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I’ve been writing a lot of documentation recently — including almost all of <DE Linux&#8217;s docs, as well as the KDE human interface guidelines. And I’m at Akademy 2026 right now where the cat is out of the bag — one of KDE&#8217;s three latest goals is about <ocumentation! Thiago, Joseph, and…

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 330. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Don't Build-Depend on apksigcopier as it has been removed from testing. (Closes: #1146852) You find out more by visiting the project homepage.

The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Miri stores all environment variables to target/, allowing secrets to persist in caches. While not necessary a vulnerability in and of itself, when paired with GitHub Actions caching behavior, it is possible for this to expose secrets to…

SRFI 285 is now in draft status. This SRFI details an API for storing and manipluating dates and times. This SRFI decomposes dates and times into dates (a count of days in the proleptic Gregorian calendar), clock times (time of day, independent of time zone), moments (instants in TAI),…

In 2016, I removed Google Analytics from this blog to avoid being complicit in feeding the biggest machine for harvesting personal data. Instead, I relied on GoAccess to analyze my server logs.1 For the past couple of years, the statistics have made no sense, despite my attempts to filter bots: AI…

 Lots of posts in the debian-user mailing list complaining about updates with Debian 11.11 suddenly failing.See Debian 11 Long Term Support reaches end-of-lifeAugust 31st, 2026 The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 11 bullseye support has reached its end-of-life…

I have just released version 1.8.4 of libccid the Free Software CCID class smart card reader driver. Changes: 1.8.4 - 20 September 2026, Ludovic Rousseau Add support of THALES PKI Transaction Pad fix some minor issues found by an AI tool Some other minor improvements

This book, by The Times' former Architecture Correspondent, stands in direct opposition to A City on Mars. Whereas that book presented a (perhaps too) sceptical look at the realities of living on other planets, Jonathan Morrison's book goes (perhaps too far) in the opposite direction. How to…

The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for August. Activity summary During the month of August, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 58 DLAs…

Bombarded by the deception and lies of the AI industry I chose to sample boy Amodei for the ironic outrage about Chinese companies stealing their dataset. Thus the tune title. Usually I barely manage to finish up my weekly beats track on a Sunday night. This week I've somehow had some extra time…

Prezado leitor, O intuito do post de hoje é que você aprenda como integrar o GeoServer a um servidor LDAP, autenticar usuários, transformar grupos LDAP em roles e preparar essas roles para utilização nas regras de segurança do GeoServer. O laboratório utiliza GeoServer 3, OpenLDAP e Docker…

Pleased by the somewhat quirky conference venue, good to meet lots of old friends & catch up with them; to hand out large numbers of beavers, and to hear various interesting updates on what is going on in Nextcloud the software. Gave a very compressed Lighting Talk for five minutes on what…

I have just released a new version of pcsc-lite 2.5.2. pcsc-lite is a Free Software implementation of the PC/SC (also known as WinSCard) API for Unix systems. It provides an API for using smart cards and smart card readers. Changes: 2.5.2: Ludovic Rousseau 19 September 2026 hotplug_libudev: rescan…

Introduction After bazel-bootstrap 7.7.1 was landed into Debian unstable, I'm working on packaging newer Mozc (Most famous Japanese input method editor) with Bazel. Here is the blog entry initial efforts to build Mozc with Bazel at that time. kenhys.hatenablog.jp Then, I've shared implementing…

OK, it’s been a while since I blogged about community data analytics… I thought I’d do more posts on the matter but somehow never managed to get back to it. Now it’s a bit more than 6 years since my last post on the topic! Worry not though I didn’t loose touch. Indeed I still hone this skill…

--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, Plasma folks shifted to bug-fixing and polishing work for Plasma 6.8. As of the time of writing, there are only four open regression reports for Plasma 6.8, which means either the release is already amazing, or people aren’t…

SRFI 284 is now in draft status.This SRFI defines the forms define-typed and define-typed* for creating procedures with checked type boundaries. It allows checking the arguments and/or the return value or values with simple predicate procedures and raises exceptions on usage when they don’t match.…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 11 to September 18. This week we released GNOME 51! This new major release of GNOME is full of exciting changes, including visual signatures in Papers, Maps offline usage, Files refinements, Calendar usability improvements,…

For a while now, my preferred way of installing QGIS has been from conda-forge. However, while we’re waiting for QGIS 4 to become available on conda-forge, there are alternatives: Option 1: Flatpak In the Software Manager, you can find QGIS from Flathub in two different versions: stable and…

On the Mappery site we have almost 2,400 posts on WordPress and we had never used the Category feature to sort them when we were adding posts. When we built the new Mappery Map Plugin for WordPress we included the option to only map posts in a specific category which we thought would be useful to…

As a graduate of a liberal arts university, I wound up, unsurprisingly, taking a lot of classes in every possible academic discipline. Thinking back to the person that I was going into university, I don’t think I would have chosen to take them – after all, my degree was in the sciences; I’d have…

The Flywheel theatre company are reviving the rep tradition by having five actors perform five different plays in five weeks. Their interpretation of Molière's classic is gaudy and hilarious. Even the lighting cues are funny! It is fair to say that School for Wives isn't exactly an uncontroversial…

Firefox DevTools MCP (firefox-devtools-mcp) 0.10.3 is out on npm. New features: New tool: close_firefox_session — ends the browser session: it releases the connection when the server is attached to an existing Firefox, and closes the browser when the server started it.<New parameter: fullPage for…

It is said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, a quote often attributed to the American philosopher George Santayana. And to remember the past, records must be maintained and kept accessible to learn from. With this in mind, it is no wonder that archivists worldwide…

I like to run my Linux as an operating system, so I usually resort to toolbox for packages and development. However flatpak-builder is distributed as a flatpak itself, so here's how you can go about building flatpaks yourself for when GNOME Nighlies are not enough. On GNOME OS, some developer tools…