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Russell Coker: Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Review
After the VoLTE saga [1] and the problems with battery life on the PinePhonePro [2] (which lasted 4 hours while idle with the screen off in my last test a few weeks ago) I’m running a Galaxy Note 9 [3] with the default Samsung OS as my daily driver.
I don’t think that many people will be rushing out to buy a 2018 phone regardless of my review. For someone who wants a phone of such age (which has decent hardware and a low price) then good options are the Pixel phones which are all supported by LineageOS.
I recommend not buying this phone due to the fact that it doesn’t have support for VoLTE with LineageOS (and presumably any other non-Samsung Android build) and doesn’t have support from any other OS. The One Plus 6/6T has Mobian support [4] as well as LineageOS support and is worth considering.
The Note 9 still has capable hardware by today’s standards. A 6.4″ display is about as big as most people want in their pocket and 2960×1440 resolution in that size (516dpi) is probably as high as most people can see without a magnifying glass. The model I’m using has 8G of RAM which is as much as the laptop I was using at the start of this year. I don’t think that many people will have things that they actually want to do on a phone which needs more hardware than this. The only hardware feature in new phones which beats this is the large folding screen in some recent phones, but $2500+ (the price of such phones in Australia) is too much IMHO and the second hand market for folding phones is poor due to the apparently high incidence of screens breaking.
The Note 9 has the “Dex” environment for running as a laptop if you connect it to a USB-C dock. It can run nicely with a 4K monitor with USB keyboard and mouse. The UI is very similar to that of older versions of Windows.
The Samsung version of Android seems mostly less useful than the stock Google version or the LineageOS version. The Samsung keyboard flags words such as “gay” as spelling errors and it can’t be uninstalled even when you install a better keyboard app. There is a “Bixby” button on the side of the phone to launch the Bixby voice recognition app which can’t be mapped to any useful purpose, The Google keyboard has a voice dictation option which I will try out some time but that’s all I desire in terms of voice recognition. There are alerts about Samsung special deals and configuration options including something about signing in to some service and having it donate money to charity, I doubt that any users want such features. Apart from Dex the Samsung Android build is a good advert for LineageOS.
The screen has curved sides for no good reason. This makes it more difficult to make a protective phone case as a case can’t extend beyond the screen at the sides and therefore if it’s dropped and hits an edge (step, table, etc) then the glass can make direct contact with something. Also the curved sides reflect sunlight in all directions, this means that the user has to go to more effort to avoid reflecting the sun into their eyes and that a passenger can more easily reflect sunlight into the eyes of a car driver. It’s an impressive engineering feat to make a curved touch-screen but it doesn’t do any good for users.
The stylus is good as always and the screen is AMOLED so it doesn’t waste much power when in dark mode. There is a configuration option to display a clock all the time when the screen is locked because that apparently doesn’t use much power. I haven’t felt inclined to enable the always on screen but it’s a nice feature for those who like such things.
The VoLTE implementation is apparently a bit unusual so it’s not supported by LineageOS and didn’t work on Droidian for the small amount of time that Droidian supported it.
Generally this phone is quite nice hardware it’s just a pity that it demonstrates all of the downsides to buying a non-Pixel phone.
- [1] https://etbe.coker.com.au/2024/07/01/volte-australia/
- [2] https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/10/11/pinephone-status/
- [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note_9
- [4] https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/OnePlus/OnePlus6
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Drupal Starshot blog: Join the Drupal Starshot team as a track lead
Drupal Starshot seeks track leads to drive key project components. Apply by July 31st and help bring Drupal Starshot to life!
The Drupal Starshot initiative has been making significant progress behind the scenes, and I'm excited to share some updates with the community.
Leadership team formation and product definitionOver the past few months, we've been working diligently on Drupal Starshot. One of our first steps was to appoint a leadership team to guide the project. With the leadership team in place as well as the new Starshot Advisory Council, we shifted our focus to defining the product. We've made substantial progress on this front and will be sharing more details about the product strategy in the coming weeks.
Introducing Drupal Starshot tracksWe already started to break down the initiative into manageable components, and are introducing the concept of "tracks". Tracks are smaller, focused parts of the Drupal Starshot project that allow for targeted development and contributions. We've already published the first set of tracks on the Drupal Starshot issue queue on Drupal.org.
Example tracks include:
- Creating Drupal Recipes for features like contact forms, advanced search, events, SEO and more.
- Enhancing the Drupal installer to enable Recipes during installation.
- Updating Drupal.org for Starshot, including product marketing and a trial experience.
While many tracks are technical and need help from developers, most of the tracks need contribution from designers, UX experts, marketers, testers and site builders.
Recruiting more track leadsSeveral tracks already have track leads and have made significant progress:
- Matt Glaman is spearheading the development of a trial experience.
- The marketing team, led by Suzanne Dergacheva, is crafting product marketing documentation.
- Martin Anderson-Clutz has been appointed as the track lead for event management.
However, we need many additional track leads to drive our remaining tracks to completion.
We're now accepting applications for track lead positions. Interested individuals and organizations can apply by completing our application form. The application window closes on July 31st, two weeks from today.
Key responsibilities of a track leadTrack leads can be individuals, teams, or organizations, including Drupal Certified Partners. While technical expertise is beneficial, the role primarily focuses on strategic coordination and project management. Key responsibilities include:
- Defining and validating requirements to ensure the track meets the expectations of our target audience.
- Developing and maintaining a prioritized task list, including creating milestones and timelines.
- Overseeing and driving the track's implementation.
- Collaborating with key stakeholders, including the Drupal Starshot leadership team, module maintainers, the marketing team, etc.
- Communicating progress to the community (e.g. blogging).
After the application deadline, the Drupal Starshot Leadership Team will review the applications and appoint track leads. We expect to announce the selected track leads in the first week of August.
While the application period is open, we will be available to answer any questions you may have. Feel free to reach out to us through the Drupal.org issue queue, or join us in an upcoming zoom meeting (details to be announced / figured out).
Looking ahead to DrupalCon BarcelonaOur goal is to make significant progress on these tracks by DrupalCon Barcelona, where we plan to showcase the advancements we've made. We're excited about the momentum building around Drupal Starshot and can't wait to see the contributions from the community.
If you're passionate about Drupal and want to play a key role in shaping its future, consider applying for a track lead position.
Stay tuned for more updates on Drupal Starshot, and thank you for your continued support of the Drupal community.
— Dries Buytaert
Nonprofit Drupal posts: July Drupal for Nonprofits Chat
Join us THURSDAY, July 18 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, for our regularly scheduled call to chat about all things Drupal and nonprofits. (Convert to your local time zone.) We'll be taking August off, so this is the last chat of the summer.
We don't have anything specific on the agenda this month, so we'll have plenty of time to discuss anything that's on our minds at the intersection of Drupal and nonprofits. Got something specific you want to talk about? Feel free to share ahead of time in our collaborative Google doc: https://nten.org/drupal/notes!
All nonprofit Drupal devs and users, regardless of experience level, are always welcome on this call.
This free call is sponsored by NTEN.org and open to everyone.
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PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #638 (July 16, 2024)
#638 – JULY 16, 2024
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In this course, Philipp helps you customize your Visual Studio Code settings to switch from a basic cluttered look to a clean presentable look. This is not just pleasant on the eyes, but also gives you a nice user interface if you want to share on a Zoom call or screen recording.
REAL PYTHON course
A PyPI admin accidentally leaked credentials into a Docker container. It has since been fixed and the credentials revoked. This is the report by that same admin outlining what happened and how to help prevent similar mistakes in the future.
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An overview of the ongoing efforts to improve and roll out support for free-threaded CPython throughout the Python open source ecosystem. Associated Hacker News discussion.
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ROBERT HEATON
Have you wondered about graph theory and how to start exploring it in Python? What resources and Python libraries can you use to experiment and learn more? This week on the show, former co-host David Amos returns to talk about what he’s been up to and share his knowledge about graph theory in Python.
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This collection of thoughts outlines how Evan approaches coding, with the understanding that this might change in the future. His beliefs include using spikes, the difference between simple and easy, a preference for enums over booleans, and more.
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Have you ever had the situation where you’ve got a nested loop and need to break out of the outer one? One way of dealing with this problem is refactoring the loop to use a generator. This post shows you how.
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There are so many conferences and so many videos, you can’t possibly watch them all. This post shows you how to extract information to summarize a talk so you can quickly decide what you want to watch.
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Learn how to build a functional pastebin service using Python and Flask. This tutorial covers web development basics, file handling, and syntax highlighting.
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This blog post shows how failing to use functools.wraps can cause issues with FlaskAPI. Learn why you should always use wraps and what went wrong.
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Overview of Python’s Package management ecosystem in 2024 and associated Hacker News Discussion
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Rich Pixels, a package from one of the folks at Textual, allows you to create images in your terminal and display them.
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This tutorial discusses the rules and conventions for choosing Python function names and why they’re important.
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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
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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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.