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BTCPay Server Is Bitcoin’s Open-Source Unicorn

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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At the beginning of December 2019, Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase and a co-founder of Coin Center, listed Bitcoin as the most successful unicorn of the 2010s. Bitcoin is not a company — as many snarky commentators were quick to point out. But they’re missing the point, Srinivasan protested. Speaking from an investment standpoint, “nothing else founded in the same timeframe held at $100B for a longer time” than bitcoin, he tweeted, not to mention that the return on investment for bitcoin far exceeds the tech unicorns that Srinivasan said it eclipsed.

Viewed as an open-source unicorn, Bitcoin is ultimately a portent of a trend to come, Srinivasan argued: that protocols will compete with companies in the not-so-distant future.

[Source: Nasdaq]

Where’s our data, Google? Chrome 79 update ‘a catastrophe’ for Android devs with WebView apps

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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A change to the location of profile data in Chrome 79 on Android, the new version rolling out now, means that applications using the WebView component lose data stored locally. “This is a catastrophe; our users’ data are being deleted as they receive the update,” complained one developer.

Google said it has halted the rollout, which is estimated at 50 per cent of devices. The problem appears to stem from a change to the location of profile data in Chromium, the open source project on which Google Chrome is based.

[Source: The Register]

Benchmarking 11 Linux Distributions On The Intel Core i9 10980XE

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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If opting for a high-end desktop/workstation like the Intel Core i9 10980XE and even for smaller systems, your choice of Linux distribution can be a big factor in the performance potential out of the system. In benchmarking eleven modern Linux distributions across dozens of benchmarks, the performance difference can be more than 30% for the out-of-the-box Linux performance. Benchmarked this round on the i9-10980XE were multiple versions of CentOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora Workstation, Manjaro, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Solus, and Ubuntu.

[Source: Phoronix]

Several Linux Browsers Blocked from Accessing Google Services

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Google blocking Microsoft Edge from accessing its services is something that happened on several occasions in the last few years, but now it turns out that the search giant has turned the attention to a series of less high-profile Linux browsers as well. Users are reporting on reddit that a number of Linux browsers can no longer be used to log in to Google services, such as Gmail and Google Docs, with the error page indicating that the apps may no longer be supported.

[Source: Softpedia]

Israeli Startup Offers ‘Monetization Switch’ For Open Source

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Open source software is free, or, more accurately, Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) is free of charge. In the real world, open source software projects when applied and deployed in commercial (sometimes mission-critical) use cases will often be supplied as the ‘licensed’ version of the original software innovation, which comes at a cost. Although many commercial use cases do deploy open source licensed software at zero cost, in these cases, it is not uncommon for commercial support contracts to be taken out. An Israel-based start-up is hoping to change the way some projects are run by offering a kind of changeable licensing switch system for open developers to use.

[Source: Forbes]

Google rolls out Verified SMS and Spam Protection in Android

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Google announced today two updates for Messages, the default SMS app in the Android mobile operating system. Starting today, Android users in the US and selected countries will get access to two new features named Verified SMS and Spam Protection. As the name of the first feature hints, Verified SMS works by confirming the identity of the SMS sender.

The second Messages app feature announced today is named Spam Protection. This feature works by showing a notification bar at the top of the Messages app when the app believes a newly-received message contains the markers of a classic SMS spam text.

[Source: ZDNet]

Why a popular open source library became closed source and commercially licensed

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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In May this year, users of popular open source project FUSE for macOS noticed the source code for the latest update was missing. The project had become closed source and was no longer free for commercial use. But as The Reg discovered when we had a talk with its maintainer, there was a very good reason for that – and it’s not a good look for the many companies that used it.

FUSE stands for File System in Userspace and lets developers create a custom filesystem without writing code for the kernel. FUSE has a long history. It was created for Linux and ported to other Unix-like operating systems including FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. In 2007, Google released a port for Mac OS X as open source. In 2011 this was forked to become osxfuse, later renamed FUSE for macOS.

[Source: The Register]

How to use the Linux uniq command

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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In Linux, the uniq command can help find out the individual users who are logged into a given server, but it’s not a straightforward process. mYes, using the command on its own yields a list of who’s logged in, but it can list individual users more than once depending on what they’re doing.

There are ways to get around this by sorting the results of uniq so they deliver only once the names of all the users. This 2-Minute Linux Tip video by Network World’s Unix as a Second Language blogger Sandra Henry Stocker shows how to do just that.

[Source: ITWorld]

Eclipse Foundation forms working group for open source edge computing tech

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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The Eclipse Foundation today announced the formation of the Edge Native Working Group, which will drive the adoption of open source software for edge computing. Founding members include Adlink, Bosch, Edgeworx, Eurotech, Kynetics, Huawei, Intel, and Siemens. The working group plans to focus on creating an end-to-end software stack that will support deployments of today’s most transformative technologies, including the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence, and autonomous vehicles.

[Source: VentureBeat]

OpenJS Foundation Welcomes Electron As Its New Incubating Project

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Swapnil Bhartiya
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Open source web framework Electron is now part of the OpenJS Foundation‘s incubation program. The Foundation announced the development at Node+JS Interactive in Montreal on Wednesday.

Electron, the open source framework created for building desktop apps using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, is based on Node.js and Chromium. Additionally, it is widely used on many applications including Discord, Microsoft Teams, OpenFin, Skype, Slack, Trello, Visual Studio Code, and many more.

[Source: TFiR]

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