Stewart X Addison

Do you like cuddly characters in your products? It didn't work for Microsoft's clippy a long time ago, although you can't really call a paperclip cuddly I guess:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99l1zzp8xzo
#mico #snoo #kit #duo

Taking a look at #Bazzite (#Fedora Atomic based distribution set up for running Steam) based on a colleague who recently tried it to replace a Windows gaming setup..
It has a few download options depending on your video cards (NVidia GTX9xx/10xx vs RTX for example require a separate download). [EDIT: Seems it doesn't have acceleration for the old ones]
If you're running an existing Atomic Fedora such as #Silverblue it should be possible to rebase directly onto Bazzite ...
https://bazzite.gg/#image-picker

Do you use @nodejs on @alpinelinux? While the Node.js project publishes Alpine containers to dockerhub it is currently an "experimental" platform and does not have the same guarantees as other platforms.

We are looking for volunteers to help us bring Alpine to "Tier 2" where it would be built and released through the normal CI process.

If you can help and/or work for a company depending on Node on Alpine/musl then let us know at https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/62764
#alpine #musl #nodejs #OpenSource

Hmmm I hadn't seen
> systemd-analyze blame
and
> systemd-analyze critical-chain
before. Potentially useful for improving startup times on modern Linux systems ...
https://www.makeuseof.com/i-turned-off-one-background-service-and-my-linux-machine-finally-felt-fast
#linux #systemd

Do you use Eclipse #Temurin by @eclipseadoptium on #AIX or Linux on ppc64le/s390x architectures?

If so, there is a plan to look at moving them to be headless builds in the future.

See https://adoptium.net/en-GB/news/2026/05/headless-platform-changes for details and to provide any feedback on the proposal.

Noting also that until the release comes out you can download a release candidate tarballs of @nodejs #NodeJS 26 from the following locations if you want to test new Node 26 functionality such as the Temporal APIs:
- https://nodejs.org/download/rc/v26.0.0-rc.2/ for the officially supported platforms
- https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/download/rc/v26.0.0-rc.2/ for some of the unofficial/experimental platforms (including #riscv and #Alpine/musl)

Hmmm so there's now a touch screen option for the @frameworkcomputer 13 (I liked the idea of the 12 which had one but it wouldn't take their #RISCV boards) ...
About £2000 for a reasonable system though 🤔 https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/introducing-framework-laptop-13-pro
Could be tempted though if/when the #DeepComputing SpacemiT-K3 mainboard shows up: https://deepcomputing.io/dc-roma-risc-v-mainboard-iii-unveiled-at-fosdem-powered-by-spacemit-k3-for-framework-laptop-13/

What do people use for running commands across multiple ssh sessions simultaneously? I've had a quick look at #tmux and #clusterssh (The former splits up an existing terminal window, the latter fires of separate desktop terminal windows) but are there any other good choices that people use?

"in total, 241 news sites from nine countries explicitly disallow at least one of the four Internet Archive crawling bots ... 87% — are owned by USA Today Co., the largest newspaper conglomerate in the United States" Reddit, The New York Times and The Guardian have also restricted it, the latter citing a desire to block #AI scrapers.
#internetArchive #waybackMachine #AI
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/04/14/why-major-news-sites-are-blocking-the-internet-archives-wayback-machine/

Having an early morning #AIX session reconfiguring storage paths on the OS due to changes in the backend and trying to make sure we end up with bootable systems at the end of it ...
I'm not good at early mornings at the best of times 😟

Posting on this feed since it's about #Penguins and we're all using #Linux right? ;-) #tux

'Emperors are the largest penguin species and jumped two categories, from “near threatened” to “endangered” in the new IUCN analysis'

:sadmsn: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/mass-drowning-of-chicks-puts-emperor-penguins-at-risk-of-extinction

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/116141970850854978

Wow. I'm reading some of the statements in here about the suggestion of problems with data sovereignty. Apparently such an approach will:
- "disrupt global data flow" (correct, because other countries can't do what they like with it)
- "limit AI" (by protecting against companies using all data to train them?)
- "increase cybersecurity risks" (in reality it should reduce the chance of another country's government being able to get access to your data)

#cyberSecurity #opensource #soverignty

Watched "Office Space" tonight for the first time in years. A classic! #stapler

RE: https://chaos.social/@christopherkunz/115967169847516672

I also heard this week from @mcollina that the #fastify project had - in January alone - seen 50% of the total number of vulnerability reports submitted than in the whole of 2025. When you hear things like that it's not surprising that @bagder 's #curl project has taken the decision to stop using this service. A shame that it's come to this 😥 #security
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/B7YKQ7-oss-in-spite-of-ai/ would be an interestign talk if I was heading to #FOSDEM this year (I'll catch the recording of course)

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@eclipseadoptium/115661689325770554

A reminder that @eclipseadoptium will not be publishing bulds for some platforms in the January set of releases which are being prepared at the moment.
#adoptium #temurin #java #openjdk #solaris #win32

@jmtd Feels like I'm stalking you with all these replies but you've been posting interesting stuff ;-) I'm definitely keen to see the reproducible containers stuff. At #Adoptium we've got the builds reproducible but have not yet attempted to do so with the container images.
Also intrigued as to whether it's even possible with the dockerhub "official" images which they build from dockerfiles that are supplied to them.
Sadly, I'm not going to be there in person this year.

RIP #HPUX. It was always the UNIX variant I disliked using the most ...

The last supported version of HP-UX is no more • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/hpux_end_of_life/

This is going to mean:
- No banking apps (but websites are ok of course)
- No navigation with live traffic updates (I'll be late for things, but I don't want to install Google-owned Waze on it)
- No WhatsApp (You can't have it on multiple devices
- While I do have Facebook messenger installed, no other notifications from Facebook as it's only available in the browser
- No NFC payments ...
- Ropey GPS
(I don't use tiktok so despite the previous post that isn't a concern)
#Jolla #JollaC2 #Sailfish

Another example of a virtual assistant being utterly useless from #O2 (UK phone network)

Asking me to make a call from a faulty SIM card🙄

PLaying with the #OrangePi 5 ... Under full load (A compiler with "make -j9" maxing out all 8 cores) it's drawing just under 10W. The #riscv #BananaPi-F3 (also 8 cores) is in the same ballpark. My laptop that I'm typing this on, which is currently doing very little else and has a system load of 0.58, is pulling 55W from the mains ...

Wow - I hadn't realised how much stuff was stuffed into the Ubuntu Linux/x64 #github actions #GHA runners. Leaves a lot less than there should be for your own stuff (and in our case a docker pull is failing)
https://carlosbecker.com/posts/github-actions-disk-space/
(That article also references the cleanup action available at https://github.com/marketplace/actions/maximize-build-disk-space)

That's quite rude. If you try to provision "CentOS" on #Azure what shows up first is chargeable images from third parties with names such as "Supported Images" in their marketplace which IMHO misleads the untrained eye to suggest it might be some sort of official support for the producer. It is not.

The image is also not "CentOS 10" as there's no such product. It is, of course, regular @centos Stream (The upstream version of RHEL etc.) which is a free distribution. #CentOS #CentOSStream

Playing around with compressing a directory structure full of XML files which are about 2MB each (one per directory) and which have a lot of commonality.

It included about 14GB of files in total. With gzip/bzip2/zstd/zip it goes down to ~1GiB (#gzip -> zstd -> bzip2 in order of decreasing size). With #xz it went down to about 67MiB. Huge difference for this use case. Decompressing it was MUCH faster with xz (5.0s vs 33.2s when writing to /dev/null - xz took 5X longer to compress than pigz)

Seems a shame to recycle these but I feel the chances of me ever doing low level #X11 GUI programming again is pretty much nonexistent ... #xwindows

Also, I've never really experimented with the "Power mode" options in Fedora/GNome, but for those tests which completed the builds in 10.1 seconds on one core, it's the same whether in "#Performance" or "Balanced" modes. If you switch the "Power Saver" it drops to 19.0 seconds.

I'll also note that it's great to have a system where I can play with CPU #affinity stuff in a controlled manner and also experiment with the three different cores in this machine!

#cpuaffinity #numa #performance #linux

Considering switching over to my #monzo account for most day to day banking after my main bank really disappointed me with their handling of an ISA transfer (took about three months).
Disappointing that they don't allow you to use #OpenBanking in their app unless you upgrade to a paid account 😭

Also #java users out there should be aware that @fedora 42+ and EL10 based distributions such as @centos Stream 10 and RHEL10 no longer have "non-system" (21) versions of java. But the good news is you can now easily install @eclipseadoptium #Temurin via #EPEL e.g. to install Temurin JDK8:

# For CS10/Fedora # dnf install epel-release
# RHEL10 # rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-10.noarch.rpm
dnf install -y adoptium-temurin-java-repository
dnf --enablerepo=adoptium-temurin-java-repository install temurin-8-jdk

Oooh #StarFive now have a Debian/Gnome based image for the @PINE64 #PinetabV ...
https://pine64.org/2025/04/13/april_2025/
Details at https://pine64.org/blog/files/April_2025/PineTab-V_StarFive_Build_Debian_Release_Notes_v1.0.0.pdf
Image is available from https://github.com/starfive-tech/Debian/releases #riscv

It's a shame that people post things like this about OSS.
It's also why the top OSS have commercial companies backing them.
It's also why companies should support OSS that they use

And the bottom line ... If you believe in choosing alternatives to the big companies, cut them slack and be positive especially if they're not funded. Do you pay for software you use? Do you get what it takes to maintain and develop it?

#OSS #oprnSource

Interesting video on the many failing capacitor issues from equipment in the early 2000s. The first 7 minutes is an introduction to capacitors before going onto a theory of why. It potentially caused the downfall of #Abit - a popular PC motherboard manufacturer from the time (I had one of their KR7A boards). 13m20 talks at a low level about what caused the failures. 17m in mentions another issue in 2007-manufactured systems from Dell and others
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSpzAVpnXo4
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

It's been a while since I saw a #GooglePlus logo!
I always wore looked that service - the concept of circles was really nicely done I thought - but I guess not enough people felt the same way at the time ...

#weston #xvfb replacement update ...
- CentOS Stream 10 container: Installing `epel-release` then `weston` gives me dependency issues. Currently a non-starter
- Ubuntu 22.04 on arm64 (real machine, the others are in containers: Tells me the display number in the startup). xclock runs ok
- Fedora or Ubuntu container (40/42/22.04): Works but segfaults with --xwayland unless you precreate /tmp/.X11-unix

There is hope!

I've only just realised why I sometimes trigger "move tab left" with a keystroke in #Remmina (RDP/VNC connection app) - it's only thr right control key with left and right arrows that does it - not the left which I was trying to reproduce it with ...

Quite a nice article on #Cyrix, who were a fabless chip designer who make Intel x86-compatible processors in the early days (up to Pentium level).
From that time I still have more fond memories the #IBM "Blue Lightning" #BlueLightning chips and the #NexGen (First to use a RISC core for running x86 code - and subsequently bought out by #AMD)
https://www.techspot.com/article/2120-cyrix/

Some good news for today: #macOS14.4.1 fixes the "Apps that include Java may quit unexpectedly" bug #java #openjdk
https://support.apple.com/en-us/109035

What are people's opinion on using "obviously" in a sentence? Is it a pointless addition, or does it help convey that you're not trying to patronise the listener by saying "you likely already know this, but just to check we're on the same page" and give them the opportunity to dispute it if it's not "obvious" to them?

How do you react when you hear/read it?

#obviously #english #language

#Adoptium has finalised the releases of the January #Temurin #openjdk updates - jdk 8u402, 11.0.22, 17.0.10 and 21.0.2.
This is the first JDK21 release to include AIX and Linux/s390x platforms, and the release is #SLSA build level 3 compliant on Linux and macOS platforms.
https://adoptium.net/blog/2024/01/eclipse-temurin-8u402-11022-1710-and-2102-available/

My colleague Scott Fryer gave a talk at this year's @EclipseFdn 's #EclipseCon on #Adoptium's secure development practices, what we've done and what we're going to do going forward. It covers #SLSA, #SSDF, #SBoM, binary #reproducibleBuilds and keeping a heterogeneous #openSource project's infrastructure secure with #Wazuh

If some of those buzzwords have piqued your interest (or you want to know what they are) checkout his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpEKUnX84UQ
#secureDev #CycloneDX

I love working in #openSource.
I love the process of engaging with others to identify the best solutions for things whether they agree with me or not.
Similarly I love being able to have a voice in things that I wouldn't necessarily have on a closed project.
Anything that hampers #openCollaboration #openCommunication is probably bad for open source.
Encourage lots of voices to contribute ... You don't have to please everyone, and you try not to take it personally if someone disagrees with you.

Some interesting stats in this article. How much has COVID and other factors influenced our perception of work-life #balance
- "some data indicates it’s much easier for white men to secure funding: one 2019 report showed women-led start-ups as well as those led by minority founders"
- "After several years of trending upwards, employee engagement in the US saw its first annual decline in a decade"
#riseAndGrind #quietQuitting #softLife #bareMinimimMondays #siliconValley
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230417-hustle-culture-is-this-the-end-of-rise-and-grind