Lobster Roll

Stories by laktak

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree (f-droid.org)
DeepSeek FAQ (stratechery.com)
XKCD's "Is It Worth the Time?" Considered Harmful (will-keleher.com)
Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems (phoronix.com)
German router maker is latest company to inadvertently clarify the LGPL license (arstechnica.com)
The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network (krebsonsecurity.com)
Mastodon Stories for systemd v259 (0pointer.net)
potential security breach in syncthing-fork (mastodon.pirateparty.be)
How we are defending Software Freedom against Apple at the EU's highest court (fosdem.org)
Firefox 140 Released With "Unload Tab", CSS Custom Highlighting API (phoronix.com)
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature (herecomesthemoon.net)
Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development (phoronix.com)
Android developer verification: allow experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified (android-developers.googleblog.com)
NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86,000 times (arstechnica.com)
What's new in APT 3.0 (lwn.net)
I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms (apalrd.net)
Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 (caimito.net)
Google Posts Device Trees For Booting Pixel 10 Hardware With The Mainline Linux Kernel (phoronix.com)
AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow (infoworld.com)
systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes (phoronix.com)
Bitwarden Authenticator (bitwarden.com)
opensource links https://github.com/bitwarden/authenticator-android https://github.com/bitwarden/authenticator-ios
Torvalds On Linux Security Modules (phoronix.com)
QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop Brings QNX 8.0 To A Wayland + Xfce Desktop (phoronix.com)
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI (nature.com)
The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions (phoronix.com)
Firefox 139 adds experimental AI-powered link previews (9to5mac.com)
Gemini (protocol) (en.wikipedia.org)
Also, from 2023: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28/the-gemini-protocol-seen-by-this-http-client-person/
FOSDEM 2025 - 14 Years of systemd (fosdem.org)
I also found https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/06/14_years_of_systemd/ interesting
Sway 1.11 Released With New Wayland Protocols & More (phoronix.com)
libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events (phoronix.com)