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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Android_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Android_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Android Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Android_XR⦈_ * ⚓ Fixes_are_coming_for_Android_XR's_most_annoying_new_bugs_-_Android Authority⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android_17_is_becoming_the_ultimate_minimalist_OS_—_if_you_know_which toggles_to_hit⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android_17_stops_apps_from_demanding_access_to_all_your_contacts⠀⇛ * ⚓ How_to_create_your_own_custom_Android_air_gesture_–_Computerworld⠀⇛ * ⚓ Nothing's_new_tool_makes_sharing_between_Android_and_desktop_easier_— and_it_does_one_thing_differently_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ * ⚓ Winlator_update_unlocks_PC_gaming_potential_for_more_Androids⠀⇛ * ⚓ This_Android_shortcut_saves_me_hours_every_week,_and_almost_nobody 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_End_Databases_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_End_Databases_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Back End/Databases Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * ⚓ Alexey Makhotkin ☛ 5NF_and_Database_Design⠀⇛ One of the goals of this publication is to deconstruct the traditional ways of teaching basic topics in relational databases. Previously we discussed the fourth normal form (4NF): “Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing”. Let’s discuss the ultimate beast: fifth normal form (5NF). Often it’s presented even more confusingly than 4NF is, and we can show that this presentation is unnecessary, and the confusion is completely artificial. Here is the roadmap of this post: [...] * ⚓ Buttondown LLC ☛ More_tools_for_testing_SQL_dialects⠀⇛ We talk here sometimes about how to test SQL dialects with tools like TLP and PQS. One really nice property of those tools is that they let you treat the database like a blackbox. I'm tinkering with a little SQL planner to mess around with ideas and one feature I added very early was an explicit optimization fence operator that simply blocks any optimizations: [...] * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_6502_All_In_The_Data⠀⇛ Emulating a 6502 shouldn’t be that hard on a modern computer. Maybe that’s why [lasect] decided to make it a bit harder. The PG_6502 emulator uses PostgreSQL. All the CPU resources are database tables, and all opcodes are stored procedures. Huh. * ⚓ Jon Charter ☛ Things_you_didn't_know_about_indexes⠀⇛ A database index is similar to the index you found at the back of your science textbooks in school. You want to find the pages that talk about Phosphorus? Head to the back and you’ll find an alphabetical list of topics alongside page numbers that reference them. * ⚓ Nikita Volkov ☛ My_14-Year_Journey_Away_from_ORMs_-_How_I_Built_pGenie, the_SQL-First_Postgres_Code_Generator⠀⇛ Hi, I’m Nikita Volkov - architect, consultant, and the author of hasql, one of the two main PostgreSQL drivers in Haskell used in major production projects like PostgREST and IHP. After 25 years in IT and more late-night schema-drift fires than I care to count, I open-sourced something I wish had existed a decade ago: pGenie. Following is the story of how I went from shipping a popular ORM in 2012… to throwing it all away… to realizing that the database itself should be the single source of truth. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 344 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_Home.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_Home.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Back Home⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Buckingham_Palace_in_London_and_the_Victoria_Memorial⦈_ Yesterday we didn't post many new pages here; nothing at all until evening/ nighttime because we were in London (my wife and I) while Marius kept publishing the latest news. We found a new and very nice place there (animal motif) across the road from Buckingham Palace and had some drinks before taking the ride back home. 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Initially I wanted to use release.sh from /usr/ src/release … but despite using freshly installed FreeBSD 15.0- RELEASE in Bhyve VM with 8 CPUs and 28 GB RAM and 200GB of NVMe storage … the release.sh failed me. * ⚓ Miod Vallat ☛ OpenBSD_on_Motorola_88000_processors⠀⇛ In 2013, after the intense work to switch from gcc 2.95 to gcc 3.3, from a.out to ELF, and from static binaries only to shared libraries, I had a look at what would be needed for my beloved m88k systems to use the other in-tree compiler, gcc 4.2.1. The m88k backend in gcc had been removed after gcc 3.3, so it was no longer a simple task of porting bugfixes to the current backend, but instead the more difficult task of starting from the gcc 3.3 backend and catch up with all the changes in gcc. * ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Selectively_block_cores_from_the_scheduler_with_sysctl hw.blockcpu⠀⇛ The familiar safeguard sysctl hw.smt is now deprecated, having been replaced by a more flexible mechanism which allows discriminating between different varieties of core type. * ⚓ LWN ☛ Introducing_the_FreeBSD_laptop_integration_testing_project⠀⇛ Recently, the FreeBSD Foundation has been making progress on improving the operating system's support for modern laptop hardware. The foundation is now looking to expand testing to encompass a wider range of hardware; it has announced a laptop integration testing project to allow the community to easily test FreeBSD's compatibility with laptops and submit the results. * ⚓ Warner Losh ☛ Warner's_Random_Hacking_Blog:_Recovering_2.11BSD, fighting_the_patches⠀⇛ 2.11BSD was released March 14, 1991 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the PDP-11. It was released 15 months after 2.10.1BSD was released in January 1989. 2.11BSD was quite the ambitious release. The high points include: [...] * ⚓ Undeadly ☛ OpenBSD_-current_has_moved_to_version_7.9⠀⇛ For those unfamiliar with the process: this is not the 7.9 release, but is part of the standard build-up to the release. * ⚓ TuMFatig ☛ Redundant_DHCP_server_and_DNS_Resolver_using_OpenBSD_and FreeBSD⠀⇛ My OpenBSD server is already configured to provide DNS resolving to my LAN (and WireGuarded) clients. My FreeBSD server can benefit from this configuration and be configured the same way. The configuration is quite simple: accept recursive queries from my LAN and forward them to some remote private DNS servers. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 500 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Canonical_Releases_Mir_2_26_with_Initial_Rust_Implementation_of.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Canonical_Releases_Mir_2_26_with_Initial_Rust_Implementation_of.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Canonical Releases Mir 2.26 with Initial Rust Implementation of Wayland Frontend⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Marius Nestor on Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Mir⦈_ Mir 2.26 is a hefty update that brings many Wayland improvements, including an initial implementation of the Wayland frontend in the Rust programming language and partial implementation of ext_image_copy_capture_v1 cursor sessions. It also adds support for the ext-input-triggers protocol, which allows Wayland to handle input triggers (keyboard, mouse, touch) securely through the compositor, and updates ext-input-trigger-action-v1.xml to add more details about token validity and availability. 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This update is mostly a round-up of all the small changes and bug fixes we have made over the past few months, but there is one significant change that we’d like to flag up: passwordless sudo is now disabled by default. * ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Distribution_Release:_Raspberry_Pi_OS_2026-04-13⠀⇛ Simon Long has announced the release of a new security update of Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for the popular Raspberry Pi single-board computers. The new version, besides bringing the usual range of bug fixes and improvements, also disables the passwordless sudo: [...] * ⚓ New_Release:_Tails_7.6.2_|_The_Tor_Project⠀⇛ Update Flatpak to 1.16.6, which fixes CVE-2026-34078, a major sandbox escape vulnerability. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could break the security confinement of Tor Browser and access all files that don't require an administration password, including in the Persistent Storage. This vulnerability can only be exploited by a powerful attacker who has already exploited another vulnerability to take control of Tor Browser. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 622 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Decades_old_Linux_UI_bug_fixed_by_dev_younger_than_the_window_m.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Decades_old_Linux_UI_bug_fixed_by_dev_younger_than_the_window_m.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 Quoting: 20-year-old Enlightenment E16 bug finally gets patched — No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software. For those unfamiliar, E16 is the long-lived DR16 branch of Enlightenment, a still-developing Linux window manager that first hit the FOSS space in 1997. E16 was introduced in 1999 and is still maintained to this day by a dedicated band of devs like Szewczyk, who noted in her writeup on the bug she discovered that she is one of a small community of "hardcore enthusiasts" who still use and maintain the aged window manager. Szewczyk, 21, explained in her blog that she found the bug while doing some last-minute work on a slide deck to be used in a course she's teaching as a graduate student at Saarland University in Germany. "I had a couple of PDFs with lecture slides and an exercise sheet typeset in LaTeX. At some point, I opened one of them in Atril, and the entire desktop froze," Szewczyk wrote. It happened repeatedly until she sussed out the root cause: E16 was hanging whenever it tried to truncate the overly long name of the file she was working with. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 674 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Digital_Sovereignty_Software_Freedom_Gaining_Traction.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Digital_Sovereignty_Software_Freedom_Gaining_Traction.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Digital Sovereignty / Software Freedom Gaining Traction⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Global_Battle_for_Data_Control:_How_the_2026_U.S. Report_on_Trade_Barriers_Targets_Data_Sovereignty_Worldwide⠀⇛ The speed at which data sovereignty has moved onto the U.S. trade radar is truly remarkable. The 2025 NTE report contained 12 country-level data localization headings and a handful of cloud-specific sections covering China, South Korea, and the EU. There was no mention of Canada in connection with cloud computing or data sovereignty. The term “sovereign cloud” did not appear anywhere in the report. * ⚓ [Repeat] OpenRightsGroup ☛ New_report:_UK_needs_digital_sovereignty strategy_to_address_threats_from_reliance_on_big_tech⠀⇛ The urgent need for a digital sovereignty strategy, defined as the ability of a country to have control over its digital infrastructure, data, and technology, is supported by the Green Party’s Siân Berry MP, Labour’s Clive Lewis MP and the Lib Dems’ Lord Tim Clement Jones, who have all contributed forewords to the report. The report finds that Big Tech has used its outsized power and resources to control markets, limit innovation and lobby Government. This not only means a small number of companies have been able to capture the market for the UK’s critical infrastructure but have also been allowed to influence policies that entrench the UK’s dependency. In recent years, the tech lobby has pressed hard to halt AI regulation, limit data protection, and reduce the impact of competition law. * ⚓ [Repeat] OpenRightsGroup ☛ The_case_for_Digital_Sovereignty_and_the Digital_Commons⠀⇛ Our new report asks a profound question: just how dependent is the UK on US technology, and what could that mean for the UK’s sovereignty? It is an enormous question, but as our report shows, there are real and beneficial answers if the UK shifts from one way dependence on US tech giants to shared technology, based on a Digital Commons, including Open Source, open standards and open hardware. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 739 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Every_Linux_user_told_me_to_try_Niri_so_I_finally_did_and_it_wa.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Every_Linux_user_told_me_to_try_Niri_so_I_finally_did_and_it_wa.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Every Linux user told me to try Niri, so I finally did and it wasn't for me⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Ubuntu_installed_in_a_laptop⦈_ Quoting: Every Linux user told me to try Niri, so I finally did and it wasn't for me — The first few minutes with Niri feel … different. Not flashy, different, or “look at these animations” different. More like someone discreetly rearranged your brain while you weren’t looking. No grids, no splits, and no constant resizing like you’re negotiating with your own screen real estate. Instead, everything lives in a horizontal flow. One window at a time. Move left, move right, done. It sounds almost too simple. And yet, it works. With something like Hyprland or i3, there’s always this low-level hum of decision-making. Where should this go? Is this layout still working? Should I just tweak that one thing … again? Niri just cuts the wire. You open something, and it appears. Full focus with no competition. No visual noise elbowing its way into your attention span. For deep work, it’s borderline dangerous how effective it is. The kind of setup where you sit down “just to check something” and suddenly an hour is gone, and you’ve actually finished what you started. Which is rare. Extremely rare. Read_on ⠀⠀⢀⠁⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠙⠛⠛ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣆⠀⢀⣭⣥⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣖⣖⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣴⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣴⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠾⣁⡇⠀⡀⠀⠀ ⣂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⣀⠀⢰⣶⣦⣤⣤⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠁⠁⣴ ⡷⠠⠆⢔⠀⡁⠨⠄⠄⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠴⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠸⢂ ⢟⠀⡁⣪⠀⠄⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⠋⠛⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡎⠑⠄ ⠈⠨⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠊⠁⠀⠐ ⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣤⣤⠆⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢲⣦⣤⠄⣭⣍⣉⣩⣭⣭⣤⣶⣾⡄⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠛⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠲⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡈⠉⣠⣄⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠛⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⣻⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤ ⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣰⠾⣟⢛⡭⣛⣤⣤⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠟⠛⠃⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠟⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠟⠋⠙⣀⡙⢿⣿⣷⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠛⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣤⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠻⠏⠁⠈⠀⠁⠈⠀⠀⢄⠀⠀⠉⠿⣿⣷⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿ ⡿⠋⠁⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡟⠟⡙⡤⡁⡀⠢⠀⠈⠀⠀⠄⢀⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠂⠈⠿⣿⣧⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣴⣶⠶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠟⣋⣤⠩⣖⠋⠙⠊⠀⡁⠈⠀⠀⠌⠄⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣡⣼⠿⣿⣿⡳⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣶⣶⣻⣭⣷⣾⣿⣿⢿⠛⢿⡉⣧⣬⣒⠯⠢⡘⢁⠑⠄⠀⢐⠈⠂⢀⠀⠌⠀⣉⡀⠠⡄⠀⠁⠀⠀⣥⡴⠄⠈⠠⠀⢀⣁⣬⣽⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠏⣹⠭⡥⣂⠿⠟⢢⡨⠅⠢⠌⢆⢈⠀⠁⠢⠀⠆⢠⡈⢤⠐⡄⠆⠙⠃⠢⠀⢠⠅⠀⠂⠀⣄⣠⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠜⣿⣿⣿⣿⡹⠿⣛⣤⣭⣰⣿⠿⣍⡋⠬⡂⢆⠐⠂⠢⠀⢄⠙⠌⠢⡚⡀⡕⠔⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣄⣠⡾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀ ⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⡸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡻⠿⣛⠋⢱⠶⠀⠷⠘⡔⡡⠐⠠⢘⠄⢀⢀⠲⠀⠈⠘⠉⢂⣂⣤⣴⣴⣿⠏⠙⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠁⢓⢹⣿⣿⣿⣯⢑⠂⠀⣀⡍⠓⢈⣇⠺⠓⠱⠀⠀⠈⢂⠠⢁⣀⣤⣶⣾⣿⣻⣿⡟⠿⠍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠢⡀⠠⠀⠀⢀⠈⢦⢻⣿⣿⣿⣷⢫⡾⠣⢒⠠⠉⣠⠁⠀⠂⢀⢀⣬⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⡏⢠⡏⠁⡆⠀⠀⣤⣦⣴⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠻⠋⠇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠐⢄⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠘⢆⢿⣿⣿⣿⣗⠂⠤⠀⠀⢀⣀⣡⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣀⣶⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 812 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Feeding_the_Fish.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Feeding_the_Fish.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Feeding the Fish⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026, updated Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇it_is_getting_cereal⦈_ It has now been about a year since the full water change was last required in the fishtank. It seems like a legion of shells, which continues to grow (both the legion and the individual shells), is managing to clean up almost everything 'in vivo'. Fish are an easy kind of pet and also a simple kind of shell (in the terminal sense; computing reference). They can look after themselves, you habitually feed them, and they don't need "taking out for a walk". We've had fish since we got married. 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It provides a focused writing environment for plain text and Markdown on Linux, aimed at note-taking, drafting documentation, and writing blog posts. The application is designed to stay lightweight and distraction-free while also adding some support for Typst inside code blocks for maths and formula-oriented content. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Minisforum_MS-R1_ARM_Mini_Workstation_running_Linux:_Introduction_- LinuxLinks⠀⇛ This is a new series looking at the Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux. In this series, I’ll examine every aspect of this mini workstation in detail from a Linux perspective. I’ll compare the machine with other machines to put my findings into context. The Minisforum MS-R1 is a unique, ARM-based mini workstation aimed at developers and homelab enthusiasts looking for Linux/ ARM experimentation. It uses a 12-core CIX CP8180 chip with built-in AI acceleration. Key hardware includes dual 10 GbE networking and also a PCIEx16 (PCIE4.0x8) for PCIe expansion. There’s UEFI support too. * ⚓ Timetable_-_unofficial_client_for_WebUntis_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Timetable is a desktop application for viewing WebUntis timetables on Linux. It is an unofficial client aimed at students, offering a native alternative to opening the WebUntis service in a browser while fitting neatly into a modern GTK-based Linux desktop. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Symja_-_computer_algebra_system_and_symbolic_mathematics_library_- LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Symja is a computer algebra system and symbolic mathematics library written in Java. It’s designed for symbolic and numerical work, giving users tools for manipulating expressions, performing calculus and algebra operations, solving equations, and building mathematical functionality into Java applications. The project also provides interactive interfaces including REPLs, notebook- style components, and web-based access to the Symja language. 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It retrieves registration data for internet resources and presents the results in a human-readable terminal format, helping administrators, network operators, and researchers inspect information associated with domains, IP addresses, autonomous system numbers, and related RDAP objects. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Eigen_-_matrix_calculator_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Eigen is a GTK4 matrix calculator for Linux that focuses on common linear algebra tasks in a clean, accessible interface. It uses NumPy-style matrix input to make entering and manipulating matrices straightforward, and supports a range of operations including matrix arithmetic, transposition, inversion, eigendecomposition, and decompositions such as QR and LU. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ REDUCE_-_general-purpose_computer_algebra_system_for_symbolic computation_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ REDUCE is a portable general-purpose computer algebra system for symbolic computation. It is aimed at mathematicians, scientists, and engineers, and can be used both for interactive algebraic work and for building programs in its own expressive user language. The system is implemented in Standard Lisp, and the distribution includes the Portable Standard Lisp, Codemist Standard Lisp, and Visible Standard Lisp back ends. 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And even though I'd prefer it would be Org Mode (or Orgdown), I cannot escape this reality. * ⚓ Sacha Chua ☛ Org_Mode:_Tangle_Emacs_config_snippets_to_different_files and_add_boilerplate⠀⇛ I want to organize the functions in my Emacs configuration so that they are easier for me to test and so that other people can load them from my repository. Instead of copying multiple code blogs from my blog posts or my exported Emacs configuration, it would be great if people could just include a file from the repository. I don't think people copy that much from my config, but it might still be worth making it easier for people to borrow interesting functions. It would be great to have libraries of functions that people can evaluate without worrying about side effects, and then they can copy or write a shorter piece of code to use those functions. * ⚓ Lan Tian ☛ Modifying_FileZilla_to_Workaround_Bambu_3D_Printer's_FTP Issue⠀⇛ Some users on the Bambu official forum have also reported this issue, such as this reply and this reply. Some users mentioned that WinSCP works, but I use Linux daily and don't want to switch to Windows just to connect to the printer's FTP service. So I investigated the cause of the problem and found a solution for Linux. * ⚓ Undeadly ☛ OpenBGPD_9.1_released⠀⇛ The OpenBGPD project have announced the availability of their newest release, version 9.1, with the following announcement: [...] * ⚓ Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ Streaming_syslog-ng_data_to_your_lakehouse_using OpenTelemetry⠀⇛ Version 4.11.0 of syslog-ng contains contributions from Databricks related to OAuth2 authentication. Recently, they published a blog about how this enables their customers to send logs to their data lake using syslog-ng and the OpenTelemetry protocol. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Framework Computer BV ☛ Framework_[Next_Gen]_Event_is_live on_April_21⠀⇛ Every step we take and every product we ship serves that goal. With that, we’re happy to announce that we have our next live launch event coming on April 21st at 10:30am PT in San Francisco. During the event, we’ll be streaming our announcements live to the Framework YouTube channel. You can subscribe and get notified when the stream goes live. We can’t wait for you to see what we’ve been working on. o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Open Data⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael Winston Dales ☛ Point_cloud_allemansrätten⠀⇛ I've shared a couple of little views on my weeknotes (here and here) of the Swedish lidar data from Lantmäteriet, both limited to around 200,000 data points. This limitation isn't from what the browser can do, as it'll happily do one to two orders of magnitude more, but rather just the volume of data. Locally I was able to load an entire single tile of the Lantmäteriet lidar scan, covering an area of 2.5km per side, which was around 20 million points, but that file was around 200 MB even when compressed. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ reviser:_Analyzing_Real-Time_Data_Revisions in_R⠀⇛ Economic data are rarely static. Gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, employment, and other official statistics arrive as early estimates, then get revised as new source data arrive, seasonal adjustment is updated, or benchmarking changes are applied. Those revisions matter because they can change the narrative around turning points, policy mistakes, and forecast performance. reviser is an R package by Marc Burri and Philipp Wegmüller for working with these vintage datasets directly. A vintage dataset records multiple published versions of the same time series, so you can compare what was known at each release date with what was reported later. reviser gives you a consistent workflow to: [...] # § Open Access/Content⠀➾ # ⚓ Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest_Post_-_From Open_Access_to_Preprints:_Are_We_Repeating_the_Same Mistakes_in_Scholarly_Publishing?⠀⇛ For more than two decades, the open access (OA) movement has been one of the most influential reform efforts in scholarly communication. It reshaped policies, business models, and expectations around the dissemination of research. Yet the movement has also faced persistent criticism, including from longtime observer and journalist Richard Poynder, who in 2023 announced that he would no longer cover open access after concluding that the movement had failed to achieve its original goals. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1261 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Games_Necesse_Warhammer_Sentinel_and_More.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Games_Necesse_Warhammer_Sentinel_and_More.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Games: Necesse, Warhammer, Sentinel, and More⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * ⚓ The_Secrets_update_for_Necesse_includes_collabs_with_Palworld, Rimworld,_Core_Keeper_and_Valheim_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Necesse blends a bit of many genres and now many collabs all in one in the Secrets update that's out now. * ⚓ Broken_Sword_-_The_Smoking_Mirror:_Reforged_is_up_on_Kickstarter_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ After releasing the Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged back in 2024, developer Revolution are preparing Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Reforged. * ⚓ Various_Warhammer_Classics_arrive_on_Steam_along_with_some_returning upgraded_games_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Games Workshop announced that a bunch of Warhammer Classics have arrived on Steam. Some brand new to Steam, others returning with some upgrades. Nice to see for Warhammer fans, making them real easy to grab for keeps. * ⚓ Sentinel_is_an_achievement_watcher_for_non-Steam_games_on_Linux_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Love achievement hunting but play games outside of Steam on Linux? Sounds like Sentinel is an open source tool you'll want to see. * ⚓ No_Man's_Sky_channels_a_little_Pokemon_with_the_Xeno_Arena_update_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ No Man's Sky is steadily turning into the everything game isn't it? Hello Games have released another big upgrade for it recently adding creature battling. * ⚓ SteamVR_Beta_2.16.3_brings_Linux_fixes_for_VRLink_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Seems SteamVR for Linux really is getting some more attention recently, after a number of fixes in the previous Beta we have a few more here. * ⚓ SteamOS_3.8.2_Beta_brings_fixes_for_security_issues,_trackpad_on_Legion Go_and_Borderlands_2_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ We're hopefully closing in on the next big stable update for SteamOS, with Valve releasing SteamOS 3.8.2 Beta. Adding in a few more fixes for issues people have reported. No exact date on when it will be released as stable, as Valve just push it out whenever they feel it's ready enough to go. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1342 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Games_ScummVM_Road_to_Vostok_Luanti_and_More.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Games_ScummVM_Road_to_Vostok_Luanti_and_More.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Games: ScummVM, Road to Vostok, Luanti, and More⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * ⚓ ScummVM ☛ Nancy_Drew_8_&_9_join_the_investigation!⠀⇛ The mystery deepens! It’s time once again to step into Nancy’s shoes and follow the clues... We are pleased to announce that ScummVM now supports two more titles from the long-running Nancy Drew adventure game series. In Nancy_Drew:_The_Haunted_Carousel, Nancy is called to investigate a series of strange events at Captain’s Cove Amusement Park, where a carousel horse has vanished and rumors of a curse are beginning to spread. Is it sabotage, superstition, or something else entirely? * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Road_to_Vostok_is_an_incredibly_impressive_solo- developed_hardcore_survival_shooter_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ What looks like one of the most impressive games ever made with Godot Engine, the solo-developed hardcore Road to Vostok has entered Early Access. Note: personal purchase. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ TRX_the_open_source_re-implementation_of_Tomb_Raider_is making_progress_on_Tomb_Raider_3_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ With the classic Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 fully playable with the open source re-implementation TRX, the team makes impressive progress with the third. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Luanti_(formerly_Minetest)_v5.15.2_brings_critical security_updates_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Luanti (formerly Minetest) is the popular free and open source voxel game engine powering some really fun experiences and a critical update is out now. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ After_years_in_development_v8_of_the_factory_management RTS_Mindustry_is_out_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Mindustry is a free and open source open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements, with a major new update finally out. The previous version 7 released all the way back in November 2022, so we've been waiting a while for this! * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Book_of_Travels_from_Might_and_Delight_goes_offline_in July_but_you'll_still_be_able_to_play_alone_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Book of Travels had an interesting idea as a slower, more exploration focused online RPG that didn't hold your hand but it never really took off. Coming from Might and Delight who also made Twinkleby, the Shelter series and Meadow it's going to be having the servers shut down at the end of July. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Designer_of_Terra_Nil_reveals_Combolands,_a_deckbuilder where_cards_are_buildings_and_the_map_is_your_deck_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Based on a hit prototype game Tiny Towns that had over 100K views on itch.io, Combolands is a deckbuilder where cards are buildings and the map is your deck. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ SteamOS_3.7.21_released_to_stable_with_security_and stability_updates_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ While Valve are working to get SteamOS 3.8 Beta into stable with lots of big changes, a small SteamOS stable update has been released. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Only_2_years_after_release_Star_Trek:_Resurgence_is being_delisted_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Dramatic Labs / Bruner House have abruptly announced that Star Trek: Resurgence from 2024 is already being delisted. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1452 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_News_Releases_Act.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_News_Releases_Act.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: News, Releases, Activity⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * § Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)⠀➾ o ⚓ Thibault_Martin:_I_realized_that_Niri_can_have_gorgeous animation⠀⇛ I was a huge fan of Niri already. It's a scrolling tiling window manager. Roughly: [...] o § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreNews ☛ New_Linux_Hardware,_France_switches_to_Linux, and_more!⠀⇛ Framework is teasing new hardware, and this time around they seem to be particularly leaning into Linux support! That's a good trend, especially since Framework is also directly funding FOSS development. As an example, they've recently been announced to be a KDE Patron, which means they are actively donating money to KDE. o § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Jakub Steiner ☛ 120+_Icons_and_Counting⠀⇛ Back in 2019, we undertook a radical overhaul of how GNOME app icons work. The old Tango-era style required drawing up to seven separate sizes per icon and a truckload of detail. A task so demanding that only a handful of people could do it. The "new" style is geometric, colorful, but mainly achievable. Redesigning the system was just the first step. We needed to actually get better icons into the hands of app developers, as those should be in control of their brand identity. That's where app-icon-requests came in. As of today, the project has received over a hundred icon requests. Each one represents a collaboration between a designer and a developer, and a small but visible improvement to the Linux desktop. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ [Repeat] HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Activity_&_Contract_Report,_March_2026_ (ft._ARM64)⠀⇛ The biggest news this month is probably all the work that’s been done on support for ARM64, largely thanks to contributors smrobtzz and SED4906! o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Excalibur-series_version_7.2.5⠀⇛ Version 7.2.4 was released only a few days ago: ...see that post for alternative download URLs. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1546 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Graphics_The_Origins_of_GPU_Computing_and_DRM_Chaos_in_HDMI_2_1.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Graphics_The_Origins_of_GPU_Computing_and_DRM_Chaos_in_HDMI_2_1.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Graphics: The Origins of GPU Computing and DRM Chaos in HDMI 2.1 Hurting Linux⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * ⚓ ACM ☛ The_Origins_of_GPU_Computing⠀⇛ Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable graphics processing units (GPUs) directly led to the development of GPU computing. GPUs are used in modern datacenters and have enabled the current revolution in artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia, which makes GPUs, is now the most valuable company in the world. This transformation of computing and resulting economic value created was enabled by more than 30 years of government-funded research. Government funding not only helped develop many of the key technical innovations; it also enabled the training of large numbers of students who have conveyed this technology to industry. This article traces the origins of GPU computing. We start by describing the development of the technologies on which GPU computing is built (parallel computing, parallel graphics systems, programmable shaders, and stream processing), and then we detail how this technology was transferred to Nvidia and other companies and came to be applied to modern machine learning. * ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Your_Linux_PC_can_handle_HDMI_2.1_—_the_law_is_what's holding_it_back⠀⇛ Nothing is broken. And somehow, that makes it worse. Your system boots like a champ, apps open instantly, and your GPU hums along like a caffeinated penguin with a purpose. Then you plug into a modern TV or high-end monitor, and it stops short. Not dramatically, or in a way you can screenshot and complain about. Just enough to make you feel like your setup is being held back. That invisible ceiling isn’t a bug. It’s not even Linux being Linux. It’s a locked door with a legal sign on it. [...] The HDMI situation isn’t just about cables and specs. It’s about control. When essential technology is locked behind licensing that excludes open-source models, you don’t get a level playing field. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1612 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/I_found_a_way_to_roll_back_buggy_Google_Services_updates_on_And.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/I_found_a_way_to_roll_back_buggy_Google_Services_updates_on_And.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ I found a way to roll back buggy Google Services updates on Android - in just a few clicks⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 Quoting: I found a way to roll back buggy Google Services updates on Android - in just a few clicks | ZDNET — Over the past decade, there have been a handful of occasions when an Android update wreaked havoc on my phone. Once, it was so bad that I had to do a factory reset and start over. Not ideal. There have also been situations where an update didn't cause catastrophic problems, but did give me a headache or two. For example, a Google Play Services update led to the inability to install apps. That issue wasn't resolved until Google pushed an update to the service. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1652 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/KDE_Gear_26_04_Software_Suite_Is_Out_with_Many_Improvements_for.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/KDE_Gear_26_04_Software_Suite_Is_Out_with_Many_Improvements_for.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ KDE Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Marius Nestor on Apr 16, 2026, updated Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇KDE_Gear_26.04⦈_ KDE Gear 26.04 is here to improve the KDE Itinerary travel assistant app with many features, such as a MapLibre-based backend for the Maps views to render vector-based tiles, which means they can be displayed at any size without visible pixels. The Photos image viewer app received a floating zoom bar, a setting that allows enlarging small images, more standard file actions when viewing a picture, and support for the standard zoom-in and zoom-out shortcuts. Read_on More Updates: * ⚓ KDE_Gear_⚙️_26.04_-_KDE_Community⠀⇛ KDE has been around for 30 years! Many of KDE's projects are also mature and consolidated: Okular is 21 years old, KOrganiser is 23, and Kdenlive is 24. Other projects are young and upcoming, like NeoChat, Merkuro and AudioTube, as our community is constantly churning out new ideas and turning them into products for you to enjoy. Today, we bring you new versions of many of these apps, old and new. Read on and discover all the features and improvements that will soon land on your desktop. * ⚓ KDE_Gear_26.04_released⠀⇛ Version 26.04 of the KDE Gear collection of applications has been released. Notable changes include improvements in the Merkuro Calendar schedule view and event editor, support for threads in the NeoChat Matrix chat client, as well as the ability to add keyboard shortcuts in the Dolphin file manager ""to nearly any option in any menu, plugin or extension"". 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We have some work to do for all of these to improve our testing story, and we collectively came to important decisions on how to move forwards. 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With this, they aim to focus more on fixing bugs and improving the Linux Mint desktop. As such, the next major Linux Mint release, Linux Mint 23, is expected in December 2026, based on the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Racoon) operating system series and powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.0 kernel series. In addition, Linux Mint 23 will use the same installer as Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Read_on OMG Ubuntu: * ⚓ Linux_Mint's_next_release_won't_be_until_Christmas_2026_-_OMG!_Ubuntu⠀⇛ As a result, the Linux Mint 23 release is now slated to launch in December 2026. It will, among other planned changes, use the same installer as LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) as this offers better OEM install, SecureBoot and LVM/LUKS support. Project lead Clement Lefebvre intimated that upending the distro’s standard twice-yearly release model was needed in February, noting that “…one of our strengths is that we’re doing things incrementally and changing things slowly”. While the overall release strategy is still be dialled in, i.e., how often new releases arrive, the status of point releases and whether to introduce alpha releases to catch issues sooner via earlier testing. ⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠤⠽⠏⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⡀⠀⠀⡀⡀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⡾⠿⠿⣶⣤⣀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⡟⣹⣿⣷⣶⣶⣴⡄⣀⣈⣁⣈⠉⠉⢹⠉⠀⠈⠀⣾⣠⣮⣝⢷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠸⠿⡿⠿⠿⠷⠉⠙⣿⣿⣿⣉⣩⣯⣍⣟⠛⠉⠉⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠧⣤⠏⣽⣿⣻⣦⠹⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣘⣿⣛⣛⣉⠀⠀⢀⣟⣟⣿⢛⠛⢛⣿⠻⠟⠛⠟⠛⠛⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠤⣿⣬⣥⣿⡇⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢨⣭⣭⣭⡅⠀⠀⠰⠸⠿⠿⠿⠿⡷⠷⠶⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠊⣍⣉⣉⣉⣰⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣶⣤⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠸⠶⠶⢶⣂⣀⣤⡄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣥⣤⣤⠀⠇⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠛⠿⠿⠛⣋⣉⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣓⣺⣛⠻⠟⢙⣴⣶⣶⣴⣶⣖⣒⣓⣲⣀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣝⣧⣤⣤⣄⢨⣩⣽⣯⣭⣭⣉⣭⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠜⠛⠉⠉⢉⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢻⣯⣬⣭⣭⣭⣹⣞⣟⣛⣛⣛⠛⡛⣛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠸⡷⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠙⠻⣿⡻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠲⠶⠶⠶⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢘⣻⡛⣟⣟⣀⠀⠠⣿⣿⡿⣿⣷⣭⣭⣤⣭⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⢱⣾⣷⡾⠷⡧⠀⣤⣤⣠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⢤⣀⣠⣤⣄⣀⣀⣰⣭⣭⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⣃⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣷⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢉⣭⣭⣭⡫⣍⠉⠉⠁⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠙⠛⣻⣛⢛⣛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1882 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/LWN_Scuttlebutt_fre_ac_and_Kernel.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/LWN_Scuttlebutt_fre_ac_and_Kernel.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ LWN: Scuttlebutt, fre:ac, and Kernel⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Manyverse⦈_ * § Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ LWN ☛ Sharing_stories_on_Scuttlebutt_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Not many people live on sailboats. Things may be better these days, but back in 2014 sailboat dwellers had to contend with lag-prone, intermittent, low-bandwidth internet connections. Dominic Tarr decided to fix the problem of keeping up with his friends by developing a delay-tolerant, fully distributed social-media protocol called Scuttlebutt. Nearly twelve years later, the protocol has gained a number of users who have their own, non-sailboat-related reasons to prefer a censorship- resistant, offline-first social-media system. In Scuttlebutt, each person has an append-only log of information where each entry is signed with their private key; this log contains both data (such as social-media posts) and metadata (such as information on who is following whom). Since each entry in the log is signed, it doesn't matter by what route those entries reach interested recipients. When two computers running software that supports Scuttlebutt connect to each other, they exchange a list of which feeds they are interested in, and then share any entries that one has that the other doesn't. This is a straightforward example of a gossip protocol, and it provides a simple foundation for higher-level social-media applications. o ⚓ LWN ☛ Ripping_CDs_and_converting_audio_with_fre:ac_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ It has been a little while since LWN last surveyed tools for managing a digital music collection. In the intervening decades, many Linux users have moved on to music streaming services, found them wanting, and are looking to curate their own collection once again. There are plenty of choices when it comes to ripping, managing, and playing digital audio; so many, in fact, that it can be a bit daunting. After years of tinkering, I've found a few tools that work well for managing my digital library: the first I'd like to cover is the fre:ac free audio encoder for ripping music from CDs and converting between audio formats. Building a music library starts with acquiring music rather than renting it; when I decided to ditch my Spotify subscription a few years ago, I already had a sizable CD collection that I'd started accumulating in the late 1980s. Unfortunately, I had been haphazard about converting to digital formats; some of it was ripped to MP3, some to FLAC, and I had not yet gotten around to digitizing hundreds of CDs. The metadata for what I had converted was a mess. It was time to standardize things and get serious about archiving everything in a digital format. * § Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization⠀➾ o ⚓ LWN ☛ An_API_for_handling_arithmetic_overflow⠀⇛ On March 31, Kees Cook shared a patch set that represents the culmination of more than a year of work toward eliminating the possibility of silent, unintentional integer overflow in the kernel. Linus Torvalds was not pleased with the approach, leading to a detailed discussion about the meaning of "safe" integer operations and the design of APIs for handling integer overflows. Eventually, the developers involved reached a consensus for a different API that should make handling overflow errors in the kernel much less of a hassle. This work was initially proposed in 2024 as part of Cook's continuing efforts to harden the kernel against various sources of error. In that proposal, he emphasized that the problem with integer overflow in the kernel is not related to undefined behavior — the kernel is compiled with -fno-strict-overflow, which causes integer overflow and underflow to wrap around without error. The problem is with the unexpected code paths that can be taken when a number is suddenly much larger or much smaller than the developer expected. For example, adding an offset to a base address can result in a pointer to a location below the base address, a fact that is easy to overlook when writing buffer-handling code. o ⚓ LWN ☛ IPC_medley:_message-queue_peeking,_io_uring,_and_bus1_ [LWN.net]⠀⇛ The kernel provides a number of ways for processes to communicate with each other, but they never quite seem to fit the bill for many users. There are currently a few proposals for interprocess communication (IPC) enhancements circulating on the mailing lists. The most straightforward one adds a new system call for POSIX message queues that enables the addition of new features. For those wanting an entirely new way to do interprocess communication, there is a proposal to add a new subsystem for that purpose to io_uring. Finally, the bus1 proposal has made a return after ten years. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Protecting_against_TPM_interposer_attacks⠀⇛ The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a widely misunderstood piece of hardware (or firmware) that lives in most x86-based computers. At SCALE 23x in Pasadena, California, James Bottomley gave a presentation on the TPM and the work that he and others have done to enable the Linux kernel to work with it. In particular, he described the problems with interposer attacks, which target the communication between the TPM and the kernel, and what has been added to the kernel to thwart them. Bottomley introduced himself as a kernel developer and maintainer who worked on containers for around ten years before he joined Microsoft as an open- source evangelist. ""I enjoy studying how open- source systems work."" That was all just background, he said, because his talk was unrelated to any of that. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⢀⠁⠁⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢛⣿⣿⣿⡛⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⢛⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⢛⣿⠿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠁⠃⠀⠂⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠁⠀⠘⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣶⡶⠶⠶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡏⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⠠⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢹⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣤⣤⣤⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣀⣫⣀⣈⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣈⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠟⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⠿⠿⠷⠾⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠶⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠶⠿⠿⠿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠉⠀⠈⢋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣷⣄⣀⣀⣾⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣟⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠉⠉⠋⠉⠉⠉⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣦⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡿⠋⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣧⠀⠀⠀⣸⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣼⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠿⡶⢿⡿⢿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣟⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⠉⠉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⢉⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣏⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⢉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠻⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2071 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Mobile_and_Mobile_Leftovers_Linux_centric.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Mobile_and_Mobile_Leftovers_Linux_centric.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Hardware Projects and Mobile Leftovers (Linux-centric)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026, updated Apr 16, 2026 * § Devices⠀➾ o ⚓ Fundor 333 ☛ Hacking_My_Kobo_with_KOReader⠀⇛ I love it and the fact I can read in color comics, manga, web comics and graphic novel everywhere is a plus. But more and more I use Ebook Readers more and more I want to customize it. Like I have in the pic. o ⚓ Russell Coker ☛ Russell_Coker:_Furilabs_FLX1s_Finally_Working⠀⇛ I’ve been using the Furilabs_FLX1s_phone_[1] as my daily driver for 6 weeks, it’s a decent phone, not as good as I hoped but good enough to use every day and rely on for phone calls about job interviews etc. I intend to keep using it as my main phone and as a platform to improve phone software in Debian as you really can’t effectively find bugs unless you use the platform for important tasks. o ⚓ SANS ☛ [Guest_Diary]_Compromised_DVRs_and_Finding_Them_in_the Wild⠀⇛ Security cameras are great at monitoring physical doors, but terrible at locking their own digital ones. Across the internet, thousands of unpatched DVRs sit publicly exposed, many guarded only by the default vendor passwords they shipped with. For threat actors, these are low-hanging fruit. This write-up details a recent two- second Telnet capture, providing a mechanical breakdown of how quickly an exposed camera system goes from online to fully compromised by bad actors. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Python_Comes_To_The_Arduino_Uno_Q⠀⇛ In the past, microcontrollers were primarily programmed in C, but since MicroPython’s popularity increased over the years, it has become more and more common for introductory microcontroller programming to be in Python. Python, of course, is generally considered more beginner- friendly than C. [Natasha] presumably wanted to teach this way using an Uno Q, but the usual MicroPython APIs weren’t available. And so, in true hacker fashion, they simply made their own library to implement the most important bits of the familiar API. It currently implements a subset of the machine module: Pin, PWM, ADC, I2C, SPI and UART. While not complete, this certainly has potential to make the Uno Q easier to use for those familir with MicroPython. * § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ o ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ An_Arm_Mainboard_for_the_Framework_Laptop⠀⇛ Using the repair-friendly Framework 13 laptop chassis, I've tested the low-end x86 option (a Ryzen AI 5 340 Mainboard), the fastest RISC-V option (DC-ROMA II), and today I'm publishing results from the only Arm Mainboard, the MetaComputing AI PC, which has a 12-core Arm SoC and up to 32 GB of soldered-on RAM. o ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ OrangePi_4_Pro_Review⠀⇛ It’s time for us to review yet another ARM64 board, after the previous OrangePi 5 Ultra and the very powerful OrangePi 6 Plus. This time we go for their mid-range option, the OrangePi 4 Pro. o ⚓ Arduino ☛ A_3D-printed_“drive-by-wire”_micro_mill_for_your desktop⠀⇛ Machine tools, including vertical mills, are usually either CNC, manual, or power-assisted. In that last scenario, there is usually a simple motor that rotates a lead screw, so the user doesn’t have to crank the handle a bunch of times to traverse long distances. The motor can feed more consistently than a person can as well. But this 3D-printed micro mill is different, because it entirely replaces the traditional manual cranks with motors and can only be controlled electronically — just like a drive-by-wire car. o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Orange_Pi_Zero_3W_–_An_Allwinner_A733_SBC_in Raspberry_Pi_Zero_form_factor⠀⇛ Orange Pi Zero 3W is Raspberry Pi Zero-sized SC powered by an Allwinner A733 octa-core Arm Cortex-A76/A55 SoC paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, a microSD card slot, and footprints for eMMC flash or UFS storage. Other features include a 4K-capable mini HDMI port, two USB- C ports, one with DP 1.4 Alt mode, a MIPI DSI display connector, two MIPI CSI camera connectors, a WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 module, and a 40-pin GPIO header. o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ LimeSDR_Micro_M.2_2280_SDR_card_pairs_NXP_LA9310 baseband_processor_with_LMS7002M_RF_transceiver_(Crowdfunding)⠀⇛ The LimeSDR Micro M.2 2280 software-defined radio (SDR) card combines an NXP LA9310 baseband processor and a Lime Microsystems LMS7002M transceiver, and targets integration into portable or embedded solutions with a spare M.2 PCIe Gen3 x1 socket. The module is offered in a 1T2R configuration by default, but can be expanded to 1T4R via an FPC connector, supports a 30 MHz to 3.8 GHz frequency range, and up to 100 MHz bandwidth. o ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ OrangePi_4_Pro_Review⠀⇛ It’s time for us to review yet another ARM64 board, after the previous OrangePi 5 Ultra and the very powerful OrangePi 6 Plus. This time we go for their mid-range option, the OrangePi 4 Pro. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ New_Display_For_Old_Multimeter⠀⇛ Initially, [ogdento] had plans to retrofit this classic multimeter with a modern OLED, but could not find enough space for the display or a way to drive it easily. The next attempt to get something working was to build a custom one-off LCD using a drill press as an end mill, which didn’t work either. But after seeing a Charlieplexed display from [bobricius] as well as this video from EEVblog about designing custom LCDs, [ogdento] was able to not only design a custom PCB and LCD display to match the original meter, but was able to get a manufacturer in China to build them. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Flattening_The_Exhaust_Of_A_Laser_Cutter_To_Save Space⠀⇛ Installing the contraption worked out fine, and subsequent testing showed that although it seems to slightly reduce the effective airflow compared to the flex tubing, it is absolutely rad to look at with the transparent cover and some laser light to illuminate all that’s happening inside. o ⚓ Mike Rockwell ☛ Framework_Event_on_April_21⠀⇛ Framework always has something neat in the works. I’ll be looking forward to seeing what they have to share on April 21. o ⚓ Buttondown LLC ☛ Franklin's_bad_ads_for_Apple_][_clones_and_the beloved_impersonator_they_relied_on⠀⇛ It’s not that bad of an ad at first glance. The concept and execution pass the cavemen test: you immediately know what’s for sale and why it’s worth the money. It’s eye- catching and memorable. But Franklin Computer Corporation’s hardware, software, and ad concepts were stolen intellectual property, which, I think, qualifies as “bad.” o ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Maker_Monday:_10_non-traditional_clock_projects⠀⇛ We love it when folks get creative with a Raspberry Pi, and Maker Monday is a great time to showcase this. While there are definitely many Raspberry Pi devices out there doing important jobs in factories and industrial settings, it’s nice to see when people do something artistic — or just plain funny — with a Raspberry Pi at home. A great example of this is the many ways people have taken the ancient concept of telling the time and given it a twist. Here are just some of our favourites from the latest issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Audio_Reactive_LED_Strips_Are_Hard⠀⇛ Sound-to-light systems have been a staple of electronics for many decades, and have progressed from simple volume- based flashers and sequencers to complex DSP-driven affairs like his project. It’s particularly interesting to be reminded that the problem faced by the designer of such a system involves interfacing with human perception rather than making a pretty light show, and in that context it becomes more important to understand how humans perceive sound and light rather than to simply dump a visualization to the LEDs. We receive an introduction to some of the techniques used in speech recognition, because our brains are optimized to recognize activity in the speech frequency range, and in how humans register light intensity. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Your_Own_Tool_Changer⠀⇛ All the cool new 3D printers have tool-changing heads. Instead of multiplexing filament through one hot end, you simply park one hot end and pick up another. Or pick up a different tool, depending on what you need. There are many advantages to a system like that, but one disadvantage: cost. [Ultimate Tool Changer] has been working on a design for what he calls a simple, cheap changer, and it appears to be working well, as you can see in the video below. * § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ Kevin Wammer ☛ Google_Pixel_10_hardware:_good,_practical, unexciting⠀⇛ Getting used to the Pixel 10 hardware after about 18 years of iPhone usage was surprisingly easy, probably due to the fact all smartphones are basically just slabs of glass and some kind of metal (or plastic, depending on the budget). o ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Samsung_A54_report_11,_okayish,_angsty,_average plus⠀⇛ It's been a while since I felt excited about technology. For a good reason, right. Many good reasons. By and large, there's little innovation in the consumer space, both the desktop and the smartphone are mature, finished products, so anything "new" in this domain is likely to be detrimental to the end user, if anything. My Samsung A54 is a great example, a device that gives me grief and occasional glimmer of fleeting hope, and yet, I use it, because suffering is part of the modern IT experience. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2354 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Mozilla_Firefox_Nightly_Policy_MozPhab_and_YouTuve.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Mozilla_Firefox_Nightly_Policy_MozPhab_and_YouTuve.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Mozilla: Firefox Nightly, Policy, MozPhab, and YouTuve⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Firefox_Nightly_adds_Web_Serial_after_years_of_saying no⠀⇛ Web Serial allows browsers to interact with devices that communicate via serial ports, such as 3D printers, microcontrollers like Arduino and ESP32, and related services like smart home dashboard ESPHome. It can also communicate with devices capable of emulating a serial port over USB or Bluetooth. * ⚓ [Repeat] Andreas Farre ☛ How_to_make_Firefox_builds1_17%_faster2⠀⇛ In the previous post, I mentioned that buildcache has some unique properties compared to ccache and sccache. One of them is its Lua plugin system, which lets you write custom wrappers for programs that aren’t compilers in the traditional sense. With Bug 2027655 now merged, we can use this to cache Firefox’s WebIDL binding code generation. * ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Mozilla_Open_Policy_&_Advocacy_Blog:_Mozilla_Urges_the_FTC_to Tackle_Harmful_Design_Practices⠀⇛ In response to concerns from both consumers and the industry, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) invited_public_comment on whether it should amend the current Rule_Concerning_the_Use_of Prenotification_Negative_Option_Plans to address deceptive or unfair negative option practices. * ⚓ Firefox_Tooling_Announcements:_MozPhab_2.13.0_Released⠀⇛ Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.13.0: [...] * ⚓ YouTube ☛ Mozilla_Data_YouTube_Channel:_Responsible_Data_Collection_is Good,_Actually_(Ubisoft_Data_Summit_2021)⠀⇛ Firefox Telemetry Engineer and Data Steward Chris H-C (: chutten) gives a talk at Ubisoft's Data Summit 2021 about how Responsible Data Collection as practised at Mozilla makes cataloguing easy, stops instrumentation mistakes before they ship, and allows you to build self-serve analysis tooling that gets everyone invested in data quality. Oh, and it's cheaper, too. * ⚓ Collabora ☛ YouTube_Device_Partner_Summit_2026⠀⇛ This week, Collabora is at the YouTube Device Partner Summit in Tokyo showcasing our ongoing work with YouTube, notably on their TV app and the RDK platform, which has resulted in the RDK's integration as a core platform for Cobalt development. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2433 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Orange_Pi_Zero_3W_An_Allwinner_A733_SBC_in_Raspberry_Pi_Zero_fo.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Orange_Pi_Zero_3W_An_Allwinner_A733_SBC_in_Raspberry_Pi_Zero_fo.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Orange Pi Zero 3W – An Allwinner A733 SBC in Raspberry Pi Zero form factor⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇OrangePi_Zero_3W_specifications⦈_ Quoting: Orange Pi Zero 3W - An Allwinner A733 SBC in Raspberry Pi Zero form factor - CNX Software — Orange Pi Zero 3W is Raspberry Pi Zero-sized SBC powered by an Allwinner A733 octa-core Arm Cortex-A76/A55 SoC paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, a microSD card slot, and footprints for eMMC flash or UFS storage. Other features include a 4K-capable mini HDMI port, two USB-C ports, one with DP 1.4 Alt mode, a MIPI DSI display connector, two MIPI CSI camera connectors, a WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 module, and a 40-pin GPIO header. 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Until that exists, every fast client is fast because Homebrew already did the slow work. * ⚓ Alperen Keles ☛ On_The_Simplicity_of_Humanness⠀⇛ The essence is, our laziness is the reason we engineer simple systems. LLMs lack this laziness, which results in the fact that they don't have the incentive or the process to simplify, given that we don't externally create such mechanisms. That is why Anthropic had to introduce a separate command (/simplify) to enable such post hoc simplification process. The thing that touches me the most about this idea is that I have been frequently amazed by the simplicity of human- engineered artifacts. All the algorithms I've ever read seemed simple, perhaps too simple in hindsight. All the codebases, even the gigantic ones, can be broken into simpler modules, sections, abstractions, hierarchies that allow us to understand the system. A great deal of modern advances in computing are due to simplification, malloc made memory allocation simpler, structured programming made control flow simpler, Rust made memory management simpler, typically via removal of our mental burdens. * ⚓ Chris ☛ Object_Oriented_Programming_in_Ada⠀⇛ Ada is incredibly well designed. One way this shows is that it takes the big, monolithic features of other languages and breaks them down into their constituent parts, so we can choose which portions of those features we want. The example I often reach for to explain this is object-oriented programming. * ⚓ Zig ☛ 0.16.0_Release_Notes⠀⇛ This release features 8 months of work: changes from 244 different contributors, spread among 1183 commits. Perhaps most notably, this release debuts I/O as an Interface, but don't sleep on the Language Changes or enhancements to the Compiler, Build System, Linker, Fuzzer, and Toolchain which are also included in this release. * ⚓ Kavin Gnanapandithan ☛ Tracking_down_a_25%_Regression_on_LLVM_RISC-V⠀⇛ As shown in the image below, LLVM requires about ~8% more cycles than GCC for that specific benchmark on the SiFive P550 CPU. I have included snippets of the relevant basic block assembly. Practically all the cycles were spent on the assembly below. * ⚓ Cal Paterson ☛ Dependency_cooldowns_turn_you_into_a_free-rider⠀⇛ Frankly, dependency cooldowns work by free-riding on the pain and suffering of others. Fundamental in the dependency cooldown plan is the hope that other people - those who weren't smart enough to configure a cooldown - serve as unpaid, inadvertent beta testers for newly released packages. If there's a problem, those poor saps get hacked, everyone notices that they got hacked, and the problematic package/executable is yanked before the dependency cooldowners' thresholds are reached. Even if this worked for individuals - I think it's impossible to sustain it as a sensible or moral system for the entire ecosystem to observe. * ⚓ John Mikael Lindbakk ☛ Introducing_Brunost:_The_Nynorsk_Programming Language⠀⇛ Many countries have multiple languages. Wales has English and Welsh. The Irish got Gaelic, and Cornwall in England has Cornish. In Norway, we technically have three languages: Bokmål, Nynorsk, and Sami. One can argue that we can technically speak Nynorsk as well, which is true, but there is no "pure" Nynorsk dialect. Nobody speaks "pure" Nynorsk, at least not unless going out of their way to do so. There are many dialects that come pretty close, but none are Nynorsk. This makes Nynorsk a purely written language, which I find fascinating. One can make similar arguments about Bokmål and Sami, but people speak Sami. And I would argue that a lot more people speak "pure Bokmål" than Nynorsk. Or maybe I'm just pulling this out of my ass, and I don't know what I'm talking about. The point is that I made a purely Nynorsk programming language: Brunost. * ⚓ Paul_Tagliamonte:_designing_arf,_an_sdr_iq_encoding_format_🐶⠀⇛ 🐶 Want to jump right to the draft? I'll be maintaining ARF going forward at /draft-tagliamonte-arf-00.txt. * ⚓ Sandor Dargo ☛ C++26:_Structured_bindings_in_conditions⠀⇛ Structured bindings were introduced in C++17 as an alternative way of declaring variables. They allow you to decompose an object into a set of named variables, where the collection of those bindings conceptually represents the original object as a whole. * ⚓ Mitchell Hashimoto ☛ Simdutf_Can_Now_Be_Used_Without_libc++_or libc++abi⠀⇛ Simdutf was the final remaining libc++ dependency in libghostty-vt2. After updating Ghostty to use this new simdutf build, we were able to remove libc++ and libc++abi completely from our dependencies. * ⚓ Erlang ☛ Erlang/OTP_29.0_Release_Candidate_3_-_Erlang/OTP⠀⇛ Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc3 is the third and final release candidate before the OTP 29.0 release. The intention with this release is to get feedback from our users. All feedback is welcome, even if it is only to say that it works for you. [...] * ⚓ Buttondown LLC ☛ A_sufficiently_comprehensive_spec_is_not_(necessarily) code⠀⇛ What I'm getting at here is that a specification is an abstraction of code. For every spec, there is a set of possible programs that satisfy that spec. The more comprehensive and precise the spec, the fewer programs in this set. If spec1 corresponds to a superset of spec2, we further say that spec2 refines spec1. A specification is sufficient if it does not need to be refined further: no matter what implementation (within reason) is provided, the specifier would be satisfied. A spec does not need to be fully comprehensive to be sufficient. * ⚓ Armanc Keser ☛ My_PR_has_been_waiting_a_year,_or_the_exponential_curve behind_open_source_backlogs⠀⇛ CPython has over 2,200 open PRs. At the 2022 Python Language Summit, a core developer presented on the backlog specifically and pointed out a chicken-and-egg problem: no active reviewer for a module means no reviews, which means no new reviewers get trained. * ⚓ Lawrence Tratt ☛ Retrofitting_JIT_Compilers_into_C_Interpreters⠀⇛ C interpreters are a common language implementation technique and the basis for the reference implementations of languages such as Lua, Ruby, and Python. Unfortunately, C interpreters are slow, especially compared to language implementations powered by JIT compilers. In this post I’m going to show that it is possible to take C interpreters and, by changing a tiny proportion of code, automatically turn them into JIT compiling VMs (Virtual Machines)1. This offers a point in the language performance design space that was previously out of reach: better performance while retaining full compatibility with reference implementations. * ⚓ Zach Mitchell ☛ I_don't_care_that_it's_X_times_faster⠀⇛ This also isn't to say that it's illegal to write the absolutely most optimal code. I just think that if this is your goal you need to come with receipts and be able to make your case. If your project was entirely vibe coded, benchmarks and all, you're going to get shredded. Not by me (probably, I tend to keep to myself on the internet), but other commenters are probably going to shit on you (for better or worse) if/when they find your claims lacking. * ⚓ Lewis Campbell ☛ Saying_Goodbye_to_Agile⠀⇛ RIP Agile, we hardly knew ye. And I mean that literally - because no one was ever clear on what it was. * ⚓ Ben Werdmuller ☛ One_size_fits_none:_let_communities_build_for themselves⠀⇛ Genuinely, there were gasps. I don’t think I’ve had a similar reaction at any talk I’ve given since. Years later, one of the attendees told me it was a mind-blowing moment: one of those sessions that immediately changes your perspective. I went on to explain. Instead of releasing a rigid social network out of the box, we recognized that for communities, one size didn’t fit all. Instead of giving everyone the same configuration, the same interface, and the same collection of tools, each community owner would easily compose their own combination of functionality and experience in order to best fit the community they served. By then, Elgg had been translated into 80 languages and there were a ton of plugins from across the ecosystem; there was a lot to configure a site with. The underlying point was that a social networking platform existed to support a real human community, and needed to be responsive to its needs. How could we, as platform developers, possibly know what every community needed? We couldn’t; we didn’t. It was better to put that power in the hands of people who did. * § Perl / Raku⠀➾ o ⚓ Perl ☛ Making_an_Asynchronous_Clocking_Drum_Machine_App_in_Perl⠀⇛ Let’s Make a Drum Machine application! Yeah! :D There are basically two important things to handle: A MIDI “clock” and a groove to play. o ⚓ Perl ☛ Making_an_Asynchronous_Clocking_Drum_Machine_App_in_Perl⠀⇛ A MIDI clock tells a MIDI device about the tempo. This can be handed to a drum machine or a sequencer. Each clock tick tells the device to advance a step of a measured interval. Usually this is very short, and is often 24 pulses per quarter-note (four quarter-notes to a measure of four beats). Here is code to do that, followed by an explanation of the parts: [...] * § R / R-Script⠀➾ o ⚓ Rlang ☛ logrittr:_A_Verbose_Pipe_Operator_for_Logging_dplyr Pipelines⠀⇛ dplyr verbs are descriptive: let’s make them more verbose! Yet another pipe for R. o ⚓ Rlang ☛ TheseusPlot_0.2.0:_Visualizing_Decomposition_of Differences_in_Rate_Metrics⠀⇛ TheseusPlot is an R package that decomposes differences in rate metrics between two groups into contributions from individual subgroups and visualizes the results as a “Theseus Plot”. o ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_qlcal_0.1.1_on_CRAN: Calendar_Updates⠀⇛ The nineteenth release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN just now, and has already been built for r2u. This version synchronises with QuantLib 1.42 released this week. o ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_anytime_0.3.13_on_CRAN: Mostly_Minor_Bugfix⠀⇛ A maintenance release 0.3.13 of the anytime sticking with the roughly yearly schedule we have now. Binaries for r2u have been built already. The package is fairly feature- complete, and code and functionality remain mature and stable. o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Marathon_Man_II:_how_to_pace_a_marathon⠀⇛ Determining your optimal pace is complex. There’s the theoretical pace that you can achieve – a mix of biomechanics, physiology and training – but it can be very hard to know what this pace is. Anyway, this theoretical pace is what you could achieve when all goes well. You need to factor in the conditions on the day – how you slept, how you fuel, mental attitude, is it windy? can you get in a group and work with others? and so on. A runner may toe the line in the shape to run a sub 3 h marathon, but by the 30 km mark, the story may be very different. In the last post, we saw that positive splitting (otherwise known as slowing down) is inevitable. So it seems the best strategy is start out faster than your goal pace, bank some time so that you account for the fade. * § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ o ⚓ Jan Skriver Sørensen ☛ Homebrew_breaking_git_tab_completion_in zsh⠀⇛ GIT TAB COMPLETION in zsh suddenly stopped listing my aliases. No git ls, no git tags-ls – only built-in commands. Worse, commands beyond the most common ones lost their help descriptions entirely. git re would show rebase, reset, restore with nice descriptions, but git rep fell through to a bare list of names with no context. Something was clearly off. o ⚓ Rachel Kaufman ☛ Do_other_people_not_like_colors?_or:_adventures with_ANSI_codes_and_grep⠀⇛ The folks working on this set of scripts didn’t notice, because they don’t use color when grepping. I came along as a user of the script and spent multiple days whining that “it didn’t work,” until I had a few minutes to dig into the code today. The easy fix is to put unset GREP_OPTIONS at the top of the script. * § Java/Golang⠀➾ o ⚓ Paweł Grzybek ☛ Repository_pattern_in_Go_service⠀⇛ When you start a new project, it feels nice that everything lives in a single main.go file. When things start to grow, you split things into multiple files. We will add tests later, right? Requirements change, someone joins the team, and in the meantime, you swapped SQLite for Postgres. In no time, your pedantically maintained project became an untangled mess of layers dependent on each other, with no clear separation of concerns, and previously neglected tests are close to impossible to implement at this point. Some good habits are worth picking up from the get-go, and in the world of Go services, the repository pattern is one of them. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2919 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Proton_11_Enters_Beta_Testing_with_Support_for_Breath_of_Fire_I.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Proton_11_Enters_Beta_Testing_with_Support_for_Breath_of_Fire_I.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Proton 11 Enters Beta Testing with Support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Marius Nestor on Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Steam_Proton⦈_ Based on Wine 11, the upcoming Proton 11 release promises support for more Windows games that you can now play on your Linux box, including Universe Generator: The Golden Sword, DCS World Steam Edition, Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and Dino Crisis 2. Also now playable are the From Dust, Blaite, Don’t Die Dateless, Dummy!, METAL GEAR SURVIVE, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Metal Fatigue, SHOGUN: Total War, Unknown Faces, Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, Breath of Fire IV, and Deadly Premonition games. 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This research moves beyond theory to analyze the real-world financial benefits, risks, and return on investment (ROI) experienced by customers using Red Hat AI. By providing a third-party framework for evaluating economic impact, this study helps organizations build a rigorous business case for their own AI initiatives. We're sharing these findings to show how your peers have turned infrastructure challenges into measurable financial gains. * ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Taming_costs_in_cloud_environments:_Rating_in OpenStack_with_CloudKitty [Ed: "Clown computing" (outsourcing and data breaches) promoted by IBM Red Hat]⠀⇛ * ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Connect,_collaborate,_and_grow:_Your_guide_to Ecosystem_Success_Day_at_Red_Hat_Summit_2026⠀⇛ If you’re a Red Hat partner, you don't just get a seat at the table—you get an entire event dedicated to you on Monday, May 11. Ecosystem Success Day at Red Hat Summit is a high-impact experience designed exclusively to help Red Hat partners connect with other industry leaders, expand business opportunities, and gain strategic insights. * ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Announcing_Red_Hat_OpenShift_Pipelines_1.21:_Faster builds,_smarter_caching,_and_improved_troubleshooting⠀⇛ This blog post will explore several key highlights of OpenShift Pipelines 1.21.  ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3034 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Security_and_Windows_TCO.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Security_and_Windows_TCO.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Security and Windows TCO⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * ⚓ Security Week ☛ Exploited_Vulnerability_Exposes_Nginx_Servers_to Hacking⠀⇛ Hackers are exploiting CVE-2026-33032, a critical remote takeover vulnerability in the Nginx UI management tool.  * ⚓ QSB-111:_xfce4-screensaver_login_bypass⠀⇛ We have published Qubes_Security_Bulletin_(QSB)_111:_xfce4- screensaver_login_bypass. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ X.Org_X_server_and_Xwayland_security_advisory_released for_multiple_issues_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Time to get ready to run some system upgrades, as the X.Org X server and Xwayland developers have released a security advisory due to multiple issues. * ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (gdk-pixbuf, gst- plugins-bad1.0, and xdg-dbus-proxy), Fedora (chromium, deepin- image-viewer, dtk6gui, dtkgui, efl, elementary-photos, entangle, flatpak, freeimage, geeqie, gegl04, gthumb, ImageMagick, kf5-kimageformats, kf5-libkdcraw, kf6- kimageformats, kstars, libkdcraw, libpasraw, LibRaw, luminance- hdr, nomacs, OpenImageIO, OpenImageIO2.5, photoqt, python- cryptography, rawtherapee, shotwell, siril, swayimg, vips, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (firefox and podman), Slackware (libarchive), SUSE (expat, glibc, GraphicsMagick, libcap-devel, libpng16, libtpms, nodejs24, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, openvswitch, polkit, python-requests, python311- biopython, python312, python39, and tigervnc), and Ubuntu (corosync, kvmtool, libxml-parser-perl, linux-azure, linux- azure, linux-azure-6.17, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, policykit-1, redis, lua5.1, lua-cjson, lua-bitop, rustc, vim, and xdg-dbus-proxy). * § Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets⠀➾ o ⚓ SANS ☛ Microsoft_Patch_Tuesday_April_2026.,_(Tue,_Apr_14th)⠀⇛ o ⚓ India Times ☛ Majority_of_Indian_firms_hit_by_ransomware_in_2025 pay_over_Rs_12_crore_on_average:_Report⠀⇛ As per the report findings, India has emerged as the Asia-Pacific epicentre of ransomware activity, with manufacturing organisations witnessing a marked rise in frequency and impact. "According to the Exposure Management Research report, for the full year of 2025, 65% of affected Indian organisations paid ransoms, with average pay-outs reaching $1.35 million," according to the Manufacturing Threat Landscape 2025 report released on Tuesday. o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Autovista_blames_ransomware_for_service disruption⠀⇛ Autovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia. The automotive data and analytics biz issued a public statement on Wednesday confirming the incident, and said that it's working to contain the attack. o ⚓ Cyble Inc ☛ Ukraine_Warns_Of_Cyberattacks_On_Healthcare_By_UAC- 0247⠀⇛ Ukrainian cyber defenders reported a newly intensified cyber campaign that is targeting Ukraine’s healthcare system and local government agencies, with attackers deploying increasingly sophisticated malware and social engineering tactics. In a fresh advisory, the CERT-UA said the activity—linked to a threat cluster tracked as UAC-0247—spiked between March and April 2026, with clinical hospitals, emergency services, and municipal bodies bearing the brunt of the attacks. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Sweden_Blames_Pro-Russian_Group_for_Cyberattack Last_Year_on_Its_Energy_Infrastructure⠀⇛ Sweden said Wednesday that a pro-Russian group with links to Russia’s security and intelligence services was behind a cyberattack on a heating plant last year. The announcement followed warnings from officials in Poland, Norway, Denmark and Latvia that Russia is attacking critical infrastructure across Europe. o ⚓ The Record ☛ New_‘JanaWare’_ransomware_targeting_Turkish_citizens as_cybercriminal_ecosystem_fragments⠀⇛ The researchers said the ransomware operation has been ongoing since 2020 and is associated with a strain of malware that enforces execution constraints based on system locale and external IP geolocation — restricting its activity to systems only in Turkey. The ransom demands are very low, hovering around $200 to $400, and Acronis said the [intruders] are likely opting for a low-value, high-volume approach. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3180 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Shift_OS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Shift_OS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Shift OS – Ubuntu based Linux distribution⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 Quoting: Shift OS - Ubuntu based Linux distribution - LinuxLinks — Shift OS is an Ubuntu LTS-based Linux distribution aimed at developers, creators, and gamers who want a streamlined desktop without unnecessary extras. The project focuses on delivering a clean out-of-the-box experience with modern defaults, straightforward installation, and flexible software delivery options for everyday desktop use. This is free and open source software. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3216 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/They_Weren_t_Joking_Gentoo_WAS_Ported_To_GNU_Hurd.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/They_Weren_t_Joking_Gentoo_WAS_Ported_To_GNU_Hurd.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ They Weren't Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNU_Hurd⦈_ Unlike the Linux kernel, which follows closely the monolithic UNIX framework– and the BSD-Unix kernel, which is Unix–GNU Hurd is a microkernel architecture, based originally on the Mach kernel. In that, it’s rather like MacOS. Unlike MacOS, given its roots in the Free Software Foundation, GNU Hurd is 100% free and open source. There are advantages to a microkernel architecture– it keeps drivers out of kernel space so a dodgy WiFi adapter can’t crash your system, for example– but the big disadvantage is, of course, drivers. Both Linux and BSD drivers can be ported, but that takes work and many of them have not been. 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If passed, this would then potentially set it all up to be nation-wide across the entirety of the US. * ⚓ Tedium ☛ Linux_&_Fingerprint_Readers:_A_Tough_Combination⠀⇛ This is not exactly hardened like a YubiKey or Titan device might be, but if your goal is to offer a modest amount of convenience, it could be just enough to make your life slightly easier. (Odds are, a snooper isn’t going to have a fingerprint reader of their own that matches yours—much like most people aren’t going to go to the trouble of [cracking] a device via its Thunderbolt connection.) So, what’s the solution here? I think the best thing would be if manufacturers intentionally took steps to support fingerprint readers on Linux, but that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon. So the alternative: Chinese manufacturers should probably explain what chip they used in the description of the device they’re selling. Currently, they don’t, and that presumably leads a lot of nerds to buy these devices, learn the devices don’t work on Linux, and immediately return them. That has to be costing them money. There’s another solution that might be staring you in the face as you’re reading this: A lot of Android phones have fingerprint scanners already. Why not use one of those as your authentication tool, rather than doing Temu dumpster diving? I didn’t see any projects that formalized this, though I have seen some hacky solutions on GitHub. KDE Connect, the widely used phone connection tool, could be a great choice for a user- friendly version of this. * ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Linux_is_better_than_ever—but_these_4_problems_still_push me_back_to_Windows⠀⇛ I want to love Linux, I really do. The problem is, I can’t. 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⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3626 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/today_s_howtos.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/today_s_howtos.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ today's howtos⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * ⚓ Joost de Valk ☛ How_I_made_my_skills_update_themselves⠀⇛ First, every SKILL.md carries a version: field in its frontmatter: [...] * ⚓ Linux Host Support ☛ How_to_install_Let’s_Encrypt_on_Ubuntu_26.04⠀⇛ This blog post will show you how to install Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on Ubuntu 26.04 on your domain, for free. * ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_Install_and_Configure_PHP_on_Ubuntu_26.04⠀⇛ * ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_Set_Up_NFS_Server_and_Client_on_Ubuntu_26.04⠀⇛ * ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ These_9_Linux_terminal_shortcuts_will_save_you_hours_of typing⠀⇛ I've been using the Linux shell for about 20 years. Although I found it powerful from the beginning, there are some things I wish I'd known when I first used it. * ⚓ XDA ☛ Forget_flat_ASCII_art,_this_fastfetch-based_tool_renders_your distro's_logo_as_a_rotating_3D_object⠀⇛ But what if I told you there was a way to make your fetch look even cooler? It seems unfeasible at first; after all, how do you improve on perfection? Well, someone found a way, and it's achieved by making that awesome ASCII logo spin around. Does it enhance fetch? Nope. Will the spinning logo actually show up when you take a screenshot of your specs? Not at all. Will you install it anyway? Absolutely. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3685 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Ubuntu_s_GRUBby_plans.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Ubuntu_s_GRUBby_plans.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Ubuntu's GRUBby plans⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 GNU GRUB 2, mostly just referred to as GRUB these days, is the most widely used boot loader for x86_64 Linux systems. It supports reading from a vast selection of filesystems, handles booting modern systems with UEFI or legacy systems with a BIOS, and even allows users to customize the "splash" image displayed when a system boots. Alas, all of those features come with a price; GRUB has had a parade of security vulnerabilities over the years. To mitigate some of those problems, Ubuntu core developer and Canonical employee Julian Andres Klode has proposed removing a number of features from GRUB in Ubuntu 26.10 to improve GRUB's security profile. His proposal has not been met with universal acclaim; many of the features Klode would like to remove have vocal proponents. Ubuntu provides two versions of GRUB: one for UEFI systems that enables Secure Boot (referred to as the "signed" builds), and another for systems with legacy BIOS or systems that otherwise don't support Secure Boot (the "unsigned" builds). The unsigned GRUB builds from Ubuntu would continue to have the existing set of features, but Klode is looking to strip quite a bit out of signed GRUB builds; he proposes removing support for reading /boot partitions that use Btrfs, HFS+, XFS, or ZFS filesystems. That would leave ext4, FAT, ISO 9660, and SquashFS. He also wants to disable features to use custom PNG and JPEG splash images, and strip out support for ""complex partition setups such as LVM, md-raid (except raid1), and LUKS-encrypted /boot"" because those were not tested nor used by the Ubuntu installer. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3730 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Web_Browsers_and_Back_Doors_in_Web_Plugins.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Web_Browsers_and_Back_Doors_in_Web_Plugins.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Web Browsers and Back Doors in Web Plugins⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 16, 2026 * § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ o ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Opera_GX_for_GNU/Linux_arrives_on_Flathub_&_Snap store⠀⇛ Installing Opera GX on GNU/Linux is now easier, with official packages available on the Canonical Snap Store and Flathub. Opera GX made its debut GNU/Linux release in March 2026, with the gaming-centric web browser porting over many of the novel features that have helped to make it a modest hit on backdoored Windows and macOS. That includes CPU, RAM and network controls provided, background sounds, themes and eye-candy like web shaders. A ‘Hot Tabs Killer’ feature automatically nukes tabs which use excessive resources (other browsers have similar features with more tactile names like ‘tab sleep’). o ⚓ Matt Birchler ☛ Chrome,_Safari,_and_battery_myths⠀⇛ Yeah, I found that in controlled tests where I did the exact same things in both browsers for hours at a time (across multiple test runs), and found that they were very close to each other, with Chrome using slightly less battery. As Marques put it, it sounds like Chrome halves his Mac's battery life. As someone who uses Chrome for work and spends all day in it doing work in Atlassian apps and video calls, I can confidently say it easily makes it through an 8-9 hour work day on battery. This is true of my M5 Pro and it was also true of my M1. * § Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)⠀➾ o ⚓ Anchor Hosting ☛ Someone_Bought_30_WordPress_Plugins_and_Planted a_Backdoor_in_All_of_Them.⠀⇛ Ricky from Improve & Grow emailed us about an alert he saw in the WordPress dashboard for a client site. The notice was from the WordPress.org Plugins Team, warning that a plugin called Countdown Timer Ultimate contained code that could allow unauthorized third-party access. I ran a full security audit on the site. The plugin itself had already been force-updated by WordPress.org to version 2.6.9.1, which was supposed to clean things up. 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