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Matthew Garrett: Getting Google Cast on my Soundbar

Gnome Planet — October 30, 2026

I have a Samsung Q800A soundbar. It ships with built-in support for the Apple Airplay protocol, but I’m not really an Apple kind of guy so that’s never been particularly helpful for me. So, instead, I have a Chromecast Audio plugged into it via TOSLINK, and that works fine - except for the fact that…

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Sophie Herold: GNOME Fellowship October 2026

Gnome Planet — October 30, 2026

The GNOME Foundation is supporting contributors with its fellowship program. You can help expand the fellowship program with a donation. After the release of GNOME 51 in the previous month, this month was the time were people noticed the first regressions and bugs. Hence, a lot of work went into bug…

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Rejoice, leap seconds are dead!

Jeff Geerling — October 30, 2026

There will never be a leap second again. At least not for UTC. At the CGPM, they decided the last leap second we'll ever see for UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, happened back at the end of 2016. Of course they made that decision while I was out on vacation, so I'm just getting this video up…

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Book Review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ★★☆☆☆

Terence Eden — October 30, 2026

I did not care for this one bit. I found it cloying, infantilising, and far too circuitous. It starts off as a bit of an overwritten melodrama, where every phrase is a delicious flower waiting to bloom, but ends up being a over-sugared mess with a rotten heart. Parts are just exhausting to read,…

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What's new in openEO: real zeros, cleaner masks and better merges

Copernicus Updates — October 30, 2026

What's new in openEO: real zeros, cleaner masks and better merges

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Copernicus Sentinel-3B unavailability notice for OOP manoeuvre planned on 29/10/2026 [DOY 302]

Copernicus Updates — October 30, 2026

Copernicus Sentinel-3B unavailability notice for OOP manoeuvre planned on 29/10/2026 [DOY 302]

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Copernicus Sentinel-1D Data Unavailability on 28 October 2026

Copernicus Updates — October 30, 2026

Copernicus Sentinel-1D Data Unavailability on 28 October 2026

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Temporary rollback of the Sentinel-1 processor

Copernicus Updates — October 30, 2026

Temporary rollback of the Sentinel-1 processor

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Niko Matsakis: 'Trust but verify'; or, 'the correctness ratchet'

Mozilla Planet — October 30, 2026

The name of the game in agentic development is figuring out how to clearly tell agents what you want– and then how to be sure they follow through. Lately I’ve been tinkering with an interesting technique around this that I’d like to share.1 I call it “trust but verify”2. The basic idea is that…

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GeoTools Team: GeoTools 33.7 Released

OSGeo Planet — October 30, 2026

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest maintenance version of GeoTools 33.7: geotools-33.7-bin.zip geotools-33.7-doc.zip geotools-33.7-userguide.zip geotools-33.7-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in…

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GeoTools Team: GeoTools 35.1 Released

OSGeo Planet — October 30, 2026

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest stable version of GeoTools 35.1: geotools-35.1-bin.zip geotools-35.1-doc.zip geotools-35.1-userguide.zip geotools-35.1-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in conjunction…

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Jakub Steiner: I am playing Grid right now!

Gnome Planet — October 30, 2026

I never liked racing "sims" like Gran Turismo. So realistic! You can bounce off the guardrails like in a pinball. Grid on the other hand was a fantastic "arcade" racer with a brilliant damage model where mistakes were punished. And the camera work! And music. Boy, that was such a treat! Nostalgia…

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PostGIS Development: PostGIS 3.7.0

OSGeo Planet — October 30, 2026

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 , GEOS 3.15.0 , postgis_tiger_geocoder 2025.2 , and address_standardizer. This version requires GEOS 3.10+, PostgreSQL 14-19, Proj 6.1+, and libgmp. To take advantage of all postgis extension features, GEOS…

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GeoTools Team: GeoTools 34.6 Released

OSGeo Planet — October 29, 2026

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest maintenance version of GeoTools 34.6: geotools-34.6-bin.zip geotools-34.6-doc.zip geotools-34.6-userguide.zip geotools-34.6-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in…

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GeoTools Team: GeoTools 35.2 Released

OSGeo Planet — October 29, 2026

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest stable version of GeoTools 35.2: geotools-35.2-bin.zip geotools-35.2-doc.zip geotools-35.2-userguide.zip geotools-35.2-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in conjunction…

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Scheme Requests for Implementation: SRFI 279: In(tro)spection Protocol

Scheme Planet — October 29, 2026

SRFI 279 is now in final status. Interactive REPL-driven systems (that most Schemes are) need a way to get detailed information on a given piece of data. Inspectors, as these are conventionally called. This SRFI defines a basic protocol for inspectors, consisting of three procedures: …

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GIScussions: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

OSGeo Planet — October 29, 2026

Doug Greenfield posted his Map of the Week – Map of the 100 Famous Views of Edo saying “The Wikipedia listing has a table listing each print with an image, title and geographic coordinates. Somebody with more time and better programming skills could make a nice interactive map from this table with…

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On Worrying Developments in Free Software Communities

Guix Planet — October 29, 2026

Somewhere in our struggles for ideological superiority we lost track, got lost, forgot about the essence of community. "We shouldn't worry about the young" is a call for self-reflection and change of course, back to our roots.

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Copernicus Sentinel-3B unavailability notice for Lunar Calibration planned on 29/10/2026 [DOY 302]

Copernicus Updates — October 29, 2026

Copernicus Sentinel-3B unavailability notice for Lunar Calibration planned on 29/10/2026 [DOY 302]

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Copernicus Sentinel-3A unavailability notice for OOP #164 planned on 29/10/2026 [DOY 302]

Copernicus Updates — October 29, 2026

Copernicus Sentinel-3A unavailability notice for OOP #164 planned on 29/10/2026 [DOY 302]

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Firefox Tooling Announcements: Happy BMO Push Day! (20261028.1)

Mozilla Planet — October 28, 2026

Github Link The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org: Bug 2081856 - Migrate Bug REST resource to native Mojo API: attachments (attachments, add_attachment, update_attachment) Bug 2080901 - [BMO-ETL] When any table fails to export, the entire snapshot should be rolled back to…

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Mozilla Addons Blog: Introducing enterprise add-on policies

Mozilla Planet — October 28, 2026

We are thrilled to announce that enterprise add-ons will launch on addons.mozilla.org (AMO) on December 1, 2026. In response to input from enterprise organizations that distribute add-ons strictly via Firefox enterprise policies, we are establishing a dedicated enterprise release channel. This…

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‘Seize the beauty of our Planet’ contest for the best satellite image of the Earth

Copernicus Updates — October 28, 2026

CloudFerro is inviting Earth observation community members to take part in the 7th edition of ‘Seize the beauty of our Planet’ contest for the best satellite image of the Earth.

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Gadget Review: SoundPEATS CC3 Pro Bluetooth Headphones ★★★★⯪

Terence Eden — October 28, 2026

These are easily the most comfortable headphones I've worn. I've literally had them clipped around my ears all day without noticing them. The good folks at SoundPEATS have sent me their latest cans to wrap around my lugs. I'm a big fan of these new-style "clip on" headphones. Rather than encasing…

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spritely.institute: Hoot 0.10.0 released!

Scheme Planet — October 28, 2026

We are excited to announce the release of Hoot 0.10.0! Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler backend for Guile, as well as a general purpose WebAssembly toolchain. In other words, Scheme in the browser! This release contains new features and bug fixes and since the 0.9.0 release back in…

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