@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh dear 😅 We’re starting to see this “garbage software” too over here 👈

It happened.

“Can you help me debug this program? I vibe coded it and I have no idea what’s going on. I had no choice – learning this new language and frameworks would have taken ages, and I have severe time constraints.”

Did I say “no”? Of course not, I’m a “nice guy”. So I’m at fault as well, because I endorsed this whole thing. The other guy is also guilty, because he didn’t communicate clearly to his boss what can be done and how much time it takes. And the boss and his bosses are guilty a lot, because they’re all pushing for “AI”.

The end result is garbage software.

This particular project is still relatively small, so it might be okay at the moment. But normalizing this will yield nothing but garbage. And actually, especially if this small project works out fine, this contributes to the shittiness because management will interpret this as “hey, AI works”, so they will keep asking for it in future projects.

How utterly frustrating. This is not what I want to do every day from now on.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I submitted it via the form on their website (https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/contact-dma-team_en) and got the following response:

Dear citizen,

Thank you for contacting us and sharing your concerns regarding the impact of Google’s plans to introduce a developer verification process on Android. We appreciate that you have chosen to contact us, as we welcome feedback from interested parties.

As you may be aware, the Digital Markets Act (‘DMA’) obliges gatekeepers like Google to effectively allow the distribution of apps on their operating system through third party app stores or the web. At the same time, the DMA also permits Google to introduce strictly necessary and proportionate measures to ensure that third-party software apps or app stores do not endanger the integrity of the hardware or operating system or to enable end users to effectively protect security.

We have taken note of your concerns and, while we cannot comment on ongoing dialogue with gatekeepers, these considerations will form part of our assessment of the justifications for the verification process provided by Google.

Kind regards,
The DMA Team

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Not shown here but, this Shape class used on the linked sketch helps eliminate (by adding them to a set) not only Polygons that are visually the same but also shape rotations using a custom .hash() method :)

(A caveat to the reader: The code can be is messy because it sometimes retains remnants of abandoned ideas and lateral explorations. This is creative coding not software engineering)

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Not shown here but, this Shape class used on the linked sketch helps eliminate (by adding them to a set) not only Polygons that are visually the same but also shape rotations using a custom .__hash__() method :)

(A caveat to the reader: The code is messy because it sometimes retains remnants of abandoned ideas and lateral explorations, also, this is creative coding not software engineering)

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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com No worries, all good, mate! We all have to start somewhere. Other software requests my feed several orders of magnitude more often.

I can confirm, the User-Agent header appears to be fixed. \o/

Two other things I noticed, though:

1. There’s now an OPTIONS request for my feed coming from something that claims to be Firefox, pointing to your feed URL in the query. No clue what this is about. In any case, it’s rejected with a 405 Method Not Allowed.

2. Not that these few requests bother me at all, but you might wanna implement caching next with either the If-Modified-Since or If-None-Match request headers. This way, if the feed hasn’t changed, the web server can reply with a 304 Not Modified and no body at all, saving unnecessary traffic. But again, this is really not an issue for me at all. I just wanted to make sure you’re aware of it, that’s all. It might be even already on your agenda. Or you might decide to never do anything about it, which is also fine for me. :-)

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@prologic@twtxt.net I know we won’t ever convince each other of the other’s favorite addressing scheme. :-D But I wanna address (haha) your concerns:

1. I don’t see any difference between the two schemes regarding link rot and migration. If the URL changes, both approaches are equally terrible as the feed URL is part of the hashed value and reference of some sort in the location-based scheme. It doesn’t matter.

2. The same is true for duplication and forks. Even today, the “cannonical URL” has to be chosen to build the hash. That’s exactly the same with location-based addressing. Why would a mirror only duplicate stuff with location- but not content-based addressing? I really fail to see that. Also, who is using mirrors or relays anyway? I don’t know of any such software to be honest.

3. If there is a spam feed, I just unfollow it. Done. Not a concern for me at all. Not the slightest bit. And the byte verification is THE source of all broken threads when the conversation start is edited. Yes, this can be viewed as a feature, but how many times was it actually a feature and not more behaving as an anti-feature in terms of user experience?

4. I don’t get your argument. If the feed in question is offline, one can simply look in local caches and see if there is a message at that particular time, just like looking up a hash. Where’s the difference? Except that the lookup key is longer or compound or whatever depending on the cache format.

5. Even a new hashing algorithm requires work on clients etc. It’s not that you get some backwards-compatibility for free. It just cannot be backwards-compatible in my opinion, no matter which approach we take. That’s why I believe some magic time for the switch causes the least amount of trouble. You leave the old world untouched and working.

If these are general concerns, I’m completely with you. But I don’t think that they only apply to location-based addressing. That’s how I interpreted your message. I could be wrong. Happy to read your explanations. :-)

This thing about making software run on other people’s computers can be pretty hard!

No wonder I think I’ve heard this is one of the things that distinguishes professional software development from [my preferred domain of] things such as “end-user programming” etc.

The problem is that when you start sharing code in the context of a FLOSS project you almost immediately get enmeshed in concerns about packaging and how other people will install stuff, when sometimes you just don’t want to be a professional software developer! 😿

I’m always borrowing terms (learning ideas) from @lr like: incidental complexity. I hate incidental complexity or maybe I just fear incidental complexity. Can we escape incidental complexity? I guess not.

Great. Yet another messed up plain text e-mail part. The URL was actually HTML-escaped. Took me five attempts to figure this out, because of course it had to be several kilometers long. In fact, the e-mail stated: “Please do not be surprised that the link is particularly long. It contains your personal configuration.”

A normal person is completely lost (that’s why I got involved). Visting the broken URL opens a popup dialog suggesting to deactivate script blockers. Which I had already done upfront as a matter of prudence.

Fun bonus on top: The JWT in the link has identical iat (issued at) and exp (expiry) claims. The expiry is definitely not checked, it’s well in the past.

Medical software just has to be horrible. It’s a law.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org wouldn’t the PDF version be better? https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.pdf

Hmm, gnu.org is slow as heck. Shorter HTML pages load in about ten seconds. This complete AWK manual all in one large HTML page took a full minute: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html Is there maybe some anti AI shenanigans going on?

In any case, I find the user guide super interesting. My AWK skills are basically non-existent, so I finally decided to change that. This document is incredibly well written and makes it really fun to keep reading and learning. I’m very impressed. So far, I made it to section 1.6, happy to continue.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Best logo ever made. 😅 (It’s partially proprietary software. Just for Epson scanners, I think? Not sure.)

Back to Win16 8-) New arrivals of fixed programs for Win31. A big collection of tested network software for Win31. gopher://shibboleths.org/1/win31

@bender@twtxt.net That is a noble goal. We can talk about that – as long as it doesn’t mean giving up essential freedoms like choosing which software you can run on your device (without having to ask someone for permission).

@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, this is another instance of restricting “personal” computing. You won’t be able to install arbitrary software anymore (“sideloading”, as they call it).

It’s not unique, it’s not new. Boiling the frog alive.

We’re heading towards this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

RIP Android:

https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

Since nobody is going to push back on this (I don’t even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.

I’d guess in 20, 30 years, there won’t be “PCs” anymore. No more home computing, no more “I just write my own software”. You won’t own devices anymore, it’ll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.

I hope that I’m wrong, but given where we are today, I don’t think that I will be.

The GPG signatures of my software tarballs have been wrong for years (because I’ve been using rsync wrong, funny enough, it wasn’t a GPG issue) and nobody ever noticed. (They still are wrong at the moment, because I haven’t pushed the fix, yet.)

This confirms that this is just a total waste of time. Nobody ever checks this. Maybe this matters if you’re a distro, but why even bother as a single person …

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz If you’re willing to ignore that it’s proprietary software, then Windows used to be pretty good. Like, 25 years ago. After Windows 2000 (or maybe XP) it went downhill fast. Kind of makes me sad, actually. 😂

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz On the one hand, all these programs have a very long history and the technology behind manpages is actually very powerful – you can use it to write books:

https://www.troff.org/pubs.html

I have two books from that list, for example “The UNIX programming environment”:

https://movq.de/v/c3dab75c97/upe.jpg

It’s a bit older, of course, but it looks and feels like a normal book, and it uses the same tech as manpages – which I think is really cool. 😎

It’s comparable to LaTeX (just harder/different to use) but much faster than LaTeX. You can also do stuff like render manpages as a PDF (man -Tpdf cp >cp.pdf) or as an HTML file (man -Thtml cp >cp.html). I think I once made slides for a talk this way.

On the other hand, traditional manpages (i.e., ones that are not written in mandoc) do not use semantic markup. They literally say, “this text is bold, that text over here is italics”, and so on.

So when you run man foo, it has no other choice but to show it in black, white, bold, underline – showing it in color would be wrong, because that’s not what the source code of that manpage says.

Colorizing them is a hack, to be honest. You’re not meant to do this. (The devs actually broke this by accident recently. They themselves aren’t really aware that people use colors.)

If mandoc and semantic markup was more commonly used, I think it would be easier to convince the devs to add proper customizable colors.

Twtxt as a network is so neat. Sucks it isn’t more widely adopted ): I feel like it’d be way easier to host than say, mastodon or GTS. & would require WAYYYY less resources. Not a diss on GTS, I love GTS , just saying because it’s text files, I assume the minimum amount of ram needed to host any of the twtxt server software is very low.

I could be super wrong though lol. Idk shit about anything ^^”

A look at the issues list of a project, and you can easilly see how misguided the whole thing is:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues

#EUDIWallet

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@prologic@twtxt.net Too bad, no FLOSS software. :-/ But thanks! :-)

A 12 years old tablet is slow but works fine;
A 12 years old tablet without software updates is almost useless.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, it’s not a strong sandbox in jenny’s case, it could still read my SSH private key (in case of an exploit of some sort). But I still like it.

I think my main takeaway is this: Knowing that technologies like Landlock/pledge/unveil exist and knowing that they are very easy to use, will probably nudge me into writing software differently in the future.

jenny was never meant to be sandboxed, so it can’t make great use of it. Future software might be different.

(And this is finally a strong argument for static linking.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org dmenu is a great example.

There have been several attempts at porting dmenu from X11 to Wayland. Well, not exactly “porting” it, more like rewriting it from scratch. Turns out: It’s not that easy.

dmenu is super fast and reliable. None of the Wayland rewrites are (at least none of the popular ones that I know of). They are either bloated and/or slow.

It takes a lot of discipline and restraint to write simple software and not blow up the codebase. This is much harder than people think. It’s a form of art, really.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do my timetracking in a little Python script, locally. Every now and then, I push the data to our actual service. Problem solved – but it’s a completely unpopular approach, they all want to use the web site. I don’t get it. Then, of course, when it’s down, shit hits the fan. (Luckily, our timetracking software is neither developed nor run by us anymore. It’s a silly cloud service, but the upside is that I’m not responsible anymore. 🤷)

Some of our oldschool devs tried to roll out local timetracking once, about 15 years ago. I don’t remember anymore why they failed …

This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.

Oh to be anonymous on the internet. That must be nice. 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, it’s a shitshow. MS overconfirms all my prejudices constantly.

Ignoring e-mail after lunch works great, though. :-)

Our timetracking is offline for over a week because of reasons. The responsible bunglers are falling by the skin of their teeth: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/timetracking.png

1. The error message neither includes the timeframe nor a link to an announcement article.
   
2. The HTML page needs to download JS in order to display the fucking error message.
   
3. Proper HTTP status codes are clearly only for big losers.
   
4. Despite being down, heaps of resources are still fetched.
   

I find it really fascinating how one can screw up on so many levels. This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.

For example, I reckon software should treat stdout and stderr with care and never output logs or other such garbage to stdout that cannot possibly be useful in a UNIX pipeline 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah that’s why I’m striking this conversation with you 😅 Not only do I respect your opinion quite highly 🤣 But like you say (and I’ve read their philipshpy) it can be a bit “elitism” for sure. I’m genuinely interested in what we think of as software that “doesn’t suck”. Tb be honest I haven’t really put thought to paper myself, but I reckon if I did, I’d have some opinions/ideas…

@prologic@twtxt.net Hm, I wouldn’t say that. Go code could fall into that category as well.

Maybe this topic could use a blog post / article, that explains what it’s about. I’m finding it hard to really define what “suckless-like software” is. 🤔 (Their own philosophy focuses too much on elitism, if you ask me.)

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, I’m referring to software that’s similar to that of suckless.org: Small, minimal codebases, small tools, but still useful. dmenu is probably the best example and also farbfeld.

Here’s the author of Anubis talking about some of their experiences:

https://xeiaso.net/blog/why-i-use-suckless-tools-2020-06-05/

(You can skip the long config and keybinds part.)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Curious what you would define as “suck less” software? (language agnostic of course!)

The lack of suckless-like simple, hackable software these days is appalling.

Mais uma derrota contra o uso comum.

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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.

Ted Unangst’s snarky (and entertaining) remarks this month:

• https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/modern-software-2025-edition
  
• https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/killing-X11
  
• https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting internal education sessions are way too infrequent here as well. There are a bunch of “knowledge transfer” meetings actually, but 90% of the topics already sound totally boring to me. The other 9% talks turned out to be underwhelming, sadly. I only attended a single one where it was delivered what has been promised. They’re all talks, not real hands-on trainings like you did.

Once a year the security guys organize a really great hacking event, though. Teams can volunteer to hand in their software dev instances and all workmates are invited to hack them and report security vulnerabilities. That’s a lot of fun, but also gets frustrating towards the end when you don’t make any progress. :-) There’s also some actual hands-on training in advance for preparation of the two days. Unfortunately, I missed the last event due to my own project being very stressful at the time.

When I had a Do What You Want Day I also show my direct teammates what I learned in the hopes of this being interesting to them as well. I’m the only one in my team using this opportunity, sadly.

think i’m gonna use this license on my git repos going forward. it kicks ass https://anticapitalist.software/

Saw this on Mastodon:

https://racingbunny.com/@mookie/114718466149264471

18 rules of Software Engineering

1. You will regret complexity when on-call
   
2. Stop falling in love with your own code
   
3. Everything is a trade-off. There’s no “best” 3. Every line of code you write is a liability 4. Document your decisions and designs
   
4. Everyone hates code they didn’t write
   
5. Don’t use unnecessary dependencies
   
6. Coding standards prevent arguments
   
7. Write meaningful commit messages
   
8. Don’t ever stop learning new things
   
9. Code reviews spread knowledge
   
10. Always build for maintainability
    
11. Ask for help when you’re stuck
    
12. Fix root causes, not symptoms
    
13. Software is never completed
    
14. Estimates are not promises
    
15. Ship early, iterate often
    
16. Keep. It. Simple.
    

Solid list, even though 14 is up for debate in my opinion: Software can be completed. You have a use case / problem, you solve that problem, done. Your software is completed now. There might still be bugs and they should be fixed – but this doesn’t “add” to the program. Don’t use “software is never done” as an excuse to keep adding and adding stuff to your code.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That sounds great! (Well, they actually must have recorded the audio with a potato or so.) You talked about pledge(…) and unveil(…) before, right? I somewhere ran across them once before. Never tried them out, but these syscalls seem to be really useful. They also have the potential to make one really rethink about software architecture. I should probably give this a try and see how I can improve my own programs.

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Motorola Razr 60 Ultra im Test: So macht ein Flip-Smartphone Spaß
Dank guter Software lassen sich Motorolas Falt-Smartphones auch zusammengeklappt sehr gut nutzen - und überzeugen sogar einen Flip-Muffel. Ein Test von Tobias Költzsch ( Motorola, Smartphone)

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you! I’d also love to forbid any use in military software (development). Even though I cannot imagine anything of my stuff ending up there.

When I chose the MIT license for all of my software, I thought:

“Should I use GPL, which I don’t really understand? Is that worth it? Yeah, there is a theoretical possibility that some company might use my code in their proprietary product … and then what? Should I sue them to enforce the GPL? I’m not going to do that anyway, so I’ll just use the MIT license.”

And now we have those LLM scrapers and now it’s suddenly a reality that these companies (ab)use my code. I can see it in my logs. I didn’t expect that back then.

GPL wouldn’t help, either, of course. (Regardless, I now think that GPL would have been the better choice anyway.)

I’m honestly considering taking my code and website offline. Maybe make it accessible through some obscure protocol like Gopher or Gemini, but no more HTTP.

(Yes, Anubis might help. Temporarily.)

I’m just tired.

[$] Safety certification for open-source systems
This year’s
Linaro Connect in Lisbon, Portugal featured a number of talks about the use of
open-source components in safety-critical systems. Kate Stewart gave a keynote on the topic
on the first day of the conference. In it, she highlighted several projects that
have been working to pursue safety certification and spoke about the importance of
being able to trace software’s origins to safety. In a talk on the second day, Roberto
Bagnara shared his ex … ⌘ Read more

(g+) Pro Click V2 Vertical im Vergleichstest: Razer macht mit der ersten vertikalen Maus …
Gut, aber nicht perfekt ist Razers erste vertikale Maus. Das liegt nicht nur an der unübersichtlichen Software. Ein Test von Ingo Pakalski ( Razer, Test)

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[$] OpenH264 induces headaches for Fedora
Software patents and workarounds for them are, once again,
causing headaches for open-source projects and users. This time
around, Fedora users have been vulnerable to a serious flaw in the OpenH264 library for
months—not for want of a fix, but because of the Rube\
Goldberg machine methodology of distributing the library to Fedora
users. The software is open source under a two-clause BSD license; the RPMs are … ⌘ Read more

Apple Readies WWDC Stream on YouTube Ahead of Keynote Next Week
WWDC 2025 will kick off with Apple’s keynote on Monday, June 9 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, and the page where the presentation will be live streamed is now available on YouTube. On the page, you can set a reminder to be notified before the keynote begins.

Apple will announce its latest software updates, including [iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS … ⌘ Read more

Olimex Showcases Open Source €20 Smart Home Server Project
Olimex has recently highlighted a new open-source hardware and software project aimed at creating a €20 smart home server. The initiative was introduced during a lightning talk at TuxCon 2025, a community-driven open-source conference held earlier this month in Bulgaria. The project aims to deliver a compact, easy-to-use smart home server that prioritizes local control, […] ⌘ Read more

[$] Allowing BPF programs more access to the network
Mahé Tardy led two sessions about some of the challenges that he, Kornilios Kourtis,
and John Fastabend have run into in their work on
Tetragon (Apache-licensed BPF-based security monitoring software)
at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. The session
prompted discussion about the feasibility of letting BPF programs
send data over the network, as well as potential new kfuncs to let BPF firewalls
send TCP reset packets. Tardy pre … ⌘ Read more

Launchpad mailing lists going away
Canonical’s Launchpad
software-collaboration platform that is used for Ubuntu development
will be shutting down its hosted mailing lists at
the end of October. The announcement
recommends Discourse or Launchpad Answers as
alternatives. Ubuntu’s mailing\
lists are u … ⌘ Read more

[$] Verifying the BPF verifier’s path-exploration logic
Srinivas Narayana led a remote session about extending
Agni to prove the correctness of
the BPF verifier’s handling of different execution paths as part of the Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. The problem of ensuring the
correctness of path exploration
is much more difficult than the problem of
ensuring the co … ⌘ Read more

DietPi May 2025 Update Introduces Security Changes, Kernel Fixes, and Software Cleanups
The latest DietPi release (v9.13) focuses on improving security defaults, enhancing support for specific SBCs, and removing outdated software options. The update also brings kernel upgrades, interface refinements, and dozens of bug fixes for improved stability across platforms. DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, Debian-based operating system optimized for single-board compu … ⌘ Read more

Top Stories: iPhone 17 Air Details, Apple’s Smart Glasses, and More
WWDC is coming up quickly with a number of software announcements in store, but we’re also looking further ahead to hardware launches like the iPhone 17 lineup and even Apple’s smart glasses project.

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This week also saw big news with former Apple design guru Jony Ive joining forces with OpenAI to build future AI-driven devices, while Fortnite return … ⌘ Read more

New (February 2025) paper, https://cms.mgt.tum.de/fileadmin/mgt.tum.de/faculty_and_research/mppe/39_Nora_von_Ingersleben-Seip_How_the_European_Union_Fell_Out_Of_Love_With_Open-Source_Software.pdf , describes “How the European Union Fell Out of Love with Open-Source Software”:

“A coalition of determined open-source software (OSS) advocates and a handful of technology experts working in the European Commission set out in 2004 to end Microsoft’s monopoly. They almost succeeded. This article reveals how they managed to change the EU’s software policies, made Microsoft lobbyists work overtime - and in the end, and despite their best efforts, could not withstand the power of proprietary companies’ lobbying campaigns.

Drawing on the Multiple Streams Framework, the article explains the European Commission’s decision to promote OSS and open standards in 2004, and its puzzling decision to reverse course just a few years later, in 2010, despite its unchanged rhetoric about the benefits of openness. The analysis reveals three key factors that drove the changes in the EU’s policies.

In 2004, OSS advocates managed to frame the EU’s dependency on proprietary software as a problem – and the promotion of OSS and open standards as the solution.

In 2010, #Microsoft and other proprietary companies used their existing connections in Brussels to sow doubt about the maturity and cost of #OSS among #EU policymakers.”

25 years later we’re where we started.

#OpenSource #EIF

Apple Calendar App Revamp Confirmed by Job Posting
A new Apple job listing has provided more evidence that the company is working on a major overhaul of its Calendar app.

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A senior software engineer position for “Calendar Experience,” [spotted](https://www.macworld.com/article/2791509/apple-job-posting-confirms-calendar-rev … ⌘ Read more

[$] Debian AI General Resolution withdrawn
Despite careful planning and months of warning, Debian developer Mo
Zhou has acknowledged that the project needs more time to grapple with
the questions around AI models and the Debian Free Software Guidelines
(DFSG). For now, he has withdrawn his proposed General Resolution (GR)
that would have required the original training data for AI models to
be released in order to be considered DFSG-compliant—though the
debates on the topic continue. ⌘ Read more

iOS 19 Will Let Developers Use Apple’s AI Models in Their Apps
Apple will make its artificial intelligence models available to developers to use in their apps, reports Bloomberg. The company plans to introduce a new software development kit (SDK) in iOS 19 that will make it easier for app creators to add AI features.

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Apple Stops Signing iPadOS 17.7.7 After Reports of App Login Issues
Apple has stopped signing the iPadOS 17.7.7 update that was released earlier this week for devices unable to run versions of iPadOS 18, meaning that users will not be able to install the update even if they see it available in Software Update. Affected devices include the sixth-generation iPad, the 10.5-inch [iPad Pro](https://www.macrumors … ⌘ Read more

Our pledge to help improve the accessibility of open source software at scale
GitHub takes the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) pledge.

The post Our pledge to help improve the accessibility of open source software at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Multiple security issues in Screen
The SUSE Security Team has published
an article detailing several security\
issues it has uncovered with GNU Screen. This includes
a local root exploit when Screen is shipped setuid-root, as it is in
some Linux and BSD distributions. The security team also reports [problems\
in coordinating disclosure … ⌘ Read more

MacOS Sequoia 15.5 Update Released with Bug Fixes & Security Enhancements
MacOS Sequoia 15.5 is now available as a software update for Mac users running the Sequoia operating system. The system software update includes bug fixes and security enhancements, but does not appear to include any new features or other major changes. Additionally, Apple has also released MacOS Ventura 13.7.6 and macOS Sonoma 14.7.6 for Mac, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/12/macos-sequoia-15-5-update-downlo … ⌘ Read more

iOS 18.5 Update Released for iPhone & iPad with Bug Fixes & Security Enhancements
iOS 18.5 for iPhone and iPadOS 18.5 for iPad have been released by Apple. According to the release notes accompanying the update download, the software updates primary focus is the introduction of a new Pride Harmony LGBTQ wallpaper. Additionally, parents will now receive a notification when the Screen Time passcode is used on a childs … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/12/ios-18-5-update-iphone-ip … ⌘ Read more

Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations
The Armbian development team has rolled out a series of notable updates this week, introducing enhancements across software usability, bootloader standardization, and hardware compatibility. One of the most significant additions is the integration of OpenMediaVault into the Armbian software installer. OpenMediaVault is now available via the armbian-config interface, offering users an easy … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net There have always been and there will always be people who have absolutely no clue what they’re doing. I’ve been 100% one of them when I started. Guaranteed, heaps of new SQL injections are born every single day, numbers rising.

That doesn’t justify all the WAF crap in the first place, though. In my opinion it’s just a filthy plaster applied to an injected wound. The software itself must be secure. Otherwise, don’t put that shit on the internet. Probably not even operate it at all. Nowhere. Fix it or throw it in the bin.

SiFive and Kinara Partner to Launch USB-Based X280 RISC-V Vector Development Board
SiFive and Kinara have announced a new partnership to offer developers direct access to the SiFive Intelligence X280 RISC-V vector processor through a compact USB-based enablement board. The HiFive Xara X280 board, based on Kinara’s Ara-2 processor, is designed to allow early-stage evaluation and development of RISC-V vector software, particularly for AI and machine learning […\ … ⌘ Read more

GNOME Foundation announces new executive director
The GNOME Foundation has announced
the hiring of Steven Deobald as its new executive director.

Steven has been a GNOME user since 2002 and has been involved in
numerous free software initiatives throughout his career. His
professional background spans technical leadership, cooperative
business development, and nonprofit work. Having worked with projects
like [XTDB](htt … ⌘ Read more

Release Candidate of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Available, Public Release Coming Soon
A release candidate build for iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and MacOS Sequoia 15.5 is now available for users enrolled in the beta testing programs. For users not in the beta testing programs, what this basically means is that the final versions of these system software releases is coming soon, perhaps even next week. macOS Sequoia … [Read More … ⌘ Read more

Apple Seeds iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 Release Candidates
Apple today seeded the release candidate versions of upcoming iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 updates to developers and public beta testers, with the software coming a week after Apple released the fourth betas. The release candidate represents the final version of iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 that will be released to the public should no bugs be found.

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foss-north 2025
I attended foss-north, a free / open source conference covering both
software and hardware from the technical perspective, at Chalmers
Conference Center in Gothenburg on April 14 & 15. A great conference.
Lots of interesting talks:

https://foss-north.se/2025/speakers-and-talks.html

My own presentation was “Forking QEMU to emulate and secure the
Tillitis TKey”. Recording is here:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCsP5ti4-9o] … ⌘ Read more

The AI-Powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration
Collaboration is crucial to successful software delivery. Let’s dive into how AI can help your development teams decrease their time to delivery, and foster better communication and collaboration using GitHub Copilot.

The post [The AI-Powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration](https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/the-ai-powered-devops-revolution-redefining-de … ⌘ Read more

Albertson: Future of OSL in Jeopardy
Lance Albertson writes
that the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, the home of many
prominent free-software projects over the years, has run into financial
trouble:

I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive
situation facing the Open Source Lab. Over the past several years,
we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate
donations. While OSU’s College of Engineering (CoE) has generously
filled this ga … ⌘ Read more