[$] Pyodide: Python for the browser
Python in the browser has long been an item on the wish
list of many in the Python community. At this point, though, JavaScript has
well-cemented its role as the language embedded into the web and its browsers.
The Pyodide project provides a way to run Python in the browser by compiling the
existing CPython interpreter to WebAssembly and running that binary within the
browser's JavaScript environment. Pyodide came about as part of Mozilla's
Iodide project, which has fallen by the wayside, but Pyodide is now being spun
out as a community-driven project.
Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker (Vice)
Vice takes a look at the SleepyHead system for the
management of CPAP machines.
The free, open-source, and definitely
not FDA-approved piece of software is the product of thousands of hours
of hacking and development by a lone Australian developer named Mark Watkins,
who has helped thousands of sleep apnea patients take back control of
their treatment from overburdened and underinvested doctors. The software
gives patients access to the sleep data that is already being generated
by their CPAP machines but generally remains inaccessible, hidden by
proprietary data formats that can only be read by authorized users
(doctors) on proprietary pieces of software that patients often can’t buy or
download.
Making eBPF work on Windows (Microsoft Open Source Blog)
The Microsoft Open Source Blog takes a look at implementing
eBPF support in Windows. "Although support for eBPF was first implemented in the
Linux kernel, there has been increasing interest in allowing eBPF to be used on
other operating systems and also to extend user-mode services and daemons in
addition to just the kernel.
Today we are excited to announce a new
Microsoft open source project to make eBPF work on Windows 10 and Windows Server
2016 and later. The ebpf-for-windows project aims to allow developers to use
familiar eBPF toolchains and application programming interfaces (APIs) on top of
existing versions of Windows. Building on the work of others, this project takes
several existing eBPF open source projects and adds the “glue” to make them run
on Windows."
Announcing coreboot 4.14
The coreboot firmware project has released version 4.14.
"These changes have been all over the place, so that there's no particular area
to focus on when describing this release: We had improvements to mainboards, to
chipsets (including much welcomed work to open source implementations of what
has been blobs before), to the overall architecture."
Two stable kernels
Stable kernels 5.10.36 and 5.4.118 have been released. They
both contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users should upgrade.
