My favorite open source tool for using crontab: My favorite open source tool for using crontab Kevin Sonney Fri, 05/06/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Automation is a hot topic right now. In my day job as a site reliability engineer (SRE), part of my remit is to …
My guide to using the Git push command safely: My guide to using the Git push command safely Noaa Barki Fri, 04/08/2022 – 03:00 Up Register or Login to like. Most know that using Git’s push --force command is strongly discouraged and is considered destructive. However, to me, it seemed very strange to put all my …
Using AI in agriculture could boost global food security – but we need to anticipate the risks: Suwin/Shutterstock As the global population has expanded over time, agricultural modernisation has been humanity’s prevailing approach to staving off famine. A variety of mechanical and chemical innovations delivered during the 1950s and 1960s represented the third agricultural revolution. …
Using animals for scientific research is still indispensable for society as we know it: Shutterstock Kenya’s national airline – Kenya Airways – made headlines when it announced it would stop transporting monkeys for animal research. This followed an accidental highway crash in Pennsylvania, in the US, which involved a truck transporting monkeys that had been …
How Russia is using intellectual property as a war tactic: ApostolisBril / Shutterstock As part of its deadly assault on Ukraine, Russia has taken the rare step to use intellectual property rights as a war tactic. In early March, the Russian government issued a decree saying that Russian companies are no longer obliged to compensate …
Future of TV: we’re putting new personalised features into shows using an ethical version of AI: LightField Studios/Shutterstock “Look away now if you don’t want to know the score”, they say on the news before reporting the football results. But imagine if your television knew which teams you follow, which results to hold back – …
Ukraine: what is the dangerous ‘vacuum bomb’ weapon Russia has been accused of using?: vaalaa/Shutterstock As Russia’s horrifying invasion of Ukraine continues to unfold, Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, has alleged that Russia used a vacuum bomb. According to reports, the attack was aimed at a Ukrainian army base in Okhtyrka and 70 …
Future cities could be 3D printed – using concrete made with recycled glass: Matjazz/Shutterstock 3D printed concrete may lead to a shift in architecture and construction. Because it can be used to produce new shapes and forms that current technologies struggle with, it may change the centuries-old processes and procedures that are still used to …
COVID in South Africa shows the limits of using courts to fight political battles: President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a State of Disaster in March 2020. GCIS/Flickr The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of our daily lives. Some of these changes are immediately visible in the everyday wearing of face masks, in the bottles of …
Perform unit tests using GoogleTest and CTest: This article is a follow-up to my last article Set up a build system with CMake and VSCodium. read more: Opensource.com hANSIc99 Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Sailing in Africa ?
Solve Wordle using the Linux command line: I’ve recently become a little obsessed with an online word puzzle game in which you have six attempts to guess a random five-letter word. The word changes every day, and you can only play once per day. After each guess, each of the letters in your guess is …
10 DIY IoT projects to try using open source tools: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a fascinating development in the realm of computing. Connected smart devices, home automation, and related areas of development are producing many interesting projects. Opensource.com’s writers shared their expertise about a variety of Internet of Things projects many times during …
Deploy Mycroft AI voice assistant on Raspberry Pi using Ansible: Mycroft AI is a virtual assistant application that can respond to verbal requests and complete tasks such as searching the Internet for some information you need, or downloading your favorite podcast, and so on. It’s a fine piece of open source software that, unlike similar …
Asylum seekers are not using Christian conversions to ‘game’ the immigration system: Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock In November, Emad al Swealmeen triggered a bomb outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital. When it became known that Al Swealmeen was an asylum seeker who had converted to Christianity, it was reported that the Home Office had accused churches of …
Collaborate on a file using Linux diff and patch: I edit a lot of text files. Sometimes it’s code. Other times it’s the written word for role-playing games (RPGs), programming books, or general correspondence. Sometimes it’s nice to make a change, but for my collaborator to compare my change with what they originally had written. …
The people most at risk of HIV in Kenya aren’t using preventive drugs: we asked why: GettyImages Brent Stirton/Getty Images for the GBC There has been a gradual decline of new HIV cases overall in Kenya – from a high of 230,000 new infections in 1992 to 33,000 in 2020. But there are particular population …
Dynamic scheduling of Tekton workloads using Triggers: Tekton is a Kubernetes-native continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) framework. It allows you to create containerized, composable, and configurable workloads declaratively through Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD). read more: Opensource.com Savita Ashture Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Diving with Sharks?
Linux tips for using cron to schedule tasks: Making things happen on a regular and predictable schedule is important on computers. It’s important because, as humans, we can sometimes be bad at remembering to do things reliably because we get distracted, have too much on our minds, or we’re on holiday. Computers are really good …