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Leaders at a growing number of universities across the country say they are looking for ways to cut costs and buy time, as questions swirl around President Trump's efforts to slash financial support for some schools. Education experts say the pullback of resources will not only hurt current and prospective students, staff and faculty, but could also harm the local economies of university towns and ultimately make the U.S. less competitive globally.

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Many universities have said that the hiring pauses are temporary, and will be evaluated when they have more information about the status of federal support.

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The Trump administration has threatened to pull federal funding from schools that don't eliminate diversity initiatives or adequately protect Jewish students from discrimination. It also moved to limit National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for research universities.

And it's proposed eliminating the Department of Education, whose responsibilities include managing college financial aid and federal student loans. The department announced Tuesday that it is laying off nearly 50% of its workforce, but says it will continue to deliver programs protected by law.

 

Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahead of next year's all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Among the Rust components being planned for use in Ubuntu 25.10 is the Rust Coreutils "uutils" software.

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Cited as the motivation are performance benefits as well as added safety provided by the Rust programming language. Among the Rust components initially being evaluated are the uutils version of cureitls, findutils, and diffutils. The sudo-rs software as the Rust written sudo is also being evaluated.

More details on the Ubuntu Discourse: Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm trying out the beta on my personal instance and so far everything appears to be working. I'll report any bugs if I come across any.

Thanks for your continued development and support of this awesome project!

 

Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel development process, Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin has removed himself from being an upstream maintainer of the ARM Apple code.

 

While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp.

Ptyxis is the terminal emulator formerly known as GNOME Prompt and has an emphasis on performance and features while leveraging the VTE library. Ptyxis development is led by GNOME developer Christian Hergert.

Ptyxis began being offered on Ubuntu 24.10 but not by default. On current Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds GNOME Console is still there by default too, but there's an apparent growing fondness for Ptyxis.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1401792

This report summarizes insights from the inaugural 2024 Open Source Software Funding Survey, a collaboration between GitHub, the Linux Foundation, and researchers from Harvard University. The objective of the survey was to better understand how organizations fund, contribute to, and otherwise support open s ource software.

Survey Respondents 159 respondents to the survey collectively contribute $1.7 billion (2023 USD) in annual value to open source. 86% comes in the form of contribution labor by employees. Extrapolating survey to all organizations active in open source Using the survey responses on contribution, we estimate that organizations contribute $7.7 billion annually to OSS.

 

This report summarizes insights from the inaugural 2024 Open Source Software Funding Survey, a collaboration between GitHub, the Linux Foundation, and researchers from Harvard University. The objective of the survey was to better understand how organizations fund, contribute to, and otherwise support open s ource software.

Survey Respondents 159 respondents to the survey collectively contribute $1.7 billion (2023 USD) in annual value to open source. 86% comes in the form of contribution labor by employees. Extrapolating survey to all organizations active in open source Using the survey responses on contribution, we estimate that organizations contribute $7.7 billion annually to OSS.

 

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet published a Patreon post this evening entitled "Trouble in the kernel" where he explained:

"TLDR: the future of bcachefs in the kernel is uncertain, and lots of things aren't looking good.

Linus has said he isn't accepting my 6.13 pull request, per "an open issue with the CoC board", and at this point I have no idea what's going on with the CoC board. I, for my part, have felt for quite some time that there are issues about our culture and the way we do work that need to be raised, and that hasn't been going anywhere - hence this post."

It appears that the source of this violation can be found in this Linux kernel mailing list thread.

 

Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04.

The flaws were discovered by Qualys and are tracked as CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003. They were introduced in needrestart version 0.8, released in April 2014, and fixed only yesterday, in version 3.8.

Needrestart is a utility commonly used on Linux, including on Ubuntu Server, to identify services that require a restart after package updates, ensuring that those services run the most up-to-date versions of shared libraries.

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Apart from upgrading to version 3.8 or later, which includes patches for all the identified vulnerabilities, it is recommended to modify the needrestart.conf file to disable the interpreter scanning feature, which prevents the vulnerabilities from being exploited.

 

The first teaser for A Minecraft Movie released in September to some decidedly mixed reactions, particularly concerning the CGI and character design and especially Jason Momoa's hair. And yes, there were many ridiculous memes. We were inclined to give it a chance based on the casting of Momoa and Jack Black. Now the full trailer has dropped, and honestly, odd design choices aside—and they are indeed odd—it looks like a perfectly acceptable fun family film and not much more, albeit very light on actual plot.

YouTube Trailer: A Minecraft Movie | Official Trailer

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The reason why string[5] = '5' doesn't work is that strings in Python are immutable (cannot be changed). By doing list(string) you are actually creating a new list with the contents of the string and then modifying the list.

I wonder if ChatGPT explains this or just tells you to do this... as this works but can be quite inefficient.

To me this highlights the danger with using AI... sure you can complete a task, but you may not understand why or learn important concepts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Path objects also override the / operator to join paths

This is both cool and gross... gives me C++ vibes (operator overloading abuse).

 

Yes, this nifty workflow wonder is finally able to automatically tile newly opened windows based on the currently active tiling layout (and as you may sick of me re-emphasising: you can switch between different layouts ad-hoc, and create and save your own).

Windows auto-tile to the best vacant slot in the layout. But what’s ‘best’? Tiling Shell developer Domenico Ferraro says this will be the ‘vacant tile nearest to the center of the screen’.

With the addition of automatic tiling you no longer need to tile windows manually.

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A Linux Desktop for the family (chronicles.mad-scientist.club)
 

I saw plenty of efforts that aim to create a Linux distribution for non-enthusiasts, for people who just want to use their computers, and not care about the details - A Desktop for All on the GNOME blog, most recently. While I commend the effort, my own experience is that these efforts are futile, and start off from a fundamentally wrong premise: that people are willing (let alone wanting) to manage their own operating systems.

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My family is using Linux because that’s the system I can maintain for them. Apart from my Dad, they never installed Linux, and never will. They don’t install software, they don’t upgrade, they don’t change settings either. All of that is something I do for them. And to do so effectively, I need a distribution I am familiar with, one that is also flexible enough to fine-tune for every member of the family, because they prefer fundamentally different things!

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The common pattern between all these three is that neither of them maintains their own systems. I do. As such, how beginner friendly the distribution is, is meaningless. The users of the system don’t care, they’ll never see those parts. They’ll have a preconfigured system maintained by someone else, and that’s exactly what they want. To make this work, I’m using distributions I am familiar with. For my parents, that’s Debian, because I was a Debian person when their systems were installed. For my Wife, it is NixOS, because I’m a NixOS person now. For the Twins, it will likely be NixOS too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

XP is still not great, but you no longer have to wait outside the barrier... which is a big plus. Managed to do a few rounds this morning and got to 71 RC and was rewarded a few pearls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Over the course of the last 20 years, I've gone from Arch -> Void -> Pop!_OS -> Ubuntu, and that is what I use on all my machines (laptops, desktops, servers).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'm very close to 99 mining (about 400k left), so will probably continue star mining and amethyst mining.

My medium term goal is Varrock Elite (which is why I starting mining) and all I have left is 7 more runecrafting levels... but I really dislike this skill, so have been dragging my feet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

According to #243 Chatting COSMIC Desktop Alpha With The CEO | Carl Richell, they are planning an alpha release on the last thursday of each month. This means that Alpha 3 should be out on October 31, 2024.

Likewise, Carl hopes to have a Beta 1 in January 2025.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the heads up and continued development. Good luck with the porting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Old School Runescape.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This one hurts... as I use this as my password manager on mobile :{

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I still haven't done much of Varlamore Part 1(just some thieving of rich citizens and hunter rumours). With Part 2, I did do the Colossol Wyrm agility course and got the graceful recolor. I have yet to do Moons or the new prayer training.

That said, I did try out Hueycotl with some friends and... it was kinda lacking. The fight is long and the drops are not good. I know they recently buffed the drop table a bit, but I'm not in a rush to go back... Which is fine, I still have lots of things to do (ie. I just finished Sins of the Father and am now working on the Elite Varrock diary).

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