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For a limited time, where the VPN is available, users can get unlimited VPN bandwidth in Firefox – up from the 50 gigabytes monthly limit — plus access to over 25 country locations to browse from. Don’t have Firefox yet? <a…

Official announcement European Voxit community strengthens digital sovereignty: shared codebase completed. Read the official announcement at: https://www.voxit.org/european-voxit-community-strengthens-digital-sover... The Voxit community and platform development The Voxit participation platform…

only bounds are going to be the most impactful change to Rust that you’ve never heard of. They are currently being designed and developed by the Arm team (David Wood, Rémy Rakic, et al.) as part of the Sized Hierarchy and Scalable Vector Extension project goal. This post explores the feature and…

Here’s another QField release, packed with the features that have been at the top of professional surveyors’ wish list! (hint: it’s in the title) — plus improvements across the board for our wide range of users.<Main highlights NTRIP &amp; Bluetooth Low Energy First up, NTRIP support has been added…

The RISC-V CPU architecture has been gaining a lot of popularity since it launched in 2014, and now that the industry is standardizing on the RVA23 level that includes vector support as a mandatory extension, we are likely to see a lot more edge- and IoT devices with the ability to run local LLMs at…

Many GNOME projects have adopted a policy banning all contributions generated by LLMs. This policy was originally developed by Sophie for Loupe, but is now used in many other notable places: This project does not allow contributions generated by large languages models (LLMs) and chatbots. This ban…

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.15.2: bug 2004368 moz-phab patch -a here with jj says there is no source tree if jj config is broken bug 2035900 Investigate setting up CodSpeed.io for moz-phab bug 2044857 patch --raw leaks a global logger level, causing order-dependent test failures Discuss these…

Your browser tabs say a lot about your life: work projects, vacation plans, shopping carts and all the rabbit holes in between. Add the world’s biggest soccer tournament to the mix, and your browser is suddenly juggling scores to check, streams to watch, lineups to scan and group chats to keep up…

One of the many nice language features in Python are keyword arguments. They make some types of APIs  concise and readable. Like so:Unfortunately C does not have keyword arguments and, by extension, neither does C++. Adding them as a language feature would take 15-20 years of effort, most of which…

A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - but is there anything technically stopping you? Table of ContentsHistoryTLD…

E.P. Unny is a notable Indian political cartoonist, who worked/works with famed Shankar’s Weekly and new papers such as The Hindu and Indian Express. Since 2020, all his cartoons (also 2025, 2026 so far) are published — every week — open-access by <ayahna Foundation. Unny was using a font…

Thanks to Mario Ame Everything was working fine. I had just finished building the Grow Your Own allotments map, deployed it to the live server, and was feeling pretty pleased with myself. A few days later a friend messaged me that the map had stopped working. No regions, just a blank basemap.…

A new minor release 0.4.27 of RQuantLib, the first in over a year, arrived on CRAN a couple of minutes ago, has just now been uploaded to Debian, and is being built for r2u as well. QuantLib is a rather comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative finance. RQuantLib connects (some parts…

I finally carved out some time today to prepare and release debsecan-mcp v0.1.2 to PyPI. During this release, I integrated PyPI's trusted publisher mechanism, which authenticates directly via GitHub Actions and eliminates the need for manual uploads or static API tokens. What is New? There are no…

A while back, I got my first subwoofer (a surprisingly nice addition to the movie experience, just like rear speakers were). But I live in an apartment, and I don't want to annoy my neighbors at night (the speaker cone points literally down into the floor, and I have no idea how much my neighbors…

Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-third month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4580-1] exim4 security update to fix one CVE related to remote code execution. [DLA…

Dear digiKam fans and users, After three months of active development, bug triage, and feature integration, the digiKam team is proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 9.1.0. This version builds on the foundation of 9.0.0, introducing new features, performance improvements, and a significant…

So… more Oxygen icons <ip> This weekend I been filling some of the more obvious holes in the icon set and recently these 2 landed. The first one is for KeepSecret, the application that is replacing the old KWallet. Security icons are funny. There are only so many ways to draw "keep…

The second maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out with the usual batch of bug fixes and improvements for workflow and stability. This update comes with fixes to rendering, timeline editing, project file handling, and Windows, MacOS, AppImage and Flatpak packaging. One noteworthy bug closed…

Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me…

As in previous years, This Week in GNOME and this entire month are dedicated to the joys and struggles of all two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, inter, pan, asexual, aromantic, and non-binary people. We celebrate the invaluable work and life of all 2SLGBTQIA+ contributors and users, across…

--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the team continued polishing Plasma 6.7 for its release later in the month. As such, this week saw mostly bug fixing. Notable UI improvements Plasma 6.7 Hovering over a partially-visible item in the Kickoff Application Launcher…

The current outbreak of Ebola has inevitably triggered lots of maps of the outbreak, just search for “Maps of the Ebola outbreak in Africa” and you will find something like this. Some of these are pretty good, some don’t communicate very well and a few are awful. My attention was drawn to a…

I previously wrote some advice for developers and distributions about the upcoming Microsoft CA Rollover, and I hope that was useful for people. I've now also added some user-facing documentation about the CA rollover in the Debian wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot/CAChanges. I've added…

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-23. “But it happened.” Tags: tech, google, attention-economy, business Good point, the booing on Eric Schimidt’s commencement speech is likely not just about him talking about AI at some point. You see, the man has very heavy baggage… He’s one of the…