News from the Planet

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/torchgeo-organization-ibm-research/ The TorchGeo Organization and IBM Research are joining forces! The TerraTorch and TerraKit libraries have joined the TorchGeo Organization! https://github.com/torchgeo is now home to 3 of the most influential and widely used…

The Alpine Linux account on fosstodon.org reports that all systems hosted at Linode, including its GitLab instance, "are suspended at the moment due to some billing issue". They are working to get it resolved, but in the meantime all of their services appear to be down. Update: Alpine Linux's…

Reviewing, auditing, or sanity-checking code usually means running separate linters, reading through checklists, and manually verifying Qt-specific patterns across dozens of files. The Qt code review skills help developers to automate part of this code review phase. Developers avoid a laborious…

For a number of years, users submitting bugs reports against GNOME packages in Fedora have received an auto-reply saying that the reports were not actively monitored; users were encouraged to file bugs with GNOME upstream instead. However, that practice seems to be in conflict with the Fedora…

Version 5.0.0 of the NetHack dungeon-exploration game, a distant relative of Rogue and Hack, has been released. NetHack's code is now compliant with the C99 standard, and the release includes more than 3,100 bug fixes and changes, detailed in doc/fixes5-0-0.txt (may contain game spoilers). Saved…

Guix will be featured at the annual conference of the French Reproducible Research Network, 19–21 May 2026, Bordeaux, France.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, libcap, libtiff, sudo, and thunderbird), Debian (dovecot, imagemagick, incus, kernel, libexif, linux-6.1, openjdk-25, pyasn1, python-aiohttp, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, firefox, GitPython, glibc, insight, krb5, nano, nss, openssh,…

Thank you to the KDE community and Jean-Baptiste for selecting my proposal. Congratulations to all other accepted contributors! I'll be working on improving the effect widget system in Kdenlive this summer. As someone who uses Kdenlive daily for my own videos, these are problems I've personally hit,…

For a long time, developers of Qt-based C++ applications have only had one option for embedding web content: Qt WebEngine. And while it offers a large API with many useful features, the module has its downsides, since it can consume a lot of system resources and increase binary size. For QML users,…

A feature on modern PCIe implementations is “Resizable BAR” AKA “REBAR”. This basically means that instead of allocating 256MB of address space for a PCIe device to have it’s memory mapped the device can ask for more, the limit can be 4G with some hardware or the combination of motherboard and…

I have just learned of the Copy Fail kernel vulnerability [1] thanks to alexanderkjall@mastodon.social (who I have just followed on Mastodon and I recommend that you follow too). The question for me (after installing the patched kernel the systems of mine that are most exposed) is whether SE Linux…

The second 7.1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "It's not small, and while it's a bit early to say for sure, I do suspect we're seeing the same continued pattern of more patches than usual - probably due to AI tooling - that we saw in 7.0."

Review: Full Speed to a Crash Landing, by Beth Revis Series: Chaotic Orbits #1 Publisher: DAW Copyright: August 2024 ISBN: 0-7564-1947-6 Format: Kindle Pages: 153 Full Speed to a Crash Landing is a science…

A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I missed about Tailwind was the colour palette (here as CSS). If I wanted a light blue I could just use blue-100 and if I didn’t like it maybe try blue-200 or blue-50. I’m not very…

Screenshot This is Drawy, KDE’s first infinite whiteboard app written entirely in C++ and Qt. It is inspired by the popular web-based Excalidraw. Its main focus is simplicity, ease of use, and performance. You get all the usual essential features, such as drawing tablet and touchscreen support,…

I have 30 years of documented history on the web and in my personal recordings. That defines very well who I am, what I do, how I see the world, and how people see me. I worked on that. Sometimes consciously, sometimes as a side effect of my job, my side projects, my community work. Now that AI…

USB-C is excellent, provided you don’t look too closely. I’ve been seeing a drum beat of interest in the internals of USB-C. Darryl Morley’s macOS WhatCable, Chromebooks exposing lots of lovely info about emarkers, USB cable testers and a bit more. Very infrastructure club topics. So I made a small…

You've probably seen links to "The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess" already. I've just finished the last installment. This is an excellent series of posts with many references. If we meet to talk about the industry, I'm almost certainly going to ask if you've read it. This is bullshit about…

This is part 3 in my series about email management, with the prior one being about using email client apps. This one is about trying to use email filtering to handle email overload. You’re getting too much email It’s a flood — no, a deluge! Hundreds of messages a day. Overwhelming.…

So I am using Debian on a System76 Arm64 (aarch64) workstation since 9 months, and I can say: everything works. It should be noted that I use very few proprietary software, so I rely mostly on Debian packages for what I am doing. What I can say is basically all open source software which exists…

testrepository For a long time I’ve used Robert Collins’ testrepository (testr) to run tests in many of the projects I work on. It’s a small, focused tool built around a simple idea: decouple the running of tests from the recording and querying of their results. The way it works is straightforward.…

KDE's Mega Sprint 2026 in Graz brought a group of about 20 KDE contributors together in early April, to discuss technical challenges, make decisions, and get stuff done. With travel support from KDE e.V. (thanks to your donations), I was able to join the group there. Other blogs have reported on…

Due to health reasons I did not have the energy to write individual status updates for February & March, so I’ll just combine them with the April update: In February I cleaned out my GitHub account and moved all remaining projects to Codeberg. I archived the repositories on GitHub and added links to…

I want to highlight a few changes that came to Dolphin 26.04 and add some nuance to the release announcement. The the KDE Gear 26.04 release announcement mentions: In version 26.04, Dolphin lets you add keyboard shortcuts to nearly any option in any menu, plugin or extension. This refers to this…

Firstly, thank you to the entire community and mentors for selecting my proposal for GSOC. Congratulations to all others 🎉 Goals for GSOCStarting with the goals for ManakalaNextGen, the GUI of Mankala Engine, the main goal is to implement a tournament system for the game. I plan to start with…