many of these optimisations were likely caught by AI making test harnesses and benchmarking sections of code, analysing the profiling data and identifying slow algorithms.

Do you have a particular reason to think that, or is it speculation? If the former, can you share some links?

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work on x11 stopped ages ago.

The most recent release was last week.

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2026-August/003741.html

See also: Motorola Mobility, which is not the successor of the now-defunct Motorola Inc. The headquarters of this separate company is in the USA, but it’s owned by a Chinese company.

(For context, the upcoming GrapheneOS phone is a Motorola Mobility device.)

Possibly better than doing searches directly through Google, but keep this in mind:

Startpage is owned and operated by Surfboard Holding BV, which is majority owned by System1, an American internet advertising company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage

Youre breaking a core tenant

Did you mean tenet?

I really want something that’s going to be no-fuss, solid as a rock and that’s simply going to get out of my way.

That would be Debian Stable. I’m using it with KDE Plasma (6.3.6), and am pretty happy with it. (I also applied a few backports for gaming and software development, but that was easy.)

Is there something about newer Plasma versions that you absolutely must have right now, rather than living with 6.3.x until next year?

Did you know that you can list every process running on your system along with their various categories of memory usage?

man ps

Or for a rough idea, just browse them wtih KDE System Monitor.

Describing the saboteur as “The developer of Mumble” is misleading, because Mumble is developed by multiple contributors, and Beatrici isn’t even the most prominent one.

The post’s true headline is:

Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

Systemd (along with the various add-on services that come with it on most major distros) meddles with and tends to break critical functionality quite often, except on boring systems where the needs being served happen to be handled well by systemd’s happy path(s).

If the computers you maintain fit Lennart Poettering’s idea of how to do things, then you might never notice a problem. On the other hand, if you’re responsible for systems with unusual or complex configurations, or have need of the flexibility that makes unix so very useful in the first place, then you might very well discover that systemd is a pushy, invasive, poorly considered, buggy, and in some ways just pain broken collection of software, maintained with a level of arrogance and carelessness not often matched in the unix community, and you might rightly come to despise working with it.

Sadly, my experience has been the latter. In the years since the systemd suite was adopted by Debian distros, I have been burned more times by it and spent more weeks of my life troubleshooting it than I can count any more. Because of this, I have come to resent systemd. And I know I’m not alone in this.

So, dear readers, when you see people complaining about systemd, please try not to be like the zealots out there who routinely cry “luddite” and demand proof when they encounter folks who dislike it. Try instead to remember that one size does not fit all, that some of systemd’s detractors are very skilled and reasonable people who happen to run systems that are necessarily different from your own, and have encountered problems that you have not. It has been over a decade. Some of us are tired of it, and tired of talking about it.

Recovered after power outage

On 2026-06-28, our servers where down from 00:18 CEST to 07:27 CEST due to a power outage. We are back now!

https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg

https://web.archive.org/web/20260610134308/https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/

When a system is so ripe for abuse that even those in whom we entrust our safety cannot resist abusing it, maybe it’s time for that system to be eliminated.

This is someone’s personal fork of Cantata. (The original is no longer receiving updates.)

What makes this one more useful or trustworthy than the 183 other forks? Why did the person behind this one strip/avoid the upstream reference, which GitHub normally applies to forks?

Weird. I don’t know how that happened. I wonder if I hit a glitch in Lemmy’s web UI.

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I’m pretty sure EdgeRouters (another product line by Ubiquiti) can also do it.

Gavin Newsom proposed expanding the state sales tax to ensure it covers digital prewritten software.

As opposed to analog software, or postwritten software? I’m very curious what that is supposed to mean, and what it would be. Does Newsom know what software is?

“As someone who lives near a Best Buy, I’m at Best Buy often,” Newsom told reporters during a news conference. “And I’m paying sales tax on a lot of this prewritten software. And then I find out that all my friends that aren’t near a Best Buy, they’re downloading and they are not paying sales tax. How is that fair?”

I wonder what exactly Newsom has bought at Best Buy that constitutes “a lot of this prewritten software”.

The cifs driver is complex. I haven’t spent time tuning it in quite a while, but I once got rid of a performance problem by mounting with the nouser_xattr option, which can be included in a mount.cifs command or an /etc/fstab entry. That, or something else documented in the mount.cifs man page, might be worth a try.

Good luck!

FWIW, this is more likely Linux-specific than Debian-specific.

McMahon also pushes back on the government’s argument that “there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s:”

There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT. ChatGPT was the Government’s chosen instrument for purposes of this project, and DOGE’s use of AI to identify DEI-related material neither excuses presumptively unconstitutional conduct nor gives the Government carte blanche to engage in it.

Honest and sensible reasoning is in such short supply lately that it’s a breath of fresh air when it occasionally shows up in government.

I wish some of that light would shine upon Constitutional law circumvention programs like Five Eyes.

Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature.

I probably would have chosen it even if licensing wasn’t a concern. It’s good.

The headline Go Away Microsoft is amusing, because Forgejo is written in Go.