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Info: German content only, sorry. I was pondering for the past three years if I should give some sort of TLS basics talk at FrOSCon. I finally stepped up this year and gave that talk today, with the title "TLS, mTLS, SNI, ECH, CAA, HTTPS, PKI, Zertifikate und ein bisschen PQC". I was too optimistic…

I'm really not sure what to make of this book. It was recommended by my book club as something between tragedy and comedy. The characters are excruciatingly well written - if you (or your friends) shoplifted Impulse body-spray back in the 1990s, you'll be hit by a terrifying wave of nostalgia. It…

What Happened On 2026/08/10 at 2:11 am Australian eastern standard time (2026/08/09 16:11 UTC) someone created a post titled “Hacked by Chinafans” on my documents blog [1]. The person in question created an account named “67965e42a3c3” on that site with the email address 67965e42a3c3@google.com…

The AMD GPU Problem For a while I’ve been having issues with AMD GPUs, video locking up periodically. I blogged about this late last year but I first had noticeable problems early last year [1]. The problems hadn’t only concerned my workstation but also my home server which is also used as a…

Following the recent look at the state of GNSS API on Linux Mobile, I did a similar exploration of where we are with the Near Field Communication (NFC) stack. Use cases Around NFC there’s a whole bunch of interleaved standards and protocols. Trading simplicity for accuracy here there’s basically…

It has been an incredible 12-week journey contributing to the KDE Community for Google Summer of Code 2026! The guidance and support from my mentors, Benson Muite and Srisharan VS was incredible. Lots of contributions and conversation over this happy period. Here is a comprehensive summary of what…

--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week was full of user interface improvements and performance enhancements, and we snuck in a few features as well: Notable new features Plasma 6.8 Remote desktop sessions now offer a fully shared clipboard, rather than only sending the…

TorchGeo 0.10.0 Release Notes TorchGeo 0.10 is the largest release in TorchGeo history, with a record 220 PRs from a record 29 contributors over the last 6 months. It includes full time series support, fiscal sponsorship, and security hardening, among many other exciting new features! Highlights of…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 7 to August 14. GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries Graphs ↗ Plot and manipulate data Sjoerd Stendahl reports This week we landed a minor update in Graphs, but with a major improvement for the user experience. In the new version,…

Easily the best show I've seen at the Fringe. For plot-related reasons, a television company asks a literary genius to create a "pro-weapons sitcom". It is a fast paced mix of the sitcoms 2012 and Episodes. The jokes come at a steady pace - some attack with the furiousity of bullets, others the…

We have tokens that are added to official builds when a CI server is building the production-ready application. These tokens are added to the BuildConfig.java by using the buildConfigField function in a build.gradle. While testing, you want to quickly regenerate just this file to see changes occur…

For a pay-what-you-want show this was decent. Three comedians doing sets on the theme of philosophy - followed by a Q&A where the audience poses philosophical conundrums to them. It more-or-less works as a gimmick. Although an early afternoon crowd may have been more likely to ask questions…

Ihor Solodrai and Shung-Hsi Yu wrapped up the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a pair of sessions related to testing. Solodrai spoke about what has changed for BPF's continuous-integration (CI) testing. Yu spoke about what may be needed to test…

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has announced the candidates running for the Python packaging council that was approved by the Python steering council in April. This inaugural election fills all five seats on the PPC. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, bind9.16, and dracut), Debian (apr-util, chromium, postgresql-17, python-httplib2, unzip, and zip), Fedora (erlang-cowboy, erlang-cowlib, flatpak, and libnfs), Gentoo (Apache HTTPD, Bubblewrap, Dnsmasq, Exim,…

This play is fucked up! Such a brilliant concept - what happened to the kids from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory after they were rejected by Wonka? Stuck together in a Big-Brotheresque household, they trauma-dump on each other. New Zealand's Half Trick have shrunk their full-length play into a…

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 328. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Don't require python3-guestfs in the autopkgtests on 32-bit architectures. (Closes: #1144372) [ Jochen Sprickerhof ] * Use the XML comparators…

Friday, 14 August 2026 KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.29.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this version Baloo Install kcfg file. Commit. Remove obsolete doxygen…

GeoServer 3.0.1 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions. This is a stable release of GeoServer recommended for production use. GeoServer 3.0.1 is made in conjunction with GeoTools 35.1, and GeoWebCache 2.0.1. Thanks to Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions)…

GeoServer 2.28.5 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions. This is a maintenance release of GeoServer providing existing installations with minor updates and bug fixes. GeoServer 2.28.5 is made in conjunction with GeoTools 34.5, and GeoWebCache…

GeoServer 2.27.6 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions. This series has previously reached end-of-life, with this release issued to address an urgent bug or security vulnerability. Please apply this update as a mitigation measure only, and plan…

Quite simply marvellous! Three Scottish divas giving us their interpretations of the greats while backed by an excellent pianist. So many shows at the Fringe skimp on sets and props - not this! A luscious array of costumes, hats, wigs, and ruby slippers bring the characters to life. The framing is…

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Walking down the street, I noticed a ringing phone box so, naturally, I answered it. What happened next was a few minutes of pure fringe magic! I had a little chat with the caller, he welcomed me to the smallest venue in the fringe, and then he improvised a banger of a song based on my peculiar…

Christopher Domas has published a proof of concept with a description showing how to use AMD memory controllers' bank swizzle mode to bypass memory protection and read or write arbitrary data, including CPU microcode definitions and memory belonging to the platform security processor. Among other…