The 7.3-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "I don't think there's any real pattern to it other than 'big'. But nothing looks particularly alarming, I think that despite the diffstat it's just the same old, same old."
read more ➔There's an optical illusion known by names like the "lunar terminator paradox". This has much discussion and descriptions online, but none made sense in my head, so I wrote this program to figure out what was going on. The paradox: The moon is illuminated by the sun After sunset, the sun is…
read more ➔Tellico 4.3 is available, with some additional capabilities, improvements, and bug fixes. I’ve received several code contributions from new people in the last few months and I wanted to say thanks. Depending a little on how I count it, Tellico turns 25 years old next month. It’s always been a hobby;…
read more ➔Jordan Petridis evidently has strong opinions on the use of LLMs. He’s welcome to those. What’s not welcome is when it escalates into vigilantism and defacement of bug reports. Specifically for me, this bug where a tag “Probabilistically Automated” was added. That tag has a meaning of Usually…
read more ➔Recently Michael Tunnell interviewed Aleix and I on the subject of KDE’s 30th birthday, Wayland, LTS software, the new Union theming engine, and more! If you’re interested, you can check it out here. Note: if you work at Microsoft, please don’t watch and get any big ideas!
read more ➔Welcome to post 60 in the R4 series. bubblewrap is a great tool and very suitable for using with an agent harness. It is a very compelling—and lightweight—alternative to using a full-blown <acker container as it offers low-level unprivileged sandboxing on Linux hosts. In a nutshell, bubblewrap can…
read more ➔For a while now I've wanted a tool to help in a number of areas:
read more ➔Ahhh! PSB's RFS! A delightfully indulgent soundscape of melodic wonder, performed here on its 10th (ish) anniversary. Is it really nostalgia if an album is only a decade old? It feels like it has been in the air forever. For something which is seemingly made up of samples, it would have been easy…
read more ➔Last weekend I had the privilege of attending Akademy - the yearly gathering of the KDE community. Taking place in Graz, it was a special one, marking the 30th anniversary of the email that set the Kool Desktop Environment in motion. We got to see the trailer for a documentary that, come October…
read more ➔A library transition can affect many packages in Debian. I added a way for Salsa CI to rebuild the ones that depend on the changing library, so maintainers can test the transition before it reaches unstable. The need for this became clear during a proposed Poppler transition. Poppler is a…
read more ➔Review: Ode to the Half-Broken, by Suzanne Palmer Publisher: DAW Copyright: May 2026 ISBN: 0-7564-2013-X Format: Kindle Pages: 441 Ode to the Half-Broken is a standalone post-apocalyptic (sort of) science fiction novel. As…
read more ➔Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I bought ten years ago, that I hadn’t tried in a long time. I tried to recharge them, but after fully charging them, they only worked for maybe 5 minutes before they turned off…
read more ➔Today, I find myself migrating from Digital Ocean to Linode (now Akamai Cloud but I’m never gonna really call it that) because, among other things, Digital Ocean recently donated $3 million USD to Omarchy, a slop distro for fascists. Raising money for free and open source software development is…
read more ➔Version 18.1 of the GDB interactive debugger has been released. Changes include new commands to manipulate the environment of the subprocess, the ability to save the command history to a file, support for a couple of new targets, several Python API additions, and more. See the NEWS file for the…
read more ➔After a long week of working lots and making lots of connections, here is what happened this year during Akademy! Talk recap Ocean is divided into two areas, Ocean Graphical Assets and Ocean Design System. Ocean graphical assets refers to all currently-available theming elements that Plasma…
read more ➔Most modern operating systems (including iOS, Android, macOS, and ChromeOS) have been using image-based architectures for a while, and in recent years we’ve been making progress towards this on the desktop side as well. It’s a necessity if we want to provide the security, usability and reliability…
read more ➔"The problem with defending the purity of the HyperText Markup Language is that HTML is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. The standard doesn't just borrow concepts from better languages; on occasion, HTML has pursued other programming languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle…
read more ➔--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week about 200 KDE contributors and enthusiasts attended Akademy, but somehow people still found the time to be productive! Plasma contributors released the second beta of Plasma 6.8 and landed a bunch of user interface improvements and…
read more ➔Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-39. The Test Tags: tech, culture, business, politics Yes, the preposterous statements from the tech moguls have a use. They allow them to gauge how obedient you are. This is thus a political function and a way to check their power. Maybe it’s time we…
read more ➔Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 18 to September 25. Third Party Projects Titouan Real announces Era is a new calendar app for mobile and desktop that grows with your needs. It’s simple and calm for everyday use, while powerful features remain available…
read more ➔Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.21.0: bug 2068637 code review bot fails to apply patches when the parent is not known bug 2073291 moz-phab submit could load reviewers and review groups in parallel with revisions and diffs bug 2075401 “Phabricator Error: Validation errors” from moz-phab submit should…
read more ➔The Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) is investing nearly €1.3 million</n KDE through 2027. At Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria, Nate Graham and Kevin Ottens, two of the contributors who helped bring in the investment, explained how the funding was secured, provided tips on how projects should approach…
read more ➔I've been working on my homelab for years, and I enjoy sharing what I learn through this blog and my YouTube channel. Over the past few years, I realized the homelab community (which isn't really a defined thing—that's okay) hasn't had its own gathering, the way makers, software engineers,…
read more ➔Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.8 and 6.18.54 stable kernels. Each contains a number of important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
read more ➔Johannes Schindelin has posted a detailed summary of the discussions held at the 2026 Git Contributors' Summit. Topics covered include Git 3.0, security process, documentation, the pluggable object database, use of LLMs, and more.
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