As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database
Posted to the register, so just linking here. It may be of interest to lug members and the wider community.
Author Archives: Paul Sutton
Mission Libre
Mission Libre
Mission:Libre is a new, independent project for teens all over the world who love free software. We aim to help teens learn about software freedom and develop the skills they’ll need as they become tomorrow’s contributors and activists. Mission:Libre will help spread the word about free software.
<a href=”https://missionlibre.org/”>Mission Libre</a>
Early days with this yet, but the idea is ambitious and innovative. Hopefully this will be successful.
There are lots of projects, resources and tutorials out there and any inititive to help bring people together under a common cause is always welcome.
Lets see what happens and if there will hhe a few people from the South west getting involved with this.
Gopher 2
Gopher 2
I have set up an account at vern.cc, as they host gopher as well as other services such gemini and you can also host your own html pages.
As part of the sign-up process you need to provide a public key, this is generated as part of a public / private key pair, generated by ssh-keygen.
Once you are set up, they will let you know and you can log in. If you set up a local **gophermap** you can upload this and get started.
One important note is that gopher uses tabs not spaces, so it is important to configure your text editor so that it treats a tab as a tab, not as spaces, or you get problems with links and content on your gopher site. How you do this depends, of course, on the editor you are using.
Once set up you can host text, upload files and link to them so they can be downloaded, and have your own little space. You can also link to other gopher users. See links list to one of the tutorials I used.
If new to gopher you may want to read up first, I would also suggest hangout on the vern matrix channel so you can ask for help. I am on here, as well as the DCLUG matrix channel.
While gopher may be old and retro, it can be a good project or distraction and still fun to play around with. It also has the advantage of no cookies, no tracking, advertising or other bloat you get with modern websites.
Have fun
Paul
Assembler programming
Assembler programming
Added to here from my blog,
I am gathering some resources here on programming using ARM processors. Also provided some resource links for x86 based architecture too.
ARM
- arm-64-bit – RaspberryPi
- Arm assembler on the R-Pi
- Arm programming by example
- Arm assembler on the Pi Pico
- 32 bit arm core
- Other documentation on arm
RISC V
- RISC V guide
- RISC v getting started
- Wikipedia RISC V
- RISC V book
- Youtube video
- introduction-to-risc-v-and-risc-v-assembly-programming
- OS in 1000 lines
iA86
Other
Game development in Rust with Macroquad
Game development in Rust with Macroquad
This should be available by the time this post is published book on rust game programming/
European search index
European search index
We’re teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
The European search engines (and competitors) Ecosia 🇩🇪 and Qwant 🇫🇷 are joining forces to build their own European search index!
And the best part? It’ll be open and available to all of us!
This is great news for other small search engines, start-ups and the AI industry, as they’ll now have the chance to use this index instead of the ones offered by Microsoft and Google.
LF – Build Linux Device Drivers
This was posted to LinkedIn., but sharing here.
OpenFest
OpenFest
OpenFest is the annual open research event organised by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam universities.
This year’s OpenFest will take place online during 2nd-5th September 2025. The theme for 2025’s event is Open Research and Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (OR+EEDI)
Call for papers
Lug Meets – May 2025
MEETINGS
The group hold regular meetings
- 3rd Saturday (from 12) – Jitsi. Meet
- 4th Saturday, Plymouth social. 1200 onwards at the Moments Café
69A New George Street, Plymouth, GB PL1 1RJ
Wider Community
Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam – 1st Saturday of the month, Exeter Library
Torbay Tinkerers – 4th Saturday of the month at Paignton, 09:30 to 12:00ish, STEAM Café and Discovery Centre, 13 Torbay Road, Paignton. Please see the [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554348046709) for details.
Please ask on the mailing list for details on lug meets, so those who are attending can keep an eye out for you.
Gopher
I copied this over from my blog., This may be of interest to a wider audience here.
There are still some servers out there, some are new, and offer services such as HackerNews, Project Gutenberg and others. Thanks to Anthk @anthk@paquita.masto.host who has made a list of some of these Gopher servers
Does the web allow you to do this at 2.7 KBPS?
- Gutenberg gopher://gopher.icu/7/gutenberg
- Internet Archive gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/ia/
- Huge portal gopher://magical.fish
- News, blog and more gopher://1436.ninja
- Reddit gopher://gopherddit.com
- HN gopher://hngopher.com
- Google Maps (text) gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dir
- Podcasts: gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod
- Dictionary: gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dict Blogs:
- gopher://sdf.org
- Weather (finger):
- gopher://graph.no:79/0/London
There are still clients software out there, and yeah you can all this with good old plain text.
apt search gopher