Till Kamppeter

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Leader of the #OpenPrinting project since it was founded in 2001, introduced the CUPS printing system in Mandrake Linux in 2000 working at MandrakeSoft and with this and a lot of evangelism (booths, talks, tutorials) made the other distros also switch to CUPS, since 2006 printing maintainer at Canonical, co-organizing annual meetings with the Printer Working Group (PWG), since 2008 every year mentoring in Google Summer of Code, doing everything to make printing on Linux and similar "just work".

OpenPrinting News - Opportunity Open Source 3.0 - We are looking for sponsors

No conference without solid support - Wide range of sponsorship packages available

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0-We-are-looking-for-sponsors/

#OpportunityOpenSource #OpenPrinting

OpenPrinting News - Opportunity Open Source 3.0 - We are looking for sponsors

No conference without solid support - Wide range of sponsorship packages available

OpenPrinting

To make the Opportunity Open Source 3.0 in the IIT Kanpur, India, on Sep 5-7 not only a great event but an amazing one we need sponsors.

And to make sponsorship easier, we have a variety of sponsorship packages now.

Have a look and help us, and get more visible on our conference:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0-We-are-looking-for-sponsors/

And if you do not want to sponsor our event but at least help us, just boost this message ...

#OpportunityOpenSource

OpenPrinting News - Opportunity Open Source 3.0 - We are looking for sponsors

No conference without solid support - Wide range of sponsorship packages available

OpenPrinting

How I Became the First Linux User in India

https://medium.com/@vishalmisra/how-i-became-the-first-linux-user-in-india-b86be9d2a6c5

Written by Vishal Misra

RKS Family Professor of CS @Columbia, Vice Dean Computing and AI, Dean Data analytics/Minority owner at San Francisco Unicorns

How I Became the First Linux User in India - Vishal Misra - Medium

It was 1992, and I had just finished my undergrad at IIT Bombay. I was working as a research assistant in the SPANN (Signal Processing and Artificial Neural Networks) lab under Prof. UB Desai in the…

Medium

OpenPrinting News - Opportunity Open Source 3.0 - No deadline any more for Call for Proposals

We accept proposals up to the conference dates, but we already start accepting and scheduling

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0-No-deadline-for-Call-for-Proposals/

#OpportunityOpenSource #OpenPrinting

OpenPrinting News - Opportunity Open Source 3.0 - No deadline any more for Call for Proposals

We accept proposals up to the conference dates, but we already start accepting and scheduling

OpenPrinting
@sjvn But the real reason to move to Linux is the 2025 one, where you move the files which you do not want any more into the (public) cloud ...
@sjvn I like most the one of 2000, with the Windows logo of that time thrown away ...
Evolution of the Windows trash icon.

Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?

There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

(Not UK? Please spread the word!)

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We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

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@bagder Thanks for your post & your counter 😆

I'm curious: you characterize the EU #CRA as requiring #SBOM's *specifically*. I know the License Compliance Industrial Complex wants it to be true, but I researched this issue for my #FOSDEM 2025 talk…
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6155-is-there-really-an-sbom-mandate-/
… & IIUC CRA *doesn't* specify SBOMs specifically.
IMO, if the vendor gives the customer complete, Corresponding Source & a 100% @reproducible_builds they've complied with CRA. No one has shown me anything that disproves that.

FOSDEM 2025 - Is There Really an SBOM Mandate?

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Request

With the new EU legislation Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA), there are new responsibilities and requirements put on manufacturers of digital products and services in Europe. Going forward these manufacturers must be able to know and report the exact contents of their software, called a Software Bill of Material (SBOM) and they have requirements to check … Continue reading Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Request →

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Oh no 🔥
Dot matrix printer being dot matrix printer
@nina_kali_nina  I weirdly enjoy the sound of dot matrix printers.
@nina_kali_nina
IBM 1403 Chain Printer (cover lifted)
https://youtu.be/FiEGoVzmyvs
IBM 1403 Printer

YouTube

@nina_kali_nina

My first one (not mine, but I recognize the sound):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkYy1U3iKKU

NEC PinWriter P2200 - Awesome Face

YouTube
@nina_kali_nina my new ringtone, thank you

@nina_kali_nina
Neat effect! You do FFT and map the frequency to the radius of the circle?

Also, I have nightmares about getting my junkpile-find dot matrix Epson to print legibly enough to turn in a school report the next morning...

@jannem I just print the line numbers to the existing page 
@nina_kali_nina That’s a lot faster and smoother (and maybe a little quieter) than my ImageWriter II. :D

@nina_kali_nina Sounds like a pretty fast one, assuming that printing the ASCII art you just posted above. Mine was more like 1s to print a full line in both directions. 😅

I wasn't paying for supplies back then but I presume ribbon ink wasn't a rip-off, unlike today's inkjets 🙃

@dermoth this one has multiple quality settings, and it's roughly as fast as a slow inkjet on the lowest quality
@nina_kali_nina Is that an Epson LX-400?
@jernej__s Correct. I was bored and Epson was the topmost box in the storage/lab room
@nina_kali_nina That was the first printer we had at home, around '91 or '92.
@jernej__s it is a very nice printer, almost never jams
@nina_kali_nina N.O.T. (Nyah Over Teletext)
@nina_kali_nina omg that’s still in there?! Or is this an ancient kernel?
@greatquux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
@greatquux for the record, it could have been on fire for reals
@nina_kali_nina @greatquux Either way I like thinking of all the developers over the years who made the choice not to remove that error message
@nina_kali_nina These logs are important for insurance purposes.