** Wobbly updates or a sort of week notes **
Hello RSS goblins.

It’s unseasonably warm here, and well, I suppose everywhere. That’s…frightening, but before I let that weigh to heavily on this post I must move on.

It’s been a gorgeous weekend. We took the kids to the beach Friday after dinner, expecting to play on the sand and scramble up the rocks, but they actually each went swimming. They had a blast. The car is filled with sand, and I hope that last little hurrah of summer hangs around for a bit.

We also went putt putt golfi … ⌘ Read more

I updated my nex page! I wonder if I could self-host…

Meetable Release Notes - October 2025
I just released some updates for Meetable, my open source event listing website. ⌘ Read more

2 Ways to Install Homebrew in MacOS Tahoe
Homebrew is a powerful command line package manager that allows you to easily install, update, and manage popular command line programs and tools, as well as traditional graphical apps with cask (and third party tools like Applite help you manage cask through the GUI too). It’s a popular tool with advanced Mac users and those … Read More ⌘ Read more

Okay, I give up. The “shopping list” app™ on my phone broke for no reason whatsoever, there wasn’t even an update. I’m going back to pen and paper.

iOS 18.7.1 & iPadOS 18.7.1 Updates Released with Security Patch
Apple has released iOS 18.7.1 for iPhone and ipadOS 18.7.1 for iPad. The small software updates include security patches, and are offered as alternatives to iPhone and iPad users who either don’t want to install iOS 26 onto their device yet, or cannot for compatibility reasons. No new features or major changes are expected in … Read More ⌘ Read more

MacOS Sequoia 15.7.1 & MacOS Sonoma 14.8.1 Updates Released with Security Fixes
Apple has released MacOS Sequoia 15.7.1 and MacOS Sonoma 14.8.1 as security patch releases for Mac users who are not yet running the Tahoe operating system, of which MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1 was just released. The updates are focused on security patches and do not include any other changes or features for the Sequoia or Sonoma … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/09/30/macos- … ⌘ Read more

MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1 Update Released to Fix Mac Studio Installation Bug
Apple has issued MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1 as a software update for Tahoe users. The update focuses primarly on resolving an issue for Mac Studio owners who were not able to install the initial MacOS Tahoe 26 release onto the M3 Ultra version of the Studio. Apparently other bug fixes and security improvements are included as … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/09/29/macos-tahoe-26-0-1-update-releas … ⌘ Read more

iOS 26.0.1 Update Released to Fix Various iPhone 17 Issues, & Blank Screen Icons
Apple has released the first update for iOS 26.0.1, which includes a handful of bug fixes specifically aimed at the new iPhone 17 lineup, as well as addressing an issue for all devices where Home Screen icons can appear blank after using various Liquid Glass customization settings, and another issue where VoiceOver might disable itself … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2 … ⌘ Read more

DietPi September 2025 Update Brings Faster Backups and Roon Server Early Access
The September 20th release of DietPi v9.17 introduces smaller and more efficient system images, faster backups with reduced disk usage, and a new toggle for Roon Server’s early access builds. The update also addresses SPI bootloader flashing issues on Rockchip devices, improves Raspberry Pi sound card handling, and includes multiple bug fixes across tools and […] ⌘ Read more

How GitHub protects developers from copyright enforcement overreach
Why the U.S. Supreme Court case Cox v. Sony matters for developers and sharing updates to our Transparency Center and Acceptable Use Policies.

The post How GitHub protects developers from copyright enforcement overreach appeared first on [The Gi … ⌘ Read more

Raspberry Pi Updates Keyboard PC with New 500+ Model
Raspberry Pi 500+ is the newest all-in-one personal computer in the Raspberry Pi family. It combines the Raspberry Pi 5 platform with a mechanical keyboard, upgraded memory, and integrated storage. The design builds on the earlier Raspberry Pi 400 and 500 models while adding higher specifications and new input features. The Raspberry Pi 500+ is […] ⌘ Read more

MacOS Tahoe 26 Feels Slow? Try These 6 Performance Tips
Some Mac users who have updated to macOS Tahoe 26 feel like the new operating system runs slower than their prior MacOS installation did. Reports online suggest there can be general sluggishness and lagging performance, sometimes with frame rate drops and stuttering animations on the screen, or even when typing. Other users in various forums … Read More ⌘ Read more

Another win for the Digital Markets Act: Microsoft gives truly free access to additional year of Windows 10 updates to EU users
A few months ago, Microsoft finally blinked and provided a way for Windows 10 users to gain “free” access to the Windows 10 Extended Security Update program. For regular users to gain access to this program, their options are to either pay around $30, pay 1000 Microsoft points, or … ⌘ Read more

Legacy Update 1.12 released
If you’re still running old versions of Windows from Windows 2000 and up, either for restrocomputing purposes or because you need to keep an old piece of software running, you’ve most likely heard of Legacy Update. This tool allows you to keep Windows Update running on Windows versions no longer supported by the service, and has basically become a must-have for anyone still playing around with older Windows versions. The project released a fairly major update today. Legacy Up … ⌘ Read more

Silent Component Updates & Redesigned Update Experience
Following on from our previous initiative to improve how Docker Desktop delivers updates, we are excited to announce another major improvement to how Docker Desktop keeps your development tools up to date. Starting with Docker Desktop 4.46, we’re introducing automatic component updates and a completely redesigned update experience that puts your productivity first. Why We’re… ⌘ Read more

iOS 26 Battery Life Suffering? Here’s Why & How to Fix It
iOS 26 is in the wild, and aside from the mixed reactions to the Liquid Glass interface, there are also wildly different reports of battery life performance post-update. A notable number of iPhone and iPad users are complaining throughout social media and online forums that iOS 26 battery drains faster than it did before, and … Read More ⌘ Read more

@zvava@twtxt.net It is just completely impossible to make v2 backwards-compatible with v1.

Well, breaking threads on edits is considered a feature by some people. I reckon the only approach to reasonably deal with that property is to carefully review messages before publishing them, thus delaying feed updates. Any typos etc., that have been discovered afterwards, are just left alone. That’s what I and some others do. I only risk editing if the feed has been published very few seconds earlier. More than 20 seconds and I just ignore it. Works alright for the most part.

XMPP Interop Testing: Lots More Options
Since the last update, we’ve added a lot more options on how to run your tests. We’ve added a slew of new CI systems, this time focussing on freedom-respecting, open source CI systems for your open source projects.

Recent additions include Jenkins, Drone, Harness and Woodpecker.

This brings our total number of CI systems in which you can run XMPP interop tests up to a whopping ELEVEN, plus anywhere else you can run containers!

Whether you’re building … ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: (e)SIM nicknames, Cheogram Android updates, and Cheogram iOS alpha
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update! (it’s been 7 months since the last one 😨)

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Y … ⌘ Read more

Yesterday, I published my first package on JSR: https://jsr.io/@itsericwoodward/fluent-dom-esm.

Then today, I pushed an update to my site to show my twts (including a schnazzy little animation to add them): https://itsericwoodward.com/

Overall, a most productive weekend.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de this seems like a bit of an overkill, that would also harm modding and power users - who often need to see the exact implementation of new features and benefit from the ability to pull up the history of code changes, in their browser. Sure they could clone the repo and do that locally, but if it has dependencies, they’d also have to clone those, to see how those get updated and it’d soon be a mess.

Updated to Mint Cinnamon 22.2!

@bender@twtxt.net thank youuuu bender i missed your fun posts!!!! yeah i have been INSANELY BUSY with fujocoded work (see those newsletter posts!) it’s been tough but i’ve been making my way through it 🫡🫡🫡

Since Fastly acquired and recently shut down glitch.com, some of my ancient webapps are no longer available, nor do I have any plans to make them available again - all had either zero, or very few monthly visits, used outdated libraries and would be a waste of money, to continue hosting and updating elsewhere.

All art archives remain unaffected and all projects shut down before 2025, were already permanently deleted, but if there’s someone out there, still relying on the recently discontinued projects, somehow - you can reach out and request their source code.

These requests will only be honoured, until the end of this year, when we plan to permanently delete, all of this data (both webapps and files only hosted on Amazons CDN).

Canine out °_°

Prosodical Thoughts: Debian repository key change
We have been working on some changes to our Debian/Ubuntu package repository.
If you use our repository to keep up to date with new Prosody packages, you
need to take action before 4th August 2025 to continue receiving updates
smoothly.

The ‘apt’ utility has been moving towards a new format for specifying package
repositories. If you are familiar with putting deb lines in a sources.list
file, [that method is changing](ht … ⌘ Read more

Global update: Trump in Scotland says EU trade deal has 50-50 chance as tariff row grows. Gaza sees 9 more starvation deaths (122 total); UN says famine is deliberate. Thai-Cambodia clashes kill 16, displace 135k. US raid in Syria kills top ISIS leader & sons.

I have a Python script that transforms the original YouTube channel Atom feed into a more useful Atom feed by removing the spam description and replacing it with the video duration, filtering out videos by title, duration, etc. I just updated it to exclude the damn Shorts garbage more efficiently. Finally, YouTube updated their Atom feed generation, so that the video URL contains /short/ if it’s of this useless kind. Never thought that they ever actually will improve their Atom feeds. Thank you, much appreciated!

Time to work on updating my tilde again after such a long time.

In all fairness, GOG says that Forsaken is only supported on Ubuntu 16.04 – not current Arch Linux. If you ask me, this just goes to show that Linux is not a good platform for proprietary binary software.

Is it free software, do you have the source code? Then you’re good to go, things can be patched/updated (that can still be a lot of work). But proprietary binary blobs? Very bad idea.

Speaking of Wine, Arch Linux completely fucked up Wine for me with the latest update.

• 16-bit support is gone.
  
• Performance of 3D games is horrible and unplayable.
  

Arch is shipping a WoW64 build now, which is not yet ready for prime time.

And then I realized that there’s actually only one stable Wine release per year but Arch has been shipping development releases all the time. That’s quite unusual. I’m used to Arch only shipping stable packages … huh.

Hopefully things will improve again. I’m not eager to build Wine from source. I’d rather ditch it and resort to my real Windows XP box for the little (retro)gaming that I do … 🫤

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz UPDATE: getting it to run natively through a VM and other means all failed! so i did the cursed thing and tried the windows installer in wine…..

GUESS WHAT WORKED

update on tux racer: ofc it doesn’t run on modern linux LMFAOOOOOOO i’m installing red hat in a VM right now

Unless your Terms of use update email looks and reads the same as the one I got yesterday from mastodon.social, I don’t wanna know about it, nor do I agree to it.

Hmmm 🧐 Not what I thought was going on… No bug…

 time="2025-06-14T15:24:25Z" level=info msg="updating feeds for 8 users"
 time="2025-06-14T15:24:25Z" level=info msg="skipping 0 inactive users"
 time="2025-06-14T15:24:25Z" level=info msg="skipping 0 subscribed feeds"
 time="2025-06-14T15:24:25Z" level=info msg="updating 80 sources (stale feeds)"

MacOS 26 is the final Intel version, sucks to be a 2023 Intel Mac Pro owner
macOS Tahoe is the final software update that Intel-based Macs will get, as Apple works to phase them out following its transition to Apple silicon. During its Platforms State of the Union event, Apple said that Intel Macs won’t get macOS 27, coming next year, though there could still be updates that add security fixes. ↫ Juli Clover at MacRumors Not particularly surprising, but def … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 14.3 released
FreeBSD 14.3 has been released, an important point release for those of us using the FreeBSD 14.x branch. This release brings 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) support to many modern laptop wireless chips, OCI container images are now available in Docker and GitHub repositories, and a number of cornerstone packages have been updated to their latest versions. ⌘ Read more

Apple introduces new Liquid Glass design language
Apple at WWDC announced iOS 26, introducing a comprehensive visual redesign built around its new “Liquid Glass” concept, alongside expanded Apple Intelligence capabilities, updates to core communication apps, and more. Liquid Glass is a translucent material that reflects and refracts surroundings to create dynamic, responsive interface elements, according to Apple. The new design language transforms the Lock Screen, where the time f … ⌘ Read more

GitOps in 2025: From Old-School Updates to the Modern Way
1. Introduction: Why Everyone’s Talking About GitOps in 2025 It’s 2025, and building software is more cloud-driven than ever. Cloud computing offers incredible speed and flexibility, but it also brings complexity. Companies are expected to ship… ⌘ Read more

UPDATE: First Time Cat Owner ⌘ Read more

My dad’s cat had kittens. He sends me all the updates. He said he went to put on his boots ⌘ Read more

Russian missiles, drones target Kyiv, Ternopil, Lutsk in one of Moscow’s largest air assaults, civilians killed and injured (updates) ⌘ Read more

New EU rules mandate five years of OS updates for smartphones and tablets
Starting 20 June 2025, new rules and regulations in the European Union covering, among other thins, smartphones and tablets, will have some far-reaching consequences for device makers – consequences that, coincidentally, will work out pretty great for consumers within the European Union. The following “ecodesign requirements” will come into force on 20 June: Especially the requirements … ⌘ Read more

LITTLE UPDATE THE THREE ARE ALIVE AND ILLEGALLY CUTE ⌘ Read more

Update: The kitten who was thrown out with a bunch of trash is relaxing. ⌘ Read more

To comply with the DMA, Microsoft rolls out tons of Windows improvements, but only for users in the EU
As part of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to compliance with the Digital Markets Act, we are making the following changes to Windows 10, Windows 11, and Microsoft apps in the European Economic Area (EEA). We’ll update this post as these changes are shipped, first in Windows Insider builds and then in retail builds. ↫ Windows Insid … ⌘ Read more

Fvwm3 1.1.3 released, completes transition from autotools to meson
Fvwm3, the venerable, solid, configurable, no-nonsense window manager for X, has been updated: fvwm3 1.1.3 has been released. While the version number indicates that this is a minor release, there’s one reason why 1.1.3 is actually a much bigger deal than the version number suggests: it switches the build system from autotools to meson. Fvwm is very old, and has been using autotools since 1996 (befor … ⌘ Read more

PocketBeagle 2 Rev A1 Upgrades to Quad-Core AM6254 Processor
BeagleBoard.org has released an updated revision of the PocketBeagle 2 featuring the Texas Instruments AM6254 processor. The new Rev A1 replaces the earlier AM6232-based Rev A0, offering a significant performance boost with no change in pricing. The upgraded AM6254 brings a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and an integrated GPU, targeting more demanding embedded applications. The AM6254 […] ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 13.0.2 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This update addresses various issues that have been noticed since the previous release, as well as a few improvements, including some important fixes for invites. Some log messages and prosodyctl commands have been improved as well.

A summary of changes in this release:

• mod_storage_internal: Fix queries with only start returning extra items
  
• mod_invites_register: Stric … ⌘ Read more

Apple said to switch to year to identify releases of its operating systems
The next Apple operating systems will be identified by year, rather than with a version number, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That means the current iOS 18 will give way to “iOS 26,” said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plan is still private. Other updates will be known as iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26 and visionOS 26. Apple is ma … ⌘ Read more