Jonathan Blandford asked me to do an icon set for Crosswords. What started as a request for a small group of symbolics, turned into a more flexible set of colourful sidebar icons. Crosswords has been in the process of joining GNOME Circle for a while and hopefully this is another step in the right…
read more ➔A hotfix release of kf6-core24 to work around a Snapcraft 9 bug that was breaking Qt-based snaps, plus an update on current Debian packaging and snap development work.
read more ➔SRFI 270 is now in final status. Floating-point numbers are usually stored in radix 2, but are written by users in radix 10. This SRFI introduces Scheme syntax for hexadecimal floating point constants based on C99’s syntax. They use radix 16 for writing the integer and fractional part, and a…
read more ➔SRFI 271 is now in final status.This SRFI proposes a pattern of libraries for binary input ports that produce random bytes. Libraries are divided into “randomized” and “determinized” categories to address different uses of random data. The design leaves the details of random number…
read more ➔SRFI 278 is now in draft status. This SRFI defines miscellaneous procedures on numbers that were either missing from the R7RS or are common extensions.
read more ➔DebConf26, the 27th edition of the Debian conference is taking place at the Facultad de Ingeniería en Ciencias Hídricas of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, in Santa Fe, Argentina. We appreciate the organizers for their hard work, and hope this event will be highly beneficial for those who…
read more ➔I'm pretty sure this book is a psyop designed to demoralise a generation of starry-eyed dreamers. It is obviously written by the same people who told us not to land on Europa. A malignant energy designed to limit the scope of human ambition and thwart our plans to colonise the universe. The problem…
read more ➔Running Graphical Applications in Incus Containers I didn't know how easy it is to display the graphical console of a virtual machine until I tried recently. $ sudo apt install virt-viewer $ incus launch images:debian/trixie test --vm $ incus console test --type=vga That's it.
read more ➔Prezado leitor, Neste post irei apresentar como instalar o GeoServer 3 juntamente com o PostgreSQL 18/PostGIS utilizando Docker em um servidor executando Ubuntu Linux 26.04. Ao final deste tutorial você terá um ambiente pronto para desenvolvimento, testes ou treinamentos, contendo: PostgreSQL 18 +…
read more ➔This is part one of a two-part series in which we explore approaches to protecting children online while safeguarding privacy, security and the open web. Part one covers our concerns regarding age gates, and alternative policy proposals that address the root causes of online harms. Young people…
read more ➔The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 325. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Fix tests to work with zipdetails 4.0008. (Closes: #1141359) * Downgrade debhelper compatibility level to 13 for now. * Update copyright…
read more ➔Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally…
read more ➔Discover how GAIA digitised almost 8,000 km of Tuscan water networks and simplified field-to-office coordination using Mergin Maps.
read more ➔El Inside the Lab CITIUS ha cumplido 10 años y hemos vuelto a asistir para vivirlo de cerca. El Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxias Intelixentes (CITIUS) es un centro tecnológico de la USC (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), ha celebrado una nueva edición de su jornada de puertas…
read more ➔The good folks at Thermal Master have sent me their DV2 camera to review. As their name suggests, this is a thermal / infrared camera - they've specifically designed this for bird watching and animal spotting. Let's put it through its paces and see how it compares to the competition! Straight…
read more ➔Tras recorrer gvSIG Desktop en los siete primeros vídeos del curso y desplegar el geoportal en gvSIG Online en el vídeo 8, llega el turno de gvSIG Mapps, la pieza móvil de la Suite. Es la aplicación pensada para llevar el geoportal al terreno: el técnico municipal sale a campo con tableta o móvil,…
read more ➔By Chia-Ping TsaiALC Taipei Lead [Figure 1] Long-time Apache Kafka contributors Jiunn-Yang and Chih-Yuan introducing ALC Taipei’s contributions to open-source veterans Brian Behlendorf and Justin McLean Introduction With the globally renowned Computex Taipei now behind us, it’s the perfect time to…
read more ➔The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.97.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.97.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have…
read more ➔This blog post describes an idea I’ve been kicking around called battery packs. Battery packs are a curated set of crates arranged around a common theme. For example, there’s a CLI battery pack that has everything you need to build a great CLI, an opinionated pack for creating a backend web service,…
read more ➔Lutra Consulting recently attended the Spotkanie Użytkowników Polska 2026 in Łódź, Poland, supporting the event as a gold sponsor. The conference, which saw attendance grow to 500 participants, featured insightful presentations and a successful workshop by team member Radek. Highlights included…
read more ➔Five years or so ago, I had a look at trying to speed up dpkg's package installation; I concluded that it was probably possible to speed up, but that there was no appetite for this kind of large-scale changes. (You'd probably need to rewrite the transaction system to get rid of a lot of fsyncs,…
read more ➔I’ve just filed a Debian bug report about libproc-processtable-perl giving bad errors when SE Linux denies access to files under /proc [1]. Ran into unknown state (hex char: 0) at /tmp/test.pl line 8. The errors are of the above form which Google didn’t find before now so obviously isn’t a common…
read more ➔Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thisweekinrust.bsky.social on Bluesky or @ThisWeekinRust…
read more ➔The infinitely extensible command runner, control plane and project automator à la Make (Guile Scheme - Lisp) Find the project at https://codeberg.org/jjba23/maak Most build tools invent their own limited domain-specific language. Maak embraces the powerful λ Lisp. This also means…
read more ➔Our Community Office Hours series is all about connecting with the people behind Thunderbird and our products, and sharing the work that’s happening behind the scenes. These conversations are a chance to learn more about the direction of our projects and to hear directly from the people making it…
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