Just for Fun!

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This project is about fixing this known Jangouts issue that is reported over and over, since many user experiencing problem with the outgoing WebRTC traffic or with camera authorization can "lurk" what happens in the room without being noticed.

This was planned for previous hackweek (hw16-1)

ESP8266 Tinkering

Websh is:

Build a paper folding machine capable of folding Skill Shot.

Create a site where users can post their desired epitaph

It looks like OTR will never be implemented for Empathy. But two years after Snowden end-to-end encryption is really a basic requirement for every secure chat program. A few weeks ago I read about a promising protocol called OMEMO which seems to overcome all shortcomings of OTR and GnuPG with respect to instant messaging.

make crowbar+openstack work on openSUSE Leap 42.2

Since eBPF was introduced into linux kernel, the eBPF verifier keeps the eBPF programs from any wrong-doing. I would like to look into the verifier and see if it's possible to extend the check to avoid reading any sensitive data in the memory.

Python offers some useful libraries for this topic, I already know numpy and openCV, I want to try for example scikit-image.

It seems that systemd-nspawn, together with machinectl can use qcow2 images directly.

There is a long-standing problem that mirrorbrain on download.opensuse.org does not do reasonable redirection when a user comes by with an ipv6 address...

Ever left a restaurant wanting to write a review, but thinking it wasn't worth the trouble to tap out all those words on your phone -- you just want to give the place your n stars and provide a few words of praise or condemnation? If only you could press a button to generate a plausible review. If this project happens, you will.

I want to get started with developing apps for phones and tablets. It is a very general idea, rather open ended.

This is more like a learning project for me as a new hire, so please do not expect too much, :-)

Lay out a mock version of an existing SUSE R&D process in JIRA. The process should have a reasonable amount of complexity, like

In ubuntu, you can install grub-ipxe, which adds an ipxe entry to the grub menu. This allows you to easily pxe boot on machines that may not natively support it. You can also use it along with grub2-reboot to remotely re-image a machine. The project has been started here: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:blarson:grub-ipxe

Create a JUnit test suite for Firefox browser and integrate the tests into SLEnkins.