schestowitz.com

In Mintro (Not “Cash Generator”) Storage Space is Still Dear

Where’s the dog?

I Learned or Found Out About 9/11 From the Taxi Driver at the Airport

Many people still remember how they first heard about it (and where)

Sabah FK at Old Trafford

Strong start

Made It to 4 Digits!

An uptime of 1000 days

Stevie Wonder in Manchester

Stevie Wonder coming here again

Quotas Are Not Common Sense

Quality matters

Long Ago (And Far Away)

Simple, but still brilliant, still one of my favourites.

Cheap But Unfit for Purpose and Unsafe

Appliances have gotten worse (less safe, less reliable), even branded goods from NIMA [1, 2] because people like “cheap” and companies are cheapening the production processes, materials, quality control

A Fishy Week

So far, so good

Enzo Has Started Better Than Pep

EnzoFC seems to be getting better over time

LinuxGizmos.com

x86 compute module features Intel Core Ultra 200V with up to 115 TOPS

The LattePanda Mu Ultra measures 60 x 69.6mm and uses an AMI UEFI BIOS stored on a 256Mbit SPI device. The module is available with either an Intel Core Ultra 5 226V or Core Ultra 7 256V processor, both featuring eight CPU cores and eight threads. The 226V operates at up to 4.5GHz and integrates an Intel Arc 130V GPU with seven Xe cores, together with an Intel AI Boost NPU rated at up to 40 TOPS. LattePanda lists up to 53 TOPS from the GPU and 97 TOPS of combined INT8 performance across the CPU, GPU, and NPU.

i.MX95 SMARC module offers LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6 and PCIe Gen3

MYIR’s MYC-JMX95X is a SMARC 2.2 System-on-Module based on NXP’s i.MX95 processor. The module features six Cortex-A55 cores, Cortex-M7 and Cortex-M33 auxiliary cores, a 2-TOPS NPU, LPDDR5 memory, eMMC storage, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and a range of high-speed expansion interfaces.

ODROID-M1S goes Lite with 2GB RAM, NVMe and 4K video

The ODROID-M1S Lite is based on Rockchip’s RK3566 processor, which integrates four Arm Cortex-A55 cores operating at up to 1.8GHz, a Mali-G52 GPU with two execution engines, and an RKNN neural processing unit rated at up to 0.8 TOPS of INT8 performance.

9to5Linux

openSUSE Releases Agama 24 Installer with Networking and Storage Improvements

Coming almost three months after Agama 22, the Agama 24 release introduces a “Browse with details…” option in the web UI to open a sortable table listing for each network device along with its type, IP addresses, and connection state, allowing you to choose the right network connection, and improves binding of network connections.

Linux Mint Devs Introduce New EPUB Reader and Calendar Apps

Meet Xepub, Linux Mint’s new EPUB reader application providing users with an e-book reading experience similar to that of a Kindle or Kobo device. Xepub lets you navigate between chapters, search the contents of the book, add bookmarks, and quickly navigate between bookmarks.

GIMP 3.2.6 Released with UX Improvements, New Rotation Stylus Dynamics Input

Coming almost five months after GIMP 3.2.4, the GIMP 3.2.6 release introduces a new dynamic input for painting, which is used in the original Wacom Art Pen, as well as newer Wacom Art Pen 2 pens, allowing GIMP to react to how you rotate the brush in your hand as you draw.

Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Is Now Available for Download with Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.2

Coming six months after Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, the Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS point release is here as an up-to-date installation medium, which includes all the latest software updates and security patches, for those who want to deploy the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system on new computers without having to download hundreds of updated packages from the repositories after the installation.

COSMIC 1.8 Desktop Environment Is Officially Out, Improves Touchscreen Support

COSMIC 1.8 comes two weeks after COSMIC 1.7 as a hefty release that improves touchscreen support, makes server-side decorations configurable, improves the screenshot tool, adds support for starting X11 windows minimized, improves mouse capture support, and improves support for hybrid GPU laptops.

KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

Some of the highlights of KDE Plasma 6.8 include triple buffering for NVIDIA GPUs enabled by default, support for recording audio in Spectacle during screen recording, and automatic logic support for Plasma Login Manager on distros with older systemd versions, such as KDE neon.

Calamares 3.4.3 Linux Graphical Installer Improves Disk Partitioning, Locale

Coming six months after Calamares 3.4.2, the Calamares 3.4.3 release is here to improve disk partitioning by adding support for the latest KPMcore release, improve the partition-needs-alignment behavior, and no longer accidentally mark /boot as the EFI boot partition, which could break with systemd-gpt-auto-generator.

KDE Gear 26.08.1 Is Out with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

KDE Gear 26.08.1 is here to fix the orientation of an arrow within the plasmoid of the KDE Connect app, fix opening the room map from a talk in the Kongress companion application for conferences, and fix a crash in the Okular document viewer that occurred when saving documents.

OpenSSL 4.1 Promises Support for DTLS 1.3, IKEV2 KDF, and GREASE, Alpha Out Now

OpenSSL 4.1 promises support for the DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) 1.3 protocol, support for the GREASE (Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility) mechanism to prevent extensibility failures in the TLS ecosystem, support for the IKEV2 KDF cryptographic mechanism, and initial support for the Elbrus2000 (e2k) architecture.

KDE Frameworks 6.30 Improves Baloo File Indexer, KWallet, and System Monitor

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue, and KDE Frameworks 6.30 is here to improve in-window dialogs in Kirigami-based apps to be better highlighted against the rest of the window content when using a dark theme and update Plasma System Monitor graphs to request “tabular numerals” for the legends when using a font that supports them, improving alignment.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.22

This version includes important security updates to Tor.

Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch

And for years, we heard this again and again in our user research. People wanted a simple way to protect their entire device, which inspired the idea for Tor VPN back in 2021. We focused on Android first, where the need was greatest and where we could reach the most users in censored regions. We built Tor VPN Beta as a first version, with the expectation that we would learn from real-world use. And when we first launched Tor VPN Beta for Android in a limited release last fall, the primary use case quickly became much clearer: unblock the internet. This has shaped how we've prioritized development and user support in the time since the initial launch, and how we think about the product moving forward.

Internet Society

From Curiosity to Confidence: CodificaKids Builds Digital Trust in Rural Brazil

Walking home one afternoon through the streets of São José do Alegre, a quiet rural town in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, João heard a notification ping and pulled out his phone.