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Even well-designed applications can become difficult to understand when their main workflows involve multiple controls, pages, or unfamiliar interaction patterns. Expecting users to discover these features on their own may lead to frustration, abandoned tasks, and additional support requests.…

Daniel Stenberg has announced that curl will not be accepting vulnerability reports from July 1 through August 3, unless the submitter has a paid support contract. He is calling it the "curl summer of bliss". As previously mentioned, we have been under a huge pressure for the last four months or…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 9.0), Debian (apache2, chromium, jpeg-xl, librabbitmq, and openssl), Fedora (apptainer, bind9-next, chezmoi, chromium, collectd, composer, dnsdist, gh, python-django5, python-python-multipart, varnish, varnish-modules, vmod-querystring, vmod-uuid,…

Welcome to RSS Club! These posts are only available to RSS and Atom subscribers. You can read more about the idea at Dave Rupert's site. I recently received an email from a distraught reader: I was going through my recent bookmarks and I found…

Discover the highlights from FOSS4G:HU 2026 in Budapest, featuring open source GIS insights, QGIS and Mergin Maps field data workflows, and community networking.

Thanks to an incredible €550,000 community-funded campaign, the extensive modernization work required to secure GeoServer's future is finished, shipping, and ready for deployment. What This Community ...

(these notes are being posted in two parts to make the length more manageable, part 1 is here) Continuing from where we left off, about topics discussed at the PipeWire hackfest in Nice…</h3>DSP features We discussed a number of features related to digital signal processing blocks which are…

(these notes are being posted in two parts to make the length more manageable, part 2 is here) The PipeWire community organised a hackfest in Nice, France, colocated with Embedded Recipes, the GStreamer hackfest, and a number of other events. In attendance were members of the upstream community, as…

O recente artigo publicado no blog da gvSIG levanta uma reflexão fundamental para o século XXI: a verdadeira soberania de uma nação já não se faz apenas com fronteiras físicas, mas com o controle absoluto sobre as suas infraestruturas digitais e de dados. A adoção, por parte da Comissão…

Quick note to share that rbenchmark is back on CRAN! The rbenchmark package makes it easy to benchmark (and compare) simple R expressions. This package has been on CRAN for many years. At one point fourteen years ago it appeared to be rudderless so I offered help but things realigned. Now it was…

Debian Contributions: 2026-05 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services. Go default…

Linus has released the 7.1 kernel. "So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time - just not in the regular timezone." Significant changes in 7.1 include the removal of support for some old 486-based…

Read enough articles about The Beatles and you'll repeatedly hit the claim that Frank Sinatra frequently introduced his cover of George Harrison's "Something" as his "favourite Lennon & McCartney number." Much like the misquote about Ringo not being the best drummer in The Beatles, I think this…

First Light box My youngest daughter and I recently started playing the tabletop game HeroQuest. Specifically, the recently-issued, cut-down variant HeroQuest: First Light. This is quite advanced for her age, and I'm a little surprised she's taken to it, but she's really loving it, It's pushed…

For almost two decades, the PackageKit package management abstraction layer has shipped with pkcon as its command-line client. pkcon does its job, but it was always kind of a “testing” front-end for the PackageKit daemon rather than a tool designed for everyday use. The focus has instead been on the…

For almost two decades, the PackageKit package management abstraction layer has shipped with pkcon as its command-line client. pkcon does its job, but it was always kind of a “testing” front-end for the PackageKit daemon rather than a tool designed for everyday use. The focus has instead been on the…

For almost two decades, the PackageKit package management abstraction layer has shipped with pkcon as its command-line client. pkcon does its job, but it was always kind of a “testing” front-end for the PackageKit daemon rather than a tool designed for everyday use. The focus has instead been on the…

Today we went to see a theater play in UNAM’s Cultural Center, very near our home. No, not inside any of the theaters — <n the square just between Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Foro Sor Juana and Sala Carlos Chávez.. So, yes, not only we had fun, but we had fun for free! UNAM’s El Carro de Comedias is…

There is a recent blog post about Nix Flakes vs Guix: https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/nix-flakes-vs-guix

I occasionally see people go through great effort to do end-to-end testing of keyboard input latency. That is fantastic but it requires hardware and patience I don’t, nor will ever, have. Here is a much simpler way to get about 90% of the value. For example, everything but driver/interrupt handler…

Quite a few things have happened around the Android platform support for KDE applications in recent months, so high time for another update on that. Qt 6.11 As already mentioned previously, we have updated the Qt version to 6.11. That has the unfortunate consequence of losing support for Android 8…

--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.7 with another big push on bug fixing. It’s looking really good for release next Tuesday! As a result, some feature work and UI polishing started to trickle in for Plasma…

Greetings from Planet Peanut! Since there’s a whole new generation of GNOME contributors active right now, I’ll do a short reintroduction: Hello, I’m Hylke! I was a design contributor in the late 2.X, early 3.X days. Mainly icons and theming. I’ve attended many GUADECs. I’m also the developer of…

In the process of preparing a major Ubuntu Touch release (v24.04-2.0, coming soon...) we will also update Ayatana Indicators in Ubuntu Touch. Last week various new features have been added to some of the indicators (toggle switch to keep the display switched on permanently, blue tooth pairing…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 5 to June 12. GNOME Foundation marimaj reports The GNOME Foundation has selected the first recipients who will receive funding through its new Fellowship program, and is delighted to announce that Peter Eisenmann and Sophie…