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Server
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Positech Games ☛ Eventually a simpler, more local website
My positech website has been online since 1999. Initially it was just a page for my first game (Asteroid Miner) and a picture of my first cat. Since then, a lot has happened, and I have moved web hosts more times than I can remember. I was sensible enough to realize early on that you needed a folder for each game, and to be organised as a developer website, not just a single game website, but where I really screwed up is when I started thinking it made sense to have a separate server account for each game, with its own logins, and domain name, so you could stop any of those sites bringing down the whole server, by having bandwidth and disk space quotas etc.
When you are renting a physical dedicated server, this stuff seems no big deal. It also seemed pretty simple to host my own blog (this was originally on blogspot) and my own forums. When I was selling a lot of games, publishing third party games, and generally trying to ‘scale’, this all seemed reasonable and made sense. A lot of my games had some form of back-end php, if only for stats reporting, so having different php versions possible for each account was also considered fairly sensible.
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Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)
Editors: Aakanksha Bhende, Arujjwal Negi, Chad M. Crowell, Graziano Casto, Swathi Rao
Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.35 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development cycle and the vibrant support from our community.
This release consists of 60 enhancements, including 17 stable, 19 beta, and 22 alpha features.
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Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
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LWN ☛ Asahi Linux 6.18 progress report
The Asahi GNU/Linux project has published its progress report following the release of Linux 6.18. This time around the project reports progress on many fronts, including microphone support for M2 Pro/Max MacBooks, work queued for Linux 6.19 to support USB3 via the USB-C ports, and work to improve the Asahi Linux installation experience. The project is also enabling as additional System Management Controller (SMC) drivers, which means that "
the myriad voltage, current, temperature and power sensors controlled by the SMC will be readable using the standard hwmon interfaces
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Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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KDE ☛ KDE PIM Sprint in Paris
Last weekend I attended this year's edition of the KDE PIM Sprint which, this time, took place in Paris.
I arrived in Paris around 1 p.m. and first walked from Gare du Nord to the Île de la Cité to have a look at the reconstructed roof of Notre Dame. Then I checked in at my hotel and after a brief rest I went to the sprint venue, the office of enioka. There I was greeted by one of our hosts for the weekend and by a few KDE PIMsters who had already taken over the meeting room.
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GNOME Desktop/GTK
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Sam Thursfield: Status update, 17/12/2025
Welcome to mid-December! Where I am this month is a pretty cold affair… at night it’s 2 or 3 degrees above freezing. Maybe you’re in a tropical place and the nights are 30 degrees warmer. Or maybe you’re somewhere that drops down to 20 or 30 below freezing. The world is a big place! (Or maybe you’re in one of those 10 remaining countries that use fahrenheit to measure temperature.. if so, I’m sorry for you ; -)
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Debian Family
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9to5Linux ☛ Meet Armbian Imager, the Official Flashing Utility for Armbian Linux, Beta Out Now
Armbian Imager is out now as the official utility for flashing the Armbian GNU/Linux operating system to your single-board computer.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ Extending ROS Noetic Support with ESM-Enabled Content Snaps
To build on this foundation, Canonical has now extended its ESM (Expanded Security Maintenance) for ROS coverage to ROS Noetic content-sharing snaps. This update is a significant step toward long-term support and security for ROS environments distributed through the Snap ecosystem, ensuring developers can continue to rely on maintained and compatible components.
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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PC World ☛ Leaving your phone's Wi-Fi on all the time is a huge risk, experts warn
Most people think they’ll be safe from most cyber security threats as long as they pay attention and follow certain rules, like knowing how to spot phishing messages and not downloading unusual apps. But attackers can gain access to your phone even if you do everything right.
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France ☛ Mobile Phones: Threat Landscape Since 2015 [PDF]
The numerous communication protocols used, such as cellular network, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC, suffer from several weaknesses facilitating the interception of exchanged information, or even the alteration of data in order to deploy spyware code on the devices.
Operating systems and applications installed on the device may also constitute another intrusion vector for spyware deployment. Some sophisticated threats indeed exploit chains of 0-day vulnerabilities which do not require any user interaction to compromise the device, usually referred to as zero-click. The implants deployed after gaining access to the mobile phone are generally non persistent and leave only few traces on the compromised device. The sophistication of these infection chains and their stealth, as well as the absence of detection solutions significantly increase the difficulty of response efforts.
These elements show that mobile devices have a large attack surface that multiple offensive actors strive to exploit - sometimes deploying very advanced attack capabilities to successfully compromise a device.
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