Jean-François Fortin Tam: Spooky GTG features to try out for Halloween 2020
Are you an irresistible creature with an insatiable love for the dead… bugs? Well, grab your bug hunter crossbow, because we need you to test some big technological changes in GTG so that we can...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: Activer la réduction de bruit en temps réel et...
On se souviendra que j’avais témoigné de mon admiration pour le acoustic echo cancelling dans Empathy/Telepathy via PulseAudio il y a plusieurs années.Or, Empathy et Telepathy sont morts et enterrés,...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: Les cônes oranges du libre: du ramollissement de...
Dans ce billet, l’ami “Antistress” (Thibaut) fait un état des lieux des grands changements technologiques du libre autour de la plateforme GNU+Linux depuis une quinzaine d’années, lorsque plusieurs...
View ArticlePhil Normand: Catching up on WebKit GStreamer WebAudio backends maintenance
Over the past few months the WebKit development team has been working on modernizing support for the WebAudio specification. This post highlights some of the changes that were recently merged, focusing...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.18.2 stable bug fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the stable 1.18 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and it...
View ArticleJan Schmidt: Rift CV1 – Adventures in Kalman filtering
In my last post I wrote about changes in my OpenHMD positional tracking branch to split analysis of the tracking frames from the camera sensors across multiple threads. In the 2 months since then, the...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: Blogging about Python desktop apps improvements on...
Hi, fellow pythonistas! Before I start publishing future Python-related posts to this aggregator, I would like to shortly introduce myself and the reason for this blog’s presence on the planet.I am a...
View ArticleJan Schmidt: Rift CV1 – Adventures in Kalman filtering Part 2
In the last post I had started implementing an Unscented Kalman Filter for position and orientation tracking in OpenHMD. Over the Christmas break, I continued that work.A Quick RecapWhen reading below,...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.18.3 stable bug fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the stable 1.18 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and it...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: The origins of the Flow Game 🎥
Let’s kickstart the new year with a short & simple blog post, as a way to get me back on the blogging treadmill, and as a way to ensure my blog still works fine (I have just finished a very...
View ArticleRobert McQueen: Launching Endless OS Foundation
How our for-profit company became a nonprofit, to better tackle the digital divide.Originally posted on the Endless OS Foundation blog.An 8-year journey to a nonprofitOn the 1st of April 2020, our...
View ArticleJan Schmidt: Hitting a milestone – Beat Saber!
I hit an important OpenHMD milestone tonight – I completed a Beat Saber level using my Oculus Rift CV1! I’ve been continuing to work on integrating Kalman filtering into OpenHMD, and on improving the...
View ArticleJan Schmidt: Rift CV1 – Pose rejection
I spent some time this weekend implementing a couple of my ideas for improving the way the tracking code in OpenHMD filters and rejects (or accepts) possible poses when trying to match visible LEDs to...
View ArticleJan Schmidt: Rift CV1 – Testing SteamVR
I’ve had a few people ask how to test my OpenHMD development branch of Rift CV1 positional tracking in SteamVR. Here’s what I do:Make sure Steam + SteamVR are already installed.Clone the...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: A new data format has landed in the upcoming GTG 0.5
Here’s a general call for testing from your favorite pythonic native Linux desktop personal productivity app, GTG.In recent months, Diego tackled the epic task of redesigning the XML file format from a...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: 99% spam
Hey all, happy new year apparently! A quick service update on the old wingolog. For some time the site has been drowning in spam comments, despite my best efforts to point a bayesian classifier at the...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.18.4 stable bug fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the stable 1.18 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34
As we are heading towards April and the release of Fedora Workstation 34 I wanted to post an update on what we are working on for this release and what we are looking at going forward. 2020 was a year...
View ArticleSebastian Pölsterl: scikit-survival 0.15 Released
I am proud to announce the release if version 0.15.0 of scikit-survival, which brings support for scikit-learn 0.24 and Python 3.9. Moreover, if you fit a gradient boosting model with loss='coxph', you...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: here we go again
Around 18 months ago, Richard Stallman was forced to resign from the Free Software Foundation board of directors and as president. It could have been anything -- at that point he already had a history...
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