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How much material is in two decades of Weekly editions? It's in the ballpark of 2,500 articles or approximately 5,600,000 words. It's an overview of a few thousand news announcements, more than 13,000 screenshots, over 6,500 stable open source operating system releases summarized, and more than 2,800 torrents seeded. We've published answers to over 470 questions from curious community members and over 80 Tips & Tricks articles. You could say we've been busy over the past 20 years!

At around 4:40pm GMT on December 30 (Friday), we learned about a malicious dependency package (torchtriton) that was uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) code repository with the same package name as the one we ship on the PyTorch nightly package index. Since the PyPI index takes precedence, this malicious package was being installed instead of the version from our official repository. This design enables somebody to register a package by the same name as one that exists in a third party index, and pip will install their version by default.

This malicious package has the same name torchtriton but added in code that uploads sensitive data from the machine.

So the week started so slow due to the holidays that I thought I might not have any reason to do an rc2 at all, but by the end of the week I did end up getting a smattering of pull requests, so here we are. It's tiny, even smaller than usual for an rc2, and honestly, I'd expect that trend to continue for rc3.

Vanilla OS is not an ordinary Linux distribution, it is a project that sets itself many goals and is not afraid to put itself out there, proudly displaying its unique technologies such as the Apx sub-system, its own automatic update system, and ABRoot transactions.

We have been working extremely hard since Android 13’s release last October to port our features to this new version of Android. Thanks to our hard work adapting to Google’s largely UI-based changes in Android 12, and Android 13’s dead-simple device bring-up requirements, we were able to rebase our changes onto Android 13 much more efficiently. This led to a lot of time to spend on cool new features such as our awesome new camera app, Aperture, which was written in large part by developers SebaUbuntu, LuK1337, and luca020400.

A lot has happened since the last OpenBSD KDE Status Report in 2021. Let’s split the report in four areas the good, the bad, the plasma and libinput.

and goes on to describe in some detail the work put in to update the KDE ecosystem on our favorite operating system.

You can read the whole thing by following either link.

After the video decode stuff was fairly nailed down, Lynne from ffmpeg nerdsniped^Wtalked me into looking at h264 encoding.

The AMD VCN encoder engine is a very different interface to the decode engine and required a lot of code porting from the radeon vaapi driver. Prior to Xmas I burned a few days on typing that all in, and yesterday I finished typing and moved to debugging the pile of trash I'd just typed in.

Lynne meanwhile had written the initial ffmpeg side implementation, and today we threw them at each other, and polished off a lot of sharp edges. We were rewarded with valid encoded frames.

The code at this point is only doing I-frame encoding, we will work on P/B frames when we get a chance.

There are also a bunch of hacks and workarounds for API/hw mismatches, that I need to consult with Vulkan spec and AMD teams about, but we have a good starting point to move forward from. I'll also be offline for a few days on holidays so I'm not sure it will get much further until mid January.

My branch is [1]. Lynne ffmpeg branch is [2].

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/airlied/mesa/-/commits/radv-vulkan-video-enc-wip

[2] https://github.com/cyanreg/FFmpeg/tree/vulkan_decode