** 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
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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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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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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 27, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Open source in government; OSI election; Memory-management medley; Address-space isolation; CMA; 6.14 Development stats; State of the page.
Briefs: Asahi Linux progress; Reproducible Debian; rpi-image-gen; Neovim 0.11; OpenH264; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
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[$] Development statistics for 6.14
By the time that Linus Torvalds released
the 6.14 kernel, 11,003 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the
mainline, making this one of the smallest releases we have seen in some
time. Indeed, one must go back to the 4.0\
release, which happened almost exactly ten years ago, to find a release
with fewer changesets than 6.14. Even so, “small” is relative, and 6.14
contains a lot of significant changes. ⌘ Read more
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The 6.14 kernel is out
Linus has released the 6.14 kernel, a bit
later than expected:
So it’s early Monday morning (well - early for me, I’m not really a
morning person), and I’d love to have some good excuse for why I
didn’t do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon
release schedule.I’d like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and
delayed things.But no. It’s just pure incompetence.
See the LWN merge-window summaries ( [part 1](https://lwn. … ⌘ Read more
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[47°09′40″S, 126°43′14″W] Reading: 1.22 Sv
[47°09′14″S, 126°43′19″W] –white noise–
Chapter 14:
Epilogue:
Chapter 14:
Epilogue:
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An Asahi Linux 6.14 progress report
The Asahi Linux project, working to support Linux on Apple hardware, has
published a\
progress report to coincide with the 6.14 kernel release.
Now that Rust for Linux abstractions are starting to be merged at a
healthy pace, we are faced with an emerging challenge. It is rare
for any kernel patch to survive the mailing list without at least a
couple of non-trivial changes, and Rust abstractions are no
exception. Every time an a … ⌘ Read more
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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 11 2025: 14 PRs, 3 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.
Opened (8)
monero-project/monero:
This distinguished lady turned 14 today ⌘ Read more
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On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 03/10 to 03/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/14/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Apple Launches ‘Surveyor’ App for Apple Maps Data Collection
Apple today launched a new app called Surveyor, which is designed to allow users to collect data like images of street signs and roadside details to improve Apple Maps.
The app is not public facing and appears to be for use with companies that Apple partners with … ⌘ Read more
Best Apple Deals of the Week: Launch Discounts Hit New iPad, iPad Air, and MacBook Air, Plus AirPods 4 for Just $99.99
Apple’s new 11th generation iPad, M3 iPad Air, and M4 MacBook Air launched this week, and discounts are already available for all of these products on Amazon. Additionally, we’re tracking ongoing record low prices on the AirPods 4, M4 MacBook Pro, and Apple Pencil Pro.
Behold The Golden Age Of Public Corruption In America
David Kurtz , Staff Writer - Talking Points Memo
Stephan: As the MAGAt Trump dismantlement of democracy and our economy continues, one of the main things that stands out for me is the mind-boggling level of cancerous corruption that is a major aspect of what is being done. The United States is now less of a democracy than Hungary. I am actually not at all certain there will be a 2026 election.

Stephan: Here is some good news. It tells us that there are still honorable men and women serving as judges. Congressional Republican flying monkeys, of course, are trying to impeach them. However, these judges offer hope that some part of the U.S. government that Trump’s coup is trying to destroy still works.
 réfléchit donc à son prochain voyage en famille. Français de la classe moyenne, correctement imbibé des « réalités » médiatiques actuelles, Nicolas […] ⌘ Read more
10 Expensive Infrastructure “Solutions” That Were Total Fails
Infrastructure projects are meant to improve lives, reduce congestion, and modernize cities, but sometimes, they backfire spectacularly. Whether due to poor planning, unintended consequences, or outright corruption, these projects exacerbated the very problems they were designed to fix. From flood barriers that made flooding worse to highways that increased traffic, here are 10 times infrastructure […]
The post … ⌘ Read more
10 Fictional Extinction Events
It’s always unfortunate when a species goes extinct. This tragedy usually happens over a prolonged period, but certain events wipe out a population simultaneously. Earth has seen several such events, which kill most life forms across the biological spectrum. These mass extinctions are as frightening as they are fascinating. For that reason, some storytellers fashion […]
The post [10 Fictional Extinction Events](https://listverse.com/2025/03/14/10-fictional-extinction-ev … ⌘ Read more
Pomera DM250 Tinkering ⌘ Read more
Apple to Support Encrypted RCS Messaging in Future Software Update
Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services ( RCS) specification that includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages sent over the protocol in future software updates.
“End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported since the … ⌘ Read more
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This is Barbie. Today she turns 14! ⌘ Read more
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.
[47°09′02″S, 126°43′14″W] Reading: 1.28 Sv
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[47°09′44″S, 126°43′14″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from SE
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[ANN] Monero Meetup Prague - Fri, 14 Mar @ 20:00
Link: https://monero.town/pictrs/image/0d914eb7-c7ed-453a-b8eb-8d7408dcf2be.jpeg
ajs-xmr (Github) ⌘ Read more
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[47°09′14″S, 126°43′59″W] Dosimeter malfunction
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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I’ve commented on the ticket: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/14#issuecomment-19142
In all reality, though, I don’t see that our community will come to an agreement. Some folks just don’t want to give up on the content-based addressing scheme.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org What do you think about this? https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/14
** Job posting **
I don’t write about work here. Not really as a rule, but out of habit.
It is a Saturday, and this morning at around 1 AM the federal government here in the U.S. fired my entire team, and the whole group they worked out of, 18f. This means that the team I was on is now just me. I was the only one not from 18f.
Nothing about this will increase efficiency or help anyone, at all.
If any of you beautiful RSS people are hiring senior level designers or qualitative researchers, please reach out and I can make introd … ⌘ Read more
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My little girl. 14 years old. She still hates when I have to go to work. Purring like a diesel engine and cuddling, saying “don’t leave”. ⌘ Read more
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@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net The outcome was to be expected but it’s still pretty catastrophic. Here’s an overview:
East Germany is dominated by AfD. Bavaria is dominated by CSU (it’s always been that way, but this is still a conservative/right party). Black is CDU, the other conservative/right party.
The guy who’s probably going to be chancellor recently insulted the millions of people who did demonstrations for peace/anti-right. “Idiots”, “they’re nuts”, stuff like that. This was before the election. He already earned the nickname “Mini Trump”.
Both the right and the left got more votes this time, but the left only gained 3.87 percentage points while the right (CDU/CSU + AfD) gained 14.72:
The Green party lost, SPD (“mid-left”) lost massively (worst result in their history). FDP also lost. These three were the previous government.
This isn’t looking good at all, especially when you think about what’s going to happen in the next 4 years. What will CDU (the winner) do? Will they be able to “turn the ship around”? Highly unlikely. They are responsible for the current situation (in large parts). They will continue to do business as usual. They will do anything but help poor/ordinary people. This means that AfD will only get stronger over the next 4 years.
Our only hope would be to ban AfD altogether. So far, nobody but non-profit organizations is willing to do that (for unknown reasons).
I don’t even know if banning the AfD would help (but it’s probably our best/only option). AfD politicians are nothing but spiteful, hateful, angry, similar to Trump/MAGA. If you’ve seen these people talk and still vote for them, then you must be absolutely filled with rage and hatred. Very concerning.
Correct me if I’m wrong, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @arne@uplegger.eu, @johanbove@johanbove.info.
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Bloody hell 🤦♂️🤦♂️
$ jq -r --arg host "gopher.mills.io" '. | select(.request.host==$host) | "\(.request.client_ip) \(.request.uri) \(.request.headers["User-Agent"])"' mills.io.log-au | while IFS=$' ' read -r ip uri ua; do asn="$(geoip -a "$ip")"; echo "$asn $ip $uri $ua"; done | grep -E '^45102.*' | sort | head
45102 47.251.70.245 /gopher.floodgap.com/0/feeds/democracynow/2015/Oct/14/0 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"]
45102 47.251.84.25 /gopher.floodgap.com/0/feeds/voaheadlines/2014/Mar/09/voanews.com-content-article-1867433.html ["Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3F0692937396569A52972EB2 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3F9657307A96569A52974634 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3FB7571C7896569A529E6603 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3FB75EF81296569A529E6617 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
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[ANN] CVE-2025-26819: Public XMR nodes should update to ‘release-v0.18’ branch until 0.18.4.0 is out (very soon)
Monero through 0.18.3.4 before ec74ff4 does not have response limits on HTTP server connections.
Links:
Added support for uploading images to to #Timeline
Right now you need to copy the markdown code yourself, but next up would be to lean some JS or use HTMX to make the process more smooth.
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On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 02/10 to 02/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/14/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 02/10 to 02/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/14/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week