today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 602: Wildcard Gotchas

    I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went, Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets, The first perfect computer, Find Name Wildcard Gotcha, and more

• Applications

  • Beta News ☛ AdGuard brings full-system ad blocking to Linux with new standalone app [Ed: Not slop, for a change?]

    For many years now, Linux users looking to block ads have needed to piece together a mixture of browser extensions, DNS-based filtering, and network-wide tools (such as Pi-hole). While these solutions certainly help, none of them offer complete system-wide protection.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • I Have Seen the Future of Cloud-Native: SUSE Expands Cloud-Native Offerings With DevX Validated Designs

      SUSE’s presentation at SUSECON 25 highlighted its commitment to providing a structured and security-focused cloud-native stack.

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Raspberry Pi and Hey Hi (AI) power open source smart city monitoring project

      Glossyio has created a Raspberry Pi-powered traffic monitor that uses Hey Hi (AI) to monitor traffic and look for statistics around specific travelers like cyclists and pedestrians.

    • CNX Software ☛ PicoCalc Kit is a Raspberry Pi Pico handheld terminal with a backlit STM32 QWERTY keyboard

      ClockworkPi has made several GNU/Linux handheld terminals over the years such as the GameShell or DevTerm, but the PicoCalc Kit is quite different since it relies on the Raspberry Pi Pico board plus an STM32 microcontroller to handle its built-in keyboard.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Open Source For U ☛ Top 7 Open Source Technologies To Learn And Master In 2025

  • Security

    • Security Week ☛ FreeType Zero-Day Being Exploited in the Wild

      Meta’s Facebook (Farcebook) security team warns of live exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in the open-source FreeType library. 

    • Security Week ☛ North Korean Hackers Distributed Android Spyware via Surveillance Giant Google Play

      The North Korea-linked APT37 has been observed targeting Android users with spyware distributed via Surveillance Giant Google Play.