Category: Free/Open-Source software
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GSoC 2014 projects for Pitivi: transformation, chroma keying, image sequences
Thanks to GNOME, we will be able to get some reinforcements for Pitivi this summer. We’re very pleased to have Lubosz Sarnecki making a comeback! In 2011 he implemented the cairo-based clip transformation (zoom/resize/crop) feature in the viewer. Lubosz is quite experienced with OpenGL, Blender and GStreamer, as you can see on his blog and…
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Pitivi 0.93 released
Last week, a flash snowstorm brought me around 2ft of snow overnight. I thought, “If I’m going to clear that much snow, might as well have some fun and make a timelapse out of it”, and so I did. While watching it, I realized, “Hmm… that’s an interesting metaphor for the huge amount of preparatory…
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Pitivi status update for Q1 2014, fundraiser launch
Since my previous technical update in January, I haven’t had time to touch Pitivi’s code. Thankfully though, Alexandru Băluț has been filling the gap with a ton of refactoring work: around 150 commits! That took a fair amount of time to review and merge, believe me. Besides code cleanup, he also finished the port of the…
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Praise for the Personal Desktop Computer
On my personal homepage, I maintain a timeline of personal computers I’ve owned or closely maintained. The ones I’ve been using as my personal workhorses are the ones in green:Looking back, I have to say I’m pretty appreciative of desktop computers, which represent the upper half of the timeline. They earn a lot of respect…
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Le chiffrement des partitions Linux d'un ordinateur de bureau est-il utile?
Pendant des années, j’ai eu un item sur ma liste de choses à faire: chiffrer (encrypter) le disque dur de données de mon ordinateur de bureau personnel. Parce que… que se passerait-il si je me faisais cambrioler? Bien qu’il soit facile de créer un volume chiffré avec Fedora (avec l’installateur initial ou avec GNOME Disks),…
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Unity and the post-Snowden world
I typically don’t listen to podcasts or watch talk shows, but the 29nd episode of the 2nd season of the Linux Action Show was referred to me and it does have a very interesting part where they discuss the usability and privacy issues around the latest iteration of Canonical’s “Unity” interface. The ten minutes where…
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Privacy does not exist — it never did
Warning: this is certainly a depressing post. The NSA/PRISM/big brother scandal of late didn’t surprise nor shock me. The discovery that “the NSA probably silently circumvents/broke all our crypto and hid backdoors everywhere” is not really a discovery to geeks who have given the whole system a bit of thought — spies are spying on us,…
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Fix it thrice
Some of you may be familiar with the good old “fix it twice” adage: fix the problem and then ensure it never happens again. Last year, when I made Pitivi’s automatic backup feature work, I requested someone to write extensive automated tests for it (with Dogtail), so that I could feel confident about this feature…
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Prague, Brno, London, GNOME + Pitivi
Guess where I am going? To the end of the world and back To that event “where nobody goes anymore”. I’m not entirely sure what’s in the air this year. I’m not talking about what’s been going on in the industry and the public perception of GNOME in various circles, that might not be the…
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The best of GNOME 3.8
I’m very happy with how GNOME 3.8 is running on my newly installed Fedora 19 machine: Finally, thanks to the new privacy settings, I don’t have to care about the trash anymore. Though that’s arguably a bit less noticeable now that hard drives are 2 terabytes – it’s very hard for me to fill that…