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Firefox gives you many ways to make the browser your own, from privacy settings and AI controls to tab management, custom colors, and more. As we continue to improve Firefox, you get more control over how it works for you. Today, we’re introducing a redesigned settings experience that makes your…

Firefox has been busy introducing updates across productivity, privacy and AI. From Project Nova and browser-wide AI controls to expanded privacy protections and new ways to stay organized, the goal is simple: help you spend less time managing your browser and more time getting things done…

Back in the late 1990s, I did a brief stint of work experience at the BBC. One of the most memorable moments was sitting in on a meeting about early forms of Interactive TV. I saw a demo of "Two Way TV". A flimsy grey box which (somehow) integrated with your OnDigital TV Box and connected to a…

The next Ubuntu Touch major release is approaching rapidly, yesterday we reached a major step in the preparation of the upcoming Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 release: The branching-off (see below on what that is). Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta is Now Available Part of this development release step is the…

The past month was busy; the theme was evolution. We went into this quarter with our own ideas for what we wanted to accomplish. However, our users had better ideas. With the release of Thunderbird’s own mail service, Thundermail, the need for a better account settings import process across our…

Master M3C2 in QGIS 4.0 for direct point cloud comparison. Learn how to detect erosion and landslides with surface normals and 95% statistical confidence intervals.

In 2008, I landed my second job, in the network team at Orange Portails1, the division behind the websites and search engine of the French telecom operator Orange. The place ran like clockwork: a comprehensive technical setup, a dedicated team for every part of the business, and room to focus on…

I have proposed the deletion of an obsolete script, but it makes me feel complicated feelings so I’m going to try and express those. This particular script was written in 2014, but the concept goes back much further – before git was invented. When I started university in 2003, I seem to remember…

SRFI 275 is now in draft status.This SRFI proposes a programming interface for working with RFC 3986 universal resource identifiers (URIs), as well as RFC 3987's generalisation to internationalised resource identifiers (IRIs). This document defines record types, normalisation procedures, and…

Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened. The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush created his own unclassified submarine to go sightseeing on the Titanic. Ignoring all advice from experts he created a "macgyveresque death trap" that eventually…

Highlights Maxx Crawford added a pref to hide the New Tab logo so users can opt out of branding without altering page layout or resorting to CSS overrides. Harshit enabled video overlay detection in Nightly 153, allowing you to use the context menu to control videos on more pages! We plan on…

Welcome to RSS Club! These posts are only available to RSS and Atom subscribers. You can read more about the idea at Dave Rupert's site. I recently received an email from a distraught reader: I was going through my recent bookmarks and I found…

Thanks to an incredible €550,000 community-funded campaign, the extensive modernization work required to secure GeoServer's future is finished, shipping, and ready for deployment. What This Community ...

(these notes are being posted in two parts to make the length more manageable, part 1 is here) Continuing from where we left off, about topics discussed at the PipeWire hackfest in Nice…</h3>DSP features We discussed a number of features related to digital signal processing blocks which are…

(these notes are being posted in two parts to make the length more manageable, part 2 is here) The PipeWire community organised a hackfest in Nice, France, colocated with Embedded Recipes, the GStreamer hackfest, and a number of other events. In attendance were members of the upstream community, as…

O recente artigo publicado no blog da gvSIG levanta uma reflexão fundamental para o século XXI: a verdadeira soberania de uma nação já não se faz apenas com fronteiras físicas, mas com o controle absoluto sobre as suas infraestruturas digitais e de dados. A adoção, por parte da Comissão…

Quick note to share that rbenchmark is back on CRAN! The rbenchmark package makes it easy to benchmark (and compare) simple R expressions. This package has been on CRAN for many years. At one point fourteen years ago it appeared to be rudderless so I offered help but things realigned. Now it was…

Debian Contributions: 2026-05 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services. Go default…

We have a new EOxCloudless release with more precise ecoregions and advanced ocean mosaicking. Check out the preview! Over the past few years, our engineering focus for EOxCloudless has been, among others, on optimizing the BRDF corrections to eliminate equatorial striping and optimizing performance…

Read enough articles about The Beatles and you'll repeatedly hit the claim that Frank Sinatra frequently introduced his cover of George Harrison's "Something" as his "favourite Lennon & McCartney number." Much like the misquote about Ringo not being the best drummer in The Beatles, I think this…

First Light box My youngest daughter and I recently started playing the tabletop game HeroQuest. Specifically, the recently-issued, cut-down variant HeroQuest: First Light. This is quite advanced for her age, and I'm a little surprised she's taken to it, but she's really loving it, It's pushed…

For almost two decades, the PackageKit package management abstraction layer has shipped with pkcon as its command-line client. pkcon does its job, but it was always kind of a “testing” front-end for the PackageKit daemon rather than a tool designed for everyday use. The focus has instead been on the…

There is a recent blog post about Nix Flakes vs Guix: https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/nix-flakes-vs-guix

I occasionally see people go through great effort to do end-to-end testing of keyboard input latency. That is fantastic but it requires hardware and patience I don’t, nor will ever, have. Here is a much simpler way to get about 90% of the value. For example, everything but driver/interrupt handler…

Greetings from Planet Peanut! Since there’s a whole new generation of GNOME contributors active right now, I’ll do a short reintroduction: Hello, I’m Hylke! I was a design contributor in the late 2.X, early 3.X days. Mainly icons and theming. I’ve attended many GUADECs. I’m also the developer of…