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[$] Catching up with calibre
Saying that calibre is
ebook-management software undersells the application by a fair
margin. Calibre is an open-source Swiss Army knife for ebooks that can
be used for everything from creating ebooks, converting ebooks from
obscure formats to modern formats like EPUB, to serving up an ebook
library over the web. The most recent major release, calibre 8.0,
brings a better text-to-speech engine, a tool for creating audio
overlays w … ⌘ Read more

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[$] An update on GCC BPF support
José Marchesi and David Faust kicked off the BPF track at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with an extra-long session on what
they have been doing to support compiling to BPF in GCC. Overall, the project is slowly working
toward full support for BPF, with most of the self-tests now passing using
Faust’s in-progress patches. However, the progress toward that goal has turned up
a number of problems with how Clang supports BPF that needed to be discussed at
length to … ⌘ Read more

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Thunderbird plans “Thundermail” email and other services
Ryan Sipes has announced
efforts to expand Thunderbird’s offerings with web services to
“enhance the experience of using Thunderbird”.

The Why for offering these services is simple. Thunderbird loses users
each day to rich ecosystems that are both clients and services, such
as Gmail and Office365. These ecosystems have both hard vendor
lock-ins (through interoperability issues with 3rd-pary clients) … ⌘ Read more

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How to Disable Mail Categories on Mac
Apple has brought the controversial Mail Categories feature to the Mail app on Mac, and you will find that it is enabled in the Mail app by default. The idea behind Mail Categories is that your inbox is now sorting itself automatically into four categories; Primary, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions. There’s also a hidden “All … Read MoreRead more

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Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta
Outgoing Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Matthew Miller has announced
his successor, Jef Spaleta.

Some of you may remember Jef’s passionate voice in the early Fedora
community. He got involved all the way back in the days of fedora.us,
before Red Hat got involved. Jef served on the Fedora Board from July
2007 through the end of 2008. This was the critical time after Fedora
Extras and Fedora Core merged int … ⌘ Read more

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PorteuX 2.0 released
Version\
2.0 of PorteuX, a distribution based on Slackware Linux, has been
released. This release adds the ability to test experimental Wayland
sessions for the Cinnamon, LXQt, and Xfce desktops. PorteuX 2.0
updates the Linux kernel to 6.14 and includes many package updates and
bug fixes. Users have the choice of PorteuX stable or its rolling release
called current. See the [install.txt](https://github. … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Approaches to reducing TLB pressure
The CPU’s translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches the results of
virtual-address translations, significantly speeding memory accesses. TLB
misses are expensive, so a lot of thought goes into using the TLB as
efficiently as possible. Reducing pressure on the TLB was the topic of Rik
van Riel’s memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. Some approaches were
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Rockbox 4.0 released
For those of you who still have dedicated audio players: version 4.0 of
Rockbox, a replacement firmware for many players, has been released.
This release brings support for a number of new devices, updated codecs, a
number of user-interface improvements, some new games, and more. (LWN last
reviewed Rockbox in 2010 — and looked at
the ill-fated Android port that year as
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Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, jetty9, openjpeg2, and tomcat9), Fedora (dokuwiki, firefox, php-kissifrot-php-ixr, php-phpseclib3, and rust-zincati), Red Hat (kernel and pki-core), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (apparmor, atop, docker, docker-stable, firefox, govulncheck-vulndb, libmodsecurity3, openvpn, upx, and warewulf4), and Ubuntu (inspircd, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm,
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Amazon Makes Last Minute Offer for TikTok as Ban Looms
Retail giant Amazon today made an offer to acquire TikTok just days ahead of when TikTok must be sold off or face a ban, reports The New York Times. Unspecified participants involved in the TikTok talks “do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously,” and multiple interested parties are scrambling to plead their cases for a TikTok purchase.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Day One Keynote Recap
On a bright sunny London day, attendees from all over the world flocked to the ExCel Arena for the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025. Here’s a quick recap of the keynotes. The crowd was… ⌘ Read more

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Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defying Elon Musk
Adam Edelman,  Reporter  -  NBC News

_Stephan: Finally, we have some good news. You have probably already heard that Susan Crawford has beaten Brad Schimel for the Wisconsin Supreme Court despite the tens of millions of dollars Elon Musk spent trying to buy the election outcome for “monarch” Trump and his MAGAt cult. The media is covering all this, but as I have thought about what happened t … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me I want to highlight another social problem: People don’t read. Paper industry is a bad moment because people don’t pay for books; it does not matter if it is a physical or digital platform. I have this information because I have a good friend who left the industry after publishing a magazine, books and working in an editorial. DRM is a try to give some more money.

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Widespread firings start at federal health agencies including many in leadership
Rob Stein, Sydney Lupkin, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Joseph Shapiro, Carmel Wroth, and Yuki Noguchi,  Staff Writers  -  npr

_Stephan: Today psychopath “monarch” Trump gutted your healthcare. The result is going to be not just increased death, as Senator Bernie Sanders said, but a significant increase in avoidable injuries and illnesses. The lifespan of Americans is alr … ⌘ Read more

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Sanders Says 67,000 Could Die Awaiting Benefits Under Musk Cuts to Social Security Administration
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I am writing this the media is telling me that Republicans have won the two House races in Florida, a state where many people can’t get home insurance; where universities are having courses removed, and public school curricula is being altered from education to indoctrinati … ⌘ Read more

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How did childcare in the US become so absurdly expensive?
Robin Buller,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As I have told readers again and again, one of the things that stands out about American society is how poor, and yet how expensive everything about childhood is. It is hard to be born as a baby in the United States, our infant mortality rate is the highest in the developed world, and even if the child survives American maternal mortality is almost f … ⌘ Read more

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Ericsson Upgrades to Gold Membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to Drive Cloud Native Transformation in Telecom
Ericsson expands cloud native innovation in telecom, leveraging CNCF projects to advance 5G and 6G KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, London, UK – April 2, 2025 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems… ⌘ Read more

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Member HAProxy Technologies Upgrades to Gold Membership
Strengthening its cloud native commitment with 25 years of open source innovation in application delivery and security London, England – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – April 2, 2025  – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which… ⌘ Read more

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Ten Disturbing News Stories Involving Chatbots
Artificial intelligence has changed the world as we know it, for better and worse. With so many new developments, disturbing stories are sadly arising all around the globe. These range from vicious cyberstalking to chatbots encouraging users to harm themselves or others. AI has a dark underbelly. With the growth of platforms like ChatGPT and […]

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L’Allemagne de pire en pire
On peut tortiller les choses de mille et une façon mais à la fin, la réalité reste là, impérieuse aux gesticulations et l’évidence s’impose : l’Union Européenne, c’est d’abord et avant tout l’Allemagne. Ce n’est pas trop étonnant : la plus grosse économie européenne dicte en effet la plupart des politiques de l’Union. Cela lui a relativement […] ⌘ Read more

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10 Genius German Words with No English Equivalent
The German language has a knack for packing complex ideas into a single word or brief phrase. From time to time, those phrases work their way into the English language. For instance, you’ve probably used the word “zeitgeist” to convey the defining mood or spirit of an era or “schadenfreude” to express the joy you […]

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NV8600-Nano AI Kit: Jetson Orin Nano Super Mode + 4x GbE, CANBus, MIPI
AAEON’s UP brand has introduced the NV8600-Nano AI Developer Kit, combining an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano module with Super Mode support, an expanded I/O carrier board, and a preinstalled AI software package designed for embedded and computer vision developers. The kit features the 8GB Jetson Orin Nano module, delivering up to 67 TOPS of AI […] ⌘ Read more

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iOS 18.4 Bug Seemingly Resurrects Previously Deleted iPhone Apps
Apple’s latest iOS 18.4 software update appears to be causing long-deleted apps to reappear on some users’ iPhones, based on corroborating reports on forums and social media.

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MacOS Sonoma 14.7.5 & MacOS Ventura 13.7.5 Security Updates Released
Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.7.5 and MacOS Ventura 13.7.5 as security updates for Mac users running Sonoma and Ventura operating systems. These updates are security patch focused and do not include new features that are otherwise available in the latest MacOS Sequoia 15.4 update that was released simultaneously. Separately, you’ll find software updates available … [Read More](https://osxd … ⌘ Read more

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iOS 16.7.11, iOS 15.8.4, & iPadOS 17.7.6 Security Updates Released for Older iPhone & iPad
While iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 updates were just released for modern iPhone and iPad devices, Apple has also released a bevy of software updates for older iPhone and iPad devices. Each of these updates include important security fixes and are therefore recommended for all eligible users and their devices to install. Specifically, you will … [Read Mor … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Slab allocator: sheaves and any-context allocations
The kernel’s slab allocator is charged with providing small objects on
demand; its performance and reliability are crucial for the functioning of
the system as a whole. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, two adjacent sessions in the
memory-management track dug into current work on the slab allocator. The
first focused on the new sheaves feature, while the second discussed a set
of allocation functions that are safe to call in any context. ⌘ Read more

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Dave Täht RIP

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From the LibreQoS site comes the sad\
news that Dave Täht has passed away. Among many other things, he bears
a lot of credit for our networks functioning as well as they do. “We’re
incredibly grateful to have Dave as our friend, mentor, and as someone who
continuously inspired us – showing us that we could do better for each
other in the world, and leverage … ⌘ Read more

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Docker Desktop 4.40: Model Runner to run LLMs locally, more powerful Docker AI Agent, and expanded AI Tools Catalog
In Docker Desktop 4.40, we’re introducing new tools that simplify GenAI app development and support secure, scalable development. ⌘ Read more

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GitHub found 39M secret leaks in 2024. Here’s what we’re doing to help
Every minute, GitHub blocks several secrets with push protection—but secret leaks still remain one of the most common causes of security incidents. Learn how GitHub is making it easier to protect yourself from exposed secrets, including today’s launches of standalone Secret Protection, org-wide scanning, and better access for teams of all sizes.

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PSA: Automatic Update Enables Itself with MacOS Sequoia 15.4 & iOS 18.4
This is important and relevant to most Mac, iPhone, and iPad users: Installing the latest updates for MacOS Sequoia 15.4 for Mac, iOS 18.4 for iPhone, and iPadOS 18.4 for iPad, will forcibly enable automatic software update for system updates on your device. Some people may already have these auto-update features enabled on their devices … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/01/psa-au … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Updates on storage standards
As he has in some previous editions of the Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Fred Knight gave an update
on the status of various storage standards this year. In it, he looked at
changes to the NVM Express (NVMe)
standards in some detail. He also updated attendees on the fairly small
changes that have come to the SCSI ( T10)
and ATA ( T13) standards over the last few
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[$] Memory persistence over kexec
The kernel’s kexec\
mechanism allows one kernel to directly boot a new one; it can be
thought of as a sort of kernel equivalent to the execve()
system call. Kexec has a number of uses, including booting a special kernel
to perform dumps after a crash. Normally, one does not expect user-space
processes to survive booting into a new kernel, but that has not stopped
developers from trying to im … ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freetype, grub2, kernel, kernel-rt, and python-jinja2), Debian (freetype, linux-6.1, suricata, tzdata, and varnish), Fedora (mingw-libxslt and qgis), Mageia (elfutils, mercurial, and zvbi), Oracle (grafana, kernel, libxslt, nginx:1.22, and postgresql:12), Red Hat (opentelemetry-collector), SUSE (corosync, opera, and restic), and Ubuntu (aom, libtar, mariadb, ovn, php7.4, php8.1, php8.3, rabbitmq-server, and webkit2gtk). ⌘ Read more

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