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The #UbuntuHideout and Packt Publishing are conducting a giveaway of three copies of @kenvandine.bsky.social's book The Ultimate #Ubuntu Handbook: A complete guide to Ubuntu 24.04, from installation to advanced security and development !

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August 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Want to influence the direction of Grype? 🚀 Tell us how you use it and what improvements you'd like to see! Your feedback matters! Survey here: https://forms.gle/hvgpNeZadLfFhCf69
#Grype #Security #OpenSource
August 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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kenvandine.bsky.social
Last week, my new book (that's right... I'm a published author now!) The Ultimate Ubuntu Handbook a.co/d/cusPoi3 started shipping. I learned so much in the process, and I'm proud of the result. A big thanks to @popey.me for writing the foreword. @ubuntu-ls.bsky.social #Ubuntu #Linux
August 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
therealdwd.bsky.social
@kenvandine.bsky.social 's book is out today!

📔 The Ultimate #Ubuntu Handbook: A complete guide to Ubuntu 24.04, from installation to advanced security and development 📔

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#Linux
The Ultimate Ubuntu Handbook | Cloud & Networking | eBook
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August 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
therealdwd.bsky.social
I have performed a bit of maintenance on cert-checker over the last couple of days.

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#Snapcraft #cert-checker #Linux #Ubuntu
Software Releases
Information on software I have released
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July 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
therealdwd.bsky.social
#Linux #Printing #OpenPrinting #OpenSource #xkcd2347

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Till Kamppeter (@till@ubuntu.social)
Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed! As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fello...
ubuntu.social
July 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
therealdwd.bsky.social
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/29/google-could-steal-the-entire-internet/

>...“Large language models are just storage, and all they are doing is compressing knowledge,” he says. “The industry would have been murdered in its crypt if it had told the truth...

Interesting observations

#AI #LLM
July 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
therealdwd.bsky.social
My friend and her colleagues have authored a paper: Architectural Backdoors in Deep Learning: A Survey of Vulnerabilities, Detection, and Defense

It's not for the faint of heart:

arxiv.org/abs/2507.12919

#CyberSecurity #AISecurity #AI #Backdoor #Vulnerabilities #Defense #DeepLearning
Architectural Backdoors in Deep Learning: A Survey of Vulnerabilities, Detection, and Defense
Architectural backdoors pose an under-examined but critical threat to deep neural networks, embedding malicious logic directly into a model's computational graph. Unlike traditional data poisoning or ...
arxiv.org
July 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
therealdwd.bsky.social
*they're not typesetting tutorials*

#LaTeX
#Funny
#LifeOfATechnoNerd
Instead of tutorials on how to use the LaTeX typsetting language, google returned results of tins of a latex based primer sold by online shops,
June 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM