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Audacity 3.7.6 also introduces support for using middle-mouse drag panning over the track panel and support for exporting audio files as OGG/Opus when exporting with FFmpeg. In addition, it improves 16-bit FLAC import and cloud audio uploads. 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I've been using it as my primary workstation for a couple months now and things generally work fine. In the few situations where software I wanted wasn't available I've ported it or I've been able to manually build and run it. The tools I need day to day just work. It helps that I have years of experience running Linux/BSD systems, but I think it's approachable for the average user who can handle popular Linux desktop distros. However, the networking experience right now makes me very unhappy. FreeBSD isn't directly to blame for this because the situation I'm about to describe is not something you'd encounter on a server or workstation, but it is a standard scenario for many laptop users: one network, two interfaces. You'd definitely encounter this if you were issued a laptop by your employer and have a dock with Ethernet at your desk, but WiFi when you're walking around the office and going to meetings etc. Before proceeding let me note that I have no idea what the current state is on Linux, but it is likely an improvement over what I will be describing below. I do not believe they have reached MacOS equivalent functionality yet either. * § Kernel⠀➾ o ⚓ Klara ☛ How_Many_VDEVs_Is_Too_Many?_ZFS_VDEV_Scaling_Guide⠀⇛ ZFS offers powerful scalability through its virtual device (VDEV) model, allowing administrators to build pools that balance performance, redundancy, and capacity across diverse workloads. However, as systems grow, an important question arises: how far can you push VDEV scaling before performance degradation, redundancy limits, or administrative burdens set in? This guide explores the practical boundaries of VDEV count, separating misconception from reality. Based on production deployments and operational experience, it lays out the considerations behind designing pools with high VDEV counts and offers strategies for scaling cleanly. o ⚓ Klara ☛ What_We_Built:_Top_ZFS_Capabilities_Delivered_by_Klara_in 2025_-_Klara_Systems⠀⇛ ZFS keeps advancing - and much of the progress comes from what we see in real-world customer environments. At Klara Inc., our engineering team doesn’t just maintain ZFS; they actively evolve it. The features we delivered this year were shaped by the patterns, edge cases, and performance behaviours that surface across high-scale deployments; free-space fragmentations that impact throughput, RAIDZ inefficiencies, flash hardware constraints, and the growing need for faster, more predictable recovery paths. This overview covers the major ZFS capabilities our team built and upstreamed in 2025 - practical, production- ready improvements that boost performance, reliability, diagnostics, and flexibility across modern storage systems. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 339 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Bum_education.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Bum_education.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Bum education⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 Technology as spiralling mass hysteria has the unsettling potential to draw even rational sceptics like myself into disaffection. One must not merely reject duff technology, but also those other people who have been hypnotised and now see anyone reluctant to join them as a threat. Nothing angers the pathological neophyte more than a rejection of his "solutions". So "AI" is splitting society. The typical non-thinker sees only two options, those who are "racing to embrace the future", and sour Luddites living in woodland shacks who will be "left behind". This causes the most reasonable voices to be shut down, or simply drowned out in the noise. Voices like those of psychologists and education experts who point to the massive harms already emerging from the use of "AI". The problem with the "narrative" of progress is that there is none, just an undignified clamour like a Black Friday feeding frenzy. Thus I am compelled to write more on this topic, because if anything we experts are not nearly vocal enough at this very serious juncture. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 380 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Debian_debates_amending_architecture_support_stratagem_and_curr.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Debian_debates_amending_architecture_support_stratagem_and_curr.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Debian debates amending architecture support stratagem and current state of Linux architecture support⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 * ⚓ LWN ☛ Debian_debates_amending_architecture_support_stratagem⠀⇛ The Linux kernel supports a large number of architectures. Not all of those are supported by Linux distributions, but Debian does support many of them, officially or unofficially. On October 26, Bastian Blank opened a discussion about the minimum version of these architectures that Debian should support: in particular, raising the de-facto minimum versions in the next Debian release ("forky"). Thread participants were generally in favor of keeping support for older architecture variants, but didn't reach a firm conclusion. Blank noted that Debian doesn't currently have a policy for which architecture versions should be supported. Three architectures do specify a minimum version of GCC, which in turn implies some limits on architecture versions: Arm CPUs must be armv7-a+fp or newer, 32-bit x86 CPUs must be i686 or newer, and s390 CPUs must be z196 or newer. (Version z196 is followed, naturally, by z114, then by zEC12, zBC12, and z13. Since z13, IBM has continued counting with the same numbers that everyone else uses.) These architectures are all fairly old. * ⚓ LWN ☛ The_current_state_of_Linux_architecture_support⠀⇛ There have been several recent announcements about Linux distributions changing the list of architectures they support, or adjusting how they build binaries for some versions of those architectures. Ubuntu introduced architecture variants, Fedora considered dropping support for i686 but reversed course after some pushback, and Debian developers have discussed raising its architecture baseline for the upcoming Debian 14 ("forky"). Linux supports a large number of architectures, and it's not always clear where or by whom they are used. With increasing concerns about diminishing support for legacy architectures, it's a good time to look at the overall state of architecture support on Linux. The 6.17 kernel supports 21 different architectures (perhaps soon to be 22, thanks to the recent WebAssembly port), but making that statement already requires going into a bit more detail on what counts as an architecture. For example, Linux supports the User Mode Linux "architecture", which lets the kernel run as an unprivileged process inside an existing kernel for testing purposes. By most normal definitions, User Mode Linux isn't really a CPU architecture, even if the code for it lives alongside the kernel's other architecture support code. On the other hand, the kernel considers all PowerPC CPUs to be one architecture, regardless of whether they're running in big- endian or little-endian mode; most distributions count those as two architectures because software compiled for different endiannesses must be packaged separately. Even without architecture-wide incompatibilities like that, several architectures also offer different "levels" or optional extensions that make describing a piece of software's requirements a bit difficult. RISC-V has, at the time of writing, 48 different standards adding a larger number of extensions. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 463 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Desktop_Environments_DE_Window_Managers_WM_XScreenSaver_6_13_an.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Desktop_Environments_DE_Window_Managers_WM_XScreenSaver_6_13_an.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM): XScreenSaver 6.13 and some things on X11's obscure DirectColor visual type⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 * ⚓ Jamie Zawinski ☛ XScreenSaver_6.13⠀⇛ XScreenSaver 6.13 is out now, including iOS and Android. * ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Some_things_on_X11's_obscure_DirectColor_visual type⠀⇛ The X Window System has a long standing concept called 'visuals'; to simplify, an X visual determines how to determine the colors of your pixels. As I wrote about a number of years ago, these days X11 mostly uses 'TrueColor' visuals, which directly supply 8-bit values for red, green, and blue ('24-bit color'). However X11 has a number of visual types, such as the straightforward PseudoColor indirect colormap (where every pixel value is an index into an RGB colormap; typically you'd get 8-bit pixels and 24-bit colormaps, so you could have 256 colors out of a full 24-bit gamut). One of the (now) obscure visual types is DirectColor. To quote: [...] ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 504 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Fedora_RHEL_IBM_Red_Hat_s_Hummingbird_Oracle_Rebrands_Products_.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Fedora_RHEL_IBM_Red_Hat_s_Hummingbird_Oracle_Rebrands_Products_.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Fedora / RHEL / IBM: Red Hat's Hummingbird, Oracle Rebrands Products as "AI Database" for Linux, and Fedora Flatpaks Discussed⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 * ⚓ The Stack ☛ Red_Hat's_Hummingbird_project_to_offer_Linux_container images⠀⇛ The product team tells The Stack why Hummingbird's micro-sized images are the answer to customer demands. * ⚓ Oracle_AI_Database_26ai_coming_soon_for_Linux_x86-64_on-premises platforms [Ed: LOL at "AI Database"; is there anything they have not yet rebranded for the latest hype and Ponzi-type scam?]⠀⇛ Big news for our on‑premises community: Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition for Linux x86‑64 will be released in January 2026 as part of the quarterly Release Update (version 23.26.1). Oracle Engineering has been hard at work building a new generation of database that architects AI and Data together, and delivers AI-native data management on all the leading cloud platforms. Oracle AI Database is already available as an Oracle‑managed service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, as well as on Oracle engineered systems. Now that we have delivered Oracle AI Database on all leading clouds, we are making it available for on‑premises Linux x86-64 platforms, giving you even more choice to simplify architectures, accelerate AI‑driven development, and meet your security and performance needs no matter where your data lives. * ⚓ LWN ☛ Another_Fedora_Flatpak_discussion⠀⇛ Many distributions provide support out of the proverbial box for Flatpak packages, but Fedora is unusual in that it also provides, and defaults, to its own repository of Fedora-built Flatpaks. This has been a source of confusion for Fedora users, who expect to get the Flatpak built by the original developers and hosted on Flathub. It has also been a source of conflict with upstream projects, because users complain of bugs in Flatpak packages they are not responsible for. The situation has also frustrated some Fedora developers, who would prefer to put Flathub's offerings first. A new complaint that Fedora has apparently used manifests from Flathub to build the packages for Fedora—without giving credit to the original authors—has spurred discussions about Fedora's Flatpaks once again. While no concrete changes are on the table, yet, there may be some movement toward addressing persistent complaints. Any developer or project can provide a repository with their software in Flatpak format; however, Flathub is the de facto hosting service for Flatpaks these days. Projects that publish Flatpaks expect users to get them from Flathub, and users looking for software would generally expect to get the Flathub version of a Flatpak. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 579 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Free and Open Source Software⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇magnifying_glass⦈_ * ⚓ NullAway_-_eliminate_NPEs_in_Java_code_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ NullAway is a tool to help eliminate NullPointerExceptions (NPEs) in your Java code. To use NullAway, first add @Nullable annotations in your code wherever a field, method parameter, or return value may be null. Given these annotations, NullAway performs a series of type-based, local checks to ensure that any pointer that gets dereferenced in your code cannot be null. NullAway is similar to the type-based nullability checking in the Kotlin and Swift languages, and the Checker Framework and Eradicate null checkers for Java. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Tuckr_-_replacement_for_Stow_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Tuckr is a dotfile manager inspired by Stow and Git. Tuckr aims to make dotfile management less painful. It follows the same model as Stow, symlinking files onto $HOME. It works on all the major OSes (Linux, Windows, BSDs and MacOS). Tuckr aims to bring the simplicity of Stow to a dotfile manager with a very small learning curve. To achieve that goal Tuckr tries to only cover what is directly needed to manage dotfiles and nothing else. We won’t wrap git, rm, cp or reimplement the functionality that are perfeclty covered by other utilities in the system unless it greatly impacts usability. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Zoph_-_web_based_digital_image_presentation_and_management_system_- LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Zoph (Zoph Organizes Photos) is a web based digital image presentation and management system. In other words, a photo album. It is built with PHP and MariaDB. While most photo album projects are primarily targeted at showing your photos to others, Zoph is primarily targeted at keeping your photos organized for yourself, giving you granular control over what you’d like to show to others, on a per-album or even a per-photo basis. If you just want to generate a gallery of thumbnails from a bunch of images, you may want to try one of the other numerous photo album projects. But if you want to also store additional information about your photos, search them, or control access to them, take a look at Zoph. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Dangerzone_-_make_PDFs_safe_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Dangerzone takes potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF. Give it a document that you don’t know if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside of a sandbox, Dangerzone converts the document to a PDF (if it isn’t already one), and then converts the PDF into raw pixel data: a huge list of RGB color values for each page. Then, outside of the sandbox, Dangerzone takes this pixel data and converts it back into a PDF. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Gordon_-_create,_wire_and_deploy_AWS_Lambdas_using_CloudFormation_- LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Gordon is a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas using CloudFormation. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ PMD_-_extensible_cross-language_static_code_analyzer_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Additionally, it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code in Coco, C/C++, C#, CSS, Dart, Fortran, Gherkin, Go, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Matlab, Modelica, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Salesforce.com Apex and Visualforce, Scala, Swift, T-SQL, Typescript, Apache Velocity, WSDL, XML and XSL. PMD features many built-in checks (in PMD lingo, rules), which are documented for each language in our Rule references. We also support an extensive API to write your own rules, which you can do either in Java or as a self-contained XPath query. * ⚓ Audiobookshelf_-_self-hosted_audiobook_and_podcast_server_- LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Pano_Scrobbler_-_cross-platform_music_tracker_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Pano Scrobbler is a feature packed cross-platform music tracker for Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Libre.fm, Pleroma and other compatible services. 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Here we'll list all the games with easy Steam links for more info along with the expected compatibility on Linux / SteamOS. * ⚓ The_response_to_s-box_from_Facepunch_going_open_source_has_been "overwhelmingly_positive"_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Open source rocks so it's pleasing to see it go well for Facepunch with s&box. They've now added native Linux binaries for the dedicated server and game client. If you missed the open source news be sure to check the previous GamingOnLinux article. * ⚓ Survivor-like_bullet_heavens_are_going_first-person_POSTAL_with_POSTAL: Bullet_Paradise_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Ready to go POSTAL once more? This time it's in a survivor-like bullet-heaven styled setting, because obviously every developer needs to be in this genre now. Not that I am complaining, it actually reminds me of the time it felt like everyone was attempting some sort of Battle Royale. * ⚓ No_Players_Online_returns_after_an_'unfounded_DMCA_claim'_halted_sales for_nearly_three_weeks_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Showing yet again that the DMCA system is not fit for purpose, No Players Online launched on Steam on November 6 and then got taken down but it's back. * ⚓ HELLDIVERS_2_file-size_on_Steam_gets_massively_reduced_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ One problem with a lot of modern games is just how big they're getting, but HELLDIVERS 2 is about to massively shrink thanks to work behind the scenes. In a news post on Steam the developers at Arrowhead Game Studios noted they pulled in Nixxes to help get it sorted. * ⚓ There's_now_an_AI_warning_notice_browser_plugin_for_itch.io_as_well_as Steam_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ The developer behind the useful AI notice browser plugin for Steam has now done the same for itch.io, and they've made it easier to use the extensions. * ⚓ Valve_have_been_funding_FEX_to_get_x86_games_on_Arm_Linux_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ It turns out that not only are Valve using the open source FEX for the Steam Frame but they have been funding FEX since the beginning of it. * ⚓ Half-Life_Legacy_arrives_December_12_but_you'll_need_Proton_on_Linux due_to_Native_Linux_issues_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Half-Life Legacy is an enhanced fan mod of Valve's original shooter and it's releasing December 12th. The developers claim it is the "ultimate restoration for the legendary title". It comes with full controller support, achievements, speedrunning, dynamic weapon lighting, Steam Workshop support, Rich Presence for Steam & Discord and much more. * ⚓ Fedora_Linux_44_will_get_improved_NTSYNC_enabling_for_Proton_/_Wine_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ NTSYNC has been available in the Linux kernel for a while, but it's taking distributions a while to actually use it - Fedora Linux 44 will make it easier. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 868 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Growing_Demand_for_Information_About_GNU_Linux.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Growing_Demand_for_Information_About_GNU_Linux.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Growing Demand for Information About GNU/ Linux⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025, updated Dec 04, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Psalm_118_Image_for_Thanksgiving⦈_ So far this week we've served over 100,000 Gemini requests and we also added many_new_pages (almost 100 pages in the past 2 days alone), as there's generally a_lot of relevant news. With 27 days (about 4 weeks) left in the year we look forward to 2026 and how much more news it'll bring about GNU/Linux going more "mainstream". For GNU/Linux, being "mainstream" isn't unprecedented in the area of servers and some other 'sub-sectors'; we just want to see the same on desktops and laptops. █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⢀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡅⠀⠀⢈⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣉⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠿⠟⠻⢟⢛⣻⣿⡟⣟⢛⣛⣙⣛⡛⣻⣻⣿⣿⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⡿⡿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢟⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣋⣿⠛⡿⢻⡿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠻⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣶⣴⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣾⡿⢋⣴⣿⠿⣥⣤⣿⣋⣉⣉⣙⣛⡻⠂⣲⣶⠒⢴⣿⣽⣁⣙⡛⡛⠟⠷⣮⣧⣏⣽⣏⠿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣉⣙⣩⣍⣁⣯⣿⣿⣟⣽⣿⡿⣋⣴⣿⣿⣷⡾⠓⣷⡶⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣯⣥⣽⣙⣛⣛⣶⠞⢧⣭⣍⣛⢛⢿⡷⡾⣽⣫⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣫⣶⣿⣟⣛⡋⠛⢟⠿⠿⠶⠟⣶⡶⣿⣯⣮⣍⣝⣛⢛⠟⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣶⣧⣿⣏⣛⠻⠶⢦⣬⣽⡏⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠿⠿⡶⢸⣦⣾⣿⡿⣫⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣩⣿⠟⣽⢿⠿⣿⣿⢶⠾⣬⣼⣏⣿⣛⡛⡻⢿⣾⣶⣧⣯⣽⣿⡟⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣽⣿⢟⠿⢦⣤⣩⣟⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⡿⣫⣾⣿⣿⣥⣨⣋⣉⣿⣟⢛⠛⠿⠿⠷⣿⣷⣶⣦⣬⣽⣿⣫⣛⡿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣯⣡⡻⢿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣍⡛⢿⢷⢭⣙⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣉⣿⡟⣹⠿⡿⢿⣿⠿⡷⢾⣷⣿⣯⣭⣍⣙⣛⡛⠿⡿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣟⣋⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣮⣻⣻⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣝⠷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⣍⣀⣛⣛⣛⣿⡟⠻⠿⠿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣦⣽⣯⣭⣛⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣯⣼⣿⣙⡿⠿⣿⣶⣯⣯⣟⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣽⣻⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣷⣴⣬⣭⣿⣟⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣏⣻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣽⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⣄⣌⣛⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣝⣉⡙⣿⡿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣧⣟⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣠⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣮⣯⣟⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣮⣯⣽⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣶⣴⣤⡀⣀⣭⣿⣿⣟⣻⣛⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣯⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣯⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⠉⡹⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣷⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣦⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 932 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/KStars_v3_8_0_is_Released.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/KStars_v3_8_0_is_Released.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ KStars v3.8.0 is Released⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 Quoting: Jasem's Ekosphere: KStars v3.8.0 is Released — KStars v3.8.0 is released on 2025.12.03 for Windows & Linux. MacOS release is expected in one week due to build issue on KDE CI infrastructure. For Linux users, it's highly recommended to use the official KStars Flatpak hosted at Flathub. You can install the stable flatpak or try out new features by downloading the KStars Nightly Flatpak for x86_64 and arm64 architectures. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 966 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Linux_Weekly_News_LWN_on_Kernel_and_Homebrew.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Linux_Weekly_News_LWN_on_Kernel_and_Homebrew.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Linux Weekly News (LWN) on Kernel and Homebrew⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 * ⚓ LWN ☛ A_struct_sockaddr_sequel⠀⇛ One of the many objectives of the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project (KSPP), which just completed ten years of work, is to ensure that all array references can be bounds-checked, even in the case of flexible array members, the size of which is not known at compile time. One of the most challenging flexible array members in the kernel is not even declared as such. Almost exactly one year ago, LWN looked at the effort to increase safety around the networking subsystem's heavily used sockaddr structure. One year later, Kees Cook is still looking for a way to bring this work to a close. * ⚓ LWN ☛ Hot-page_migration_and_specific-purpose_NUMA_nodes⠀⇛ For better or for worse, the NUMA node is the abstraction used by the kernel to keep track of different types of memory. How that abstraction is used, though, is still an active area of development. Two patch sets focused on this problem are currently under review; one addresses the perennial problem of promoting heavily used folios from slower to faster memory, while the other aims to improve the kernel's handling of nodes containing special memory installed for a specific purpose. * ⚓ LWN ☛ Pouring_packages_with_Homebrew⠀⇛ The Homebrew project is an open-source package-management system that comes with a repository of useful packages for Linux and macOS. Even though Linux distributions have their own package management and repositories, Homebrew is often used to obtain software that is not available in a distribution's repository or to install more current versions of projects than are available from long-term-support (LTS) distributions. Homebrew 5.0.0, released on November 12, 2025, expanded Linux support to include 64-bit Arm packages in addition to x86_64, and turned on concurrent downloads by default to speed up package downloads. The project began in 2009 as a package-management system for Mac OS X, later macOS, which did not (and still does not) have a package manager as such. It allowed users to easily install and manage software not included with the operating system or available in Apple's App Store; in particular, it is popular for installing open-source applications that are either unavailable with macOS or shipped with the operating system but severely outdated. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1037 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/MetaComputing_Launches_45_TOPS_Arm_Linux_Ready_PC_Powered_by_CI.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/MetaComputing_Launches_45_TOPS_Arm_Linux_Ready_PC_Powered_by_CI.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ MetaComputing Launches 45-TOPS Arm Linux- Ready PC Powered by CIX CP8180⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Framework_Laptop_13⦈_ Quoting: MetaComputing Launches 45-TOPS Arm Linux-Ready PC Powered by CIX CP8180 — According to the product page, the system ships with Ubuntu 25.04, providing an out-of-the-box Linux environment suitable for ARM-native development, testing, and general Linux workflows. 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It didn't depend on it, but it had presence there. Susan handed over this account to us in 2013 and eventually it was abandoned entirely in 2023. There was nothing to lose anyway, seeing that the site had a new owner and would soon be rebranded as X. More recently, this toxic Social Control Media got_filled_with bots_and_chatbots, i.e. more things that can waste real users' time or steal their attention. If you still use sites like these and have good reasons (or excuses), it's time to reassess and reconsider. Facebook's CEO has said in public that he intended to do the same to Facebook (and sibling sites such as Instagram) as MElon did to Twitter/X. You might "feel" like there is still a lot of activity there, but more and more of it will be fake (bots). It's a shallow, meritless, baseless mirage of importance. The Federation has_similar_but_other_problems. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢭⢾⡿⠁⠉⠫⡱⠀⠀⣐⣿⡿⠋⢽⠋⠃⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠈⢩⣤⣄⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⢴⠚⣀⢰⣀⢴⢋⡀⠐⠛⠰⠟⠴⠀⢀⠔⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠩⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡃⢀⣸⡏⡹⣮⡿⣛⠟⠷⢀⠼⣶⣖⡷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣟⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣄⣀⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡿⠿⣿⡟⢿⠥⠈⠱⡶⣿⣿⠅⠝⡚⣿⣿⠃⢈⡶⢐⡒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡠⢾⡅⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠘⢹⡇⠀⣠⣴⣾⡿⣯⠐⠀⡢⢰⣟⣵⣦⡀⢀⡢⣷⡚⠁⠀⠀⠠⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠰⢒⡃⠉⠀⠀⣀⢈⠁⠀⠀⠁⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠠⡼⠟⠿⠿⠟⣂⠔⠠⣤⠤⣖⣻⣿⣇⠀⠁⠁⢩⡀⠀⠄⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣚⣽⣝⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠀⢀⣀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⡾⠇⠀⣳⠭⠬⢹⡙⣂⢖⠐⠀⠰⠜⣧⣴⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⣨⣤⣿⣿⣿⣟⣽⣧⡿⣿⣷⣶⣎⡉⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣠⣤⣾⣧⢾⡣⡞⣉⣁⣤⣤⢤⠦⠤⠤⢤⠄⡀⡀⠀⠀⠈⠉⣉⡀⣀⣥⣷⣿⡿⢿⣿⣟⠋⠉⣈⣭⣀⣽⡟⠋⠉⠙⡈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⡾⣷⡿⠟⢛⢟⣿⣦⢎⣱⣿⠿⣾⡲⣄⣀⠀⣀⣈⠉⠀⠀⠱⠿⠿⠳⣿⣿⣿⣛⣴⣵⣶⣾⣿⣿⡷⠉⠒⣶⡀⠀⠉⠀⡐⣀⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣩⣸⣽⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣟⠷⣾⣯⣼⠽⣿⣏⣿⡿⠷⣦⣤⣐⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠅⠁⠀⠘⢣⣭⠟⢩⡷⢄⡃⠀⠴⡿⣿⣦⣴⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢛⣻⣻⢛⢭⡟⣿⣪⣄⣻⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣽⣿⣿⣶⣂⣀⣀⣄⣒⣟⡫⣬⣅⣂⣤⣤⣤⣷⣛⣛⣿⣼⣓⡀⡀⠀⠠⠀⠠⠀⠀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⠁⠐⠤⢨⣼⣗⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣛⠂⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢿⠻⠻⣿⣒⣦⣴⣬⠋⠋⠉⠙⡛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⠛⠛⡛⠛⠛⠛⣿⢟⡟⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⠻⠟⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠦⢴⠶⣤⣄⣄⣐⢘⣠⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⢀⡂⣂⢐⢀⡀⣿⣟⣧⢢⣶⣦⣶⣶⣤⣔⡂⣾⣿⣷⣶⣒⣿⢸⡣⣶⣦⠮⣭⠿⠭⠀⣸⡐⠀⠀⣠⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠿⠿⠛⠉⠛⠠⠌⠁⠀⠀⡱⠀⣠⢀⠀⠌⠈⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠰⡟⢸⠆⣷⢸⡇⢿⠻⡿⠋⠙⠿⠈⠉⠙⢻⡿⢎⢿⡏⣹⠋⠩⣼⠀⢻⣿⠠⣿⣶⡆⢠⣿⡇⣠⡿⠛⠁⠔⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢀⣦⠶⠤⠀⠀⢀⢀⠈⠤⠗⠂⠆⠐⠡⠤⠰⠮⣀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣸⡅⣿⢸⡇⢹⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⡇⠘⠀⠀⣿⣿⢸⡇⠛⠛⣃⡟⢀⣜⢿⣧⠀⡤⠠⢸⣿⡷⣿⣧⡐⠤⢀⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠉⢤⢀⢀⡁⠉⠠⣰⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠁⠀⠀⠘⢸⡏⣿⡇⣿⢸⠇⢿⡀⣭⠀⠀⣿⡇⠈⡠⣻⣿⡟⢸⢿⠀⢸⣿⣧⣾⣿⣣⣻⣶⣾⣿⡶⠿⣷⣾⣿⣟⣓⣶⣦⣽⣶⣯⣤⢄⢁⣂⣁⣲⡤⣆⣀⣀⣄ ⠀⠀⠔⠠⠀⠀⠈⠄⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡿⢸⡆⣿⢰⡇⣼⡖⣿⠀⢿⡟⠣⠤⠶⠿⠟⢀⣬⣿⣎⣯⣽⣿⣿⢿⣿⣟⠃⠉⠁⠀⣊⣯⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢟⡿ ⠤⢤⣄⣀⣀⣠⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣄⡀⢄⣀⣤⢤⣶⣶⣶⣗⢲⣞⠷⠿⣧⣷⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⢲⠬⣶⣶⣶⣶⣆⡴⣛⣿⣿⣯⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣏ ⣀⣠⠤⠀⠀⠉⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⢂⠂⠀⠒⠖⠶⣶⣶⣦⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣔⠒⠛⢩⣿⣷⣵⣿⣿⠟⢛⣿⣿⣿⠁⡙⠛⢹⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⢿⣁⣿⣿⠏⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⠛⠿ ⠐⠲⠶⠿⠿⠶⠿⢿⣶⡷⢤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣿⣷⣶⣿⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡆⠠⠀⣉⣀⢘⣛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣆⣀⣬⣿⣽⣿⣿⡿⡋⠻⡻⣇⢮⣹⣷⣩⣠⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠠⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠬⠉⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⣿⣛⠛⠟⠟⢻⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣗⣿⣙⣏⣉⣽⣿⣧⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶ ⣀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣄⠰⢶⡟⠛⠒⠚⠚⢻⠋⣿⢽⣟⣿⣛⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⡿⣿⠻⣟⣿⣻⣽⣽⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣧⣤⣼⣧⠉⢈⠑⠙⠻⣗⣻⣿⣟⡻⠳⠒⣲⣾⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣵⣁⡠⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣇⢀⡤⢐⡾⢿⣿⣿⣽⣿⢆⡠⣄⠃⠬⢽⣾⣯⢴⣕⣝⣧⠭⠅⢉⣛⣛⣽⣻⣛⣟⣘⣻⠻⠿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣿⣯⣬⣈⣉⣙⣿⣻⣹⡷ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣭⣿⣿⣿⢽⠿⠉⠯⠧⠵⢴⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣫⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣾⣼⣿⣿⣿⣛⠓⢸⣷⠀⠒⠉⠈⠉⠈⠁ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1221 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Perl_Leftovers_LPW_2025_Perl_License_and_More.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Perl_Leftovers_LPW_2025_Perl_License_and_More.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Perl Leftovers: LPW 2025, Perl License, and More⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 * ⚓ The Weekly Challenge ☛ 2025-12-01_[Older]_LPW_2025_-_Event_Report⠀⇛ The day started with a hiccup—our local train station was closed for some reason, so bus services were provided instead. We took the bus to the next station and, luckily, caught a direct train to the venue near Great Portland Street. From the station, it was just a two-minute walk. As we entered, I spotted Julien Fiegehenn, Dave Lambley, and Arne Sommer. It was also good to see JJ Atria (one of the organisers) at the entrance. I hadn’t seen him in years. After a quick chat, I headed up to the main room, where I met John Davies, who gave us our name badges. I arrived just in time for the first talk. In the main room, I met Paul Evans, Sawyer X, Andrew Mehta (another organiser), Lee Johnson, Jess Robinson, James Raspass, Boyd Duffee, Martin Brooks and Theo van Hoesel. * ⚓ Perl ☛ 2025-12-01_[Older]_ANNOUNCE:_Various_updated_wikis,_including Perl.Wiki⠀⇛ * ⚓ Perl ☛ 2025-11-28_[Older]_GitHub_and_the_Perl_License⠀⇛ When we publish our Perl module repository on GitHub, we might notice something peculiar in the "About" section of our repository: GitHub doesn't recognize the Perl 5 license. This can be a bit confusing, especially when we've explicitly stated the licensing in our LICENSE file. Without properly defined license, GitHub ranks the quality of a repository lower. This is also unfortunate because it limits the "searchability" of our repository. GitHub cannot index it according to the license and users cannot search by license. This is today more important than ever before as many enterprises rule out open source projects purely on the grounds that their license is poorly managed. * ⚓ Perl ☛ 2025-11-25_[Older]_This_week_in_PSC_(208)_|_2025-11-25⠀⇛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1282 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Programming_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Programming Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 * ⚓ Yordi Verkroost ☛ Advent_of_Code_2025_-_Day_3⠀⇛ The meat of today's problem is in finding the largest possible number in a list by combining two (part one) or twelve (part two) numbers in order. * ⚓ Sandor Dargo ☛ Time_in_C++:_Understanding_std::chrono::steady_clock⠀⇛ In the previous articles, we explored what clocks are in general and took a closer look at std::chrono::system_clock, the one that represents the wall-clock or calendar time. Now let’s move to another important one: std::chrono::steady_clock. At first sight, the difference between steady_clock and system_clock might not be obvious. They both give you a time_point, and you can use both to measure durations. But under the hood, they behave quite differently — and those differences make steady_clock the right choice for measuring intervals and durations. * ⚓ Matthew Weber ☛ Metadata_Is_The_Worst_-_Matt's_Blog⠀⇛ So, I’ve been working on my music collection and it is really coming along. I’ve downloaded a metric shit ton of music in the last month. My biggest problem remains, however. Metadata is crap. Even though now all of my files are meticulously named and organized, the so-called metadata search only works about 80% of the time. Why it is so hard, I’m not sure. These people have databases, right? All my folders have album.nfo files in them already, so the metadata shouldn’t even need to be looked up. It’s just an odd thing. * ⚓ Kerrick Long ☛ Acceptance_Tests_and_Unit_Tests_as_Documents_First, Tests_Second_-_Kerrick_Long_(blog)⠀⇛ As my wife and I were listening to Uncle Bob’s book on professionalism in software, this line surprised me. Maybe it’s just because I don’t understand tests as well as I’d like, but I had to stop and take note. He clarified exactly what he meant, too: [...] * ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Scheme_Do⠀⇛ I thought the do in in Scheme was a li’l hard to learn since the examples I could find was a li’l too fancy and clever. Just like a lot of my own documentation often is; sorry about that. * ⚓ Evan Hahn ☛ I_made_a_little_audio_speed_calculator⠀⇛ But I wanted to turn this prototype into something I could share with others. I didn’t want it to be a buggy mess! Unfortunately, there were a number of things the LLM failed to do in the first version: [...] * ⚓ Cassidy Williams ☛ Change_commit_timestamps_in_Git⠀⇛ If the commit you want to change is the most recent one, you can run this on a Mac or Linux-based system: [...] * ⚓ AdventOfCode ☛ Day_3_-_Advent_of_Code_2025⠀⇛ The batteries are arranged into banks; each line of digits in your input corresponds to a single bank of batteries. Within each bank, you need to turn on exactly two batteries; the joltage that the bank produces is equal to the number formed by the digits on the batteries you've turned on. For example, if you have a bank like 12345 and you turn on batteries 2 and 4, the bank would produce 24 jolts. (You cannot rearrange batteries.) You'll need to find the largest possible joltage each bank can produce. In the above example: [...] * ⚓ Manuel Matuzović ☛ Speculation_rules_improvements⠀⇛ The Speculation Rules API allows you to speed up future navigations by prefetching or even prerendering URLs in advance of a user actually clicking a link. When the link is clicked, the speculation is used, and the user experiences a faster load than if no speculation was used. * ⚓ Web Performance Calendar ☛ Traffic_Modeling_Using_Machine_Learning_- Web_Performance_Calendar⠀⇛ When I explain the difference between lab (aka synthetic) and field data to people, one of the things I mention is that the lab allows for testing under repeatable, controlled conditions. Each test run offers an apples-to-apples comparison with previous tests, and results are available almost immediately. On the other hand, field data measures actual user experience, but it requires time to collect enough sample data for the results to be relevant. One thing I have always been curious about is how shifts in synthetic data impact field metrics. For example, if I reduce a lab metric, is there any way to anticipate how that might change the field metric without having to wait for data collection? As I was taking Frank Kane’s Machine Learning, Data Science and Generative AI with Python course, I learned about XGBoost, a tool that excels at prediction. As I learned about its capabilities, I wondered if it could be used to predict the relationship between lab and field data in a meaningful way. * ⚓ Arjen Wiersma ☛ Advent_of_Code_2025_Day_3⠀⇛ The puzzle today has us figuring out the joltage of a bank of batteries. This is a puzzle of the type “largest sequence in a list”. When you start you already know that part 2 will be something that a naive approach will not be able to handle, but I still did part 1 with a naive combination function. * ⚓ Aman Mittal ☛ Create_a_copy_as_markdown_button_for_MDX_documentation site⠀⇛ Here is an overview of how I implemented the above solution for a Next.js based documentation site. * ⚓ AdaCore ☛ Announcing_Advent_of_Ada/SPARK_2025:_Coding_for_a_Cause!⠀⇛ For each person completing one of the Advent of Code challenges using the Ada programming language, AdaCore will donate $10 to the Ada Developers Academy, up to a total of $5,000. And for those willing to go an extra mile, AdaCore will donate $20 if the solution is implemented in SPARK with at least proof of absence of run-time errors (a.k.a. Silver level). * ⚓ MaskRay ☛ The_dark_side_of_RISC-V_linker_relaxation⠀⇛ Because the linker has a global view and layout information, it can perform some peephole optimizations which are difficult/ impossible to do on the compiler side. Generic link-time code sequence transformation is risky, because semantic information is lost and what the linker sees are byte streams. However, if every instruction in the candidate code sequence is associated with one ore more relocations, the ABI and the implementation can assign (additional) semantics to the relocation types and make such transformation safe. This technique is usually called linker optimization or linker relaxation. It seems that the term "linker optimization" is often used when the number of bytes does not change while "linker relaxation" is used when the number of bytes decreases. * ⚓ LWN ☛ Zig's_new_plan_for_asynchronous_programs⠀⇛ The designers of the Zig programming language have been working to find a suitable design for asynchronous code for some time. Zig is a carefully minimalist language, and its initial design for asynchronous I/O did not fit well with its other features. Now, the project has announced (in a Zig SHOWTIME video) a new approach to asynchronous I/O that promises to solve the function coloring problem, and allows writing code that will execute correctly using either synchronous or asynchronous I/O. * ⚓ [Old] John D Cook ☛ Stochastic_Rounding_and_Data_Privacy⠀⇛ Round-to-nearest will be biased unless ages are uniformly distributed in each decade. Suppose, for example, our data is on undergraduate students. We would expect a lot more students in their early twenties than in their late twenties. * ⚓ [Old] Miguel Batista ☛ Quantifying_Information_Loss⠀⇛ That idea caught my attention: rounding is just a deterministic way of adding noise. So how much information do we actually lose when we do this? * ⚓ Dmitrii Kovanikov ☛ Avoiding_space_leaks_at_all_costs⠀⇛ In any case, both lazy and eager evaluations have their own advantages and drawbacks. But this post is not about comparing different evaluation semantics and their trade-offs. I’d like to talk about living with the consequences of our choices. Haskell programs are infamous for having lots of space leaks. This is the result of Haskell choosing the lazy evaluation model and not designing the language around preventing such type of memory usage errors. * ⚓ Mira Welner ☛ How_Should_We_Peer_Review_Software?⠀⇛ Of course, you could increase science funding such that they could hire software engineers, but we are going in rather the opposite direction these days. I don't think the problem is so unsolvable and intractable that we should just abandon it. I'm open to suggestions. To quote the great Jello Biafra in his song Where Do Ya Draw the Line, "I'm not telling you; I'm asking you." I think there is a way to solve this problem, but it is not so trivial as requiring reviewers to inspect the simulation code that goes along with the paper. They aren't going to do that unless you pay them or incentivize them somehow. It just isn't realistic. * § Perl / Raku⠀➾ o ⚓ Rakulang ☛ Day_4_–_Gift_yourself_a_merry_little_PDF_journal_– Raku_Advent_Calendar⠀⇛ I wanted to give myself the Xmas gift of a 2026 pdf journal this year. I had grand plans to create a fully fledged library for doing this, but ironically enough I just wasn’t that organised! But courtesy or the comprehensive PDF api by dwarring https://raku.land/zef:dwarring/PDF::API6 and with help from tbrowder’s Date::Names for human dates https:// raku.land/zef:tbrowder/Date::Names and, of course, all the folk who have brought raku/rakulang to us, here’s my script o ⚓ Rakulang ☛ Day_3_–_Christmas_Crunching_Part_I_–_Raku_Advent Calendar⠀⇛ The first challenge was to work out the total distance to travel on Christmas Day and then to know what speed Santa’s slight would need to average in order to get around the entire Earth in just 24 hours. o ⚓ Perl ☛ Perl_Advent_Calendar_2025_-_Stopping_the_Evil_Grinch:_A Holiday_Defense_Guide⠀⇛ Logging is handled by the Log::Log4perl module. The core of the script is the run_report function, which deletes any previous report file and executes each command. Because ClamAV errors are expected when scanning protected or locked files, the ClamAV call is allowed to return a non-zero exit code. o ⚓ The Weekly Challenge ☛ Advent_Calendar_-_December_3,_2025⠀⇛ From a binary array b=(b1,….,bn) we find the partial binary numbers s=(s1,….,sn) as: [...] * § Python⠀➾ o ⚓ Simon Willison ☛ TIL:_Dependency_groups_and_uv_run⠀⇛ TIL: Dependency groups and uv run. I wrote up the new pattern I'm using for my various Python project repos to make them as easy to hack on with uv as possible. The trick is to use a PEP 735 dependency group called dev, declared in pyproject.toml like this: [...] ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1601 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Raspberry_Pi_OS_Now_Lets_You_Safely_Eject_HDD_and_NVMe_Drives_C.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Raspberry_Pi_OS_Now_Lets_You_Safely_Eject_HDD_and_NVMe_Drives_C.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Raspberry Pi OS Now Lets You Safely Eject HDD and NVMe Drives Connected via USB⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Marius Nestor on Dec 04, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Raspberry_Pi_OS⦈_ The new Raspberry Pi OS release (2025-12-04) introduces the ability to safely eject HDD and NVMe drives connected via USB, adds an Alt+F2 keyboard shortcut for opening the run dialog in the Labwc-based Wayland session, and improves the Screens control panel to no longer create a default kanshi config file when started. Raspberry Pi OS 2025-12-04 also addresses a crash that occurred when using mounted drives or the wastebasket in the Places view, a crash that occurred when unloading the System Monitor plugin, a crash that occurred when power- cycling audio devices, and another crash in the file manager that occurred when switching to a TTY. 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WordPress works well for that. But it’s still WordPress, you know? The “Site Editor” continues to improve, but to me still feels like a janky mess. Gutenberg is fancy, but it’s also slow and can get in the way when trying to be “helpful”. [...] But then what? Ghost? Eleventy? Kirby? Moveable Type? I don’t want to keep messing with baty.net, so I use baty.blog to test new blogging options. Maybe I’ll try one of the new-ish simple tools like Pika.page or Bear. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1774 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/These_4_hidden_Linux_commands_are_ridiculously_useful_once_you_.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/These_4_hidden_Linux_commands_are_ridiculously_useful_once_you_.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ These 4 “hidden” Linux commands are ridiculously useful once you learn them⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 I’ve seen a lot of die-hard Linux fans insisting that you can get almost everything done these days without ever touching the terminal. And even in 2025, I still disagree. The terminal isn’t some relic of the past; it’s one of the biggest strengths of using Linux in the first place. In fact, I’d argue every power user should know at least the basics. A little shell knowledge and a few useful bash shortcuts can make you noticeably faster in your day-to-day tasks. And on top of that, there are a handful of underrated commands that almost nobody talks about, despite how ridiculously useful they are. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1807 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Today_in_Techrights.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Today in Techrights⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Shoot_with_various_types_of_dogs⦈_ ⚓ Updated This Past Day⠀⇛ 1. ⚓ Loads_of_People_Exit_IBM_Tomorrow⠀⇛ Way to slam the door on on those who march or walk on 2. ⚓ At_IBM,_"Last_Day"_Can_be_Same_as_Layoffs_("RAs"),_Might_be_Euphemism Advanced_by_PR/HR_Under_NDA-Tied_Conditions⠀⇛ They try to act all happy cheerful (in public) about becoming unemployed 3. ⚓ Fake_Security_and_'Free'_Certificates_as_a_Trap_of_Planned_Obsolescence and_Top-Down_Centralisation⠀⇛ The boiling frogs 4. ⚓ The_Next_Stages_of_EPO_Coverage_(and_Why_That_Matters)⠀⇛ What's at stake here? ⚓ New⠀⇛ 5. ⚓ Slopwatch:_It's_Blowing,_Jim_(Gym),_the_Bubble_is_Blowing_Up⠀⇛ Let's race to "zero GPT" 6. ⚓ Links_03/12/2025:_"Disastrous_Hey_Hi_(AI)",_Breaches_of Confidentiality,_and_"Global_Democratic_Recession"⠀⇛ Links for the day 7. ⚓ Links_03/12/2025:_UK_Budget_Leak_and_Criticism_of_Peace_Posturing_Over Ukraine⠀⇛ Links for the day 8. ⚓ So_Far_Rust_in_Ubuntu_Has_Turned_Out_to_be_an_Expensive_Mistake⠀⇛ it is certainly seeming or feeling like the wrong people are in charge and they make bad decisions based on false reasoning 9. ⚓ Gemini_Links_03/12/2025:_Obsession,_Ubuntu,_and_Programming_With Scheme⠀⇛ Links for the day 10. ⚓ Wayland_Rejection_Is_Not_Racist⠀⇛ We need to collectively reject that 11. ⚓ Reflections_on_a_Month_of_Techrights_Search⠀⇛ it looks like we've survived nearly a month without the search functionality being leveraged to stage DDoS attacks 12. ⚓ New_Year's_Resolutions_4_Weeks_Ahead_of_2026⠀⇛ the main New Year's Resolution was... sleep 13. ⚓ IBM_Layoffs:_It's_Like_They_Read_From_a_Script,_Like_They've_Signed_a Non-Disparagement_Agreement/Clause⠀⇛ Some new departures 14. ⚓ Over_at_Tux_Machines...⠀⇛ GNU/Linux news for the past day 15. ⚓ IRC_Proceedings:_Tuesday,_December_02,_2025⠀⇛ IRC logs for Tuesday, December 02, 2025 ========================================================================= The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text. 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When the link is clicked, the speculation is used, and the user experiences a faster load than if no speculation was used. * ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Sending_DMARC_reports_is_somewhat_hazardous⠀⇛ DMARC has a feature where you can request that other mail systems send you aggregate reports about the DMARC results that they observed for email claiming to be from you. If you're a large institution with a sprawling, complex, multi-party mail environment and you're considering trying to make your DMARC policy stricter, it's very useful to get as many DMARC reports from as many people as possible. Especially, 'you' (in a broad sense) probably want to get as much information from mail systems run by sub-units as possible, and if you're a sub-unit, you want to report DMARC information up to the organization so they have as much visibility into what's going on as possible. * ⚓ Trickster Dev ☛ Advanced_network_traffic_interception_techniques_with mitmproxy⠀⇛ The most common way to use mitmproxy for API traffic interception is to use it in a default forward proxy mode. One would run mitmproxy server on a laptop or desktop computer, then configure proxy settings and install X.509 certificate on a client device (e.g. smart phone). But there is more to mitmproxy than that. It can also be used as reverse proxy, transparent proxy (on Linux and macOS), Wireguard VPN server that also intercepts network traffic, SOCKS proxy server, customisable DNS server and even as a virtual network interface on Linux. In this article we will go through some of the lesser known mitmproxy features for uncovering what goes on between servers and clients. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2261 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/today_s_leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/04/today_s_leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ today's leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2025 * § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ o ⚓ The Ask Noah Show ☛ Ask_Noah_Show:_Ask_Noah_Show_|_469⠀⇛ This week Steve takes us through his journey with Enty and Immich. Plex makes their users pay a monthly fee, and Steam releases a new SteamBox console. * § Games⠀➾ o ⚓ Fabian Sanglard ☛ Why_WinQuake_exists_and_how_it_works⠀⇛ When I took a look at the history of Quake binaries, they all made sense to me. quake.exe was the original release, able to run on DOS and Windows 95. Then came vquake.exe to support the hardware accelerated chip Vérité 1000. Later, glquake.exe generalized hardware acceleration to any vendor providing OpenGL drivers. And to revolutionize Internet deathmatch, id Software released QuakeWorld server and client (qwsv.exe and qwcl.exe). However, I could not figure out the point of winquake.exe. Until now. Here is what I understood and a little bit of a dive into how it works. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Stefan Gloor ☛ Patching_Pulse_Oximeter_Firmware⠀⇛ Recently, I came across relatively cheap medical devices: consumer-grade pulse oximeters. These devices clip onto your finger and shine a light through it. By analyzing the light transmitted through your finger, the device can infer your pulse and blood oxygen saturation. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ More_ways_to_prototype_faster:_four_new_Arduino Modulino_are_now_available⠀⇛ If you’ve ever wanted to go from idea to prototype in minutes – without fiddling with wiring diagrams or debugging connections – then you probably already know (and love!) Modulino®. These compact, plug-and-play nodes have made it easier than ever to prototype, learn, and build with Arduino. And now the ecosystem is getting even bigger. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael Gale ☛ Switching_from_LineageOS_to_GrapheneOS⠀⇛ What I want long term is for tech oligarchs to feel the burden of all of us, collectively, choosing to opt-out. Which requires different work. But I digress. In this article I'll be answering some of my burning curiosity about flashing yet another android alternative, GrapheneOS. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ SusamPal ☛ Emacs_Info_Expression⠀⇛ The person who receives this info expression can visit the corresponding section of the manual simply by evaluating it. For example, after copying the expression in Emacs, they could type C-y C-x C-e to paste the expression into a buffer and evaluate it immediately. Alternatively, they might want to type M-: C-y RET to bring the eval-expression minibuffer, paste the expression there and evaluate it. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Free_Code_Africa_Brings_Digital_Skills_to_Rural Zimbabwe⠀⇛ The October launch drew a decent mix of community support. The Minister of ICT, Tatenda Mavetera, attended, which is good to see. Groups like Nduna Girls Organisation, Josephine Chinake, WeCodeZW, and UNDP Zimbabwe partnered for the day’s activities. Rural schools don’t lack interest. They lack equipment, exposure, and continuity. Once those three things show up, the curiosity is immediate. So, it’s good to see this kind of support. # ⚓ EmacsConf ☛ EmacsConf_-_2025⠀⇛ December 6 and 7, 2025 (Sat-Sun) o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Open Access/Content⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Open-access_platform_explores epigenetic_regulation_of_plant_long_non-coding_RNAs⠀⇛ In a study published in The Plant Journal, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences constructed comprehensive epigenetic regulatory landscapes for lncRNAs across diverse plant species and developed a novel, specialized, open-access platform named Plant Epigenetic Regulation of lncRNAs Database (PERlncDB). ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 2424 ➮ Generation completed at 02:50, i.e. 24 seconds to (re)generate ⟲