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Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.17.0: bug 2036748 submit: parallelise per-commit upload + creatediff across the stack bug 2036749 git: skip restoring git checkout in cleanup/finalize when HEAD already on branch bug 2060484 " Phabricator Error: Validation errors" should display the revision Discuss…

Version 154.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include extending local network access protections to WebSocket connections, more flexible, per-site configuration of cookie and data clearing, and more.

Leia a versão em inglês aqui. A concorrência é o ponto forte da internet. Com a possibilidade de as pessoas escolherem navegadores, mecanismos de pesquisa e aplicativos livremente, a concorrência entre das empresas se baseia no mérito. No entanto, os mercados digitais estão concentrados em…

Read the Portuguese version here. Competition is a strength of the internet. When people freely choose among browsers, search engines, and apps, companies compete on merit. However, digital markets have concentrated around ‘gatekeepers’ that control discovery, making it harder for independent…

What Geode 2.0 taught us—and what comes next By Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0https://JinwooHwang.com This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks through how it was modernized. Part III looks…

Gamers have asked for GeForce NOW support for years. Today, NVIDIA made it official, opening up GeForce RTX-powered play to Firefox on Windows. Firefox users can now stream more than 2,000 PC games from virtually anywhere, no downloads, installs, or hardware upgrades required, just a Windows PC…

Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: an extension, a manual setting, a workaround. < Today, starting with Firefox 154, that choice becomes as easy as head to the drop-down menu, hit…

The Linux kernel's user-space interface (AF_ALG) to the Crypto API has been linked to a number of recent high-profile security problems, including Copy Fail and successor vulnerabilities. It was deprecated earlier this year. Eric Biggers, and other kernel developers, have been working to remove…

After spending many hours on reading all the proposals and discussions the best choice for me is NOTA (None of the above). We do not need to create new rules for LLM usage, we already have our DFSG and our social contract. Keep it simple, stupid. Avoid more rules!

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, 389-ds:1.4, bind, haproxy, kernel, kernel-rt, libXfont2, nghttp2, and unbound), Debian (calibre, expat, ironic, and linux-6.12), Fedora (coturn, linux-firmware, php-phpseclib, and sqlite), Red Hat (fence-agents, osbuild-composer, pam,…

Browsers make it easy to start things, but picking them back up is another story. We start planning a trip or researching a purchase, and before long we’re comparing options and chasing ideas across dozens of tabs. That work rarely happens in one sitting. When we come back after an interruption,…

AI has changed how we browse. Full stop. The real question is whether AI leads to one browser experience for everyone, or gives people more ways to make the browser work for them.  Firefox was always built to give users an alternative to the status quo, and our approach with AI is no different.…

A couple of weekends back, I upgraded my home sever. It failed to restart after running apt dist-upgrade The only update that was performed was to the kernel, it went from 6.12.88+deb13-amd64 to 6.12.100+deb13-amd64. I had previously performed an apt-get upgrade, and rebooted the machine, so I…

WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents. As such, it can help developers to verify that their websites are working and performing well with all major browsers. The protocol is standardized by the W3C and consists of two separate specifications:…

Introduction A plea to the undecided voter Table Notes Debian LLM GR - Summary of the options Introduction LLMs have finally made it to the ultimate stage of Debian’s governance processes, a General Resolution of all the project’s full governing members (DDs). There are a lot of options on the…

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.16.1: bug 2063077 Run tests in parallel with pytest-xdist bug 2063810 Obscure error installing MozPhab Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.16.0: bug 2050987 moz-phab self-update fails when installed via uv tool: “No module named pip” Discuss these changes in…

Let me start with a hypothesis: For human developers, using coding LLMs magnifies their difference in skill levels. I am one that rarely thinks things are always black and white. Back in March, I wrote Artifial Intelligence: Shades of Gray. Since then, I’ve had more of a chance to experiment with…

Week 29 This week's icon is for Deimos Hall's project: Metamorphosis: "Edit metadata" Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches)…

Nextcloud provides a large public PHP interface to developers to use for building their application. It is commonly called OCP. Some of big components of OCP are the HTTP stack with IRequest, Response and Controllerto handle requests, the IQueryBuilder/IDBConnection to query the database and many…

I was checking the new beta release of LIPS Scheme in GNU Emacs. I was searching for a way to execute an expression in Scheme mode when using the cmuscheme Scheme REPL in the other window. It turned out that it's standard C-x C-e (same as for elisp). The problem is that it displays the prompt…

Hello all! It’s my first blog ever, so please bear with me. Recently I’ve been active in Engagement team and helping out with the reboot. Hopefully you noticed our social media accounts are a tad more lively! Part of the reboot process was dropping all the unrelated activities the team accumulated…

Linus Torvalds released the 7.2 kernel on August 17, after noting that the number of fixes coming in was still "bigger than I would have wished for". In fact, 7.2 was one of the busiest development cycles in the kernel's history, adding nearly 600,000 lines of code. It's time to look at some…

This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, better known as "FOSSY", moved north to the beautiful (and enormous) campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada from its home for the three previous editions: Portland, Oregon, in the US. There…

I have been using Claude to help me build maps for a few months now and I have been very happy with the results which I think have been improving. I keep hearing about Claude Code and wondered what is the difference? The answer: a heck of a lot! Using Claude Chat (or any of the other chatbots)…

Version 5.0 of GNU Poke, a binary-data editor, has been released. This release includes a number of improvements to the Poke compiler, additions to the Poke language, as well as runtime and standard library updates. See below for the full list of changes.