schestowitz.com

Not Taking a Reliable Power Grid for Granted

Transformer substation

When a Law Firm is in Contempt of the High Court

Seriously.

Halloween

Coming soon

Durian Has Grown Up (Faster Than Peanut)

He had an advantage, he trusts humans

Waste of the Court’s Money

We didn’t start this

Lazy Panda Pan Asian Surviving OK

Lazy Panda still open

Litigation Update

t is a matter of public record (as of today) that another Order was issued. It was issued by the joint head of the media and communications list at the UK’s High Court. As is already known to the opposing party, we’re not unrepresented in the case because of Legal Aid and pro bono advice from a “leading specialist in defamation, privacy, and data protection law.”

Sunbathing One Last Time

Gettint cold, sun low

Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Conflicts of Interest

Hard to pretend it ain’t happening

Envy is a Terrible Motivator

“Up” is elusive

LinuxGizmos.com

Intel Twin Lake-Based Helix 320 Industrial Gateway with Quad 2.5GbE

OnLogic’s newest industrial edge gateway, the Helix 320, features a fanless design powered by Intel N-Series Twin Lake processors. The compact system includes four 2.5GbE ports, two configurable serial ports, M.2 expansion, and support for up to three displays.

IBASE IB966 3.5-inch SBC with Panther Lake and up to 180 TOPS

IBASE has announced the IB966, a 3.5-inch SBC based on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors, with up to 180 TOPS of aggregate AI performance, 128GB of DDR5-7200 memory, dual 2.5GbE and three M.2 slots.

Raspberry Pi 5 cluster runs Qwen3-30B-A3B at 15 tokens/s on CPU

Hellomatik has published a study and a modified distributed-llama implementation for running the Qwen3-30B-A3B language model across four Raspberry Pi 5 boards. Using only the boards’ Arm Cortex-A76 CPUs, the cluster reached a reported decode throughput of 15.143 tokens per second, without GPU or NPU acceleration or CPU overclocking.

9to5Linux

Ventoy 1.1.18 Adds Experimental Support for SteamOS Recovery Images

Highlights of Ventoy 1.1.18 include experimental support for SteamOS recovery images, improved support for latest LinuxConsole release, support for custom Syslinux-based ISOs, persistence improvements for on Ubuntu Desktop, and improved support for Clonezilla Live.

Calibre 9.16 E-Book Manager Improves Read Aloud, PDF Input, and Kobo Support

Coming three weeks after Calibre 9.15, the Calibre 9.16 release is a hefty one, bringing support for high-quality Kokoro voices to the Read Aloud feature, which sound much more natural than the Piper voices, especially for English, and support for downloading news from websites that block automated access by using the Camoufox headless browser.

Q4OS 6.10 “Andromeda” Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.3.6 and Trinity Desktop 14.1.5

Based on Debian 13.7 “Trixie” and powered by Linux kernel 6.12.111 LTS, Q4OS 6.10 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.3.6 desktop environment for the flagship edition, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 25.04.3 and KDE Frameworks 6.13 software suites, all compiled against Qt 6.8.2, as well as the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) 14.1.5 desktop environment on the TDE edition.

GStreamer 1.28.8 Multimedia Framework Improves the AMD AMF AV1 Video Encoder

Coming a month after GStreamer 1.28.7, the GStreamer 1.28.8 release is a small update that adds support for reading AAF AIFF-AIFC audio to the MXF demuxer, improves AMD AMF AV1 video encoder force-keyframe, adds Windows media audio/video seeking improvements, and brings hlssink3 improvements.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 Released with Sequential Writes via io_uring on Linux

Coming almost two months after Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11, the Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 release improves the embedded Raspberry Pi network installer with support for waiting for a usable IP address rather than just a link being up, which previously caused slow-negotiating PHYs like the Raspberry Pi 5 Rev 1.2’s MXL86110 to be missed entirely at first poll.

COSMIC 1.10 Adds Support for Mapping Drawing Tablets to Specific Displays

COSMIC 1.10 comes two weeks after COSMIC 1.9 with support for mapping drawing tablets to specific displays, support for setting environment variables in ~/.config/environment.d, support for using custom SSH agents, and support for remembering sort options in file open/save dialogs.

Blender 5.3 Enters Public Beta Testing with Vulkan Backend by Default on Linux

Blender 5.3 looks like another solid update that promises to finally enable the Vulkan backend by default on Linux, replacing the OpenGL backend, with the minimum Vulkan requirements being lowered to Vulkan 1.1 and some GPU/driver features made optional to support more devices.

KDE Gear 26.08.2 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

Coming a month after KDE Gear 26.08.1, the KDE Gear 26.08.2 update is here to fix poorly legible selection text with certain styles and color schemes, keep the style chosen for a special folder, and refresh the default zoom level when previews are toggled in the Dolphin file manager.

Ubuntu Summit for Ubuntu 26.10 Takes Place on November 12-13, 2026

The Ubuntu Summit 26.10 event will take place next month, November 12-13, 2026. Ubuntu Summit is Ubuntu’s biggest event of the year, where developers and users gather together to discuss the features of the next major version of Ubuntu, attend various workshops, and see presentations of all kinds of products.

OpenVPN 2.7.8 Released with Security and Bug Fixes, Various Improvements

Coming a month after OpenVPN 2.7.7, the OpenVPN 2.7.8 release makes certificate validation stricter regarding NULL bytes in strings, which might break existing installations if such certificates exist and OpenSSL builds are used, and updates the OpenSSL builds to use the last field when handling certificates with duplicate fields.