Following the series of various Linux exploits of the last three weeks, the bug of today is PinTheft [CVE-2026-43494] which is local root privilege escalations. The vulnerability can be mitigated by unloading and blocking rds modules, linux-vulnerability-mitigation as of 20260519-1 (uploaded to sid,…
read more ➔Shhhh! This post is only available to RSS subscribers like you 😊 My wife and I are preparing for a big Interrail journey through Europe. Whenever we go on holiday, we like to meet up with friendly locals to have a drink and chat. We did this on our last journey and it was great. So, if you're a…
read more ➔Some more great news: I’m pleased to announce that HP has also agreed to be premier sponsor for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as part of our sustainability effort. With the industry support from HP (and our existing sponsors of Lenovo, Dell, Framework, OSFF and of course Linux…
read more ➔I've heard "containers are not a security boundary" enough times that it's started to feel like received wisdom, and my honest read (after 13+ years) is that it's technically defensible but practically sloppy – and the sloppiness matters. The part that's true: containers share a kernel, and a…
read more ➔This month in Radicle CI, May 2026 This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans. Current status Radicle CI is in production use. There are several CI nodes, and Lars runs a public one for open source Rust projects…
read more ➔At NAB, I found a demo of Wi-Wi STAMP, a wireless time synchronization protocol that came out of Japan's NICT. Wi-Wi stands for Wireless 2Way interferometry, and it uses the 900 MHz band for picosecond-level time sync, and mm-level distance accuracy, in a tiny box, currently the size of a…
read more ➔What's better than one Adrian Tchaikovsky novella? Three Adrian Tchaikovsky novellæ! Or is it "novellii"? Either way, a delightful triptych of stories on a common theme. On the surface, they're about travelling to a new destination (Space! The Future! For-Copyright-Reasons Not Narnia!) Except,…
read more ➔HMS Blueberry Royals are my favourite ships in No Man's Sky. The HMS Blueberry is not my first Exotic/Royal ship (that was the Gravity Hirakao XVI, and a story for another time). After years of on-off playing, I recently found my first Royal multitool: Blue, with gold detailing. I have a…
read more ➔SRFI 273 is now in draft status. The original SRFI 253 established a basis for type-checked (or otherwise checked) data handling. But it lacked some quality-of-life features. This SRFI extends SRFI 253 to match existing implementation practice and common sense. Provided extensions are: check…
read more ➔Last week I had a call with Professor Gavin Hollis who is writing about Shakespeare’s use of maps and coining the term mapp’ry – you can read a bit more about our conversation here. That conversation prompted me to think about Shakespeare’s references to places in his plays and what that might tell…
read more ➔Ya está abierta en Uruguay la Convocatoria 2026 de la iniciativa “Geoalfabetización mediante la utilización de Tecnologías de la Información Geográfica (TIGs)”, una propuesta formativa que combina curso y concurso para impulsar el uso educativo de la cartografía digital, la georreferenciación y los…
read more ➔Una de las tareas que realiza el Departamento de Topografía y Geomática del Ayuntamiento de Albacete es la de imprimir las fichas de las nuevas vías urbanas que se van creando en el municipio, tras la aprobación de su nombre por Pleno. Este trabajo se realiza directamente con las herramientas…
read more ➔In December 2016 I left Canonical with one sad and one happy eye, with lots of good memories. Now it’s time to revisit some more! Starting at Red Hat back then was quite a cultural shock, of course. I got used to the new headwear fashion quickly: But never really to the rest of the formal dress…
read more ➔Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to…
read more ➔We are extremely pleased to announce the nine funded proposals for our 2026 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: QGIS Grants #11: Call for Grant…
read more ➔Last year I went through a self-hosting spree during which I deployed some services (e.g. Nextcloud, Mattermost, and Prosody) to a bunch of VPSes, while documenting the process on this blog. This post is a follow-up on that series, detailing the deployment of GoToSocial, a lightweight ActivityPub…
read more ➔The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals. Right now you can go to https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk and search for whichever…
read more ➔Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy to choose Tailwind. It helped me make a lot of tiny sites! I spent the last week or…
read more ➔SRFI 272 is now in draft status. This SRFI follows the traditional Scheme model of pretty printing, which treats it as a process distinct from general controlled formatting. While general-purpose formatters often prioritize specialized presentation at the expense of machine-readability,…
read more ➔We are excited to announce the release of Hoot 0.9.0! Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler backend for Guile, as well as a general purpose WebAssembly toolchain. In other words, Scheme in the browser! This release contains new features and bug fixes and since the 0.8.0 release back in…
read more ➔A sparkline is a little line-graph with no axes or other unnecessary details. They're useful for getting quick understanding of what the data is showing. They're also really easy to create programmatically. This uses the SVG "polyline" which takes a list of x,y co-ordinate pairs. But can you…
read more ➔By Greg Stein, Apache Software Foundation Member and STeVe Contributor Every year, roughly 800 members of the Apache® Software Foundation cast votes to elect a Board of Directors, admit new members, and decide the direction of one of the oldest and most important institutions in open source. No…
read more ➔Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the firmware I locked…
read more ➔WordPress has the concept of "Featured Images". They are the images which show up when you share a blog post on social media or, on some themes, as the "hero" image. How can you quickly and easily find any posts which don't have a featured image? For this, I use WP CLI - it allows you to run…
read more ➔A tutorial on searching, streaming, visualizing, and downloading NASA Earth observation data inside QGIS using the NASA Earthdata plugin and OpenGeoAgent for natural-language and voice workflows.
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