today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 13, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • The Ask Noah Show ☛ Ask Noah Show Episode 466: Ask Noah Show 466

    This week we talk about Bolt graphics, a new graphics start up that is working on a graphics card with upgrade-able memory for a competitive price. A software developer has released an open source alternative firmware for the Nest v1 and v2 thermostats, and of course your questions!

• Kernel Space

  • Marcin Juszkiewicz ☛ From the diary of AArch64 porter — ID registers

    People are used to looking at “Features” field in the /proc/cpuinfo file under Linux. But does it show everything about the CPU cores present in the system?

• Applications

  • Linuxiac ☛ Docker Engine 29: Containerd Becomes Default, Experimental nftables Support

    Docker Engine 29 sets containerd as the default image store and introduces experimental nftables support for modern GNU/Linux networking.

• Games

  • Juha-Matti Santala ☛ I designed a 3D printed photo caddy insert for Tiny Epic Galaxies

    Last week, I added Tiny Epic Galaxies to my tabletop games collection. I’ve been enjoying the game for a long time but never owned a copy until now.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • HaikuOS ☛ Haiku Activity & Contract Report, October 2025

    The kernel also has a guarded heap, the implementation of which was originally quite similar to the userland one. The kernel, however, has a lot of different things going on when it comes to managing memory that userland does not, like the bookkeeping structures for areas and the like. This means depending on what point malloc() is invoked in the kernel, we may not actually be permitted to reserve more memory, but must rely on what had been reserved already, or else we’d hit deadlocks! But we also have the advantage that the kernel malloc, if it wants to, can interact directly with the virtual memory allocation and page table management systems, whereas the userland malloc can only do so through the regular syscalls, which are rather abstract by comparison.

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • OpenSUSE ☛ Hack Week Project Seeks to Launch Kudos

      Called Kudos, the application is designed to give members of the project an easy way to acknowledge contributions beyond code submissions alone.

  • Debian Family

    • Simon Josefsson ☛ Introducing the Debian Libre Live Images

      The Debian Libre Live Images project provides Live ISO images for Intel/AMD-compatible 64-bit x86 CPUs (amd64) built without any non-free software, suitable for running and installing Debian. The images are similar to the Debian Live Images distributed as Debian live images.

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • Hackaday ☛ Installing An 84MB Hard Drive Into A PDP-11/44

      Over on YouTube [Usagi Electric] shows us how he installed an 84MB hard drive into his PDP-11/44.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Tiny386 emulator turns tiny microcontroller into a full i386 PC — tiny virtual machine can boot backdoored Windows 95 and GNU/Linux on ESP32-S3 chip

      Tiny386 emulator turns an ESP32-S3 microcontroller into a full i386 PC