Mailvelope [https://www.mailvelope.com/] is an extension on web browsers to send end to end encrypted emails. This is a good option available to the users to send end to end encrypted without changing the email service they use. It is licensed under AGPL v3 [https://www.gnu.org/…
PyLadies India embarked its journey 20th June 2020 marked a new beginning for PyLadies in India. We had our first meetup. I started my journey with PyLadies in 2016 as an organizer of PyLadies Pune [http://anweshadas.in/coming-out-of-hibernation-pyladies-pune-chapter/]. It began with a personal itch of the lawyer who wanted…
When I was doing a licensing survey in the Fedora ecosystem. I asked a few developers, "What is license according to them?" I got some interesting answers: "I do not care about the license; it bores me." - a super senior developer says this. (not a…
We, PyLadies, have started our journey for quite a sometime now. Every year since 2016, we are growing in numbers and chapters. Currently, we have eight active chapters and counting. The COVID pandemic has somehow stopped our course of having physical meetups. But on a brighter note, the situation has…
SELinux Security Enhanced Linux, SELinux is the discretionary access control in the Linux distribution. This extra layer of security keeps the user's data safe in the system. SELinux context contains additional information, labels attached to each process, and files to determine the SELinux policy. The extra details about…
The Gnome Foundation settled the dispute with Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPIL), RPIL agrees not to sue Gnome further for any intellectual property infringement. RPIL also signed to an undertaking to that effect. In the last week of September 2019, Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPIL) filed a lawsuit against the Gnome Foundation.…
Lately I have been trying to improve my system administration skills. I needed to monitor some of the running processes. To do that I used psutil [https://psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/] module in Python. It is a cross platform module to parse the information about running process. It also…
Today I woke up to great news. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICAAN, has rejected the .org sale proposal [https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21241946/icann-dot-org-isoc-ethos-capital-sale-rejected] . What is ICAAN? ICAAN [https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/ICANN-Internet-Corporation-for-Assigned-Names-and-Numbers] is a non-profit and American multi-stakeholder organisation. It is…