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Thomas Vander Stichele: Rebecca Solnit – Men Explain Things to Me
"Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have...
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Thomas Vander Stichele: What’s the next action?
"Without a next action, there remains a potentially infinite gap between current reality and what you need to do."David Allen's Getting Things Done is the non-fiction book I've reread the most in my...
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Thomas Vander Stichele: Running Anthos inside Google
"With everyone and their dog shifting to containers, and away from virtual machines (VMs), we realized that running vendor-provided software on VMs at Google was slowing us down. So we moved."Bikram...
View ArticleSebastian Pölsterl: scikit-survival 0.17.2 released
I’m pleased to announce the release of scikit-survival 0.17.2. This release fixes several small issues with packaging scikit-survival and the documentation. For a full list of changes in...
View ArticleVíctor Jáquez: From gst-build to local-projects
Two years ago I wrote a blog post about using gst-build inside of WebKit SDK flatpak. Well, all that has changed. That’s the true upstream spirit.There were two main reason for the change:Since the...
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Sebastian Dröge: Instantaneous RTP synchronization & retrieval of absolute...
Over the last few weeks, GStreamer’sRTP stack got a couple of new and quite useful features. As it is difficult to configure, mostly because there being so many different possible configurations, I...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.20.2 stable bug fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second bug fix release in the stable 1.20 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and it...
View ArticleRobert McQueen: Evolving a strategy for 2022 and beyond
As a board, we have been working on several initiatives to make the Foundation a better asset for the GNOME Project. We’re working on a number of threads in parallel, so I wanted to explain the “big...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Why is the open source driver release from NVidia so...
Background Today NVidia announced that they are releasing an open source kernel driver for their GPUs, so I want to share with you some background information and how this will impact Linux graphics...
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Christian Schaller: How to get your application to show up in GNOME Software
Adding Applications to the GNOME Software CenterWritten by Richard Hughes and Christian F.K. SchallerThis blog post is based on a white paper style writeup Richard and I did a few years ago, since I...
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Sebastian Pölsterl: Using VS Code and Podman to Develop SYCL Applications...
I recently wanted to create a development container for VS Code to develop applications using SYCL based on the CUDA backend of the oneAPI DPC++ (Data Parallel C++) compiler. As I’m running Fedora, it...
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Andy Wingo: defragmentation
Good morning, hackers! Been a while. It used to be that I had long blocks of uninterrupted time to think and work on projects. Now I have two kids; the longest such time-blocks are on trains (too...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.20.3 stable bug fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the third bug fix release in the stable 1.20 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains important...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: blocks and pages and large objects
Good day! In a recent dispatch we talked about the fundamental garbage collection algorithms, also introducing the Immix mark-region collector. Immix mostly leaves objects in place but can move objects...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: an optimistic evacuation of my wordhoard
Good morning, mallocators. Last time we talked about how to split available memory between a block-structured main space and a large object space. Given a fixed heap size, making a new large object...
View ArticleVíctor Jáquez: GstVA H.264 encoder, compositor and JPEG decoder
There are, right now, three new GstVA elements merged in main: vah264enc, vacompositor and vajpegdec.Just to recap, GstVA is a GStreamer plugin in gst-plugins-bad (yes, we agree it’s not a great name...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: unintentional concurrency
Good evening, gentle hackfolk. Last time we talked about heuristics for when you might want to compact a heap. Compacting garbage collection is nice and tidy and appeals to our orderly instincts, and...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: coarse or lazy?
sweeping, coarse and lazyOne of the things that had perplexed me about the Immix collector was how to effectively defragment the heap via evacuation while keeping just 2-3% of space as free blocks for...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Unsettled by Unison’s Fadeaway from Fedora
This is in part a rallying cry for packagers, but also a story illustrating how fragile user workflows can be, and how some seemingly inconsequential decisions at the distro level can have disastrous...
View ArticleSebastian Pölsterl: scikit-survival 0.18.0 released
I’m pleased to announce the release of scikit-survival 0.18.0, which adds support for scikit-learn 1.1.In addition, this release adds the return_array argument to all models providing...
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