Developer Abandons ‘PS5 Linux’ Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit
“In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC,”
writes the blog It’s FOSS.

It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5’s on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he’s “stopping all my work on PS5 Linux” and “stepping away from the PS5 scene.”
stopping work on porting … ⌘ Read more

Firefox Touts Lower CPU Use for Large JPEGs, Faster PDF Viewer Startup (and AI Controls)
Firefox 156 is the second release since Mozilla moved to a twice-monthly release schedule, and the blog OMG Ubuntu notes it has faster start-up times for its built-in PDF viewer and also lower CPU usage when viewing large JPEG images:

In Firefox 156, the browser now uses libjpeg-turbo’s IDCT scaling t … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu’s ‘Rust-ification’ Hits New Milestone: Coreutils Migration is Complete
“Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack,” reports the blog It’s FOSS.

The last three utilities — cp, mv and rm — have been moved to versions from the uutils project (which reimplements utilities in Rust).

Everything else, from ls and cat to chmod and du, made that jump in earlier release … ⌘ Read more

Does Brave Browser Load Faster Than Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge?
The Brave web browser published a new round of benchmarks claiming its desktop browser uses less system resources than Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox — and also loads pages faster.
The blog Linuxiac reports:

According to Brave’s testing, the browser used 44% less CPU, 28% less memory, and 10% less energy on average compared wit … ⌘ Read more

Switzerland’s Federal Government Tests Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft on 3,000 Computers
Switzerland has a population of 9,154,242. And its federal government just launched a pilot program to test open source alternatives to Microsoft 365 on 3,000 workstations, reports the blog It’s FOSS. “That’s about 7% of the federal workforce.”

The target is to complete the migration by … ⌘ Read more

A Man Charged His EV at a Dealership - and Was Billed $418
The EV blog Electrek reports:

A Clinton Township, Michigan man was charged $418 for a single EV charging session at Elder Hyundai’s Macomb Township store after finding the charger listed as publicly available on the EVgo app, but didn’t discover the charges until after wrapping up his 40-ish minute charging session. “I was flabbergasted,” explained Stanle … ⌘ Read more

TiVo Will Start Charging Fees For Its Automatic Commercial Break-Skipping Feature ‘SkipMode’
TiVo is notifying customers about changes to “one of its longest-standing and most popular DVR features,” reports the blog Cord Cutter News:

Starting November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode that allows users to jump over commercial breaks with a single button press on the r … ⌘ Read more

To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into ‘Vice City’
Rockstar Games and the mayor of Miami-Dade county are discussing a joint marketing campaign transforming parts of the county to look like areas from Grand Theft Auto 6, reports the blog Rock Paper Shotgun:

The proposed publicity event would include “an immersive arrival experience” at Miami International Airport. with signs f … ⌘ Read more

“Yes, no AI is now a feature” - LibreOffice / The Document Foundation
Something I found interesting that deserved a write-up this morning is the blog post from LibreOffice / The Document Foundation on no AI being a feature.

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3mdeb Enhancing The UEFI Update Capsules Experience For Open-Source Firmware
Open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb is out with a new blog post highlighting their recent work on enhancing the UEFI update capsules experience for open-source firmware with Coreboot and their downstream Dasharo offerings… ⌘ Read more

California’s Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact
California’s age-verification bill has passed in its legislature — but with its open-source carve-out intact, reports the blog Linuxiac:

Back in May, we reported that California lawmakers amended Assembly Bill 1856 to carve open-source operating systems out of the state’s upcoming age verification requirements. Three months later, that e … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI To Cut Off AI Models For SpaceX-owned Cursor
“OpenAI said on Friday that it plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX,” reports Reuters:

“We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk’s companies violating contracts,” OpenAI said in a blog post… H … ⌘ Read more

Amazon’s HR Lead Uses AI Tool to Write 100,000 Lines of Code - 25 Years After She Last Coded
In an Amazon News blog post, their HR leader describes using AI to write 100,000 lines of code — 25 years after she last coded. “Do you know how empowering it is to realize that after 25 years away from coding, you can actually build again?” First she built a calendar app for her family, … ⌘ Read more

Multikernel Linux Tree Released: Runs Multiple Kernels On Bare Metal Without a Hypervisor
“Multikernel Technologies has put out mklinux v7.0-mk2, the first public release of the multikernel Linux tree it’s been building since last year,” reports the blog It’s FOSS:

The basic premise of the project is that one physical server can run several independent Linux kernels side by side, each … ⌘ Read more

KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap
KDE developer David Edmundson is out today with a blog post around improvements that have been ongoing for the Plasma 6.8 release in improving the KDE remote desktop experience. As part of ensuring a good Wayland experience and hitting all the needs fulfilled by X11, Plasma 6.8 is seeing improvements for its remote desktop functionality… ⌘ Read more

AliExpress Leverages User Audio Systems For Fingerprinting
A developer says AliExpress is using the browser’s WebAudio API to help fingerprint users by playing inaudible audio and measuring tiny differences in how their devices process it. CyberNews reports: The developer, “laserphile,” wrote on their blog that they recently ran into some weird issues with their Bluetooth headphones. They couldn’t play music via thei … ⌘ Read more

23 Years After SimCity 4’s Release, ‘Eternal Commuter’ Bug Finally Fixed
“It began life just a year after SimCity 4’s 2003 launch,” writes the blog PCGamesN. “Now, over 20 years later, it’s still going strong with the arrival of Network Addon Mod update 50.”

The SimCity 4 Network Addon Mod, or simply ‘NAM’ among the community, has long been a de facto recommendation to anyone looking to pick up the class … ⌘ Read more

Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog It’s FOSS:

Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching their funding for the project, which is set to run through the Universi … ⌘ Read more

Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions
Debian developers are voting on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions, reports the blog Linuxiac, with a ballot listing eight proposals and a “None of the above” option.

The first one is still the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contributions by changing the Debian Social Contract. This would stop generative AI from being used for direct D … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING-en.html Very interesting! I basically never analyze binary files, but this were some great thoughts on that subject. I hope to remember them when I find myself in the situation to look at binaries more closely.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Regarding https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-16/0/POSTING-en.html, how often do you edit the first commit? A good mate does the same for at least a whole decade, probably more. I never found myself in this situation. Even though I mess with commits on a daily basis. Just never the first one so far. 8-)

Nice! https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

Linux VRAM management set for more improvements with kernel 7.3
Valve contractor Natalie Vock blogged about more work to improve VRAM management on Linux, and we’re set to see even more improvements with kernel 7.3.

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Anthropic Criticized For Adding Watermarks to Text that Claude Generates - or Processes
This week Anthropic announced its Claude chatbot will watermark the text it generates, reports the blog Futurism. “It works by making subtle changes in the AI’s word choices across the text it generates, which are supposed to be imperceptible to a human but, in aggregate, form a pattern that is detectable w … ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features
Linux Kernel 7.2 has just been officially released with a slew of new features, reports the blog 9to5Linux.

Highlights of Linux 7.2 “include cache-aware load-balancing support, initial HDMI 2.1 FRL support to the AMDGPU driver, support for devres-based management of ACPI notify handlers, initial CRI platform support for the Intel Xe driv … ⌘ Read more

Redox OS Enjoys installer Improvements, Performance Enhancements
A new blog post out today from the Redox OS crew highlights all of the interesting improvements made to this Rust-based, open-source operating system over the course of July… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta ‘Photos’ App on Enterprise Machines
Microsoft’s cloud storage app OneDrive got a new Photos app in the worst possible way, reports the blog Neowin . “The app is reportedly showing up even on Windows 11 Enterprise machines, despite apparently being a beta application aimed at consumer functionality.”

One admin questioned why … ⌘ Read more

Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
The blog Linuxiac reports:

Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter’s latest figures for July 2026. The result places Linux firmly in double-digit territory for the first time in Statcounter’s North American desktop operating s … ⌘ Read more

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
Valve is funding Collabora’s experimental effort to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows. The team has already demonstrated Counter-Strike 2 running with RADV, but a stable interface or compatibility shim will be needed to handle undocumented driver changes. Phoronix reports: Louis-Francis Ratte-Boulianne put out a blog pos … ⌘ Read more

A Promising Process For Nuclear Fuel Re-use and Disposal?
A Canadian lab has run a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel “and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years,” notes the blog Autonocio, “with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor.”

The standard plan for spent nuclear fuel is to wait it out. You pull the used bundles from a reactor, si … ⌘ Read more

Firefox’ New Tab Page Will Get Widgets - Including an AI-Powered Daily Crossword
In a sign of the times, Firefox’s New Tab page could soon include a crossword puzzle from AI-powered news platform Particle. The blog OMG Ubuntu reports:

The mini crossword game is updated daily, with puzzles based around recent content Particle’s AI has ingested and summarised that day. [After solving the crosswo … ⌘ Read more

Are you aware of the Residential Proxy pest?

https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks

This explains the access patterns that I see in my logs.

It’s funny, because I used to warn years ago that this might happen, and then I lost track of this topic. Now here we are and it’s a real issue. 🤦‍♀️

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ich war nie im Ubuntuusersforum unterwegs. Aber zu Delphizeiten damals im „Planet Quellcodes“-Forum aktiv, das es längst nicht mehr gibt. Ich schätze, die Hochzeiten der Foren sind einfach rum. Heutzutage ist einmal sehr viel mehr Wissen andersweitig zugänglich und dann sind vermutlich die allermeisten Leute auch einfach auf Soziale-Medien-Plattformen unterwegs. Oder werden die eigenen Projekte auf dem eigenen Blog und dergleichen vorgestellt.

Dann gab’s auch (zumindest gefühlt) eine Zeit, in der man einfach keine sinnvollen Antworten mehr in Foren bekam. So kam das mir jedenfalls vor. Ist schon eine ganze Weile her, aber ich kann mich noch dunkel erinnern, dass ich bei Forensuchtreffern häufig auf Reaktionen à la „such doch selber“ stieß. Oder einfach zuhauf komplett falsche Antworten vorgeschlagen wurden. Ich hab mir dann angewöhnt, Forenbeiträge komplett zu ignorieren.

Einige Foren haben auch noch damit angefangen, anonyme Zugriffe zu unterbinden oder zumindest einzuschränken. Das half im Rückblick natürlich auch nicht, dieses Medium attraktiv zu machen.

Valve say the Team Fortress 2 MvM update is still coming and they’re still working on it
After the usual silence we’ve come to expect from Valve on everything, they gave a short blog post on the upcoming MvM update for Team Fortress 2.

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Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-say-the-team-fortress-2-mvm-up … ⌘ Read more

There you go: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-07-10/0/POSTING-en.html

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com The no-JS part is one thing, but you also have to disable the (nowadays common) forced-HTTP-to-HTTPS-redirect, because those old browsers can’t do modern crypto. And make sure that your webserver serves the correct page even if no Host header is sent by the client. And don’t even think about serving UTF-8 or even just putting utf-8 in the content type. 😅 And for the JPEG thumbnails I pass a special flag to ImageMagick so that IBM Web Explorer from OS/2 won’t trip. 🤣 And always use link rel="stylesheet" for CSS, because some browsers render inlined CSS as literal text. And … probably more that I forgot by now. 😂

@david@daiwei.me Not sure, actually. Let’s see. Those are the ones where I still have the original disks (or have bought them on eBay again):

• SuSE Linux 6.4 (it’s a massive 7 CD distro with a huge manual, best thing ever)
  
• OS/2 2.1
  
• OS/2 Warp 3 (red and blue spine because $reasons)
  
• OS/2 Warp 4
  
• PC DOS 7
  
• MS-DOS 6.22
  
• Windows 3.1
  
• Windows for Workgroups 3.11
  
• Windows 95 C
  
• Windows 98
  
• Windows NT 4 Workstation (still in the mail, though 😅)
  
• Windows 2000
  
• Windows XP Professional (last Windows I ever used on my private PCs)
  

(Plus a few “classic” office products as can be seen here: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/POSTING-en.html )

@citizenalex@citizenalex.envs.net Correct.

I just read @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s blog post over here:

https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/learning-to-code-like-it-s-the-90s

Jesus, it must be so overwhelming for young people to get started with programming.

When I started programming, there was the built-in ROM BASIC of that PC and probably a bit of BASIC on a floppy, and that was it. Nowadays? Millions of libraries and frameworks and languages and what not – and, much worse, there’s the expectation that you need to make something fancy. When I started, printing something and understanding IF was good enough.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-07-03/0/POSTING-en.html Oh yeah, the toolbar handles. You could actually move the toolbars around and sometimes even customize them. I have no evidence, but to me it feels like a lot of programs don’t allow that anymore nowadays.

@arne@uplegger.eu Ah, ein Jahresband. Man darf dann auf Beiträge dazu im Blog demnächst gespannt sein. :-)

FSF ‘LibreLocal’ Organized From Prison by a Man Jailed for ‘Cyber-Crimes’ After Promoting Free Software
Thursday the Free Software Foundation blogged about this year’s 47 ‘LibreLocal 2026’ meetups, highlighting 10 that took place in Australia, Mexico, the United States, New Zealand, Cameroon, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, China, and Iran. “Far from each other in many parts o … ⌘ Read more

Interesting, HTTPS is almost twice as slow as plain HTTP on my server (~72 ms vs. ~135 ms):

$ hyperfine -r 50 "curl -so /dev/null 'http://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/t/word11a.jpg.jpg'"
Benchmark 1: curl -so /dev/null 'http://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/t/word11a.jpg.jpg'
  Time (mean ± σ):      72.7 ms ±  17.2 ms    [User: 6.2 ms, System: 4.8 ms]
  Range (min … max):    49.5 ms …  99.7 ms    50 runs

$ hyperfine -r 50 "curl -so /dev/null 'https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/t/word11a.jpg.jpg'"
Benchmark 1: curl -so /dev/null 'https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/t/word11a.jpg.jpg'
  Time (mean ± σ):     135.5 ms ±  28.9 ms    [User: 17.8 ms, System: 5.6 ms]
  Range (min … max):    93.2 ms … 198.5 ms    50 runs

Microsoft Adds Another Year To Windows 10 Extended Update Program
Microsoft has quietly extended free Windows 10 security updates for consumers by another year, pushing the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program’s end date from October 12, 2026, to October 12, 2027. “The ESU support page was updated with that date, and Microsoft’s blog post on the program has a new editor’s note confirming the change,” repor … ⌘ Read more

I complain about this a lot:

https://movq.de/v/e7cb49eefb/hiccupfx

But to be honest, my blog did the same thing – to some degree.

This is fixed now. The trick is to add width and height to all <img> tags. That way, modern browsers know how much space to reserve for the image. Without this, they just reserve zero space, so when the image finally loads, you get jumpy layout.

This effect is even worse when you use <img loading="lazy"> – which I can finally use, now that the jumpy layout has been fixed. 🥳

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh my goodness, what an adventure, hahaha! :-) https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-06-25/0/POSTING-en.html

Numbered headings in blog posts, yay or nay?

Biggest problem of having them: Links to section anchors (like bla.html#my-first-section) will break if I add a section later on. 🤔

https://movq.de/v/cf0903ebc3/

A 25-Year-Old Blog Looks Back At 40 Years of Computing
Ancient Slashdot reader Mark Round writes: Longtime reader here (since mid-1999 – Hot Grits! Oog the Caveman! Beowulf clusters!), and I can still remember posting back on Slashdot’s own 5th anniversary. Time’s rolled on: my own blog just turned 25, and it’s now roughly 40 years since I first sat down at a computer. So I went digging through archive.org, old bac … ⌘ Read more

Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field
The blog Linuxiac reports:
A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd’s recently added support for storing a user’s birth date in JSON user records.

The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverti … ⌘ Read more

Speaking of UIs, this is how Thunderbird looks now:

https://movq.de/v/a41105eebb/

So we continue to let every program make up its own UI style (and then we complain that “the Linux desktop” looks “messy” and “inconsistent”). I guess this uses GTK, but it doesn’t look like any other GTK program. Buttons, tabs, drop-downs, whatever, it’s all different. It even has its own subwindow system (i.e., popups that you can’t move).

I didn’t say this in the blog post, but I’m convinced that programmers these days absolutely positively hate everything that looks even remotely like Windows 95 or Motif – with a passion. I see that in my coworkers as well, they really can’t stand it. It’s an emotional thing.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Regarding https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-06-16/0/POSTING-en.html:

In my opinion, the KDE 3.5 menu was organized way better than the Windows Start menu. Granted, a typical KDE installation had much more applications to offer, too. So, there was more need to get it right. And it probably was also later in time.

Isn’t Notepad++ and Python cheating!? :-D

Crazy story on the clock’s seconds. I never heard of that before. Neat.

Yeah, UI these days is horrible. (That’s why my own TUIs suck, too!)