After I had finished categorising all the posts on Mappery (see this post) it occurred to me that a similar strategy might be used for geocoding ungeocoded posts. If you have been following my vibe coding posts you will know that Arnaud and I built a geocoding and mapping plugin for our WordPress…
read more ➔Our DeepSeek credit spend has yielded thus far:The MapGuide Windows installer successfully migrated over from Wix 3.x to Wix 6.xAdded missing support for rendering MultiGeometry/GeometryCollection instances in MapGuideAdded missing support for evaluating spatial predicates involving MultiGeometry…
read more ➔Last year I ran an experiment to test the ability of modern LLMs to correctly answer a relatively straightforward question. Every single one of them got it wrong. Some missed information, some made up false statements, none were right. Of course the fanbois variously claimed that I was holding it…
read more ➔At the end of August, we announced our first Maintainers in Residence, Rust Project contributors who are funded for their upstream contributions and maintenance work from the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Leadership Council has dedicated more funds from its Project…
read more ➔Three years after my last public appearance at a local FOSS event, my old friend Marco brought me on board again as a speaker for LinuxDay 2026 in October. While my latest speeches were mostly about the status and governance of the FOSS domain, this time I’ll present something more technical.
read more ➔Raspberry Pi added a feature in their firmware that restricts users from swapping RAM chips, sometimes even RAM chips of the same capacity from other Raspberry Pi boards. Apparently there were people buying cheap 1 or 2 gig Pi 5s, soldering in some cheap and sometimes unreliable 8 gig RAM chips,…
read more ➔When it’s Monday morning and you’re on the subway, in a coffee shop, or squeezing in a few email replies after your morning workout, your phone becomes your digital office. But every time you open your browser, you risk getting struck with any combination of distracting ads, auto-playing videos, and…
read more ➔The open-source consulting firm Igalia has put out an announcement celebrating 25 years of working on upstream FOSS projects for its clients. The list of projects the company has worked on is rather eye-opening: WebKit, mobile-browser rendering (on Maemo, Moblin, MeeGo, and Tizen), the Linux kernel…
read more ➔This year’s Akademy is over - at least for me. I’m already on a train on my way back home, but there’s still plenty of people staying in Graz for more days of hacking and fun. Even though I haven’t contributed to KDE much in the past few years, I am really glad I decided to go. First, I want to…
read more ➔We just merged a code change in Okular master to use QtMultimedia instead of Phonon to play multimedia files. This will be released in December. We did as much testing as we could but given the complexity of this feature it would be nice if users could test it as much as possible. If you have PDF…
read more ➔Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.2.7, 6.18.53, and 6.12.111 stable kernels. As is usual these days, they are quite large; also no surprise is that they provide many important fixes throughout the kernel tree. Users of those kernels are advised to update.
read more ➔NetBSD has long had support for running Linux binaries via its kernel-level compat_linux feature, but test coverage for it was less complete than some might hope. In order to provide better testing for compat_linux, Google Summer of Code (GSoC) participant Henrique Brito opted to work on enabling…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, perl-Net-DNS, sudo, tomcat, and tomcat9), Debian (chromium, gimp, libde265, libevent, linux-6.12, ruby-jwt, and unbound), Fedora (asterisk, chromium, doctl, dovecot, evolution, firefox, forgejo, freeciv, freeipa, gegl04, gimp, libheif, nss,…
read more ➔WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK 2.54 have been released with a bunch of improvements and new APIs as usual, but there’s one point that kept the Igalia WebKit graphics team busy for the whole cycle: the new Skia-based compositor. The replacement of Cairo with Skia for content rendering has been a success…
read more ➔I’ve been writing a lot of documentation recently — including almost all of <DE Linux’s docs, as well as the KDE human interface guidelines. And I’m at Akademy 2026 right now where the cat is out of the bag — one of KDE’s three latest goals is about <ocumentation! Thiago, Joseph, and…
read more ➔The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 330. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Don't Build-Depend on apksigcopier as it has been removed from testing. (Closes: #1146852) You find out more by visiting the project homepage.
read more ➔The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Miri stores all environment variables to target/, allowing secrets to persist in caches. While not necessary a vulnerability in and of itself, when paired with GitHub Actions caching behavior, it is possible for this to expose secrets to…
read more ➔Linus Torvalds has released the 7.3-rc4 kernel prepatch. It is, unsurprisingly at this point, large: "We all know the drill by now: 'it's big, yadda yadda'".
read more ➔SRFI 285 is now in draft status. This SRFI details an API for storing and manipluating dates and times. This SRFI decomposes dates and times into dates (a count of days in the proleptic Gregorian calendar), clock times (time of day, independent of time zone), moments (instants in TAI),…
read more ➔In 2016, I removed Google Analytics from this blog to avoid being complicit in feeding the biggest machine for harvesting personal data. Instead, I relied on GoAccess to analyze my server logs.1 For the past couple of years, the statistics have made no sense, despite my attempts to filter bots: AI…
read more ➔Lots of posts in the debian-user mailing list complaining about updates with Debian 11.11 suddenly failing.See Debian 11 Long Term Support reaches end-of-lifeAugust 31st, 2026 The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 11 bullseye support has reached its end-of-life…
read more ➔I have just released version 1.8.4 of libccid the Free Software CCID class smart card reader driver. Changes: 1.8.4 - 20 September 2026, Ludovic Rousseau Add support of THALES PKI Transaction Pad fix some minor issues found by an AI tool Some other minor improvements
read more ➔This book, by The Times' former Architecture Correspondent, stands in direct opposition to A City on Mars. Whereas that book presented a (perhaps too) sceptical look at the realities of living on other planets, Jonathan Morrison's book goes (perhaps too far) in the opposite direction. How to…
read more ➔The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for August. Activity summary During the month of August, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 58 DLAs…
read more ➔Bombarded by the deception and lies of the AI industry I chose to sample boy Amodei for the ironic outrage about Chinese companies stealing their dataset. Thus the tune title. Usually I barely manage to finish up my weekly beats track on a Sunday night. This week I've somehow had some extra time…
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