today's leftovers
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GNU/Linux and BSD
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Audiocasts/Shows
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Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Podcast Episode 306: Bambu Hacks, AI Strikes Back, John Deere Gets Sued, And All About Capacitors
It was Dan and Elliot behind the microphones today for a transatlantic look at the week in hacks. There was a bucket of news about AI, kicked off by Deepseek suddenly coming into the zeitgeist and scaring the pants off investors for… reasons? No matter, we’re more interested in the tech anyway, such as a deep dive into deep space communications from a backyard antenna farm that’s carefully calibrated to give the HOA fits. We got down and dirty with capacitors, twice even, and looked at a clever way to stuff two websites into one QR code. It’s all Taylor, all the time on every channel of the FM band, which we don’t recommend you do (for multiple reasons) but it’s nice to know you can. Plus, great kinetic art project, but that tooling deserves a chef’s kiss. Finally, we wrap up with our Can’t Miss articles where Jenny roots for the right to repair, and Al gives us the finger(1).
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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BSD
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Release: BSD Router Project 1.994
Starting with this version, BSDRP requires at least a 4GB disk. If you installed BSDRP on a 2GB disk, upgrading will not be possible. However, if it was installed on a 4GB or larger disk, you can resize the system partition using the following command:
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Unicorn Media ☛ ELevate Now Allows No Fuss Migration to CentOS 10
If you're using CentOS 9 in production and you're ready to make the move to CentOS 10, AlmaLinux's ELevate tool can help.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Programming/Development
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Qt ☛ Qt 6.8.2 Released
We have released Qt 6.8.2 today. As a patch release, Qt 6.8.2 does not introduce new features but contains more than 450 bug fixes, security updates, and other improvements to the top of the Qt 6.8.1 release.
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Evan Hahn ☛ Notes from January 2025
Here are some poorly-organized notes from January 2025, which I hope might be of interest to somebody.
A post of mine did well online
This month, I posted “My failed attempt to shrink all npm packages by 5%”. This post has been a draft since 2023 and I finally finished it.
It did well, and I had a day of minor programmer fame.
In the post, I chronicle my effort to compress JavaScript modules in a backwards-compatible way. I made an RFC to the npm folks, built proofs of concept, and attended a community meeting. Though the idea seemed like an obvious win at first, I later realized that the tradeoffs weren’t worth it and closed my proposal. I talked about the process and the lessons learned.
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