schestowitz.com

Swatting is Illegal, Even When Attempted From Another Continent

Don’t shoot the messenger

A Glance at Insolvency Petition Against Nigel Farage Reveals Conflict of Interest

An overlooked problem

Firefox, Librewolf, and More

When sites fail to serve

Smelling a Scam

Scams and/or scammers rely on misplaced trust

“Maresca Sets New PL Record”

How about that for defiance?

Erling Haaland FC

About half the goals of ManCity comes from one man: Erling Haaland

BBC and ManCity

BBC bias?

6 Years Since IPFS

I wonder what RMS thinks of it

Sun, Football, and Royal Courts of Justice in London

Local news

LinuxGizmos.com

Adafruit Floppsy Rev D Revives Floppy Disk Archiving with RP2350

Adafruit has previewed Floppsy Rev D, an RP2350-based floppy disk archiver and emulator designed to preserve and access legacy computer storage media. The standalone device supports floppy drives used with PCs and Apple Disk II systems, offering disk imaging, flux-level data capture, and emulation capabilities alongside a touchscreen interface and removable storage.

LILYGO T5 e-Paper Basic Adopts 4.7-Inch Display for Embedded Projects

LILYGO’s latest e-paper development board pairs an ESP32-S3 with a 4.7-inch display offering 960 × 540 resolution and 16-level grayscale. The board also includes battery monitoring, removable storage, and Wi-Fi and BLE connectivity for portable information displays and wireless embedded projects.

M5Stack PaperDIY Assembly Kit Opens Up 4.7-Inch E-Paper Development

M5Stack has introduced the PaperDIY Assembly Kit, an ESP32-S3-based development platform featuring a 4.7-inch e-paper display with 960 × 540 resolution and 16-level grayscale. The kit combines Wi-Fi connectivity, battery power management, and expansion interfaces in an open design intended for custom information displays, electronic signage, and embedded development projects.

9to5Linux

Linux Kernel 7.3 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of Linux 7.3 include a new sandboxing mechanism based on a pseudo-file system, Rust support for PowerPC systems, userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of virtual machine guest memory, SMB server support for Apple Time Machine, and full support for cgroup sub-schedulers.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 18th, 2026

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GNOME 51.1 Improves Drag and Drop Between Wayland and Xwayland Clients

GNOME 51.1 improves web login and banner layout, adds support for gnome-autoar for extracting extensions, improves mount notifications, improves the clock position on the lock screen, fixes Quick Settings preventing direct scanout, improves support for legacy authentication services messages, and fixes applying color filters when using full grayscale.

GNOME 50.6 Desktop Environment Released with Fixes for Nautilus, GNOME Shell

Coming about a month after GNOME 50.5, the GNOME 50.6 release fixes workspace thumbnail centering in GNOME Shell for RTL (Right-to-Left) languages, fixes applying color filters when using full grayscale, fixes closing the mount notification when disconnecting a drive, and fixes an issue with Quick Settings preventing direct scanout.

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Rolls Out with Support for Volla Tablet, Various Updates

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 is the first minor update to the Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.x series based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), introducing official support for Nothing Phone (1), OnePlus Nord N10, OnePlus Nord N100, Volla Tablet, Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro (Global), Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S/9 Pro (India), Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro Max, and Xiaomi Poco M2 Pro devices.

PeaZip 11.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Various Improvements

Coming two months after PeaZip 11.3, the PeaZip 11.4 release correctly sets the delete after archiving/extraction option on Linux systems to “Quick delete” by default, and improves the sanitization of input file names in multiple stages of the scripting engine, reducing false positives when metacharacters are employed.

Ubuntu Buzz !

How to Install and Use Hirudo Security Scanner on Ubuntu

Modernizing Your Ubuntu Command Line: Essential CLI Upgrades

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Brings Volla Tablet Support and Morph Updates

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix

Here's the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings

The Fallout inspired ATOM RPG returns with a Plague Island DLC and major update

Caves of Qud: Diaspora is coming December 9

Get some spooky games in the Digiphile Orcatober Aquatic Horrors Bundle

BRUTAL, the framework behind RimWorld's Waylith engine, releases its source code

Proton Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C&C Red Alert, Counterstike and The Aftermath

SteamOS 0.5.6 Beta for Steam Frame makes adding apk files simpler

Steam Beta for October 15 brings a 64bit Linux client, Achievement Sets and more

How to Check, Open, and Close Ports in Ubuntu Linux