Reasons why age verification for legal content is problematic.
Girl on the Net
Age verification: what's the harm? | Girl on the Net explains
Age verification has hit the UK, people need to upload ID to see 'adult' content. What's the harm in laws like this, if they protect...
A Btrfs corruption bug appears to affect recent versions of the Linux kernel, particularly on Fedora (where Btrfs is the default filesystem):
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My Kitronik robot now accepts instructions over Bluetooth, allowing it to roam in areas where I don't have access to wi-fi.
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GitHub - slicer69/RobotServer: Functions for running a command server on a Pico W
Functions for running a command server on a Pico W - slicer69/RobotServer
Wayback 0.1 has been released and, while still in its early stages, can run X11 desktops on a Wayland display server:
Wayback 0.1 released!
The FreeBSD Foundation is working to make it possible to enable a desktop environment at install time on FreeBSD:
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A good analogy for dealing with encroaching technologies.
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They're putting blue food coloring in everything
"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently. "Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explai...
Malware has been discovered in, and removed from, the Arch User Repository:
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My Kitronik robot now has an option to "play". When this directive is given, the robot will avoid nearby objects/people, follow things moving away from it, and wander around the rest of the time.
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GitHub - slicer69/RobotServer: Functions for running a command server on a Pico W
Functions for running a command server on a Pico W - slicer69/RobotServer
A reminder that Ubuntu 24.10 and its community editions have reached the ends of their supported life spans:
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A series of articles comparing Wayland vs X11 performance across multiple GPUs and multiple distributions:
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