition through a collaborative process involving stakeholders from the Open Source community, industry, and academia as well as their contributions to public policy.
A collective effortThe success of OFAI hinges on the diverse expertise it convenes. Leading this initiative is Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure at CMU and a member of the OSI Board. Alongside him, a team of CMU faculty members and external advisors will contribute knowledge in ethics, computational technologies, and inclusive AI research.
Notable participants like Michele Jawando from Omidyar Network and Arun Gupta from NobleReach Foundation have emphasized the importance of Open Source AI in driving innovation and inclusivity as well as the need for a human-centered, trust-based approach to AI development.
OFAI’s ambitious goalsOFAI aims to influence AI policy by coordinating research and policy objectives and advocating for transparent and inclusive AI development. The initiative will focus on five key areas:
- Research
- Technical prototypes
- Policy recommendations
- Community engagement
- Talent for service
Deb Bryant will lead Community Engagement, building in part upon the broad community of interest gathered through the public process of OSI’s Defining Open Source AI.
One of OFAI’s foundational projects is the creation of an “Openness in AI” framework, which seeks to make AI development more transparent and inclusive. This framework will serve as a vital resource for policymakers, researchers, and the broader community.
Looking aheadWith the OSI set to deliver a stable version of the Open Source AI Definition at All Things Open in October, the launch of OFAI magnifies the importance of this work to bring together diverse stakeholders to ensure AI technologies align with societal values and public interests.
Drupal Association blog: Drupal Business Survey 2024
The Drupal Business Survey investigates the trends in the digital market, in particular from service providers involved with the open source DXP Drupal. Digital agencies from all over the world participate in the yearly survey. Business insights on market share and growth opportunities are shared in a comprehensive report. The results are presented at DrupalCon Europe, the international Drupal conference. Digital business owners from all over the world are invited to participate.
The Drupal Business Survey shares valuable business insights from Drupal service providers worldwide. Drupal’s open source ecosystem is supported by a strong community of tens of thousands professionals worldwide, working together on the popular digital experience platform. Because Drupal is open source, anyone can work with Drupal or make changes to it. The Drupal Business Survey gives meaningful data for business owners and decision makers to build their next year’s business strategy on.
The Drupal Business Survey results in a comprehensive report on business outlook and customer engagement. It has been a valuable guide for digital service providers, even to those working with other technologies but Drupal. Participants are from all continents, with most of the companies being in business for 10 years or more.
Results in 2023In 2023, the Business Survey underscored Drupal’s powerful selling points including security, flexibility and reliability. Business decision makers choosing Drupal for the digital experiences, found these values to be significantly more important. Drupal’s market share increased notably in 2023 in the finance industry as well as industry and automotive. Education and government remain consistent Drupal users.
Open Source remains one of the most powerful reasons for choosing Drupal. Being vendor independent and using the power is the basis for Drupal’s success. Companies have continued their contribution to the open source ecosystem, in spite of the harder market outlook in 2023.
Also the need for Drupal talent continues to be strong. More than 70% of the companies stated the business growth or need of expertise as their main reason for hiring new staff.
Imre Gmelig Meijling: “We continue to see a strong position of Drupal as valuable solution. Agencies and service providers remain committed to Drupal and pitch it as one of the best content management solutions on the market. The strong commitment to Drupal by so many organizations worldwide proves that Drupal is a solid choice for many brands and organizations across the globe.”
CEO DinnerThe Drupal market is looking forward to how digital service providers are using Drupal and how the Drupal market has evolved this year. The results of the 2024 Drupal Business Survey will be presented at the CEO Dinner at DrupalCon Europe. DrupalCon Europe is the yearly Drupal summit where over 1500 Drupal users and professionals meet to exchange ideas and further evolve Drupal. The conference is held from 24-27 September in Barcelona, Spain. The CEO Dinner will be on Wednesday 25 September, extending the conversation to a BOF (Birds of a Feather) session on 26 September.
About the Business SurveyThe Drupal Business Survey support Drupal businesses worldwide and is organized by a team of industry experts Imre Gmelig Meijling (React Online), Janne Kalliola (Exove) and Michel van Velde (Craftmore) in collaboration with the Drupal Association.
Drupal is the open source Digital Experience Platform used by many organizations worldwide including Nestlé, Lufthansa and WWF.
Participate and share your insightsDrupal experts are invited to share their Drupal business insights through the Business Survey anonymously and come to DrupalCon Europe to review the results together.
You can participate in the Drupal Business Survey anonymously here: The Drupal Business Survey 2024. The survey closes on 4 September.
Open Source AI Definition – Weekly update July 15
It has been quiet over the 4th of July weekend on the forums and OSI has been speaking at different events:
- @stefano spoke in a panel at the UN event OSPOs for Good. Access the recording here.
- @mer is speaking at Open Source Community Africa
- OSI was present at the Linux Foundation hosted AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Europe 2024. Read about the takeaways here.
- @jberkus expresses concern about the extensive resources required to certify AI systems, estimating that it would take weeks of work per system. This scale makes it impractical for a volunteer committee like License Review.
- @shujisado reflects on past controversies over license conformity, noting that Open Source AI has the potential for a greater economic impact than early Open Source” He acknowledges the need for a more robust certification process given this increased significance. He suggests that cooperation from the machine learning community or consortia might be necessary to address technical issues and monitor the certification process neutrally. He offers to help spread the word about OSAID within the Japanese ML/LLM development community.
@jberkus clarifies that the OSI would need full-time paid staff to handle the certifications, as the work cannot be managed by volunteers alone.
GNU Taler news: Videos from main talks of Privacy, Identity and Payment in the Next Generation Internet event at BFH
Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #459 - Off The Cuff 8
Today we are talking about Config Actions, The Panels Favorite Drupal Modules, and Drupal Contribution. We’ll also cover Transform API as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/459
Topics- New Config Action: Place Block
- Favorite Contrib modules
- Slack channels
- Preparing for Drupal 11
- Drupal events
- Config Action Place Block
- Front End Editing Drupal Module
- Gin Admin Theme
- Migrate Boost
- Keysave
- Navigation
- Matt Glaman Smart Date Code Blog Post
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xINTERNET baddysonja
MOTW CorrespondentMartin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to expose your Drupal site’s data as JSON using view modes, formatters, blocks, and more? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- https://www.drupal.org/project/transform_api
- Transform API
- Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2023 by LupusGr3y, aka Martin Giessing of Denmark
- Versions available: 1.1.0-beta4 and 1.0.2 versions available, both of which work with Drupal 9 and 10
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, in fact the latest commit was earlier today
- Security coverage
- Documentation: in-depth README and a full user guide
- Number of open issues: 14 open issues, 3 of which are bugs, but none against the current branch
- Usage stats:
- 2 sites
- Module features and usage
- After installing Transform API, you should be able to get the JSON for any entities on your site by adding “format=json” as a parameter to the URL
- To get more fields exposed as JSON, you can configure a Transform mode, using a Field UI configuration very similar to view modes
- You can also add transform blocks to globally include specific data in all transformed URLs, in the same way you would use normal blocks to show information on your entity pages. The output of transform blocks is segmented into regions,
- Where Drupal’s standard engine produces render arrays that ultimately become HTML, Transform API replaces it with an engine that produces Transform Arrays that will ultimately become JSON
- Where Drupal’s standard JSON:API supports more or less exposes all information as raw data for the front end to format, Transform API allows for more of the formatting to be managed on the back end, where it will use Drupal’s standard caching mechanisms, permission-based access, and more
- Transform API also supports lazy transformers, which are callbacks that will be called after caching but before the JSON response is sent
- You can also use alter hooks to manipulate the transformed data
Mike Driscoll: Creating Images in Your Terminal with Python and Rich Pixels
A newer Python package called Rich Pixels allows you to create images in your terminal and display them. Darren Burns, one of the team members from the Textual project, created this package.
Anyway, let’s find out how to use Rich Pixels!
InstallationYou can install Rich Pixels using Python’s pip utility. Here’s how:
python -m pip install rich-pixelsOnce you have Rich Pixels installed, you can try it out!
Displaying Images in the TerminalRich Pixels lets you take a pre-existing image and show it in your terminal. The higher the image’s resolution, the better the output will be. However, if your image has too many pixels, it probably won’t fit in your terminal, and much of it will be drawn off-screen.
For this example, you will use the Python Show Podcast logo and attempt to draw it in your terminal.
Open up your favorite Python editor and add the following code to it:
from rich_pixels import Pixels from rich.console import Console console = Console() pixels = Pixels.from_image_path("python_show200.jpg") console.print(pixels)For this example, you will use a square image that is 200×200 pixels. You can run the code like this in your terminal:
python pixels.py
When you execute the command above, you will see something like this in your terminal:
As you can see, the image is a little pixelated and gets cut off at the bottom. Of course, this all depends on your monitor’s resolution.
Here’s what happens when you use an image that is 80×80 pixels:
You can also. use the Pillow package to create an image object and pass that the Rich Pixels too. Here’s how that might look:
with Image.open("path/to/image.png") as image: pixels = Pixels.from_image(image)You can create or draw your images using Pillow. There is some coverage of this topic in my article, Drawing Shapes on Images with Python and Pillow which you could then pass to Rich Pixels to display it.
Wrapping UpRich Pixels is a fun way to add extra pizzazz to your terminal applications. Rich Pixels can also be used in a Textual application. While there probably aren’t a lot of use cases for this package, it’s a lot of fun to play around with.
Give it a try, and let me know what you create!
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