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Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.24.0: bug 2078583 moz-phab reorg --force can fail part way and leave the Phabricator stack tangled bug 2082342 Move lando warnings knowable at submit time to moz-phab bug 2086803 Resolve each command’s flags and config into a frozen options object bug 2087605 moz-phab…

Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR dataset acquired without onboard FDBAQ compression

Temporary Geolocation Issue Affecting Sentinel-2B Products

Delay in publication of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 data on 01-11-2026 and 02-11-2026

At the recent EMFCamp, I bumped in to Professor Kate Devlin who was talking a little about the AI Resist List. I think one of the useful things we can do is loudly complain about shitty uses of AI. Here's an example. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm contacting companies which send malformed…

CDSE FairGrow Use Case

As with my last post on AI, let me open with a statement: Just because most people hold AI a certain way, doesn’t mean that we always must, either now or in the future. As I noted in that piece, and my shades of gray post, I am well aware — and agree with — the notion that a lot of frontier AI…

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.7.6. Plasma 6.7 was released in June 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds two months’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are…

The rustup team has published a new point release of rustup, 1.29.3. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.3 This new patch release has fixed some minor regressions over the…

Fedora 45 is now available ! 🎉 So let’s see what this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants includes for Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic. Note: You can also read this post on the Fedora Magazine. Changes for all Atomic Desktops Completed the…

Welcome to the Q3 2026 edition of the Firefox Security & Privacy Newsletter. Security and privacy are core principles of Mozilla’s Manifesto and remain at the heart of Firefox’s development. This edition highlights key initiatives from Q3 2026 across three areas: Firefox Security: New security…

After some cleanup and refactor, I’ve published the code of the KDE builder dashboard that I wrote about some days ago to invent.kde.org/ivan/kde-builder-dashboard. I tweaked the look a bit. Failed projects are now on the top, and missing optional dependencies only take 33% of the screen. This is…

System Update Notification – CDSE Marketplace and Forum on 24/11/2026

I love testing in production. The thrill of accidentally publishing some dummy data - or taking down an entire website - is similar to skydiving without a parachute. Exquisite excitement followed by heart-stopping terror. Before going live with a new website or service, it's sensible to test how…

Another new version of our still-new-ish package myman reached CRAN this morning, and has been built for r2u and on r-universe. The matching Python package has also been updated. The package offers twenty two hundred eighty four “My man …” posts by Kevin Kruse made on bsky during the summer of…

As part of our Security project for QGIS initiative, we identified a work package titled “Improve Memory Safety.” Having worked on this topic over the last few months, here is a summary of the issues involved and what has been accomplished so far. It’s not an easy thing to present this topic. I’ll…

We’re glad to announce the release of GIMP 3.2.8! This new stable release contains a number of bugfixes and security updates from new and long-time contributors. General Updates and UX Improvements Highlighting New Contributor’s Work System-specific Updates Security Updates Around…

SRFI 272 is now in final status. This SRFI follows the traditional Scheme model of pretty printing, which treats it as a process distinct from general controlled formatting. While general-purpose formatters often prioritize specialized presentation at the expense of machine-readability,…

As of today, I've been on the Mastodon social network for 10 years. I think that deserves a little reflection and celebration. Post by @Edent View on Mastodon Social networks often launch in a blaze of glory but limp out of existence within a year or so. How many services have you signed up…

Welcome to a new edition of This Month in KDE Linux, dedicated to KDE’s next-generation operating system. October was another infrastructure-heavy month for the project. A major initiative involved migrating the OS image storage and updating system to work with KDE’s new S3-based file storage…

Soon after I posted my One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Map, Keir Clarke posted about another map of Japanese woodblock prints on his Maps Mania blog, well worth a read if you want to learn a bit about Japanese landscape art in the 19th C. It turns out that there are a lot more than Hiroshige’s One…

The most common way people experience classical style music these days is via movies and video-games. After seeing The Force Awakens - live in concert, I've become rather a fan of watching movies performed with a live soundtrack. But what about watching a video game with orchestral accompaniment?…

From raster to histogram Visualisation is a key part of any analysis. It is useful not only at the end, when presenting the results, but also throughout the analysis itself. A quick plot can help you interpret intermediate results and decide what to do next. R and Python offer excellent tools for…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 23 to October 30. GNOME Fellowship Sophie (she/her) says GNOME RFC Process, many fixes in glycin, CMYK images in Loupe, and more: Learn about my work in October as part of the GNOME Fellowship. GNOME Core Apps and…

In the previous post we looked at a simple multithreaded task executor that behaves roughly like its Python standard library counterpart. The biggest missing feature was being able to return values from run tasks via future objects. In a fully dynamic language like Python this is fairly…