today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 24, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • The Ask Noah Show ☛ Ask Noah Show: Ask Noah Show 460

    This week Noah and Steve dig into an npm attack that Red Hat has issued an alert for. We talk about small and portable laptops, and of course answer your questions.

• Kernel Space

  • Klara ☛ What the Future Brings – ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations

    The OpenZFS project has a bright and encouraging future as it continues to gain momentum and adoption as the reliable, flexible, and performant filesystem for use cases from small embedded appliances and IoT devices, through every scale of enterprise, to the biggest research clusters in the world.

    Today, we’ll look at what is coming in the near term and where ZFS might take us over the next few years as the storage landscape continues to evolve.

• Games

  • SuperTuxKart Evolution Roadmap

    Along with the announcement of SuperTuxKart Evolution, we promised that we would release a roadmap for the project.

    Here it is, with our team walking a thin line between the urge to share good news and the need to not over-promise. There is a reason, after all, while vague promises and "coming soon" announcements are so common.

    As a brief reminder, SuperTuxKart Evolution is the name of the project’s next major release. With all the changes we are hard at work bringing to life, we see it as a new game within the same series, rather than as a mere update.

  • Juan J Martínez ☛ Physical editions coming!

    The Heart of Salamanderland is available on cassette, 3" and 3.5" diskette, and comes in a nice box –like other Poly Play editions– with a manual (with instructions, monster descriptions, and a comic), an A3 poster and an micro SD card with the sound track. The cover art was kindly contributed by Josep Febrer, that happens to be a fan of the game.

  • Chris ☛ Procedural Rhetoric: Opinions as Algorithms

    This is a game where the player takes the role of a family of settlers traversing North America westward, while carefully managing their supplies to avoid running out during critical events. The game is a great success, but it paints a one-sided picture of what life along the Oregon trail was like. A lot of people who were not travelling settlers lived there, and the game tells us nothing of their lives. It’s as if they didn’t exist. The author phrases this particularly well: [...]

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Kaidan 0.13.0: Multi-Account Support and Secure Password Storage

      Kaidan 0.13.0 is out now! And it comes with a bunch of shiny new features.

      Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI Zero Entrust with public money provided by the European Commission.

      Multi-Account Support

      Kaidan supports the simultaneous usage of multiple accounts now. Imagine you could use the same chat app at work and with your friends. All your favorite and accustomed features would always be accessible without switching apps. It is possible with XMPP and finally with Kaidan too!

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • LibreNews ☛ The Golden Rule of Switching to Linux: Restructure Your Life

    To make the learning curve less steep and the transition more gradual, people often decide to keep their existing Windows installation intact and learn Linux at their own pace, which eventually leads to failure.