Linux’x New Core MM Tree Ready With Numerous Fixes For “Nasty Long-Standing Bugs”
New to the Linux 7.4 kernel cycle is the Core MM tree as the route for herding some of the core memory management Linux kernel patches to the mainline kernel rather than it all going through Andrew Morton’s “MM” tree. As the second pull request from this new kernel tree, a number of fixes were sent out today to address “nasty long-standing bugs” within the kernel… ⌘ Read more
Build a safari park, clone animals, then watch it go wrong in Captain Contraption’s Safari Park
From Pill Bug Interactive (Captain Contraption’s Chocolate Factory) is a new chaotic roguelite building management sim with Captain Contraption’s Safari Park.
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Deadly Days: Roadtrip 1.0 review
Now Deadly Days: Roadtrip has left Early Access as a full and complete game, here’s my thoughts on this zombie-slaying bullet heaven inventory management game.
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Debian’s APT Affected By Man-In-The-Middle Attack For Arbitrary Code Execution As Root
A new vulnerability was disclosed today affecting Debian’s APT package manager where a man-in-the-middle attacker could carry out arbitrary code execution as root… ⌘ Read more
Megaquarium dev reveals Plantlife, a botanical farming management sim
Megaquarium developer Twice Circled just revealed Plantlife, a really sweet looking botanical farming management building sim.
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Experimental Project Gets Intel XeSS On XMX Working With Valve’s Steam Play (Proton)
Last month I wrote about Intel working on adding proper XeSS support to Steam Play (Proton). While those efforts haven’t yet been completed for benefiting Linux gamers running Intel Arc Graphics, in the meantime an independent open-source developer has managed to get XMX-accelerated XeSS working under Proton… ⌘ Read more
SUSE To Cut One In Ten Employees Because of AI
SUSE plans to cut roughly 10% of its 1,900-person workforce, with CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen saying “automation and AI” are reducing the need for some roles and allowing the open source software company to operate with less overhead and flatter management structures. “We are announcing a reduction of SUSE’s global workforce of approximately 10 percent,” said Van Leeuwen in an emai … ⌘ Read more
Xbox Manager: AI Already Being Used In Xbox Game Development - And Throughout the Game Industry
Should generative AI be used for videogame development? Brandon Stirrup, a strategy manager at Xbox, claims Xbox is already using AI, reports Engadget. And he also says that those who say they aren’t are merely “pretending.”
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Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead
An Anthropic engineering manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because AI can now outperform candidates on the kinds of programming challenges they typically contain. “There’s no more point in giving you a little React challenge than there is in quizzing people about assembly; Claude is now better at both,” said Felix Rieseberg in a blog post. “Ou … ⌘ Read more
Arriving this Winter, the frog town-building game Croakwood from the Parkitect devs looks lovely
Croakwood, the relaxed frog town-building and management game from the Parkitect devs has a newish trailer out now and it arrives sometime this Winter.
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Ford’s Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging
Ford’s upcoming $28,350 Fathom electric truck will include a built-in inverter capable of supplying up to 10 kW of AC power to a home, bringing bidirectional charging to a significantly cheaper EV. Owners will still need additional Ford home hardware for features like outage backup and peak-rate energy management, but the com … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Begins Employing New “Core MM” Tree
Core memory management patches to the Linux kernel have typically been routed to mainline via Andrew Morton’s “MM” branch, which is where also a variety of broader memory management related patches are also queued like all the ongoing work to DAMON/DAMOS. Kernel maintainers have now agreed to a new “Core MM” tree as the home for all of the core memory management changes moving forward… ⌘ Read more
AI Delivers ‘Zero Financial Payoff’ To Most Companies, Economist Says
“Despite massive investments and widespread hype around AI , the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech,” writes the chief economist at U.S. asset management firm Apollo Global.
He adds that “there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth… [M]ainstream corporate America is pulling b … ⌘ Read more
539 MM Patches Merged For Linux 7.4 From Optimizations To More DAMON
Andrew Morton sent out the big set of memory management “MM” related patches for the Linux 7.4 merge window. This cycle it topped out at 539 total patches and a reviewed rate of 76%… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Changes Headlined By AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Features
Merged overnight were all the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates consisting of many kernel graphics/display driver improvements. Arguably most exciting with these updates for Linux 7.4 is the AMD Radeon (AMDGPU) driver seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL enabled by default along with other HDMI 2.1 features… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement
The slab pull request was just merged for Linux 7.4. For end users nothing too incredibly exciting but there is one change that does yield a 24% throughput improvement in a benchmark exercising the kernel’s memory management subsystem… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Power Management Preps For AMD Ryzen Zen 6 & Intel Rugged Panther Lake
The power management subsystem updates were merged this week for Linux 7.4 along with the related ACPI and thermal control updates too… ⌘ Read more
Since honesty is kindness, Microsoft is by far the worst company I ever had the displeasure of trying to communicate with. Getting them to fix the most basic of bugs always took years. In some cases it’s been over two and a half decades and it’s still broken.
I never thought it was even possible to make an operating system so broken, I’d have to manually restart my background services and set “network interface metrics” by hand, in advanced TCP/IP settings, while using it.
There are buttons that don’t even do anything when clicked and ones I’ve never seen do anything other than throw an error message.
The AI they rent to pretend to be an AI company, was for years outputting paragraphs, describing the beautiful and artful checkerboard pattern in the background, whenever trying to analyze transparent images. Transparent profile pictures work only on GitHub, the one product where the implementation was done prior to Microsoft acquisition.
Many engineers in their own forums, still manage to make that very AI sound smart, in comparison.
The design is an absolute shitshow, where no two things look like they belong in the same system — the only thing almost consistent, is excessive padding and rounded corners, placed wherever they fit the least.
But hey, 5000 engineers were fired, that will surely improve things!
Myrlyn 1.1 Released For SUSE/openSUSE GUI Package Manager
Myrlyn, the package manager GUI that began as YQPkg during a SUSE Hack Week and has evolved quite well, is out with version 1.1 as the first new feature update since the beginning of the year… ⌘ Read more
AMD Brings Ryzen Overclocking Driver to Linux
AMD has published Linux kernel patches for an official Ryzen overclocking driver that allows users to adjust CPU power and current limits through a firmware interface exposed via sysfs. Phoronix reports: AMD engineer Shyam Sundar S K posted the patches for the AMD Overclocking “AOD” WMI driver as an interface to the platform firmware for managing overclocking and power/current limit … ⌘ Read more
More Than 1.5 Million Canadian Crime Stoppers Tips Leaked
A CBC investigation found that more than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips spanning 25 years were exposed in a breach of the P3 Global Intel tip-management platform. About 850,000 records contained personally identifiable information, including addresses, phone numbers, emails, license plates and some banking details. Longtime Slashdot reader doconnor sha … ⌘ Read more
OpenBSD 8.0 Released
OpenBSD 8.0 has been released with major virtualization and hardware upgrades, including support for up to 64 vCPUs per VM, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RISC-V support. Linuxiac points out that it marks the “61st release of the security-focused Unix-like operating system.” From the report: Several fixes improve compatibility with 32-bit Linux guests, while changes to virtual machine ownership management and inte … ⌘ Read more
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@david@daiwei.me Yes, you can. THat’s true, sometimes. Not always, though, promotional pricing etc. The differentiator is the extra bits you don’t have to maintain/manage.
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@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be herbstluftwm! I haven’t had much luck with netbsd (skill issues). I had given it a try in a VM, ~4 years ago, and managed to brick it in less than a week xD The sad thing though, was deleting the VM. missing out on an opportunity to boot in single user mode and try fixing my mess.
Dungeonbound is a unique dungeon crawler blending in auto-battlers, incrementals and inventory management
Dungeonbound is an upcoming first-person auto-battler dungeon crawler with some fun ideas and a mixture of modes that change how you play.
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Microsoft Says Windows 11 Is Now ‘More Responsive’, Runs Better On 8GB of RAM
Microsoft says recent Windows 11 updates have made the operating system up to 20% more responsive by improving memory management and reducing background resource use. “A big part of that work is making smarter use of memory and system resources,” says Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences at Microsoft … ⌘ Read more
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AI usage at work has risen to absurd and moronic levels.
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I saw this circulating right afte the latest Microsoft event and it illustrates the current state of things perfectly
Even they bet everything on AI they are renting, not even developing and happily let everything else turn to mush, as evident by the current state of Windows 11, GitHub,…
Microsoft Azure AD, I mean “Entra ID”, still the same account management thing, rewritten three separate times, that since the year 2000, couldn’t manage to implement transparent PNG support.
Steam Frame - some early thoughts
GamingOnLinux has managed to acquire the SteamOS powered Steam Frame VR device, these are some initial thoughts now I’ve got it all set up.
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NVIDIA’s Nova Driver Continues Leading The Way For Linux Rust GPU Drivers
The DRM Rust changes targeting the Linux 7.4 merge window have been submitted for pulling into DRM-Next ahead of that cycle kicking off (hopefully) next week. The NVIDIA Nova driver continues leading the way for the development of in-kernel Rust GPU drivers and in the process building out the Rust Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) infrastructure… ⌘ Read more
Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Has Reached AI ‘Frontier’, Rejects Calls For Slowdown
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company has reached the AI “frontier” with its new Muse Wonder model and will be offered as a closed, paid product for businesses. Zuckerberg also rejected calls for an industry-wide slowdown, arguing that AI can be managed with conventional guardrails as Meta continues spending heavily … ⌘ Read more
I should give river a try:
https://isaacfreund.com/software/river/
It brings back the old model from X11 where the window manager is a separate program/process.
(4) The First Brain Was Just Uploaded To A Computer - YouTube – Wow 😮 This is pretty amazing! Scientists and this new company called Eon, have managed to replicate the entire structure of a fruit fly’s brain, exactly. It behaves exactly like a fruit fly does, in it’s virtual simulated world. The only thing they’re missing is the strengths of the connections and weights of each neuron and the state of the chemical “soup”? of the original fly, so it carries no memories and has no “mind”, but structurally it works! Holy shit! Wowza 😱
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@david@daiwei.me I use OpenBSD’s smtpd, which was super easy to set up. It gets a little bit more complicated these days because you also need a DKIM setup, so every outgoing mail goes from smtpd to dkimproxy and back to smtpd. And then dovecot for POP3/IMAP (has basically nothing to do with the other two).
I’m cheating a bit, though: I use config management on top, which means that all the UNIX users and mailboxes and directories are created by that. If you were to do that manually, it would be a huge pain.
Maybe I’ll write a blog post about this some day, just for fun. 🤔
JMAP? Never heard of it.
Puzzling resource management RPG ‘Paradox Tower’ has a demo worth trying
Paradox Tower brings a clever mixture of puzzles and RPG mechanics about helping a witch find her way through a labyrinth tower.
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The creator of DEVOUR is back with co-op survival horror LIVING HELL
I’m not sure my heart will be able to manage LIVING HELL but it sure does look interesting from the developer of the popular DEVOUR.
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The awesome Deadly Days: Roadtrip has set an October 29 release date
The brilliant bullet heaven inventory management zombie shooter Deadly Days: Roadtrip hits the big 1.0 on October 29th.
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Cloudbreaker review - Bullet Heaven meets Inventory Management
If you’re like me and you can’t get enough of bullet heaven survivor-likes, it’s time to take a good look at Cloudbreaker with its inventory management.
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Racing roguelite autobattler Backseat Champions arrives November 13
Instead of directly racing, you’re managing your driver in Backseat Champions - a racing roguelite autobattler.
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New Patches For Linux’s Zswap Show Major Improvements
Amid multiple ongoing innovations being pursued in the Linux memory management space amid sky high RAM prices, a new patch series posted on Monday aim to enhance the Zswap performance for this compressed RAM cache for swap pages… ⌘ Read more
HubSpot Cuts 660 Jobs In AI Restructuring
HubSpot is cutting about 7% of its workforce, or roughly 660 employees, as it restructures into what CEO Yamini Rangan described as a “flatter organization” with fewer management layers. Rangan said the layoffs were “not driven by AI-related efficiencies,” though AI remains central to HubSpot’s strategy as the company adjusts its organization around AI-driven customer outcomes. Fast Company repor … ⌘ Read more
There’s now over 200 Steam Frame Verified games
Valve’s new VR kit the Steam Frame has managed to cross over 200 games that are rated Steam Frame Verified.
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Everything about time management is a pain for developers: time zones (and the locales that ignore them or go half-way), leap seconds, all of it is messy and weird and human. And DST is the worst aspect of it by far.
My first professional coding job as part of a team was in a Java shop, and there was a running joke along the lines of “Only Java would have a class called SimpleDateFormat which is anything but simple.”
Someone Got Doom In an SQL Database
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Rendering Doom in a database is obviously a bad idea,” Lukas Vogel writes in a lengthy blog post explaining how exactly he managed to render Doom using an SQL database. OK, that’s not entirely accurate. The SQLDoom project uses a small Python client to handle input and output, drive the game’s timing, and display each frame to the screen. Behi … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.19 released with Wayland Colour Management, Unicode upgrades, DNS query cache
The Wine 11.19 release is now available for this open source Windows compatibility layer, bringing an assortment of new features and fixes.
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Wine 11.19 Released With Wayland Color Management For Vulkan, DNS Query Caching
We are nearing the point of the Wine 12.0 stable release coming up in early 2027 while for now the Wine 11.xx bi-weekly development releases continue. Out today is Wine 11.19 with a few new features and plenty of fixes… ⌘ Read more
It was a nice three hours stroll to my backyard mountain and back. 28°C, my goodness. Autumn is here with its colors. Not so much with the temps, unfortunately. At least the nights are chillier, so I should be thankful.
The great spotted woodpecker was hiding behind the leaves, so 18 was the best I managed. Still really terrible.
I think this is my very first slow worm this year in 32. Very late. And it might have been even cactus, not sure.
Microsoft Makes Linux Containers Native On Windows 11
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available, giving Windows 11 developers a built-in way to build, run, and deploy Linux containers through Windows Subsystem for Linux. The release includes wslc.exe for managing containers, GPU support, networking improvements, health checks, storage mounts, and integration with … ⌘ Read more
After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays
Microsoft’s senior product manager for Excel acknowledges that “Throughout Excel’s 40-year history, you’ve only been able to put one value per cell.” But that’s now changing with arrays in cells (as well as nested arrays) and lists.
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MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others
Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month’s Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks… ⌘ Read more
AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday’s Linux 7.3-rc5 release… ⌘ Read more