today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 16, 2025

• Desktop/Laptop

  • Matt Birchler ☛ Why hasn't the desktop UI evolved in years?

    And he mentions that the original Macintosh had a screen the same physical size as the iPad mini. Yes, the Mac windowing UI originated on a screen as big as the tiniest iPad…an iPad that many suggest is too small to support windows at all today.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Late Night Linux – Episode 364

    The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 backdoored Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM.

• Graphics Stack

  • Timur Kristóf: How do graphics drivers work?

    I’d like to give an overview on how graphics drivers work in general, and then write a little bit about the GNU/Linux graphics stack for AMD GPUs. The intention of this post is to clear up a bunch of misunderstandings that people have on the internet about open source graphics drivers.

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

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Krita ☛ Krita Monthly Update - Edition 33 | Krita

      Development of 5.3.0 is now in feature freeze, meaning no more features will be added before release. This includes the Text Tool, marking the end of a long phase of development for Wolthera, code reviewer Dmitry, and everyone else who contributed.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • University of Toronto ☛ The systemd journal, message priorities, and (syslog) facilities

    If you use systemd units or systemd-run to conveniently capture output from scripts and programs into the systemd journal, one of the things that it looks like you don't get is message priorities and (syslog) facilities. Fortunately, systemd's journal support is a bit more sophisticated than that.

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Red Hat Official ☛ Harden your AI systems: Applying industry standards in the real world

      To manage these challenges, enterprises need to adopt a formal approach by using a set of frameworks that map AI threats, define controls, and guide responsible adoption. In this article, we’ll explore the evolving AI security and safety threat landscape, drawing from leading efforts such as MITRE ATLAS, NIST, OWASP, and others.

    • Red Hat ☛ Set up FSx for NetApp ONTAP on Red Bait OpenShift Service on AWS

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Education

    • Ruben Schade ☛ Wikipedia’s orientability article, revisited

      I understood this, as I said at the time. But it doesn’t flow well, and assumes too much prior knowledge. Forgive the tautololgy, but an introduction is supposed to introduce a topic. This would have been better served being in a “background” section.

      I checked out the article again today. It’s still a bit dense, but it’s vastly improved: [...]

  • Standards/Consortia

    • RIPE ☛ ASPA in the RPKI Dashboard: A New Layer of Routing Security

      ASPA is now available in the RIPE NCC RPKI Dashboard, adding a way to express and validate your upstream relationships on top of ROA-based origin validation. Building on its introduction at RIPE 91, this article explains what ASPA does, why it matters, and how to start thinking about deployment.