Prezado leitor, O intuito do post de hoje é que você aprenda como integrar o GeoServer a um servidor LDAP, autenticar usuários, transformar grupos LDAP em roles e preparar essas roles para utilização nas regras de segurança do GeoServer. O laboratório utiliza GeoServer 3, OpenLDAP e Docker…
read more ➔I have just released a new version of pcsc-lite 2.5.2. pcsc-lite is a Free Software implementation of the PC/SC (also known as WinSCard) API for Unix systems. It provides an API for using smart cards and smart card readers. Changes: 2.5.2: Ludovic Rousseau 19 September 2026 hotplug_libudev: rescan…
read more ➔Introduction After bazel-bootstrap 7.7.1 was landed into Debian unstable, I'm working on packaging newer Mozc (Most famous Japanese input method editor) with Bazel. Here is the blog entry initial efforts to build Mozc with Bazel at that time. kenhys.hatenablog.jp Then, I've shared implementing…
read more ➔OK, it’s been a while since I blogged about community data analytics… I thought I’d do more posts on the matter but somehow never managed to get back to it. Now it’s a bit more than 6 years since my last post on the topic! Worry not though I didn’t loose touch. Indeed I still hone this skill…
read more ➔--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, Plasma folks shifted to bug-fixing and polishing work for Plasma 6.8. As of the time of writing, there are only four open regression reports for Plasma 6.8, which means either the release is already amazing, or people aren’t…
read more ➔SRFI 284 is now in draft status.This SRFI defines the forms define-typed and define-typed* for creating procedures with checked type boundaries. It allows checking the arguments and/or the return value or values with simple predicate procedures and raises exceptions on usage when they don’t match.…
read more ➔Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 11 to September 18. This week we released GNOME 51! This new major release of GNOME is full of exciting changes, including visual signatures in Papers, Maps offline usage, Files refinements, Calendar usability improvements,…
read more ➔For a while now, my preferred way of installing QGIS has been from conda-forge. However, while we’re waiting for QGIS 4 to become available on conda-forge, there are alternatives: Option 1: Flatpak In the Software Manager, you can find QGIS from Flathub in two different versions: stable and…
read more ➔On the Mappery site we have almost 2,400 posts on WordPress and we had never used the Category feature to sort them when we were adding posts. When we built the new Mappery Map Plugin for WordPress we included the option to only map posts in a specific category which we thought would be useful to…
read more ➔As a graduate of a liberal arts university, I wound up, unsurprisingly, taking a lot of classes in every possible academic discipline. Thinking back to the person that I was going into university, I don’t think I would have chosen to take them – after all, my degree was in the sciences; I’d have…
read more ➔The Git source-code management system is at the core of development processes worldwide, so changes, especially incompatible changes, are of great interest to the developers involved. The Git 2.56 release, which can be expected around the end of September, is currently available in release-candidate…
read more ➔Version 5.6 of the Systemtap tracing tool has been released. BPF LSM hooks and XDP packet-processing probes for the --bpf runtime, BTF-based kernel.tracepoint probes, statement execution tracing, a new @enumname() operator, richer runtime error context, dyninst hardware watchpoints, modern…
read more ➔Made it to Graz for Akademy 2026. Looking forward to meeting my fellow gearheads. In the meantime, let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-38. 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough Tags: tech, surveillance, politics, democracy This essay is fairly US centric but since other countries used…
read more ➔The Flywheel theatre company are reviving the rep tradition by having five actors perform five different plays in five weeks. Their interpretation of Molière's classic is gaudy and hilarious. Even the lighting cues are funny! It is fair to say that School for Wives isn't exactly an uncontroversial…
read more ➔Firefox DevTools MCP (firefox-devtools-mcp) 0.10.3 is out on npm. New features: New tool: close_firefox_session — ends the browser session: it releases the connection when the server is attached to an existing Firefox, and closes the browser when the server started it.<New parameter: fullPage for…
read more ➔In the earlier blog posts about Qt Canvas Painter we have looked at what it is, the new rendering features it brings, how fast it is compared to QPainter, and how path caching makes even a million line segments render smoothly. All of those earlier blog posts used the QCanvasPainter C++ API. At the…
read more ➔It is said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, a quote often attributed to the American philosopher George Santayana. And to remember the past, records must be maintained and kept accessible to learn from. With this in mind, it is no wonder that archivists worldwide…
read more ➔I like to run my Linux as an operating system, so I usually resort to toolbox for packages and development. However flatpak-builder is distributed as a flatpak itself, so here's how you can go about building flatpaks yourself for when GNOME Nighlies are not enough. On GNOME OS, some developer tools…
read more ➔Biodiversity data is most valuable when it is shared. A river survey stored in a single database helps one team, but the same records, shared openly, can inform researchers, conservationists, and policymakers around the globe. That is exactly what the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)…
read more ➔This is a new series1 I'm starting on the tools I have been crafting and buying to play pedagogical games in my Economics classes. These games, aside from being just plain fun for the students, often aim to teach them a lesson via interactive play. Unsurprisingly, it is much easier for them to grok…
read more ➔Today at ALL IN, Canada’s largest AI and technology event, Mozilla and Mila announced a new initiative and fresh investment to build an open source AI foundation layer that enables organizations and institutions to own and operate advanced AI systems locally, ensuring full control over their…
read more ➔About Block Editors A block editor is an easy to use rich text editor which treats every component of your text as a block. You may be familiar with apps like Notion and the editor you see there is exactly that. A block editor allows you to easily re-order your components and make your editing…
read more ➔Highlights Firefox 155 just released! That’s the first release that went through the full 2-week release cycle process. The WebExtensions team added a new backgrounds_area theme property so themes can explicitly control whether background images apply to the whole window or only the top…
read more ➔[Originally written in Czech] At the very beginning of the last year, Jiří Eischmann wrote a post on his blog about the status of the Czech translation at GNOME, tl;dr: the translation was slowly dying. I would really love to say that it is resolved, but that would be oversimplified. What…
read more ➔Yesterday I gave a talk at Geomob London on my adventures in vibe coding. The slides are pretty but probably don’t tell the whole story unless you have been reading my regular posts on my projects. The images in the slides are all cartoons of an old dog learning new tricks and got some praise,…
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