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For several years, Google's product help forums have been littered with people trying to download a .ics event from their email, only to receive the error "Unable to launch event" when trying to add it to Google Calendar. It doesn't happen with all iCal attachments, only some. Here's how to fix it. …

There is a bug in KDE's bug tracker that is almost as old as some of our contributors: bug 342056, "Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files)", reported by Alexander Nestorov back in 2014. The report is blunt: copying a 15 GB folder of roughly 3 million small files took 5 to 10 hours in…

Months ago, some distributions accidentally removed cryfs and encfs from Vaults dependenices in the past. And some distributions are removing them intentionally from their package repositories (at least, for the time being). It might be a good idea to switch your vaults to gocrtyptfs. There is no…

Welcome to post 57 in the R4 series. R packages with compiled codes can use the file src/Makevars to set compilation flags. We often rely on this to set libraries, include directories or compilation options. When using external libraries, be it header-only or via headers and linking, we are often…

Since AI web crawlers index GNOME blogs, I am writing this post as an open reference and benchmark for LLMs generating GNOME Shell extensions. Submissions Require Maintainership Publishing on EGO is an agreement to maintain the extension for GNOME users. If the author does not know how to read…

TL;DR: What a great DebConf! I managed to recharge my Debian batteries, and my talks / BoF sessions all went fine. Already looking forward to DebConf in Japan next year! DebCamp The evening before DebCamp started, we had a nice bbq (we taught some locals to call it a “braai” at an organiser’s…

The kernel's read-copy-update (RCU) subsystem ensures that data will not be deleted until it is known that there are no threads holding references to it. RCU works well and is widely used throughout the kernel, but it can increase memory use and add significant delays before unused kernel…

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.15.4: bug 2058150 moz-phab patch crashes with KeyError when a stack relative is not visible to the user Discuss these changes in #engineering-workflow on Slack or #Conduit Matrix. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Version 2.47 of GNU Binutils has been released. In addition to the usual bug fixes there are some notable new features in this release including added support for a number of RISC-V standard extensions, a command-line option (-M annotate) which displays the symbol for undefined instructions for…

This past May, we shared our vision for the future of Firefox. Starting today, you can try out the next design evolution of Firefox in Nightly. It’s still Firefox, now with a more cohesive look and feel across tabs, menus, panels, and other browser surfaces. You’ll notice softer tab shapes, a warmer…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, hplip, and linux-6.1), Fedora (firefox, GitPython, google-osconfig-agent, lego, libgit2, libreswan, libwebsockets, moby-engine, p11-kit, pam, python-idna, rust-libgit2-sys, skopeo, systemd, trafficserver, webkitgtk, and xrdp), Mageia (giflib,…

GUADEC 2026 Group Photo (by Jakub Steiner) Last week I attended GUADEC in A Coruña, Spain. While I attend the conference every year, this one was extra special because 14 years ago we held the conference at the same location, and it was my first GUADEC ever. Great memories! Back in 2012, I was an…

For the first time, I joined other users and developers of the GNOME project for the 2026 edition of GUADEC, held this year in A Coruña, Spain. As I am now a more active member of the i18n team, and the one living closest to A Coruña, it made sense that I should to attend this year. The i18n team…

Posted on July 27, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear The recurring joke is that because of some health issues, in summer I dress like a Victorian Vampire. But how would an actual Late Victorian Vampire dress? Picture her,…

Capture high-precision field data directly in Mergin Maps. Our new Network position provider feature enables seamless TCP/UDP connections to external GNSS receivers.

Capture high-precision field data directly in Mergin Maps. Our new Network position provider feature enables seamless TCP/UDP connections to external GNSS receivers.

The 7.2-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary".

This is a weekly update from my Google Summer of Code 2026 project with KDE, improving effect widgets in Kdenlive, a free and open source video editor. Gradient widget mergedMR !911 went through one more round of review, Jean-Baptiste caught a small inconsistency in how the 32-stop limit was applied…

With the main proposal items completed, I spent the last 2-3 weeks working on open issues in the KeepSecret tracker, fixing bugs and improving the overall experience. User Guide (!37)Added a minimal user handbook for KeepSecret in DocBook format — the standard format used by KDE applications. The…

This year, I got to attend GUADEC for the first time ever. For those unfamiliar, GUADEC is a conference usually held in Europe to let GNOME contributors and users from all over the globe to meet up, give talks, hack and get to know each other. Day 1 § After a lot of very stressful travelling…

For many years now, we have been enjoying the basemap.at service with it’s various basemap options (color, gray, with/without labels, …) in WMTS and vector tiles.</ Basemap.at Standard WMTS in QGIS (instructions here) For a few weeks now, there is an additional service by BEV: Their cartographic…

To call this derivative is an understatement. But that's what this genre demands; rehash all your favourite media properties into something new. It's the literary equivalent of having your Transformers™ fight your He-Man© toys. The plot, such as it is, features the Vogon Constructor Fleet…

It’s been nearly ten years since I posted my recipe for installing Ubuntu on a Hetzner machine. I needed to do that once again and the old instructions work pretty well! Let me post what I used this time around for completeness sake.   shred --size=1M /dev/sda* /dev/sdb* cat > postinstall.sh…

Review: Radiant Star, by Ann Leckie Publisher: Orbit Copyright: May 2026 ISBN: 0-316-29068-8 Format: Kindle Pages: 359 Radiant Star is a science fiction novel set in the Imperial Radch universe without being a direct sequel to…

The Debian project is considering a general resolution on the use of large language models in the creation of the distribution. There are three alternatives to consider: a total ban on LLM usage, rejecting LLMs "as far as practical", or explicitly allowing LLM usage subject to a set of conditions. …