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Long Ago (And Far Away)

Simple, but still brilliant, still one of my favourites.

Cheap But Unfit for Purpose and Unsafe

Appliances have gotten worse (less safe, less reliable), even branded goods from NIMA [1, 2] because people like “cheap” and companies are cheapening the production processes, materials, quality control

Enzo Has Started Better Than Pep

EnzoFC seems to be getting better over time

Linus Torvalds Again Complains That LLM Slop (That Nobody Audits) Overwhelms the Linux Kernel

could not help but notice the wordings of Torvalds, as uttered in writing this past Sunday. This is not the first time he expresses (apprehensively, his boss is the Linux Foundation, bribed by the slop industry) concerns about Linux slipping out of developers’ control only to become a bloated pig that few people understand.

Art, Not Slop

used to find it disturbing when some football clubs shared slop, especially in social control media, about their squad.

Always Pleased With Manchester Pets & Aquatics at Ardwick

had a very productive day today, especially all the “fish tank” stuff. At one point we discussed the options available to us, then I left home just in time to reach the pet store at 9AM (when it opens). I spent a long time looking at all the animals and could see the people who ran the shop really love animals. One was hugging the lizard while cleaning its cage; the lizard would not let go when he came to the fish section to help and advise me. They also checked things on a computer system to give me expert advice when I asked questions.

999

think I won’t remember to check this again in 3 hours, but it’ll soon be 999 days and 9 hours, 9 minutes, 9 seconds since last reboot.

9to5Linux

MocaccinoOS 26.09 Adds x86-64-v3 Optimized Builds for Improved Performance

Still powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series, namely Linux 6.18.50, MocaccinoOS 26.09 improves Intel CPU/platform support, including for Raptor Lake systems, improves ASUS ROG/Armoury hardware support for asusctl, and adds optional x86-64-v3 optimized builds for improved performance on supported modern CPUs.

KDE Plasma 6.7.5 Desktop Environment Is Out with Many Improvements and Fixes

Coming more than a month after KDE Plasma 6.7.4, the KDE Plasma 6.7.5 release is here to improve the way HDR content looks when using an ICC profile, improve the Spectacle utility to be faster at taking screenshots, and update Discover only to offer to open and install DEB packages on distros that natively support it.

GStreamer 1.28.7 Open-Source Multimedia Framework Adds Support for OpenCV 5

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.6, the GStreamer 1.28.7 release is here to add support for building against OpenCV 5, add a missing API version suffix in the HIP support library filename, restore gap event sending in the MPEG-PS demuxer, and limit the number of remote sources being tracked in the rtprecv element.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 6th, 2026

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OpenVPN 2.7.7 Released with Various Improvements, Bug and Security Fixes

OpenVPN 2.7.7 is here to reduce the number of future keys from 16 to 4 when using EPOCH data channel format, leading to less log spam in userland and fewer resources used in in-kernel implementations. According to the devs, the previous calculation was wrong, and 4 spare keys are sufficient for 100+ Gbit/s links.

Shelly 3.1.3 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves AppImage Support

Shelly 3.1.3 is here to introduce a new button for removing all built AUR package archives and their matching signatures from Shelly’s cache, support for configuring environment variables for each installed AppImage package, and improved parallel downloads of packages and the repository database.

Internet Society

Community Snapshot—August

Around the world, our community works locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy.

LinuxGizmos.com

i.MX95 SMARC module offers LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6 and PCIe Gen3

MYIR’s MYC-JMX95X is a SMARC 2.2 System-on-Module based on NXP’s i.MX95 processor. The module features six Cortex-A55 cores, Cortex-M7 and Cortex-M33 auxiliary cores, a 2-TOPS NPU, LPDDR5 memory, eMMC storage, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and a range of high-speed expansion interfaces.

ODROID-M1S goes Lite with 2GB RAM, NVMe and 4K video

The ODROID-M1S Lite is based on Rockchip’s RK3566 processor, which integrates four Arm Cortex-A55 cores operating at up to 1.8GHz, a Mali-G52 GPU with two execution engines, and an RKNN neural processing unit rated at up to 0.8 TOPS of INT8 performance.

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KDE Frameworks 6.5 Released with Plasma Wayland and Dolphin Improvements

posted by Marius Nestor on Aug 09, 2024,
updated Aug 10, 2025

KDE Frameworks 6.5 is here to improve the accessibility of multiple controls on the Shortcuts page in System Settings, standardize the red X symbolism for “remove this abstract thing” that the HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) recommends in the Breeze icon theme, and improve support for apps on the Plasma Wayland session.

This release also adds tooltips to the open/save dialogs and many other places in Dolphin’s Places panels that show relevant information when hovered, improves the performance for everything in KDE that uses the KFileItem::isHidden element, and improves the “Get New [thing]” dialogs to allow downloading files from the details page from an entry that includes multiple entries.

Read on

Original Post:

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.5.0 - KDE Community

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.5.0.

KDE Frameworks are 72 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement.

This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.

Linuxiac:

KDE Frameworks 6.5.0 Is Out, Here’s What’s New

The update introduces various improvements across various components, ensuring developers have the tools to create high-quality applications efficiently.

Notable enhancements include support for new version fields in Attica’s DownloadDescription and critical bug fixes in the Bluez Qt and Breeze Icons libraries.

Breeze Icons, for instance, has expanded its icon set, adding new 22px color and monochrome category icons and streamlining existing assets to enhance UI consistency.

Regarding build systems and integration, the Extra CMake Modules now include additional environment path setups. Framework Integration sees updates like relabeled notification resources to improve usability in the Plasma workspace.

Another One From BB(Linuxiac):

KDE Plasma 6.5 Highlights New Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Toggles

The KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment is taking shape, and while the stable version is still a couple of months away—scheduled for October 21—there’s already plenty to get excited about. After announcing last week that the new version will include automatic light/dark theme switching, the project is back with another round of updates.

One of the biggest changes is coming to System Settings. Individual pages can now talk back to the main app a little bit, meaning they can hide themselves when they’re irrelevant—for example, if your hardware doesn’t support a certain feature.

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