In a shortened session in the filesystem track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein gave an update on the overlayfs union filesystem. There are some new features over the last few years that he wanted to mention, along with looking at the status…
read more ➔I have been looking at seL4 some more recently, and had a small patch merged today to remove a legacy Python module from a helper script. (I was trying to run the script on a system without that module installed, and it was almost easier to patch it out.) However, the more I think about this code…
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read more ➔Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is in a really dumb spot, that's not why I care about this feature. The two…
read more ➔Hundreds of orphaned packages hosted by the Arch User Repository (AUR) have been compromised by an attacker who has added a malicious npm package (atomic-lockfile) that can exfiltrate sensitive data. The project is currently working on cleaning up the mess. There is a list of affected packages and…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, expat, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, mod_http2, openssl, poppler, redis, redis:7, samba, and unbound), Debian (ironic, kernel-wedge, libinput, linux-base, and neutron), Fedora (kernel, openssl, vaultwarden, and…
read more ➔Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-24. Total Reciprocity Public License Tags: tech, foss, licensing, copyright More an experiment than something I’d recommend for real. Still it shows there’s a gap we need to close in the licenses available. Let’s hope the OSI and the FSF will do strong…
read more ➔When I ran Ethernet around our house, I thought I was being clever. A CAT6 cable for every room - lush! Some of my rooms have lots of devices, so they get a nice big Ethernet switch with lots of ports and blinking lights. But most of my rooms don't have that many devices. Our gym had only an…
read more ➔Hi Mozillians, For years, the Mozilla Community Newsletter has served as a monthly touchpoint for contributors and community members across the Mozilla ecosystem. Coordinated by the Customer Experience (CX) team, it helps keep our global contributor and product communities informed, connected, and…
read more ➔On 3 June 2026, the European Commission adopted a new package of measures to strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty. The package includes two legislative proposals —<he Chips Act 2.0 and the Cloud and AI Development Act— together with <he European Open Source Strategy and a strategic…
read more ➔El pasado 3 de junio de 2026, la Comisión Europea adoptó un nuevo paquete de medidas para reforzar la soberanía tecnológica de Europa. El paquete incluye dos propuestas legislativas —el <hips Act 2.0 y el Cloud and AI Development Act—, junto con la <strategia Europea de Software Libre y una hoja…
read more ➔The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 319. This version includes the following changes: [ Jochen Sprickerhof ] * Improve header detection for Sphinx documentation projects. You find out more by visiting the project homepage.
read more ➔From white-boarding my ideas on a Google Doc, to writing a formal design document in Crosswords, my ability to communicate technical ideas clearly is being put to the test. Writing documentation is critical to guide others’ understanding of the code and choices made on a particular codebase.…
read more ➔Structure of code and logic for tournaments in the Mankala Engine.So, we want the tournaments to be able to: Create custom game rooms (with different variants, number of players, and time limit) Join the rooms with room codes. Create elimination brackets for players. Have empty slots filled with…
read more ➔I asked a locally-downloaded LLM to compute the cost of a car trip using natural language. No calls to any cloud service, just a model queried by an inference tool running on my own machine. The Setup The machine used for this excercise is a LemurPro laptop from around 2020, has a 11th Gen Intel(R)…
read more ➔Version 6.0.0 of the Homebrew package-management system has been released. Notable changes in this release include the introduction of tap trust to improve supply-chain security, improvements in sandboxing on Linux, a number of performance tweaks, and many other changes. See the changelog for a…
read more ➔The Linux kernel has long tried to use huge pages as a way to improve performance, sometimes with more success than others. The size of huge pages has traditionally been imposed by the hardware, which typically only offers a couple of relatively large options. In more recent times, though, the use…
read more ➔Mozilla Champions the Reintroduction of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) Today, only a handful of tech companies shape the online experience for the more than 300 million internet users in America. This concentration of power is exactly why we need legislation that advances…
read more ➔A while back, I stumbled onto something that turned into a rewarding side-project at Mozilla. Firefox ships with a built-in spellchecker, but it only activates if a dictionary for your language is bundled with the browser. Coverage had grown organically over the years — driven largely by localizers…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, podman, poppler, and postgresql-jdbc), Debian (chromium, jackson-core, libdbi-perl, and libinput), Fedora (httpd, rust, and xmlstarlet), Mageia (openssh, postfix, and roundcubemail), Oracle (frr, kernel, libyang, n,…
read more ➔Las Jornadas de SIG Libre de Girona han sido siempre un referente para Geomatico … porque han sido también la cuna de nuestra empresa, allá en 2011. En estos más de 15 años de conferencias hemos presentado multitud de charlas que celebran la esencia del desarrollo abierto: colaborar, aprender y…
read more ➔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 Herold will begin work as our first Fellows in July. Sophie and Peter are both long-running GNOME contributors, with many…
read more ➔Recreating a design system manually in QML is a laborious task for a Qt developer. A typical Figma design system can include hundreds of design tokens for colors, typography, spacing, radii, shadows, and motion durations - plus dozens of UI components, each with multiple variants and states. Every…
read more ➔I’ve been asked a few times if it would be possible to use virtnbdbackup as some kind of “replication” utility, to keep cold standby virtual machines on other libvirt hosts. Usually i would tell to use underlying filesystem features (such as zfs send/recv, with incremental snapshots) to keep cold,…
read more ➔Thursday, 11 June 2026 KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.27.0. 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 [Query] Make Query::exec() idempotent.…
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