GNU/Linux, HaikuOS, Debian/Sparky, Ubuntu, Browsers, and Blogs
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GNU/Linux
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Games
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Infest and Tails of Iron 2 - 2025-01-29 Edition
Between 2025-01-22 and 2025-01-29 there were 12 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 107 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 11.2 % of total released titles. Only 12 games, you might say, but there’s very little shovelware among them. We are back to very serious releases at the moment, with games such as Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter and the innovative Infest that plays with pixel-level physics.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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HaikuOS ☛ Haiku, Inc. Financial Report for 2024 is now available
In 2024 our contractor waddlesplash worked the whole year, and we had a new beta release.
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Debian Family
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Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky news 2025/01
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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University of Toronto ☛ An alarmingly bad official Ubuntu 24.04 bpftrace binary package
Bpftrace is a more or less official part of Ubuntu; it's even in the Ubuntu 24.04 'main' repository, as opposed to one of the less supported ones. So I'll present things in the traditional illustrated form (slightly edited for line length reasons): [...]
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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James G ☛ Design experiments
What if my web reader had a background image of a coffee shop?, I thought to myself after leaving a bookstore cafe today. I love coffee shops. Perhaps seeing a coffee shop in the background image would make the software more joyful for me?
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Mozilla
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Try Mozilla’s New Hey Hi (AI) Detector Add-On for Firefox [Ed: But Mozilla is at the same time actively promoting, advocating slop]
Want to find out if the text you’re reading online was written by an real human or spat out by a large language model (LLM) trying to sound like one? Mozilla’s Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox add-on may can help give you an indication. Similar to online Hey Hi (AI) detector tools, the add-on can analyse text (of 32 words or more) to identify patterns, traits, and tells common in Hey Hi (AI) generated or manipulated text.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Ruben Schade ☛ Wouter Groeneveld and Josh on blog drafts
Wouter recently did one of those blog question posts that are so popular thesedays. While he claimed not to find them especially interesting to read, I found a lot of nuggets in his that made it worth my time.
Something that resonated with me was his perspective on database-driven CMSs and static-site generators:
If you want to write often, you want to reduce friction, and for me, seeing the files and just having them on your drive is more important.
I hadn’t thought of it that way before. I do miss the ability to post from anywhere, not just where I have the repo for this blog checked out. Think phones on a train, for example (much better than snakes on a plane). But the experience of firing up a text editor to write locally and push is certainly a better experience for me, and I do like seeing posts sorted by year on a hard drive. Or SSD, or whatever.
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