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!)

Oh god, finally: The thumbnail generator for my blog now renders a typical “play” icon for videos.

Saves me the need to write “this is a video” every time. 😬

Updated draft: http://movq.de/blog/drafts/changelog/POSTING-en.html

I’ll probably publish this later today. Or maybe not at all. It’s one of those topics that might cause outrage because I’m getting it all wrong. 🤪

pkgcli As PackageKit’s Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface
Open-source developer Matthias Klumpp wrote a blog post today outlining his recent work developing pkgcli, a new and modern command-line interface (CLI) around the PackageKit package management abstraction layer… ⌘ Read more

Introduction to the experience of rendering Arabic typography&its technical debt
Article URL: https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516710

Points: 7

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This is the draft so far, let me know what you think: https://movq.de/blog/drafts/changelog/POSTING-en.html

The Fable 5 Jailbreak Shows Why AI Guardrails Alone Are Not Enough
Article URL: https://www.agilehunt.com/blog/fable-5-jailbreak-ai-guardrails

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515344

Points: 3

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A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
Article URL: https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515336

Points: 6

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … I am literally writing a blog post about changelogs at this very moment … 😂 I am certainly adding the “‘add X’ and then later ‘remove X’” to my list of DON’Ts. 😅

Leaving Mozilla
Article URL: https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513806

Points: 5

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On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles
Article URL: https://6it.dev/blog/on-cpu-physics-and-cpu-cycles-80730

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513222

Points: 3

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Our response to the US ban on Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Article URL: https://isaacus.com/blog/our-response-to-the-us-ban-on-fable-5-and-mythos-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512915

Points: 4

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Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order
“The government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said in a blog post. ⌘ Read more

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter
Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508726

Points: 9

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How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS
Article URL: https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507020

Points: 4

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Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF
Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/11/euro-office-open-standards-and-native-odf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505690

Points: 14

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A Call to Action: Stop the FCC’s KYC Regime
Article URL: https://blog.lopp.net/call-to-action-stop-the-fcc-kyc-regime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504697

Points: 3

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Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher
Article URL: https://blog.osull.com/2026/06/12/ryanair-dark-ux-patterns-summer-2026-refresher/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502601

Points: 10

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The Future of Email
Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/the-future-of-email/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502321

Points: 9

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Device Clock Generation
Article URL: https://zipcpu.com/blog/2025/12/17/devclk.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499890

Points: 5

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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497168

Points: 3

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Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
Article URL: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub26-spring/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490715

Points: 7

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お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「ツール分析結果シートのアップデート」 ⌘ Read more

Valve Discontinues Physical Steam Gift Cards Due To Scammers
Valve is discontinuing physical Steam Gift Cards and says it will stop restocking them as retailers sell through remaining inventory. In a blog post, the company blamed persistent gift card scams as the reason, though Steam Digital Gift Cards will remain available and existing physical cards can still be redeemed. PC Guide reports: Valve says it has “re … ⌘ Read more

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
Article URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/our-funding-announcement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476466

Points: 4

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The Evolution of ‘More Like This’
Article URL: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/the-evolution-of-more-like-this/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470975

Points: 4

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RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
Article URL: https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468766

Points: 6

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[$] Eliminating long-lived credentials with trusted publishing
Trusted\
publishing is an authentication mechanism that relies on
short-lived credentials to reduce the risk of supply-chain attacks. At
the 2026 Open\
Source Summit North America, Mike Fiedler walked the audience
through why trusted publishing exists, how it works, and made the case
for its adoption. … ⌘ Read more