today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 28, 2024

• Keenan ☛ Felt cute, might delete later

  Yes, I successfully left Squarespace to venture off into the world of front end development, and have rebuilt this with Eleventy. I'm planning a much more in-depth writeup of the process of learning how to code and build this thing from (mostly) scratch, for those of you sickos who like that kind of thing.

• Tor ☛ Arti 1.2.5 is released: onion services development, security fixes

  This release contains a number of bugfixes and a fix to one low-severity security issue. We have improved our testing and made Tor network path selection more robust. It continues development on our planned RPC system. We have started the initial work on Arti Relay - the ability to run Arti as a Relay in the Tor Network.

• Undeadly ☛ OpenBGPD 8.5 released

  The OpenBGPD project announced that a new version the Border Gateway Protocol dameon, OpenBGPD 8.5 has been released. The release comes with a number of new features and refinements, and marks another step in the development of secure and reliable routing management.

• The Register UK ☛ Microsoft yanks Windows 11 update after boot loop blunder • The Register

• Applications

  • OSTechNix ☛ Archinstall 2.8.1 Released with Experimental LVM Support

    The latest release of Archinstall, version 2.8.1, introduces several improvements, including the addition of Experimental LVM support.

• SaaS/Back End/Databases

  • Drew Breunig ☛ Using DuckDB to Map Overture GERS IDs to US Census FIPs Codes

    Geospatial data remains too hard to work with. It’s the domain of specialists, out of reach for most people and organizations.

    Which is a real shame, because every organization can benefit from geospatial intelligence.

    Thankfully a wave of new tools, formats, and data – like DuckDB, Geoparquet, and the Overture Maps Foundation – are making GIS easier.

• Mozilla

  • Mozilla ☛ Transform Firefox into the ultimate minimalist browser

    Ever feel like the internet is always… yelling? From pop-up windows and ads that autoplay to the sheer size of the internet, a lot of things scream for our attention. This makes it difficult to get things done.

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Daniel Stenberg ☛ long term curl versions

    In the curl project we ship new releases based on the master branch of our git repository, in a clean and linear commit history. We have never maintained an old branch for long term or stability etc. Instead we promise to not break user behavior nor the ABI or API. All users should be able to always upgrade to the latest.

• Openwashing

  • Reuters ☛ Huawei's Harmony aims to end China's reliance on Windows, Android

    Huawei no longer controls OpenHarmony, having gifted its source code to a non-profit called the OpenAtom Foundation in 2020 and 2021, according to an internal memo and other releases.

    But both the innovation centre and government documents often refer to OpenHarmony and HarmonyOS interchangeably as part of a broader Harmony ecosystem. The growth of HarmonyOS, expected to be rolled out in a PC version this year or next, will spur adoption of OpenHarmony, analysts said.