Intel Preps Xe3’s “Dirty Rect” Feature For Linux 6.15
Along with other exciting Intel kernel graphics driver updates submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window, another batch of drm-intel-next code was sent out today to DRM-Next. This pull request is mostly around bug fixing and other low-level work but it does provide a new “dirty rect” feature being introduced with next-gen Intel Xe3 graphics… ⌘ Read more

Linux’s ARM Apple Support Now Has Another Code Reviewer
In hopefully helping Asahi Linux reduce their downstream patch burden and helping to enhance the overall flow of new Apple Silicon related code into the mainline Linux kernel, another developer has agreed to serve as an official code reviewer over the ARM Apple bits within the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

Where all ?! O _ O

Go European: Discover European products and services
Article URL: https://www.goeuropean.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318798

Points: 508

# Comments: 230 ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I also think we need to remove ourselves a bit from the “Twtxt” format as it was originally designed by Buckket.

The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One.

I’m not talking (nor ever was here) about that. We should be allowed to and encourage dot evolve its usage and our own.

It would be far better as a community to focus on the utility of our tools, services, protocols, formats and specifications as well as our own clients and usages thereof rather than this “idealised” design from © 2016.

If you strongly disagree with this, then I think I’ll just honestly step away from all of this as the back ‘n forth on this whole “beaty” and “simplify” argument is honestly wearing me down 😢

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Sorry I didn’t mean to upset you or anyone here in the community. I am/was merely trying to solve what I perceive to be a problem and an ask in the community:

How do I know what a hash refers to?

I believe the reason for this stems from a curiosity of the user of whether they might find that thread interesting or whether there are new interested feeds to follow?

Although my idea increases complexity slightly (introducing a new concept) I don’t think it’s particular hard to understand, reason about or implement (complicated). One could even even make the implementation quite simple in fact.

Either way, the idea of a service (cantralised) or participating clients/registries (distributed) providing reverse hash lookups doesn’t sound too bad really.

What do you propose to solve the above problem? 🤔

I went for a run this morning after months of not running and it feels so good!

@prologic@twtxt.net We can’t agree on this idea because that makes things even more complicated than it already is today. The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One. Not five million. Granted, there might be archive feeds, so it might be already a bit more, but still faaaaaaar less than one file per message.

Also, you would need to host not your own hash files, but everybody else’s as well you follow. Otherwise, what is that supposed to achieve? If people are already following my feed, they know what hashes I have, so this is to no use of them (unless they want to look up a message from an archive feed and don’t process them). But the far more common scenario is that an unknown hash originates from a feed that they have not subscribed to.

Additionally, yarnd’s URL schema would then also break, because https://twtxt.net/twt/<hash> now becomes https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/<hash>, https://twtxt.net/user/bender/<hash> and so on. To me, that looks like you would only get hashes if they belonged to this particular user. Of course, you could define rules that if there is a /user/ part in the path, then use a different URL, but this complicates things even more.

Sorry, I don’t like that idea.

[47°09′14″S, 126°43′22″W] Transfer 25% complete…

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[47°09′31″S, 126°43′51″W] Carrier too weak

One of the biggest gripes of the community with the way the threading model currently works with Twtxt v1.2 (https://twtxt.dev) is this notion of:

What is this hash?
What does it refer to?

Idea: Why can’t we all agree to implement a simple URI scheme where we host our Twtxt feeds?

That is, if you host your feed at https://example.com/twtxt.txt – Why can’t or could you not also host various JSON files (let’s agree on the spec of course) at https://example.com/twt/<hash> ? 🤔

That way we solve this problem in a truly decentralised way, rather than every relying on yarnd pods alone.

@unexplained_mysteries@feeds.twtxt.net Interesting article on the philosophy of thougjts 🙌

The New Rust-Written NVIDIA “NOVA” Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15
For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn’t too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau’s extensive range of NVIDIA GPU support, the NOVA driver is intentionally limited to the RTX 20 “Turing” GPUs and newer where there is the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) with the firmware su … ⌘ Read more

Power outages throughout south east queensland (map)

Linux 6.14-rc6 Released With More Panther Lake Additions, AMD Microcode Signing Fix
Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.14-rc6 a few minutes ago as we work toward the stable Linux 6.14 kernel release later in March… ⌘ Read more

Ontem voltei a pegar no Django depois de 10 anos para um side-project. É como se fosse um regresso a um lugar onde um dia se foi feliz.

Tem a sua personalidade e tal, mas continuo a adorar os seus pormenores e as suas escolhas sobre como deve funcionar uma framework web.

Também fiquei muito agradado de ver que muito pouco mudou desde há uma década no que toca à forma fundamental como o Django faz as coisas. Talvez isso não seja apreciado pela juventude habituada a ciclos de upgrade rápidos e drásticos, mas pra mim foi um grande alívio ver que não tenho de me atualizar muito para montar um pequeno projeto.

Há gente djangueira por aí?

#python #django

Forgot you can actually apply CSS, based on display aspect ratio, rather than min width. Very underrated feature.

“Secret” because it’s part of the easteregg, I’m getting ready for April 1st.

We had a very sunny day, peaking at 19°C. This not only decoyed me out, but also plenty motorcycle terrorists. Eh fuckwits, nobody wants to listen to your bloody engine and exhaust noise, keep it quiet for fuck’s sake! Many of your rider collegues can manage it, too, so should you.

I had some sore muscles after yesterday’s waste paper collection with the scouts. So, I only went for a short trip to my closest backyard mountain. Watching two rock climbers was interesting. That’s not something I see very often.

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https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-09/

[47°09′42″S, 126°43′08″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

@prologic@twtxt.net Hahaha, I love that! :-D Something to laugh during these hard times. Hope you’re doing alright.

@arne@uplegger.eu Glückwunsch, das ist in der Tat doch mal eine erfreuliche Abwechslung. :-)

Thanks, @xuu, great explanation. In another project I’ve structured it exactly like you wrote. The mock storage over there extends the SQLite storage and provides mechanism to return errors and such for testing purposes:

• storage/ defines the interface
  
  • sqlite/ implements the storage interface
    
  • mock/ extends the SQLite implementation by some mocking capabilities and assertions
    

Here, however, there are no storage subpackages. It’s just storage, that’s it. Everything is in there. The only implementation so far is an SQLite backend that resides in storage. My RAM storage is exactly that SQLite storage, but with :memory: instead a backing file on disk. I do not have a mock storage (yet).

I have to think about it a bit more, but I probably have to do exactly that in my tt rewrite, too. Sigh. I just have the feeling that in storage/sqlite/sqlite_test.go I cannot import storage/mock for the helper because storage/mock/mock.go imports and embeds the type from storage/sqlite. But I’m too tired right now to think clearly.

[47°09′52″S, 126°43′22″W] Transponder malfunction

AMD Preparing “High Precision” Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)
On Friday AMD sent out another batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature patches destined for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. One notable feature in this late pull request is introducing a new “high precision” mode to be found with the GFX950 target, which is believed to be the upcoming Instinct MI350X series… ⌘ Read more

Intel Preps Linux For “Platform Temperature Control” With Lunar Lake & Panther Lake SoCs
Intel’s new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, which are programmed by the device manufacturer. But new Linux patches posted allow controlling the Intel Platform Temperature Control feature found with new Core Ultra Lunar … ⌘ Read more

Are our thoughts actually ‘real’ ? Here’s what philosophers think
We all experience thought, but do our thoughts objectively exist beyond our own perception of them ? Sam Baron: You can doubt just about anything. But… ⌘ Read more

ALGOL 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged Into GCC At This Point
ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that’s more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages. It has its place in programming language history but a recently published compiler front-end for ALGOL 68 has been decided for now at least not to be upstreamed into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)… ⌘ Read more

Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git
For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that’s part of the Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” CPUs and newer. Only this week though was the firmware for the Intel NPUs now upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository… ⌘ Read more

[47°09′02″S, 126°43′14″W] Reading: 1.28 Sv

[47°09′52″S, 126°43′03″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

[47°09′51″S, 126°43′15″W] Wind speed: 44kph

My 16-month theanine self-experiment
Article URL: https://dynomight.net/theanine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43305803

Points: 503

# Comments: 272 ⌘ Read more

Linux Micro Development Board Now Features 8GB eMMC and PoE Support
The Luckfox Lyra Ultra is the latest addition to the Lyra series, featuring the RK3506B processor with a tri-core ARM Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M0 architecture. With its expanded storage, additional memory, built-in wireless connectivity in the Ultra W variant, and PoE support, the Lyra Ultra builds on previous models while maintaining compatibility within the Lyra series. […] ⌘ Read more

We’ve now had centimeters of rainfall in the last 24hrs 😱 – Yesterday afternoon the local creek near us had already gone several inches over the footbridge too! 😱😱

[47°09′12″S, 126°43′24″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to blizzard

Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think
Article URL: https://usher.dev/posts/2025-03-08-kill-your-feeds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302132

Points: 502

# Comments: 200 ⌘ Read more

re reading so NewRAMStorage(…) is just something that setups your storage and initial data.. that can probably live with storage/sqlite. The point is the storage package does not import the implementations of storage.Storage It just defines the contract for things that use that interface. Now storage/sqlite CAN import storage and not have a circle dep.

It kinda works in reverse for import directions. usually you have your root package that imports things from deeper in the directory structures.. but for the case of interfaces it reverses where the deeper can import from parents but parents cannot import from children.

- app < storage
      < storage/sqlite
      < controller < storage
                   < storage/sqlite
 
- sqlite < storage

- storage X storage/sqlite

Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project
Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org OK. So how I have worked things like this out is to have the interface in the root package from the implementations. The interface doesn’t need to be tested since it’s just a contract. The implementations don’t need to import storage.Storage

• storage/ defines the Storage interface (no tests!)
  
  • storage/sqlite for the sqlite implementation tests for sqlite directly
    
  • storage/ram for the ram implementation and tests for RAM directly
    
• controller/ can now import both storage and the implementation as needed.
  

So now I am guessing you wanted the RAM test for testing queries against sqlite and have it return some query response?

For that I usually would register a driver for SQL that emulates sqlite. Then it’s just a matter of passing the connection string to open the registered driver on setup.

https://github.com/glebarez/go-sqlite?tab=readme-ov-file#connection-string-examples

[47°09′44″S, 126°43′14″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from SE

Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools
The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Das war ein sehr glatter Ritt mit der Bahn. Ebenso heute auf der Autobahn.
(gesendet aus Thüringen)

GTK On Android & macOS Seeing Improvements
In addition to Friday’s very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out… ⌘ Read more

Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug
Building off yesterday’s release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state… ⌘ Read more

KDE This Week Took Care Of “A Very Large Number Of Bugs”
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week… ⌘ Read more

[47°09′34″S, 126°43′17″W] –interrupted–

[47°09′00″S, 126°43′13″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from W

@emmanuel@wald.ovh That’s not good mate 😢 Hope you’re feeling better? 🤗

I did not forget twtxt… it’s just that I was always sick the last months, nothing serious but enough to take all my free time.

[47°09′17″S, 126°43′25″W] Raw reading: 0x67CBDCE1, offset +/-5

So… Cylone Alfred made landfall (whatever that means) last night, and I watched it hit my wife’s Uncle/Aunt’s place on one of the outer islands, then move westwards and sort of fizzle out. It’s now been downgrade to a “Tropical Low” (I guess not good enough for a Cat X anymore?), but we’re still in the Eye of it, and there’s still a swirling mass of winds (just not as fast). Now we get to look forward to flooding 🤣

OrangePi RV2: A Cost-Effective RISC-V Board with M.2 2280 Slot and Dual Gigabit Ethernet
OrangePi has launched another RISC-V development board following the release of the Orange Pi RV in 2024. This new SBC, OrangePi RV2, is powered by the Ky X1 octa-core RISC-V AI CPU, delivering 2TOPS of AI computing power for applications in machine learning, robotics, and embedded systems. Unlike the original Orange Pi RV, which was […] ⌘ Read more

Wine 10.3 Wires Up Wayland Driver Clipboard Handling, Vulkan Video Decode Within WineD3D
Wine 10.3 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

First #FridayReads of #MarchMysteryMadness #2025 with Stephen Chance’s “Septimus and the Minster Ghost” - the second in the series - in a Faber Finds edition.

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GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes
The GNOME 48 release candidate “48.rc” is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks… ⌘ Read more

@arne@uplegger.eu Hals- und Beinbruch! Die Bahn hat ja nur die vier Feinde: Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter. Wurdest Du heute positiv überrascht?

@prologic@twtxt.net You just have to stay in the center. It’s supposed to be calm in there I heard. Just getting there is the tricky part. Good luck!

[47°09′03″S, 126°43′25″W] –white noise–

Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292820

Points: 500

# Comments: 332 ⌘ Read more

Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year
At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu To Revert “-O3” Optimizations, Continues Quest For Easier ARM64 Installations
Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on better ARM64 support and coming to a decision over “-O3” optimized packages… ⌘ Read more

[47°09′48″S, 126°43′07″W] Reading: 1.64000 PPM

@prologic@twtxt.net Thank you 😁

AMD Officially Confirms Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pricing & Availability
Back in January at CES was the Ryzen 9 9000X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement while today AMD officially confirmed the release date and pricing on these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache… ⌘ Read more

GCC 15 Now Enables AArch64 Early Scheduling For -O3/-Ofast Modes
The GCC “-fschedule-insns” option allows for reordering of instructions to eliminate execution stalls when required data is unavailable. This early scheduling option can be beneficial for systems with slow floating point performance or costly memory load instructions. With the upcoming GCC 15 release, AArch64 will be enabling this early scheduling optimization at the -O3 optimization level and higher… ⌘ Read more

M5Stack Cardputer v1.1 Brings Upgraded Microcontroller and Improved Keyboard
M5Stack has released Cardputer v1.1, an upgraded version of its compact computing platform. The latest version introduces the StampS3A microcontroller, an improved antenna, and a more responsive keyboard, enhancing stability and usability. Additional refinements include optimized power consumption and better RGB LED control, improving overall efficiency. Cardputer v1.1 features the StampS3A, … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, so that’s the problem! 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Brace for impact. 🫣 How stormy is it at the moment?

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I think you’ve done an amazing job of this client 🙌

You can find the #twtxt-el channel in Libera IRC to talk about the twtxt.el client, I will keep my connection open so you can ask me questions. Thank you!

Unofficial ROCm SDK Builder Expanded To Support More GPUs
The community-based ROCm SDK Builder is an unofficial project leveraging the open-source AMD ROCm code and making it easy to build machine learning and GPU compute software across a range of environments and helping ensure proper integration with other machine learning tools and models. The ROCm SDK Builder takes special focus on the consumer Radeon iGPUs and dGPUs that typically aren’t as much of a focus for the upstream AMD ROCm stack… ⌘ Read more

Ich fahre gleich zwei Stunden mit dem Zug durch das sonnige Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, um morgen PÜNKTLICH 🐓 mit den Schwiegereltern zur Familienfeier nach Thüringen aufbrechen zu können.
Ein Wochenende auf Achse wird das. 🚞🚐😞

Intel Xe Driver Introducing SVM, EU Stall Sampling & Other New Features For Linux 6.15
Intel engineers today sent out their final drm-xe-next feature pull request to DRM-Next of the remaining features they are ready to land for the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle. It’s a big one… ⌘ Read more

New Round Of Driver Optimizations For AMD RadeonSI In Mesa 25.1
Well known AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has been at it again working on some further performance optimizations to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code… ⌘ Read more

Intel VSEC Driver Preps For Diamond Rapids In Linux 6.14
Sent out today was a batch of platform-drivers-x86 fixes for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Notable among these fixes is introducing Intel Xeon “Diamond Rapids” support to the Intel VSEC driver… ⌘ Read more

[47°09′28″S, 126°43′12″W] Dosimeter fixed

[47°09′14″S, 126°43′13″W] Dosimeter still failing

[47°09′47″S, 126°43′42″W] Dosimeter overflow

LILYGO Upgrades T-Watch S3 with GPS and a 940mAh Battery
LILYGO has introduced the T-Watch S3 Plus, an upgraded version of its ESP32-based smartwatch. While maintaining the open-source flexibility of its predecessor, this new model adds GPS positioning, a larger 940mAh battery, and refined hardware features. It supports Arduino-IDE and VS Code making it an adaptable platform for developers and hobbyists. The T-Watch S3 Plus […] ⌘ Read more

Unexpected 2025 Flashback: New Linux Patches For AMD’s ARM-Based Opteron A1100 “Seattle”
A new set of patches hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today may cause some flashbacks and likely not on your 2025 bingo card… Some DeviceTree updates for AMD’s short-lived Opteron A1100 “Seattle” ARM SoC that was cancelled shortly after being announced back in 2016… ⌘ Read more

Apple Touch Bar Display Drivers Slated For Introduction In Linux 6.15
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is expected to merge two new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display drivers for supporting the Apple Touch Bar displays on older Intel x86 Macs and a newer “ADP” driver for handling the Apple Touch Bar displays on the newer Apple M1/M2-powered MacBooks… ⌘ Read more

[lang=es] definitivamente es una buena llamada de atención para promover más donaciones a proyectos opensource. La verdad apoyo menos proyectos de los que ‘debería’, por el valor que me ofrecen.

Una opinión pragmática es que hay la libertad de no pagar, pero también esto nos debería llevar a que tenemos la libertad de SÍ reconocer los proyectos que nos dan valor, por medio de un donativo puntual o constante. Adaptarnos al contexto de lo que estamos ofreciendo.

Mi chava trabaja en Asociaciones Civiles (tipo OSALs/ONGs) y es un reto pedir donativos, por lo que es común pedir ‘Cuotas de recuperación’ pues ayudan a valorar más el servicio, y a que fluya el donativo. Creo que se puede hacer algo así en el código libre, apelando a diferentes motivadores en los usuarios.

[47°09′14″S, 126°43′59″W] Dosimeter malfunction

@movq@www.uninformativ.de “Thermometer must not be installed near aircraft turbine exhaust.”

@xuu@txt.sour.is My layout looks like this:

• storage/
  
  • storage.go: defines a Storage interface
    
  • sqlite.go: implements the Storage interface
    
  • sqlite_test.go: originally had a function to set up a test storage to test the SQLite storage implementation itself: newRAMStorage(testing.T, $initialData) *Storage
    
• controller/
  
  • feeds.go: uses a Storage
    
  • feeds_test.go: here I wanted to reuse the newRAMStorage(…) function
    

I then tried to relocate the newRAMStorage(…) into a

• teststorage/
  
  • storage.go: moved here as NewRAMStorage(…)
    

so that I could just reuse it from both

• storage/
  
  • sqlite_test.go: uses testutils.NewRAMStorage(…)
    
• controller/
  
  • feeds_test.go: uses testutils.NewRamStorage(…)
    

But that results into an import cycle, because the teststorage package imports storage for storage.Storage and the storage package imports testutils for testutils.NewRAMStorage(…) in its test. I’m just screwed. For now, I duplicated it as newRAMStorage(…) in controller/feeds_test.go.

I could put NewRAMStorage(…) in storage/testutils.go, which could be guarded with //go:build testutils. With go test -tags testutils …, in storage/sqlite_test.go could just use NewRAMStorage(…) directly and similarly in controller/feeds_test.go I could call storage.NewRamStorage(…). But I don’t know if I would consider this really elegant.

The more I think about it, the more appealing it sounds. Because I could then also use other test-related stuff across packages without introducing other dedicated test packages. Build some assertions, converters, types etc. directly into the same package, maybe even make them methods of types.

If I went that route, I might do the opposite with the build tag and make it something like !prod instead of testing. Only when building the final binary, I would have to specify the tag to exclude all the non-prod stuff. Hmmm.

Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Use Dracut By Default
For the past number of months there has been talk in the Ubuntu developer space around replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut for handling initrd generation. While there has been progress in switching to Dracut, they aren’t over the finish line yet and not until Ubuntu 25.10 are they planning to use Dracut by default… ⌘ Read more

Meta’s eBPF-Powered Strobelight Software Reduced CPU Cycles By 20%
Adding to the excitement around the possibilities provided by the in-kernel eBPF Linux tech, Meta shared that their Strobelight software they are working on open-sourcing for profiling across servers has yielded a 20% reduction in CPU cycles and in turn a 10-20% reduction in the number of required servers for Meta’s top services… ⌘ Read more

[47°09′17″S, 126°43′48″W] Waiting for carrier

SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance
SiFive recently sent over a review sample of the much anticipated HiFive Premier P550 developer board, their newest RISC-V creation featuring four RISC-V cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 integrated GPU, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe x16 slot, and 16GB or 32GB of RAM. The HiFive Premier P550 is a modern RISC-V developer board capable of desktop uses, developer build boxes, and similar with pricing starting out at $399 USD. Here is a look at the SiFive HiFive Premier P55 … ⌘ Read more

Hacer software código opensource es desafiante y paulatinamente desgasta a su autor. Todo comienza con pasión y entusiasmo, por supuesto. Si logras repercusión, te enfrentas a una carrera de fondo que muchos terminan abandonando por las demandas constantes de usuarios que, a menudo, no valoran el trabajo ni contribuyen de manera significativa. Por mencionar un caso reciente: Hector Martin. Líder del proyecto Asahi Linux, quien dedicó años a adaptar Linux para los procesadores Apple Silicon, un logro técnico impresionante. Sin embargo, terminó renunciando debido a la presión de usuarios que exigían soporte y mejoras como si fueran clientes pagos.

La mayoría de los mantenedores no reciben ningún soporte económico. Solo unos pocos proyectos logran sostenibilidad financiera a través de patrocinios, mientras que la mayoría de los desarrolladores terminan con un segundo empleo no remunerado.

Sin un cambio en la forma en que se valora y apoya los proyectos Opensource, y no solo hablo de las grandes empresas multimillonarias. Sería una perdida para todos si acabaremos con un ecosistema de software archivado y abandonado.

Ahora te paso la pelota a ti, ¿cuando fue la última vez que apoyaste a un mantenedor de software opensource?

#opensource #software #sostenibilidad

PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features
Wim Taymans of Red Hat today released PipeWire 1.4 as the newest major update for this leading open-source software to replace PulseAudio, JACK, and other solutions on the modern Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams in a very excellent way… ⌘ Read more

Palavras de Francisco Ferreira na mais recente newsletter da #ZERO :

“Há poucas semanas, esta nova Comissão (apesar da mesma Presidente Ursula von der Leyen), apresentou o chamado pacote legislativo “omnibus”. […]
A proposta #Omnibus pretende alterar três pilares fundamentais do Pacto Ecológico Europeu - a Diretiva de Dever de Diligência das Empresas em Sustentabilidade (#CSDDD), a Diretiva de Comunicação de Informações de Sustentabilidade das Empresas (#CSRD) e o Regulamento de Taxonomia. Tal pode comprometer os objetivos climáticos e sociais da União Europeia. O argumento da simplificação regulatória, usado pela Comissão Europeia, vai, na prática, resultar no enfraquecimento de regras fundamentais que garantem transparência empresarial, redução de emissões e proteção dos direitos humanos nas cadeias de fornecimento globais. Além disso, essa revisão legislativa ameaça as empresas que já investiram na transição sustentável, favorecendo aquelas que ainda não se adaptaram às exigências ambientais e sociais.

Quando a Europa deveria ser um farol à escala mundial, num mundo ameaçado por enormes crises ambientais, estamos afinal a retroceder em áreas fundamentais para o futuro.”

Para a #musiquinta de #carnaval uma foto mas sem link, que não encontro estas músicas online.

“Gande Carnaval de Verão 1974” é um disco de Carnaval em que as letras foram alteradas para promover a #Tupperware :-P

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Blender’s Vulkan Renderer Is Making Great Progress To Production Readiness This Year
With the release of Blender 4.3 last November an experimental Vulkan back-end was added and it continues to be improved upon for modernizing this 3D creation suite for digital artists and serving a variety of other purposes. The upcoming Blender 4.4 release will further refine the Vulkan support while later in the year it should be reaching production readiness… ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD Continues Working On 802.11n/802.11ac WiFi & Other Laptop Improvements
The FreeBSD Foundation paired with resources committed by AMD, Dell, and Framework are working to improve FreeBSD laptop support. In recent months there have been FreeBSD development efforts to improve the power management support with modern laptops as well as a strong focus on enhancing the WiFi driver support. A status update was issued yesterday for highlighting the latest FreeBSD laptops efforts… ⌘ Read more