This was my first ever time at The Fringe™. Here are some scattered thoughts looking at the good, the bad, and the annoying aspects of this madly extravagant exhibition of talent. We saw 23 shows together, and one separate show each. There were more hits than misses, but the frustration of wasting…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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)…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements We are pleased to announce Racket v9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release: The raco setup command can generate markdown documentation, using the --doc-markdown option. The "#lang" teaching languages…
read more ➔SRFI 279 is now in draft status. Interactive REPL-driven systems (that most Schemes are) need a way to get detailed information on a given piece of data. Inspectors, as these are conventionally called. This SRFI defines a basic protocol for inspectors, consisting of three procedures: …
read more ➔GeoCat Find 2026.1 is out! Find is built on GeoNetwork 4.4 and ships as two packages: The first covers the full set of metadata schemas available in GeoNetwork, with a clean, focused interface . The s...
read more ➔GeoCat is pleased to announce the release of GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.8. This version is a recommended upgrade to GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.7 which includes several bug fixes, library upgrades, and...
read more ➔The Apache Trusted Releases (ATR) platform, a new tool from the ASF Tooling Initiative, is making it easier for open source maintainers across hundreds of independently governed ASF projects to ship secure, compliant releases without adding to their workload. ATR automates the parts of the release…
read more ➔My account on FLOSS.social, @strk, has been suspended. Not for writing toots with an LLM, but for writing toots about LLMs - mostly. One of the thirteen cited toots was not mine at all: it was my boost of a toot written by my AI minion. This is how it happened, and why I think the whole thing…
read more ➔TorchGeo 0.9.0 Release Notes TorchGeo 0.9 includes 13 new datasets and a number of improvements required for better time series support, encompassing 3 months of hard work by 15 contributors from around the world. We are now trying to make more frequent releases to get exciting new features out to…
read more ➔Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo, Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13. Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, and with the current component pricing…
read more ➔Introducing Apache® Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache® Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages Wilmington, DE – August 6, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open…
read more ➔Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've <ooted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64 support. Install…
read more ➔SRFI 273 is now in final status. The original SRFI 253 established a basis for type-checked (or otherwise checked) data handling. But it lacked some quality-of-life features. This SRFI extends SRFI 253 to match existing implementation practice and common sense. Provided extensions are: …
read more ➔I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple years ago, and wanted to upgrade my…
read more ➔I have uploaded Chez Scheme 10.4.0 to Debian unstable. It has been a few years since there was a new Chez Scheme version in Debian, and that is all on me. 😅 The new release builds fine on all architectures according to the build logs. In case you missed it, Chez Scheme got an infusion of energy…
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read more ➔**To receive Plus One directly to your inbox, sign up via the subscribe box below.** Community News The Conference Planners for the the ASF are very pleased to announce the redesign and launch of the new Community Over Code website! The new site will serve as the central resource and gateway for the…
read more ➔The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is home to more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, all powered by a vibrant, global community of contributors. Among these projects, Apache Iceberg has emerged as a cornerstone of modern data architecture, revolutionizing how organizations manage…
read more ➔AKA "Spectrum has gone down two weeks in a row and I'm sick of it". I've been borrowing a portable 5G gateway from my Dad for a few weeks, for testing... and two weeks in a row, I've used it as a backup Internet option, since my Spectrum Business cable Internet has gone down. And yes, I'd get…
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