iPad 11 vs. iPad Air Buyer’s Guide: 30+ Differences Compared
The iPad Air costs at least $250 more than the entry-level iPad, so is choosing the pricier model worth it? Or should you save the money and buy the 11th-generation iPad? This guide helps you to understand the differences between the two models and decide which is best for you.
 @lyse@lyse Also very nice! Mf favourite has to be this one 👌
@lyse @lyse.isobeef.org Also very nice! Mf favourite has to be
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org nice! My favourite from this series is this one.
Another nice stroll in nature last week: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-03/
Kubernetes hardening made easy: Running CIS Benchmarks with kube-bench
In today’s world, where security risks and breaches are growing daily, it is crucial to maintain our applications and infrastructure’s compliance with security standards and that is where CIS benchmarks from CIS (Center for Internet Security)… ⌘ Read more
Test:
this is a code block
[2025-04-08 17:50:00] with a timestamp in brackets
The end.
./yarnc debug <your feed url>:
OH wait! 😳 Why am I storing the timestamp as created = 2025-04-07T19:59:51Z ?! 😱 @movq@www.uninformativ.de’s feed shows:
2025-04-07T19:59:51+00:00 I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)
It’s not toooo far into the future.
It would be crazy … 20 years without reinstalling once … phew. 🥴
Hmmmm
**(#4uctaca) OH wait! 😳 Why am I storing the timestamp as created = 2025-04-07T19:59:51Z ?! 😱 @movq@movq’s feed shows:
OH wait! 😳 Why am I storing the timestamp as `created = 2025-04-07T19:59:51Z` ?! 😱 [@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq)’s feed shows:
2025-04-07T19:59:51+00:00 I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (20 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://twtxt.net/twt/tnhgy6q)
Managing multi-line logs with Fluent Bit and Python
In this blog you will learn about: Introduction Logs are essential for monitoring and debugging applications, but not all logs are created equal. While most logs follow a simple line-by-line format, others span multiple lines to… ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Not according to the output of ./yarnc debug <your feed url>:
znf6csa 2025-04-07T19:59:51+00:00 I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)
It’s not toooo far into the future.
It would be crazy … 20 years without reinstalling once … phew. 🥴
**(#2znenta) @movq@movq Not according to the output of ./yarnc debug <your feed url>:
znf6csa 2025-04-07T19:59:51+00:00 I wo ...**
[@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) Not according to the output of `./yarnc debug <your feed url>`:
znf6csa 2025-04-07T19:59:51+00:00 I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)
It’s not … ⌘ Read more
Doesn’t look like it Hmmm
sqlite> select * from twts where content LIKE '%Linux installation%';
hash = znf6csa
feed_url = https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt
content = I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)
It’s not toooo far into the future.
It would be crazy … 20 years without reinstalling once … phew. 🥴
created = 2025-04-07T19:59:51Z
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[$] Using large folios for text areas
Quite a bit of work has been done in recent years to allow the kernel to
make more use of large folios. That progress has not yet reached the
handling of text (executable code) areas, though. During the
memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, Ryan Roberts ran a session on how that
situation might be improved. It would be a relatively small and contained
operation, but can give a measurable performance improvement. ⌘ Read more
Kubestronaut in Orbit: Iliyan Petkov
Get to know Iliyan His fascination with computers and electronics began early, sparked by his father and fueled by various games and sci-fi movies. Over the years, he developed a passion for open-source technologies, system administration,… ⌘ Read more
[$] Per-CPU memory for user space
The kernel makes extensive use of per-CPU data as a way to avoid contention
between processors and improve scalability. Using the same technique in
user space is harder, though, since there is little control over which CPU
a process may be running on at any given time. That hasn’t stopped Mathieu
Desnoyers from trying, though; in the memory-management track of the 2025
Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he presented
a proposal for how user-space per-CPU memory could work. ⌘ Read more
Trump Believes Apple Could Manufacture iPhones in the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump “absolutely” believes that Apple could manufacture its iPhones and other devices in the United States, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said today during a media briefing.
Leavitt was asked whether Trump thought that iPhone … ⌘ Read more
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Damian Carrington, Environment Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Capitalism is fine, as long as there is one modification, the first priority must be that your capitalism must be conducted in such a way that it promotes wellbeing. Government policies must do the same. You can see how this works, and how it proves what I am saying is factually accurate. Look at the top seven happiest count … ⌘ Read more
CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
Helen Branswell, Senior Writer, Infectious Diseases - STAT
_Stephan: American healthcare already the worst amongst the developed democracies of the world and by orders of magnitude the most expensive, has been so severely destroyed that your healthcare is already seriously compromised and your health may be at risk. Imagine, we have a system in which th … ⌘ Read more
The Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Publicity
James Poniewozik, Chief TV Critic - The New York Times
Stephan: The one thing the monster and his MAGAt vassals are good at is the weaponization of misinformation. It is the main tool they use to keep the low IQ, low education, resentful and racist worshippers in a dark fantasy reality. And your tax dollars are being used to pay for this.
 Military Parade in D.C.
Tom Sherwood, Staff Writer - Washington, D.C. City Paper
_Stephan: I have been waiting for this. All dictators like nothing better than huge ceremonial military displays. Think about Nazi Germany, North Korea, Stalin’s Soviet Union, and Putin’s Russia. So it appears So, that’s where we are headed on Saturday, June 14, for the maximum leader’s 79th birthday. It will cost tens of mill … ⌘ Read more
10 Iconic Landmarks That Were Nearly Called Something Else
Some of the world’s most iconic places have instantly recognizable names—imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower, New York without Times Square, or Australia without the Great Barrier Reef. But history doesn’t always work out the way we expect. Many of these landmarks were nearly given completely different names, some of which would have changed how […]
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10 Musicians Who Became Famous After Death
Musicians understand that they may never achieve stardom, but there is no way of knowing if they will turn into legends posthumously. Some musicians work hard at their craft and spend decades trying to succeed. They write and record multiple songs and albums, earn record deals, and travel the world, playing their music anywhere that […]
The post [10 Musicians Who Became Famous After Death](https://listverse.com/2025/04/08/10-musicians-who-became- … ⌘ Read more
Non-Woke Software List (For April, 2025)
Looking for alternatives to Woke Software? ⌘ Read more
5 Biggest Changes Rumored for iPhone 17 Pro
Later this year, Apple will introduce the iPhone 17 series, which includes the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max, two new high-end flagship devices that will be sold alongside the regular iPhone 17 and an all-new ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air.
If you have been holding out for the iPhone 17 Pro or its bigger sibling, here are five of the b … ⌘ Read more
[$] An update on pahole
Pahole (originally “Poke-a-hole”) is a Swiss Army knife for exploring and
editing debug information. Pahole is also currently involved
in the kernel’s build process to rearrange the information
produced by various compilers into a form useful to the BPF verifier, although
there are plans to render it unnecessary.
Pahole maintainer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo shared some status
updates about the project at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF summit. Interested readers can find his slides … ⌘ Read more
Mandated use of AI at work
Although I also use AI for some features on this blog and sometimes chat with some AI agent (whether it’s ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot), I have mixed feelings about its mandated use at work (Shopify is just one company doing it). ⌘ Read more
This time it’s just a station to change to another train. Another hour and a half to my new/old home station. ⌘ Read more
And we’re back to the regular landscape! Not only in subject but also photo orientation. No more silly portrait. I can’t recall it exactly, but I reckon that was one of ~20°C days. The evening sun was really crazy that day, made a great combination with the puddles: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-02/
CalDigit Launches New Thunderbolt 5 Docks
CalDigit today announced the upcoming launch of two new Thunderbolt 5 docks, the TS5 and the TS5 Plus. Both docks support transfer speeds of up to 80Gb/s with a speed boost feature when paired with Apple’s Thunderbolt 5 Macs.
The TS5 has a total of 15 ports, including four Thunderbolt 5 ports, two USB-A ports, three USB-C ports (including tw … ⌘ Read more
[$] Three ways to rework the swap subsystem
The kernel’s swap subsystem is complex and highly optimized — though not
always optimized for today’s workloads. In three adjacent sessions during
the memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, Kairui Song, Nhat Pham, and Usama Arif
all talked about some of the problems that they are trying to solve in the
Linux swap subsystem. In the first two cases, the solutions take the form of
an additional layer of indirection in the kernel’s swap … ⌘ Read more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Day Three Keynote Recap
The last day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 dawned bright and sunny again, with attendees streaming in to learn the latest about cutting edge topics including LLMs, 5G and 6G, and more. Here’s a snapshot… ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, 1994 Rwandan Genocide https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/07/rwanda.html #programming #project #devjournal
Apple Releases New Immersive Video App for Mac and Vision Pro
Apple today released a new app for managing an immersive video library on a Mac.
Apple Immersive Videos are 3D videos recorded in 8K resolution, with a 180-degree field of view and Spatial Audio. For example, recent performances by singer The Weeknd and … ⌘ Read more
Editor’s Note –Thank you, On The Mend
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
Stephan: Thank you all for your good wishes and healing intentions. I am on the mend from a flu-cold I apparently caught from someone last week at a community gathering. A nasty passage, but nothing serious. ⌘ Read more
The entire tariff Executive Order is based on bogus numbers and a fake expert economist
, Contributing Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: This should be the most important story in the news on every media platform, but it is not; either because except for Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and a few other commentators, journalists and their editors and producers are afraid to publish or broadcast it, or they don’t understand it. Here is the truth abou … ⌘ Read more
White House Adviser Peter Navarro Calls Fictional Alter Ego An ‘Inside Joke’
Scott Horsley, Chief Economics Correspondent - npr
Stephan: Here is the proof that both the media and psychopath “emperor” Trump have known for years that Peter Navarro is a fraud and pseudo-economist. Yet how many Americans do you think know anything about this? Why isn’t it mentioned every time Navarro’s name comes up?

_Stephan: I keep watching to see whether American voters are clear that as long as psychopath “emperor” Trump is President nothing is going to be done to prepare and obviate the impact of climate change on their lives. He is completely corrupt and in the service of the carbon oligarchs who bought him his office. Do you think MAGAt … ⌘ Read more
10 Scientists Convicted of Serious Crimes
“Follow the science” and “trust the science” have become mantras of late. Science is, after all, typically regarded as being unbiased, producing reliable knowledge based on empirical methods that are independent of sociopolitical and economic influences, falsifiable, and replicable. The problem is that science’s accuracy and reliability depend on the ethics of the scientists who […]
The post [10 Scientists Convicted of Serious Crimes](https://listv … ⌘ Read more
Droits de douane : la manœuvre Trump
Panique et gesticulations, en Occident et sur les marchés : l’administration Trump vient de frapper un grand coup avec l’imposition de droits de douanes salés ! Et même s’il est bien trop tôt pour déterminer si ces droits de douane seront un avantage ou un inconvénient pour les États-Unis dans les prochaines années, cela n’a cependant pas […] ⌘ Read more
10 Formerly Secret Tunnels That Are Now Open to the Public
From hidden passageways beneath ancient cities to wartime bunkers turned tourist attractions, tunnels have long been shrouded in mystery and secrecy. Over time, many of these once-concealed corridors have been unlocked for public exploration, offering a glimpse into history that was once kept under wraps. Whether they were built for defense, transport, or escape, these […]
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iPhone 17 Pro’s New Rear Camera Bar ‘Same Color As Rest of Device’
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 Pro models will feature a redesigned rear camera module that spans the width of the device, but it will be the same color as the iPhone itself, rather than being part of a two-tone design.
MacRumors render showing the two-tone design that Gurman has ruled out
That’s according to [Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman]( … ⌘ Read more
** Muddy weeknotes **
Some RSS exclusive week notes:
- I finished reading Emily St. James’ Woodworking
- I started reading Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo
- I took a break from re-watching Frieren for the third time
- I used that break to start watching The Apothecary Diaries, which isn’t at all what I assumed it was. It is more a detective show than anything else, so far, and I dig it
- I started to play Citizen Sleeper
- I cleaned so much, yet the house remains not clean
- It has stopped snowing (for now), we are now solidly in … ⌘ Read more
FOSDEM 2025
I recently attended the large Free and Open Source Software conference
FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. I went there by train, of course,
via Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Cologne. The same route back.
I lived in the rather expensive, allegedly fancy hotel Le Châtelain in
Brussels. It was really not that fancy, but they had a … ⌘ Read more
Pretty sunset from last weekend: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-03-30/
No SR Edition Today
, -
Stephan:
Stephan is still recovering from illness. There will be no report today. ⌘ Read more
Get $100 Off iPad Mini 7 on Amazon, Available From $399
Amazon this weekend is providing record low prices on multiple models of the iPad mini 7, starting at $399.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi tablet, down from $499.00.
10 Amazing New Uses for AI
AI can be one of our greatest scientific friends rather than a technological boogeyman, as it’s often portrayed. AI has positively revolutionized healthcare, manufacturing, commercial industries, and many more. Yet, it’s gotten a bad recent rep due to the prevalence of AI writing and art, which has replaced at least a few human writers and […]
The post 10 Amazing New Uses for AI appeared first on [Listverse](https: … ⌘ Read more
10 Male Heartthrobs Who Became Known for Something Else
Plenty of actors, singers, and athletes were dubbed male heartthrobs over the years. In many cases, this label continues to define their public persona, but occasionally, male celebs will go on to do something that overshadows their sexy image. A career change may alter the public’s perception of them. Sometimes, they might become famous for […]
The post [10 Male Heartthrobs Who Became Known for Something Else](https://l … ⌘ Read more
And now, let’s finish it off with Besigheim’s old town. Only when we left, the sun peaked through the clouds. That was a bit unfortunate, but what can you do? It has some nice buildings. https://lyse.isobeef.org/besigheim-2025-03-30/
I visited this place four years ago, but today my family and I went to the Todtnau Waterfall again. This time there’s a new suspension bridge from which you can see the waterfall from above and get an even better view of the valley in the black forest. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Nose Ears, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/05/nose-ears-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
Editor’s Note – Thank you
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: I want to thank all of you who wrote to send me good wishes. I really appreciate it. I have some kind of flu-cold, and it is as bad as when I got Covid. But, after spending the day in bed, I felt a little better and decided to come down and try to do SR, inasmuch as the United States, indeed the whole world, has been severely damaged by the madness of psychopath Trump. Anyway, I hope this illness is ending, and I tha … ⌘ Read more
A catastrophe is unfolding at the top US health agency — and it will put American lives at risk
Dylan Scott, Staff Writer - Vox
_Stephan: In 2024 the United States was ranked by the World Health Organization as the worse healthcare, yet by orders of magnitude the most expensive, in the developed democracies. Thanks to psychopath “monarch” Trump American healthcare will now get significantly worse, Almost unbelievably America’s h … ⌘ Read more
Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment
Angela Hart, Staff Writer - MedPage Today | Kaiser Family Foundation
Stephan: In so many ways psychopath Trump, who sees himself as a kind of medieval lord, makes it clear he couldn’t care less about those whom he sees as American peasants. I see example after example of his attitude in the choices he makes; this article reports on his views of the homeless.

Stephan: Yet another example of the neo-medieval trend that is socially reshaping the United States. You have probably never heard of Bradbury, California, and that is the way the residents want it. It is the richest city in California.
 That’s a close-up: https://lyse.isobeef.org/bad-wimpfen-2025-03-28/18.jpg (I only noticed the spider and its web when I reviewed my photos.)
Grab the iPhone 16e Default Wallpaper
Perhaps you recently saw that Apple had released the iPhone 16e and drooled with envy at the iPhone 16e default wallpaper, which sort of looks like a drop of Liquid Metal (why did macOS Sequoia autocorrect capitalize “Liquid Metal”? Who knows, but it did it again, so let’s go with it) or maybe a water … Read More ⌘ Read more
The photo series covering old stuff continues. This time, Gundelsheim. Actually, mostly the castle hotel Horneck, I hardly took any photos from the town itself. I really should have, though. Let me just blame… aehm… yeah, the rain! It’s totally the rain’s fault!! When it started to drizzle, I actually took the first photos, so it’s a total lie. https://lyse.isobeef.org/schlosshotel-horneck-in-gundelsheim-2025-03-30/
[$] The state of guest_memfd
A typical cloud-computing host will share some of its memory with each
guest that it runs. The host retains its access to that memory, though,
meaning that it can readily dig through that memory in search of data that
the guest would prefer to keep private. The guest_memfd subsystem removes (most of) the
host’s access to guest memory, making the guest’s data more secure. In the
memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Su … ⌘ Read more
[$] The future of ZONE_DEVICE
Alistair Popple started his session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit by proclaiming that ZONE_DEVICE
is “the ugly stepchild” of the kernel’s memory-management subsystem.
Ugly or not, the ability to manage memory that is attached to a peripheral
device rather than a CPU is increasingly important on current hardware.
Popple hoped to cover some of the challenges with ZONE_DEVICE and
find ways to make the stepchild a bit more attractive, if not bring it into
the fa … ⌘ Read more
[$] A strange BPF error message
Yonghong Song brought a story about tracking down the cause of a strange verifier error
message to the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF
Summit. He then presented some possible ways to improve Clang’s user experience for
anyone running into the same class of error in the future. Toward the end of his
allotted time, he also discussed the problems with optimizations that change the
signature of functions — a problem that José Marchesi had also brought up in
[the previous session] … ⌘ Read more
TikTok Gets Another 75-Day Reprieve From Ban
U.S. President Donald Trump today said that he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running for an additional 75 days as his administration continues to work on the sale of the social network’s U.S. operations.
TikTok was barred from operating in the United States when the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act [went into effect on January 19 … ⌘ Read more
MacRumors Giveaway: Win Custom Retro AirPods From ColorWare
For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with ColorWare to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a set of AirPods Pro 2 or AirPods 4 that have been custom designed with a classic Mac aesthetic.
No SR Today Due to Illness
, -
Stephan:
Stephan is unable to work due to illness. There will be no report today. ⌘ Read more
10 Political Terms With Curious Origins
The words we use in the context of politics reveal much of the history of how humans have attempted to govern themselves. Many originate from ancient Greece and Rome, where the first representative assemblies closely matching our own arose. The very word “politics” comes from the Greek polities, meaning “city, citizen.” The Romans gave us […]
The post [10 Political Terms With Curious Origins](https://listverse.com/2025/04/04/10-political-terms-with-cur … ⌘ Read more
Nicolas, 35 ans, désespère de l’Éducation Nationale
Un billet à 4 mains par Citronne et h16 Nicolas, 35 ans, marié, et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans) apprécie plus que tout sa petite routine. Le matin, après un bon petit déjeuner, il emmène ses enfants à l’école et se rend au travail ; il apprécie sa petite pause-déjeuner avec ses […] ⌘ Read more
10 Ways Your Brain Actually Changes in Warmer Weather
As spring and summer near, the world outside transforms—but so does your brain. Warmer weather and longer days bring real, measurable shifts in mood, cognition, hormones, and even decision making. You’re not just feeling different… you are different. Neuroscientists have found that sunlight, temperature, and seasonal cues can alter everything from memory and sleep patterns […]
The post [10 Ways Your Brain Actually Changes in … ⌘ Read more
iPhone Users Report CarPlay Connectivity Issues With iOS 18.4 Update
Multiple iPhone users are reporting problems with CarPlay functionality after updating to iOS 18.4, based on complaints on Reddit and elsewhere.
The most widespread issue appears to affect vehicles equipped with CarPlay instrument cluster i … ⌘ Read more
Let’s fix OAuth in MCP
Let’s not overthink auth in MCP. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Chase https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/03/chase.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
My March ‘25 in Review
My monthly review is a few days late, but there’s so much to do that I don’t really get around to blogging. ⌘ Read more
Hirschhorn also offers a nice old town. The castle with all its many buildings up the mountain is very beautiful. This is my absolutely favorite one, it just looks soo great:
Walking back down the narrow stairs with all the crooked, well-worn steps of different heights and lengths was quite challenging.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Day Two Keynote Recap
Over 12,000 attendees streamed into the ExCel Arena for the second day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, enjoying yet another sunny day in London and primed to hear real world stories of cloud innovation. Here’s… ⌘ Read more
How to Turn Off Mail Categories on iPad
The Mail app for iPad has been updated to include the Mail Categories feature with iPadOS 18.4. The Mail Categories feature is intended to automatically sort your email inbox within the Mail app into particular email categories, including “Primary”, “Transactions”, “Updates”, and “Promotions”, along with a mostly hidden “All Mail” option. While the intention may … Read More ⌘ Read more
An even better Komoot alternative? – OsmAnd
After quickly trying out Outdooractive, I think I found an alternative that fits my needs a bit better and is also more inline with my values: OsmAnd. ⌘ Read more
Enjoying the nice weather, my monthly review will be a little late. 🌷 ⌘ Read more
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 216 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that … ⌘ Read more
[$] Page allocation for address-space isolation
Address-space isolation may well be, as Brendan Jackman said at the
beginning of his memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, “some security
bullshit”. But it also holds the potential to protect the kernel from
a wide range of vulnerabilities, both known and unknown, while reducing the
impact of existing mitigations. Implementing address-space isolation with
reasonable performance, though, is going to require some signific … ⌘ Read more
[$] Better hugetlb page-table walking
The kernel must often step through the page tables of one or more processes
to carry out various operations. This “page-table walking” tends to be
performed by ad-hoc (duplicated) code all over the kernel. Oscar Salvador
used a memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit to talk about strategies to
unify the kernel’s page-table walking code just a little bit by making
hugetlb pages look more like ordinary pages. ⌘ Read more
Rust 1.86.0 released
Version\
1.86.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support
for trait upcasting, the ability to index multiple elements of HashMaps and
slices mutably, and a number of stabilized APIs. ⌘ Read more
XMPP Interop Testing: Enabling Tests
Our project creates a framework that allows anyone to easily add XMPP standards compliance tests to the test phase of
their build pipeline. Prior to our most recent release (version 1.5.0) a test execution would basically run all tests
in the test suite. We provided an option to exclude certain tests, but in essence, the bulk of tests would execute.
This behavior is generally preferable when testing an XMPP server implementation. A benefit of exclusion-based
… ⌘ Read more
Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy
Lauren Aratani and David Smith, Staff Writers - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have been predicting since Trump was sworn in as President that the United States will be in recession by June, and the American economic sectors, farming, construction, manufacturing, healthcare and others will be in crisis. If you actually look at the list Trump is holding you will see he is putt … ⌘ Read more
The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows
Spencer Woodman, Reporter - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
_Stephan: As I told you yesterday, it is my view that Trump made a deal with a group of fascist billionaire oligarchs to dismantle American democracy and give them a level of influence and control they have never before attained. If they would buy hi … ⌘ Read more