schestowitz.com

Mayfield Coffee Shop Opens

It’s now open!

A Dream Start

Haaland and Cherki both score twice in Man City win at Crystal Palace

The USA is on the Side of the Aggressor

The “King Cheeto” (Trump) does photo ops with Putin, no photos like the one below.

“Western Capitalism” in the ‘New Age’

rowing up in the 2000s, having been born in the 90s or later, seems very hard to me. I have a sister like that. To the generation that needs to work for another ~50 years before retirement it seems like “the future” is full of uncertainties. Those born in the early 90s at least have some more experience, sometimes savings.

Stories for September

Tidying up things ahead of another productive year

Maresca Finds Confidence

“Create chances for Haaland and he’ll score – Maresca”

Nile Rodgers After Almost 55 Years in the Music Industry

It’ll be 55 next year

Justifying the Heavy Investments in the Club

Test two for Enzo

CDs From When I Was a Kid

He has not changed much, has he?

BBC for Pyramid Scheme

Why are taxpayers funding the oppressor’s voice?

9to5Linux

EndeavourOS Titan Nova Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1 and KDE Plasma 6.7.4

Coming four months after EndeavourOS Titan Neo, the EndeavourOS Titan Nova release is the second minor update to the EndeavourOS Titan series, which arrived on March 12th, 2026, with the Linux 6.19 kernel series and KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment. EndeavourOS Titan Neo is here with KDE Plasma 6.7.4 and Linux kernel 7.1.8.

DXVK 3.1 Released with Initial Support for DXGI Present Parameters

Highlights of DXVK 3.1 include initial support for DXGI present parameters to fix UI rendering issues in VirtualDJ and various game launchers, such as Ubisoft Connect, and support for creating render target views on buffers directly, which is used by various older Frostbite engine titles, including Battlefield 3.

Calibre 9.14 Open-Source E-Book Manager Is Out with More AI Features

Coming three weeks after Calibre 9.13, the Calibre 9.14 release is here to introduce more AI features, including the ability to generate book covers using AI with different cover styles such as romance, sci-fi, pulp fiction, etc., as well as Anthropic and Grok backends for Claude and Grok models, while removing the GitHub backend.

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Designed as a collection of security patches and software updates released since April 2024, the Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS point release is here for those who want to deploy Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on new computers without having to download hundreds of updates from the repositories during or after installation.

Darktable 5.6.1 RAW Image Editor Improves UI Performance and Fixes More Bugs

Darktable 5.6.1 comes two months after Darktable 5.6 with a small UI performance boost by reverting the increased preview pipe dimension, as well as support for copying color labels, ratings, and manually applied geotags to images created by AI denoise and upscale, in addition to EXIF data and tags.

Tor Project blog

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a10

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

LinuxGizmos.com

Orange Pi Zero 4 with Octa-Core Allwinner A733, PCIe 3.0, and Wi-Fi 6

Orange Pi has shown the Orange Pi Zero 4, a compact single-board computer based on the Allwinner A733 SoC. The board combines an octa-core Arm CPU, a PowerVR GPU, a 3 TOPS NPU, up to 16GB of LPDDR5/LPDDR4X/LPDDR4 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and multiple display and camera interfaces in a 50 x 55mm form factor.

MSI WS300 with 72-Core Grace CPU, Blackwell Ultra GPU, and Dual 400GbE

MSI has detailed the XpertStation WS300T60L, a tower workstation based on NVIDIA’s DGX Station architecture and GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra platform. The system is aimed at AI development, data science, inference, AI agents, and physical AI workloads, with a 72-core Arm processor, Blackwell Ultra GPU, up to 748GB of coherent memory, and dual 400GbE connectivity.

FireWire HAT with PCIe 2.0 for Tapeless DV and HDV Capture

A recent Crowd Supply campaign features the Firehat, an open-source FireWire HAT designed for PCIe-capable single-board computers including the Raspberry Pi 5 and Radxa ROCK 2F. The board uses a VIA VT6315N IEEE 1394 controller and targets direct DV and HDV capture from older digital camcorders and tape decks using Linux.