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I have proposed the deletion of an obsolete script, but it makes me feel complicated feelings so I’m going to try and express those. This particular script was written in 2014, but the concept goes back much further – before git was invented. When I started university in 2003, I seem to remember…

SRFI 275 is now in draft status.This SRFI proposes a programming interface for working with RFC 3986 universal resource identifiers (URIs), as well as RFC 3987's generalisation to internationalised resource identifiers (IRIs). This document defines record types, normalisation procedures, and…

Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened. The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush created his own unclassified submarine to go sightseeing on the Titanic. Ignoring all advice from experts he created a "macgyveresque death trap" that eventually…

Highlights Maxx Crawford added a pref to hide the New Tab logo so users can opt out of branding without altering page layout or resorting to CSS overrides. Harshit enabled video overlay detection in Nightly 153, allowing you to use the context menu to control videos on more pages! We plan on…

Linus Torvalds released the 7.1 kernel as expected on June 14. This development cycle brought in a lot of new features — and a lot of new developers as well. The time has come for our traditional look at where the changes in 7.1 came from, with a digression into how our community may be changing in…

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…