today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 17, 2025

• SUSE/OpenSUSE

  • Fixing the blinking cursor as a symptom of SDDM crash under openSUSE 16.0

    After upgrading openSUSE to the latest 16.0 version and restarting the machine, the cursor stopped blinking as it was waiting forever for something that would never be loaded. It is something that might scare even the oldest user, but with a little bit of discernment, things can be quickly fixed.

• Open Hardware/Modding

  • Hackaday ☛ Plug Into USB, Read Hostname And IP Address

    Ever wanted to just plug something in and conveniently read the hostname and IP addresses of a headless board like a Raspberry Pi? Chances are, a free USB port is more accessible than digging up a monitor and keyboard, and that’s where [C4KEW4LK]’s rpi_usb_ip_display comes in. Plug it into a free USB port, and a few moments later, read the built-in display. Handy!

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Web Browsers/Web Servers

    • Mozilla

      • Servo (Linux Foundation) ☛ The Servo Blog: November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and more!

        Landing in Servo 0.0.3 and our November nightly builds, we now have context menus for links, images, and other web content (@atbrakhi, @mrobinson, #40434, #40501), vsync on Android (@mrobinson, #40306), light mode for the new tab page (@arihant2math, #40272), plus several web platform features: [...]

  • SaaS/Back End/Databases

    • PostgreSQL ☛ Pgpool-II 4.6.5, 4.5.10, 4.4.15 and 4.3.18 released.

  • Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

    • Ruben Schade ☛ This is my worst theme ever, and I love it

      I realised recently my favourite bloggers have sites that are distinctive and personal. Mine looked like a default theme you’d get in a WordPress blog, so in the words of Paul and Linda McCartney and sung by Joe English, I decided I must do something about it. Hey look, this turned into a Music Monday.

  • Programming/Development

    • Rlang ☛ Set Operations with freeCount

      In general, set operations are very useful for comparing lists of things. These lists can contain any strings, such as gene or species names. Set operations are also a good way to identify unique or shared genes across sets of analysis results.

    • Perl / Raku

      • Rakulang ☛ Rakudo Weekly 2025.50 Exemplar Poll

        Exemplar Applications I just posted a POLL over on Reddit, please do have your say. Now that the new raku.org site is in place, I’m hoping we can use it to show potential converts (eg Python, Javascript, PHP, Go developers) how it can add more -Ofun to their lives.