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Mozilla Thunderbird 159 Email Client Improves Tray Icon Support on Linux

Continuing its fast, two-week release cycle, Mozilla Thunderbird 159 is here to update the tray icon support for Linux systems to indicate unread mail and show the message count in the tooltip, and to introduce automatic detection of graph calendars when creating a new account.

KDE Plasma 6.8.2 Desktop Environment Released with Numerous Bug Fixes

Coming a week after KDE Plasma 6.8.1, the KDE Plasma 6.8.2 release improves the Activity Switcher sidebar to no longer stretch wallpaper images on screens without a 16:9 aspect ratio, showing the wallpaper faithfully and cropping it if needed instead.

Mozilla Firefox 159 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

For Linux users, Mozilla Firefox 159 improves memory usage on AMD GPU systems when viewing map or place results, fixes that very annoying tab detaching into a new window issue on Wayland, and fixes an issue with menus and panels fading in when animation effects are turned off in the operating system.

Mozilla Firefox 160 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

Mozilla Firefox 160 promises a new playback speed setting to the Picture-in-Picture player with options ranging from 0.25x to 2.0x speed, support for playing Matroska (MKV) files with FLAC, MP3, or PCM audio, and the ability to drag history entries from the sidebar to the tab strip to open them in new tabs.

Kali Linux 2026.3 Released with Linux 7.1, KDE Plasma 6.7, and New Tools

Coming four months after Kali Linux 2026.2, the Kali Linux 2026.3 release is powered by the Linux 7.1 kernel series and introduces support for the KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment. Of course, Xfce 4.20 remains Kali Linux’s default desktop environment.

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Mirroring Protesilaos' videos to Internet Archive

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jul 26, 2025

Quoting: Mirroring Protesilaos' videos to Internet Archive - bandali —

I enjoy reading and watching the writings and videos that Protesilaos publishes on his website, with his work ranging from philosophy and various life issues to GNU Emacs and programming. Currently, Prot uploads his videos to YouTube and embeds them on his website. YouTube, diligently working their way down the spiral of enshittification, have been making it increasingly difficult to watch the videos without using their nonfree JavaScript interface or their nonfree mobile applications. This got me thinking about mirroring Prot’s videos to the Internet Archive to make them more easily accessible in freedom.

To mirror all of Prot’s videos to the Internet Archive is a nontrivial task: as of the time of this writing, there are a total of 298 videos uploaded to Prot’s YouTube channel. Thankfully, Prot makes publicly available the git repository containing the sources used to build his website, and we have several excellent tools at our disposal to help extract the information we need and carry this out.

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