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The Open Collective page for secureblue is now live! A new GitHub Sponsors profile for the secureblue organization is live and integrated with Open Collective. Existing sponsors via GitHub are encouraged to switch their donations over to one of the two options. secureblue.dev/donate

Trivalent 145.0.7632.75-442755 released: github.com/secureblue/T... Google is aware that exploits for both CVE-2026-3909 & CVE-2026-3910 exist in the wild.

California recently passed, and Colorado and NY recently introduced, age verification legislation targeting OS providers that is so imprecisely written that it's unclear how to comply. If you live in one of those states, contact your state senator and rep asking them to oppose this legislation.

secureblue v4.8.2 has been released. There's a critical rpm-ostree regression in version 2026.1 causing upgrade failures. To confirm whether you're on the impacted version, check rpm-ostree --version. If the version shows 2026.1, follow the steps in the release notes: github.com/secureblue/s...

European organizations are under increasing pressure to maintain true data sovereignty. Join Allan Jude from Klara Inc and Eirik Øverby from Entersekt, as they explain why Entersekt chose ZFS for EU sovereign storage. Register here: na3.hubs.ly/y0k7Q00 #OpenSource #Datasovereignty #ZFS

"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Google declared that starting next year no-one can develop Android apps without first registering centrally with Google, requiring - Paying a fee to Google - Agreeing to Google’s Terms & Conditions - Providing government ID - Uploading the app’s private signing key oppose: keepandroidopen.org

New #babashka version is out! #clojure

A few days ago, I coded a floating-point package for the CP1610 processor, and then I made a brand new BASIC interpreter for the Mattel Intellivision ECS because I wasn't satisfied with the speed of the original 🤪✌️ #retro #retrogaming #intellivision nanochess.org/ecs_basic.html

Always be crafting #heathensky #pagansky #woodworking

Mindblowingly cool breakthrough - we made it so all existing Pebble watchfaces/apps now automatically scale up to fill larger and higher resolution Pebble Time 2 display!

🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live! 85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!) Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot

Got plans tomorrow night? Like stories? Browse ifcomp.org/ballot and pick something that fits your mood and schedule! Do that just 5 times before Oct 15, leave a rating for each, and you’re officially an IFComp judge.

Haha exactly

'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola". That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola': viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola). The part '-cello' is only a suffix. Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

windows is an operating system in the same way that docker is a game engine

Here's a late entry for #HillfortsWednesday, an aerial of Castle Ring on Harthill Moor, one of Derbyshire's lesser known and more enigmatic sites. Never been excavated, is it really a hillfort? About half a hectare with a bank, external ditch and counterscarp her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR...

mmmm me every time I use chatgpt. now I'm hungry

Thank you, @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social for the wonderful set of postcards, received today! Each one features a different church door. These are 2 of my favorites.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Portrait with Wolf is choice-based Inform work inspired by the IF art shows of old. Bleak, poetic, nonsensical even if it's not for everyone, it could be for you I made it for Spring Thing www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...

And what was that all-female space mission 60 years ago? That would be Vostok 6, which had Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova doing a three-day solo flight (during which she, you know, actually operated the spacecraft)

The Zilog Z280 microprocessor. Able to address 16 megabytes of memory, and with MMU for 64k code area and 64k data area. It wasn't so popular, so it ceased manufacturing, but for some reason, Zilog sent all datasheets and manuals to oblivion. Check bitsavers. #zilog

Blessings from the ብሉየ፡ መዋዕል፡ ("The Ancient of Days")! Ethiopia, 15th c. #ancientofdays #god #blessing #icon #africanicon #africanart

I started a Zork I think back in January, then got busy with Spring Thing :( Had some time for it today! youtu.be/5GwokkXKVcA

Cf this is very vibrant, even that dress on the right, but also in a book so protected from light

My personal unfounded historical conspiracy theory is that over half of all terrible opinions in European-descended culture are John Calvin's fault.

58. Pagans by James Alistair Henry. Alt-history crime? I LOVED IT! The Normans never conquered England, Africa is the leading superpower, Britain is divided up btween Celts, Saxons, and Norse. Very gritty crime story (defund these cops omfg) but the attention to detail for the worldbuilding!!!

Eid Mubarak to all celebrating (and ‘īd mubārak to the linguists ;-))

Saw this absolutely magnificent first edition of the Italian printing of Thomas Gray's lyrical poems, dated Florence 1784, signed "Reading's Library" in 1838 and also someone named G. Angelucci, at my local used bookstore.

Apropos of very little, I've had three lines of a Doctor Who filk stuck in my head since _the 1990s_ dammit, and last time I tried to hunt it up, I failed. Tonight I tried again. Peter David, it turns out. web.archive.org/web/20120912...

Someone should tell my mom, who was sent away from her home in the bustling heart of Chennai, a city known for its British military outpost, to her native village in South India — because of concerns about Japanese bombing raids. Or her best friend's husband, whose family fled the Japanese in Burma.

Meta's lack of content moderation is worse than I thought, so I'd encourage everyone to make their profiles private if they're still on IG/Threads. I've spent the day dealing with bullying and violent threats because people didn't want me studying African American English.

"Quite simply, this is one of the most important and exciting Iron Age period discoveries made in the UK" Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇 historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...

Readings shared March 24, 2025. jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/po... #AI #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #IsabelleHOL #LLMs #LeanProver #Lisp #LogicProgramming #MachineLearning #Math #Otter #Prolog #Prover9

Did not expect the curse of the ancient mariner to be part of our timeline, but this seems very on brand for 2025.

spotted today at Seattle's Museum of History & Industry - a land acknowledgement 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝

#phonetics #speech #perception friends, are you aware of studies showing #ganong effect across lexicons among #bilinguals and #multilinguals?

This fragment of proverbs in both Sumerian and Akkadian — languages of ancient Mesopotamia — preserves an early reference to period care. “Everything was fine, and then she brought in a sanitary napkin.” In Sumerian, the pad is a garment called a nig-dara, and in Akkadian, it’s a ulāpu “rag”.