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NetBSD 10.0 available (blog.netbsd.org)
 

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system NetBSD 10.0! See the release announcement for details.

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The Berkeley Software Distribution (www.abortretry.fail)
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What's New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.9 - C++ Team Blog (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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NetBSD 10.0 RC4 available (blog.netbsd.org)
 

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and probably last) release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details.

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Chuwi Freebook N100 with Linux? (eu.chuwi.com)
 

Anyone got any experience with running Linux on a Chuwi Freebook N100 yet?

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Changes in Emacs 29.2 (www.gnu.org)
 

This is a bug-fix release with no new features.

  • Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.2

    • Tramp

      • New user option 'tramp-show-ad-hoc-proxies'. When non-nil, ad-hoc definitions are kept in remote file names instead of showing the shortcuts.

  • Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.2

    • 'with-sqlite-transaction' rolls back changes if its BODY fails. If the BODY of the macro signals an error, or committing the results of the transaction fails, the changes will now be rolled back.
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NetBSD 10.0 RC3 available (blog.netbsd.org)
 

For RC3 only few (relatively) minor changes were made, including https certificate verification in libfetch (which is used by pkg_ad(1)), and also improvements to the EFI bootloader to better deal with booting from CD (or in virtual machines ISO images), plus lots of various bug fixes.

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NetBSD 10.0 RC2 available (blog.netbsd.org)
 

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the second (and probably last) release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details.

The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot of development went into this new release.

This also caused the release announcement to be one of the longest we ever did.

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Musings on the C charter | Ruminations (blog.aaronballman.com)
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Emacs From Scratch Part Two: Projects and Keybindings (arne.me)
Introducing SMTP Smuggling: A novel technique for spoofing e-mails in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not sure how many get the joke in "Figure 23: Typical Austrian reaction after receiving a spoofed e-mail":

OIDA

😂

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

There is no reason to “hate” Ubuntu but there are better choices.

What are those better choices then (for those who currently use the non-LTS Ubuntu releases and don't want to move to rolling releases or LTS-only releases)?

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I still think Ubuntu is the best option (particularly if you want to use the non-LTS releases)

Having said that I do hate snaps and also dislike flatpaks. So what I do is just use the Firefox deb package from the PPA and the chromium package from Linux Mint. Oh, and I have actually replaced ubuntu-advantage-tools with a no-op dummy package.

Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Only issue is they’re stored in my server as belonging to the server user (I assume everything in those directories should belong to root and I can just use chown?) But I also don’t know if they retain the same permissions when backed up.

Not everything will be owned by root, and some of the binaries will be setuid or setgid, some might even have extended attributes (e.g. ping will usually have a security.capability attribute). /var will also have a lot of different owners.

XMPP Server? in c/[email protected]
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MISRA C++:2023 (Guidelines for the use C++:17 in critical systems) published (forum.misra.org.uk)
Gitea launches cloud service to provide a secure alternative to GitHub and GitLab in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago (5 children)

"secure alternative"? Others are not secure?

What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Pretty much anything that's only available via an app store. The difference with web apps is that I can also use them on a laptop/PC and I have a bit more control about tracking (by using ad/tracking blockers).

What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

not being forced to have an Android or Apple smartphone, so more open standards and just Web apps instead of proprietary apps

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In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10-RC1 Released As A Huge Update (www.phoronix.com)
*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

replaced it myself - it's not actually that difficult to do

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I actually replaced the display twice already (got a replacement from Aliexpress for around $16) - first time because the touchscreen failed and second time because I smashed it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sony z3c with FirefoxOS and a Samsung A5 with Tizen

The Paperweight Dilemma: Original Pinephone might lose future kernel updates if devs can't pay down tech debt in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And mainline Linux and a Linux Desktop is still struggling today with power management. Like getting chat messages while it’s asleep.

And the really sad thing is that the power management improvements devs have been working on for the PinePhone are really very specific to that particular device and don't help mobile Linux in general (so it's basically wasted effort).

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