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Video | 3 years ago

"Add depth! Stereoscopic imagery for everyone" - Florian Haas (LCA 2022 Online)

Video | 4 years ago

(Florian Haas) Stereoscopic imagery (photography and videography) is a fascinating way to create 3-dimensional images of landscapes, unmoving and moving objects, and of course, people. In this talk, I cover the basics of stereoscopic imagery and projection,...

Becoming a tyrant: Implementing secure boot in embedded devices

Guide | 4 years ago

(Irving Tjiptowarsono) In 2007, the FSF published version 3 of the GNU General Public License. One of its goal is to prevent Tivoization - the practice of preventing software modifications in a system by means of hardware restrictions, such as secure boot. ...

"The seL4 Foundation – growing through upheaval" - Gernot Heiser (LCA 2022 Online)

Review | 4 years ago

(Gernot Heiser) The seL4 microkernel is the world's first operating system (OS) kernel with a machine-checked proof of implementation correctness (originally completed in 2009 for 32-bit Arm processors). This was followed by more wold-firsts: proofs of secu...

"Conference Close" - Miles Goodhew (LCA 2022 Online)

Video | 4 years ago

(Miles Goodhew) The end of linux.conf.au 2022. https://lca2022.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/82/ Videos licensed as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Op...

"Confessions of a Crypto Miner" - Tishampati Dhar (LCA 2022 Online)

Video | 4 years ago

(Tishampati Dhar) This presentation covers the personal journey of an individual in mining and contributing to the Bitcoin open-source community. It was a sunny morning in 2011 when I first became aware of the existence of Bitcoin. I was strolling down Sala...

"Automation for Debian Packaging" - Jelmer Vernooij (LCA 2022 Online)

Video | 4 years ago

(Jelmer Vernooij) The Debian Janitor is a project to automate the making of certain changes to Debian packages. The aim is to automate operations that can be taken care of by software, and leave tasks that can't be to developers. The project started sending...

"Compact C Type Format in the GNU Toolchain" - Indu Bhagat, Nick Alcock (LCA 2022 Online)

Review | 4 years ago

(Indu Bhagat, Nick Alcock) CTF (Compact C Type Format) is a debugging format whose main (but not only) purpose is to convey type information of C program constructs. We have added support for CTF to the GNU Toolchain - CTF is now fully supported in GCC, lin...

"Open Source/Hardware has changed Retro Computing" - Randall Crook (LCA 2022 Online)

Video | 4 years ago

(Randall Crook) How Open Source and Open Hardware have impacted the Retro Computing Community. From a project to replace a scarce CPU to the Firmware that has launched a dozen 8 Bit home brew computers while resurrecting an Operating System from the 70's Ex...

"Boldly Going, Running Linux in Space" - Sam Bishop (LCA 2022 Online)

Video | 4 years ago

(Sam Bishop) Linux is everywhere, even in space... but space is a harsh environment with many challenges. Radiation disrupting electronics, wild temperature swings damaging circuit boards, no communications for hours, days, or even weeks at a time. How do y...

"GStreamer and ROS a tale of two messaging frameworks" - Brett Downing (LCA 2022 Online)

Video | 4 years ago

(Brett Downing) Complex systems are easier to manage when they're made of simpler modules. Gstreamer and ROS are both message-oriented software frameworks for high-performance (soft)real-time systems GStreamer lets you plug modules together to make multi-me...

Some tentative first steps towards a Star Trek universal communicator

Video | 4 years ago

(Greg Baker) We urgently need computerised translation software for the rest of the world's languages. We will probably lose around 90% of the world's languages in the next 80 years. If you want to build a translator that can translate all the world's langu...