Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer
After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor… ⌘ Read more

MPV 0.41 Released With Wayland Improvements, Vulkan Hardware Decoding Preferred
MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I was surprised by that as well. 😅 I thought these were features that you can use, but no, you must do all this.

By the way, I now fixed the issue that I mentioned at the end and it works on the netbook now. 🥳

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-21/0/netbook.jpg

Wow, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, so many tables. No idea what I expected (I’m totally clueless on this low-level stuff), but that was quite an interesting surprise to me. https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-21/0/POSTING-en.html

Parrot OS Switches to KDE Plasma Desktop
“Yet another distro is making the move to the KDE Plasma desktop,” writes Linux magazine.

“Parrot OS, a security-focused Linux distribution, is migrating from MATE to KDE Plasma, starting with version 7.0, now available in beta.”

Based on Debian 13, Parrot OS’s goal is a shift toward “modernization, focusing on clearing technical debt and future-proofing the system.” One big under-the-hood c … ⌘ Read more

Intel Readies Multi-Queue Support For Linux 7.0 As New Feature For Crescent Island
In addition to this week’s drm-intel-next pull request to DRM-Next adding Nova Lake display support, a drm-xe-next pull request was also sent out on Friday that prepares a new multi-queue feature for Xe3P_XPC – initially just the “Crescent Island” AI inference accelerator card. Plus other new features too for this Xe kernel driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0~6.20 kernel version… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 “Turing” GPUs
In addition to the open-source NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 “Turing” graphics processors… ⌘ Read more

Wine 11.0-rc3 Released With Another Week Of Bug Fixing
In working toward the Wine 11.0 stable release in January, Wine 11.0-rc3 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate… ⌘ Read more

Intel Readies Nova Lake Display Support For Linux 6.20~7.0
For the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel the initial Xe3P_LPD GPU support was merged for the integrated graphics to be found with Nova Lake processors. There were some initial Xe3P_LPD display patches also merged for Linux 6.19 but it looks like for Linux 6.20 (or what may end up being known as Linux 7.0), the display support will actually be functional for driving monitors from Nova Lake… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, well, given that I didn’t need this for such a long time, it’s probably not an essential tool. 😅

I’ve often wanted to have an outline of text documents, though, and tagbar/ctags can do that as well:

https://movq.de/v/3c6d1a13d6/tagbar-md.png

https://movq.de/v/abc58e6d66/tagbar-latex.png

This isn’t as powerful as the “Navigator” tool in StarOffice/LibreOffice (which can be used to rearrange the document), but still pretty useful:

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/so31.mp4

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Plans Confirmed For Linux 6.20 / Linux 7.0
Canonical confirmed their Linux kernel plans today for the Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release due out in April… ⌘ Read more

Cloud Hypervisor 50 Released With QCOW2 Compression, Performance Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor 50.0 is out today for this cloud-minded, security-focused and Rust-based hypervisor. Cloud Hypervsior began as an open-source Intel project while in more recent times has shifted to being largely maintained by Microsoft, Crusoe, Cyberus Tech, Rivos, and others… ⌘ Read more

Mesa NVK Driver Merges Compression Support For Better Performance
Merged today to the Mesa 26.0-devel code for the open-source NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver is compression support for helping to deliver better performance… ⌘ Read more

GitHub Is Going To Start Charging You For Using Your Own Hardware
GitHub will begin charging $0.002 per minute for self-hosted Actions runners used on private repositories starting in March. “At the same time, GitHub noted in a Tuesday blog post that it’s lowering the prices of GitHub-hosted runners beginning January 1, under a scheme it calls ‘simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions,’” … ⌘ Read more

Coursera Acquires Udemy For $930 Million
Coursera announced on Wednesday that it will acquire rival online learning platform Udemy in an all-stock deal that values the combined company at $2.5 billion, a move that brings together two of the largest U.S.-based players in an industry that has struggled since pandemic-era enrollment highs faded. Under the terms of the agreement, Udemy shareholders will receive 0.8 shares of Coursera for … ⌘ Read more

If your very popular project with lots of stars on GitHub is over 10 years old, and you’re still at a pre-1.0 version because you’re using SemVer and a 1.0 would mean making some kind of commitment and that’s somehow not desirable for you, then I think you’re doing something wrong. 🤔

Servo 0.0.3 Browser Engine Brings Better Performance, Embedding Improvements
Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine. Servo 0.0.3 incorporates many enhancements made over the past month from better performance to enhancing its embedding API and other improvements like context menus for more web content… ⌘ Read more

MidnightBSD 4.0 Brings Many Changes To This FreeBSD 13 Derived OS
While FreeBSD 15 stable was officially released earlier this month, MidnightBSD continues plotting its own course atop its FreeBSD 13 base. Out today is MidnightBSD 4.0 as the latest iteration of this desktop-minded BSD operating system… ⌘ Read more

Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Already Begin Lining Up For Linux 6.20~7.0
Even before the Linux 6.19 merge window wrapped up this weekend with the Linux 6.19-rc1 release, there was already the first pull request to DRM-Next of the first batch of new material to be queued for Linux 6.19’s successor… ⌘ Read more

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
Nonprofit Code.org released its 2025 State of AI & Computer Science Education report this week with a state-by-state analysis of school policies complaining that “0 out of 50 states require AI+CS for graduation.”

But meanwhile, at the college level, “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic … ⌘ Read more

Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility
Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to “full GNU compatibility” with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite… ⌘ Read more

I’m having to write my own functions like this in mu just to solve AoC puzzles :D

fn pow10(k) {
    p := 1
    i := 0
    while i < k {
        p = p * 10
        i = i + 1
    }
    return p
}

The World’s Electric Car Sales Have Spiked 21% So Far in 2025
Electrek reports:

EV and battery supply chain research specialists Benchmark Mineral Intelligence reports that 2.0 million electric vehicles were sold globally in November 2025, bringing global EV sales to 18.5 million units year-to-date. That’s a 21% increase compared to the same period in 2024.

Europe was the clear growth leader in November, whil … ⌘ Read more

Oracles Releases Updated “bpftune” For BPF-Based Auto-Tuning Of Linux Systems
The past few years Oracle has been working on bpftune as a solution for BPF-based, automatic tuning of Linux systems. Bpftune has been available via Oracle Linux and GitHub while finally their open-source GitHub code has seen the first new tagged release in a while… ⌘ Read more

Wine 11.0-rc2 Released With 28 Known Bug Fixes
Following last week’s Wine 11.0-rc1 release that marked the feature freeze as well in working toward Wine 11.0 in January, out today is Wine 11.0-rc2… ⌘ Read more

Alright, Advent of Code is over:

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-12/0/POSTING-en.html

It’s been quite the time sink, especially with the DOS games on top, but it was fun. 🥳

In case you’re wondering: All puzzles (except for part 2 of day 10) were doable in Python 1 on SuSE Linux 6.4 and ran in a finite time on the Pentium 133. Puzzle 10/2 might have been doable as well if I had better education. 🤣

Awk to take lines from Plan 9’s /lib/unicode and prepend the actual glyph and a tab: awk ‘{cmd=sprintf(“unicode %s”, $1); cmd | getline c; printf(“%s %s\n”, c, $0)}’

Windows WSL 2.7.0 Released With Newer Linux 6.6 LTS Point Release, Many Fixes
Microsoft today released WSL 2.7.0, the newest version of their Windows Subsystem for Linux code that enables running Linux binaries atop Windows 11 hosts… ⌘ Read more

D7VK 1.0 Released For “Production Ready” Direct3D 7 On Vulkan
The D7VK project recently started as the Direct3D 7 API implemented atop the Vulkan API akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton with newer versions of Microsoft Direct3D. Today marks the D7VK 1.0 release for this project in now declaring itself “production ready” for Linux gamers… ⌘ Read more

AMD GAIA 0.14 Released With Native Support For Linux & macOS
Early this year AMD announced the open-source GAIA project for “Generative AI Is Awesome” as a showcase of AI support atop their Ryzen AI NPUs and other hardware. That began as a Windows-only project but in September AMD added Linux support to GAIA but only using Vulkan acceleration for AI on Radeon GPUs. Now today GAIA 0.14 is available with “native” support for both macOS and Linux… ⌘ Read more

Intel’s Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay
Merged today to the Intel open-source “ANV” Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator. Long story short this new allocator steps toward enabling Vulkan ray-tracing capture/replay support, which can come in hand for debugging issues with Vulkan ray-tracing on Intel graphics hardware under Linux and similarly to assist in optimizing for better performance… ⌘ Read more

HDMI Forum Continues To Block HDMI 2.1 For Linux, Valve Says
New submitter emangwiro shares a report: The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve’s Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations. In a statement to Ars T … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 15.0 vs. Ubuntu Linux For AMD EPYC Server Performance
Given the recent release of FreeBSD 15, I started off my testing in looking at how FreeBSD 15.0 improves performance versus FreeBSD 14.3. Now it’s onto the next important question: how is FreeBSD 15.0 performing relative to Linux on servers? Here are some benchmarks exploring that topic today. ⌘ Read more

#ptpol

0 - o pior dos debates na SIC é que se acaba por ouvir o Nuno Rogeiro a falar antes do debate começar.
1 - sondagem: a pergunta é meh, mas serve como pretexto para se atacarem um ou outro, Seguro a acusar o outro de inexperiência, Gouveia e Melo diz que Mário Soares chamou Seguro de Inseguro. Para GeM que está sempre a dizer que não gosta de pequena política, 8 minutos já foram desperdiçados. Seguro pega nisto, pergunta a GeM se o que ele está a fazer agora é “grande política”. Enfim, relamente se é para estar a fazer disto, ao menos Seguro não se arma aos cucos. Ao 9º minuto finalmente matéria: GeM a pegar, no Seguro ter deixado passar um OE com medidas inconstitucionais (chamou-lhe leis inconstitucionais), Seguro pega na gaffe para dizer que GeM não tem preparação, depois a dizer que argumentos de GeM parecem os da Catarina Martins (só que para muitos como eu, isso só diz bem do argumento de GeM).
2 - economia do ano - GeM acha que temos é que melhorar as cenas que isto ainda tá mau, Seguro diz que isto é prova que o pacote laboral não é necessário.
3 - PM e o salário mínimo em 1600€: GM critica as palavras vazias, qdo a proposta do Gov. para SMN 2027 é 920€, agora fala em SMN de 1600 sem proposta ou base alguma para dizer isto. AJS concorda, e diz que SMN é em concertação
1/n

England need to win next Test or Ashes will get embarrassing - McGrath
Australia legend Glenn McGrath says England must now know they need to adapt their approach and win the third Test in Adelaide or they could be facing a 5-0 Ashes defeat. ⌘ Read more

Rust-Based Project Aims To Provide Modern Thumbnails For Audio/Video Files On GNOME
Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files. But to address that defect, the Rust-based gst-thumbnailers project has been in development to leverage GStreamer and paired with Rust to provide safe thumbnail generation capabilities for audio and video content… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 26.0 Lands Initial Support For Adreno Gen 8 - Including For The Snapdragon X2
The newest Mesa 26.0-devel code as of today has landed initial support for Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics into the Freedreno Gallium3D driver. The Adreno Gen 8 graphics so far are most notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC with its X2-85 GPU as well as the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with Adreno 840 graphics… ⌘ Read more

Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland
The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland… ⌘ Read more

Iced 0.14 Released For Popular Rust Cross-Platform GUI LIbrary
Released today is a new version of Iced, the popular cross-platform GUI library for the Rust programming language. Iced is notably used by the COSMIC desktop environment and a growing variety of different Rust apps… ⌘ Read more

How the internet reacted to the Aussies going 2-0 up
Mitchell Starc was the hero, again, as the English were comprehensively outplayed in Brisbane — but how did the internet react? ⌘ Read more

#ptpol #debates #presidenciais

0 - Há uma pergunta mas #LMM diz que responde a tudo mas primeiro tem outro tema obrigatório: a acusação de #Cotrim Figueiredo há 15 dias de LMM ter feito pressões, pede a Cotrim que concretize - Cotrim não pode ou consegue, tenta atacar LMM noutro tema com um book review, a dizer que LMM vai lançar um livro que é pior que o livro que Cotrim lançou - isto não se inventa. De certa forma isto influencia o debate porque quando o jornalista pode então fazer perguntas já não fala do que queria falar, e em vez disso pergunta o que distingue as candidaturas deles e voto útil e essas coisas. Cotrim responde que ele é o mais energético ou qq coisa dessas, mas em prática só diz que vai jantar com jovens mais vezes que LLM. 12 minutos de debate e ainda não se disse nada - mas só menos mostra bem que entre estes dois há claramente um menos sério que outro. Cotrim critica LMM estar no Conselho de Estado há tantos anos e Portugal está cheio de problemas - pena que LMM não diga a Cotrim que foi deputado e eurodeputado, e Portugal e Europa estão cheios de problemas também…
1 - finalmente a pergunta que o moderador queria: o pacote laboral. LMM repete a conversa de que é preciso uma reforma e esta é uma reforma por isso não entende as críticas. Cotrim promulgaria (duh)
1/n

New FreeBSD 15 Retires 32-Bit Ports and Modernizes Builds
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE arrived this week, notes this report from The Register, which calls it the latest release “of the Unix world’s leading alternative to Linux.”

As well as numerous bug fixes and upgrades to many of its components, the major changes in this version are reductions in the number of platforms the OS supports, and in how it’s built and how its … ⌘ Read more

Homebrew Can Now Help You Install Flatpaks Too
“Homebrew, the package manager for macOS and Linux, just got a handy new feature in the latest v5.0.4 update,” reports How-To Geek.

Brewfile install scripts “are now more like a one-stop shop for installing software, as Flatpaks are now supported alongside Brew packages, Mac App Store Apps, and other packages.”

For those times when you need to install many software packages at on … ⌘ Read more

England soundly beaten by Australia in second Test drubbing
England capitulate to a damning eight-wicket defeat on day of the second Test to give Australia a 2-0 lead in The Ashes. ⌘ Read more

England 2-0 down in Ashes after Gabba hammering
England’s Ashes hopes are all but over in fewer than six days of cricket after an eight-wicket defeat by Australia in the second Test at the Gabba. ⌘ Read more

England 2-0 down in Ashes after Gabba hammering
England’s Ashes hopes are all but over in fewer than six days of cricket after an eight-wicket defeat by Australia in the second Test at the Gabba. ⌘ Read more

I kind of hate conventional commit messages: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/#summary

but I am loving reading RFC 2119: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

Live: Ashes day of reckoning arrives as England great forecasts 5-0 whitewash
England captain Michael Vaughan says Australia could beat England 5-0 yet again if Ben Stokes’s team does not rapidly change course, starting on day four at the Gabba. Follow live. ⌘ Read more

#ptpol #debates #presidenciais

1. começar antes do tempo anunciado é MAU. Perdi o início, começou uns 4 minutos antes do horário anunciado.

2. justiça: estão de acordo

3. CM diz que #Seguro não é candidato de esquerda, Seguro diz que não é verdade. #CMartins explica, Seguro diz que quando esteve do lado da direita foi pelo interesse nacional e da estabilidade, ou seja diz que é de uma esquerda que (como Catarina diz) vota à direita. CMartins destaca que Seguro votou com e apoiou medidas inconstitucionais e achou errado levar coisas ao Constitucional (que depois decidiu q realmente aquilo tinha problemas de constitucionalidade). Pergunta como é que alguém se aliou à direita e contra a constituição agora se candidata a defensor da constituição. Seguro disse que não se aliou à direita, só nas coisas do memorando da troika. Diz que a solução da Troika foi melhor que a do Syriza. Catarina dá exemplos em que além do memorando Seguro escolheu austeridade e inconstitucionalidade a políticas de esquerda. Seguro diz que o que Catarina diz não é justo. Moderadora quer avançar para outro tema, mas candidatos têm muito mais a dizer. Seguro foge dos ataques da Catarina a dizer que a Catarina é que falhou à esquerda ao chumbar os OE do PS que levaram ao fim da geringonça….

1/n

Mesa 26.0 Bringing Support For 64K x 64K Textures With AMD RDNA4 GPUs
The latest improvement to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák is enabling support for up to 64K x 64K textures with RDNA4 GPUs… ⌘ Read more