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A library transition can affect many packages in Debian. I added a way for Salsa CI to rebuild the ones that depend on the changing library, so maintainers can test the transition before it reaches unstable. The need for this became clear during a proposed Poppler transition. Poppler is a…

Review: Ode to the Half-Broken, by Suzanne Palmer Publisher: DAW Copyright: May 2026 ISBN: 0-7564-2013-X Format: Kindle Pages: 441 Ode to the Half-Broken is a standalone post-apocalyptic (sort of) science fiction novel. As…

Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I bought ten years ago, that I hadn’t tried in a long time. I tried to recharge them, but after fully charging them, they only worked for maybe 5 minutes before they turned off…

Today, I find myself migrating from Digital Ocean to Linode (now Akamai Cloud but I’m never gonna really call it that) because, among other things, Digital Ocean recently donated $3 million USD to Omarchy, a slop distro for fascists. Raising money for free and open source software development is…

Version 18.1 of the GDB interactive debugger has been released. Changes include new commands to manipulate the environment of the subprocess, the ability to save the command history to a file, support for a couple of new targets, several Python API additions, and more. See the NEWS file for the…

After a long week of working lots and making lots of connections, here is what happened this year during Akademy! Talk recap Ocean is divided into two areas, Ocean Graphical Assets and Ocean Design System. Ocean graphical assets refers to all currently-available theming elements that Plasma…

Most modern operating systems (including iOS, Android, macOS, and ChromeOS) have been using image-based architectures for a while, and in recent years we’ve been making progress towards this on the desktop side as well. It’s a necessity if we want to provide the security, usability and reliability…

"The problem with defending the purity of the HyperText Markup Language is that HTML is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. The standard doesn't just borrow concepts from better languages; on occasion, HTML has pursued other programming languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle…

--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week about 200 KDE contributors and enthusiasts attended Akademy, but somehow people still found the time to be productive! Plasma contributors released the second beta of Plasma 6.8 and landed a bunch of user interface improvements and…

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-39. The Test Tags: tech, culture, business, politics Yes, the preposterous statements from the tech moguls have a use. They allow them to gauge how obedient you are. This is thus a political function and a way to check their power. Maybe it’s time we…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 18 to September 25. Third Party Projects Titouan Real announces Era is a new calendar app for mobile and desktop that grows with your needs. It’s simple and calm for everyday use, while powerful features remain available…

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.21.0: bug 2068637 code review bot fails to apply patches when the parent is not known bug 2073291 moz-phab submit could load reviewers and review groups in parallel with revisions and diffs bug 2075401 “Phabricator Error: Validation errors” from moz-phab submit should…

The Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) is investing nearly €1.3 million</n KDE through 2027. At Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria, Nate Graham and Kevin Ottens, two of the contributors who helped bring in the investment, explained how the funding was secured, provided tips on how projects should approach…

I've been working on my homelab for years, and I enjoy sharing what I learn through this blog and my YouTube channel. Over the past few years, I realized the homelab community (which isn't really a defined thing—that's okay) hasn't had its own gathering, the way makers, software engineers,…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.8 and 6.18.54 stable kernels. Each contains a number of important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

Johannes Schindelin has posted a detailed summary of the discussions held at the 2026 Git Contributors' Summit. Topics covered include Git 3.0, security process, documentation, the pluggable object database, use of LLMs, and more.

GNOME and KDE have started to consider LLM policies, and we should talk about what this is really about. KDE caught everyone's attention first by igniting a flame war with an LLM-friendly draft that ended up being deleted, causing a few bans, and having a bunch of people go full "Some of you may…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, perl-DBI:1.641, and unbound), Debian (jq, libreoffice, openssl, and redis), Fedora (389-ds-base, bcm283x-firmware, cockpit, flatpak-builder, mingw-gdk-pixbuf, openssl3, pcs, rust-cryptoki, squid, uboot-tools, and webkitgtk), Mageia…

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 331. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Support radare2 >= 5.9.0. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#432) * Update debian/tests/control. * Update copyright years. [ Christopher…

For most of GIS history, the workflow has been the same: find a dataset, download it, unzip it, load it into your desktop software, and then work with it locally. It is a process that has served us well for decades, but it breaks down the moment your datasets are measured in terabytes, your users…

For most of its history, QGIS has been a desktop application. You installed it on your machine, loaded your data, ran your analyses, and produced your maps, all within the four walls of a single window. The browser was a separate universe. If you wanted your maps on the web, you exported them as…

Hi everyone. In this blog post I want to take you in an adventure of parsing Org mode with Parsing Expression Grammars (PEG) in Guile Scheme (ice-9 peg) and converting to HTML (via SXML): OrgWebAlchemy. I wanted to share something with you all that I’ve been working on for a while. It all…

My experiences at Akademy It's been a hot minute since my last blog post, mostly because I was focusing on finally finishing my studies - while I'm not quite done yet (still missing one exam), I have a good reason to come out of hiding: KDE Akademy 2026 just happened and I was…

A new release 0.0.5 of the RcppFastAD package is now on CRAN, has been built for r2u, and updated at r-universe. This comes (to the day) two years after the preceding 0.0.4 release. RcppFastAD wraps the FastAD header-only C++ library by James which provides a C++ implementation of both forward and…

The F-Droid project has announced the release of F-Droid 2.0, which is a complete redesign of the official app. Notable changes in the release include making it easier to discover and install applications, more useful app categories, improved search, and much more. For more than a decade, F-Droid…