BlogFlockNadrieril is a long-time Rust contributor, and the maintainer of the rustc pattern-matching infrastructure. During his involvement with Rust, he has noticed a problem with the usability of the language: it is difficult to automatically extract information from a Rust crate for use with other tooling. The Charon project aims…
[$] Evolving the LAVD scheduler from gaming to servers
The extensible scheduler class, which
enables the creation of custom CPU schedulers with BPF, has led to a burst
of innovation in this area; the
LAVD scheduler has, perhaps, been one of the most noteworthy schedulers
to emerge. Though it was originally designed
for gaming applications, the LAVD…
A new Raspberry Pi Desktop release is finally available for x86-64
Simon Long has announced a long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 ("trixie"), for x86-64 systems.
We managed to find the time to update the Desktop for the Buster and Bullseye releases of Debian, but then we all just got too busy with other things, and,…
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, dovecot, freerdp, kernel, mariadb-connector-c, mod_auth_openidc, nodejs22, nodejs:22, sudo, and vim), Debian (node-shell-quote, puma, rails, ruby-jwt, and suricata-update), Fedora (chromium, cockpit, flocq, freerdp, gappalib-coq, golang-x-mod, httpd, janus, libical, musescore, python3-docs, python3.14, python3.15, rocq, rocq-stdlib, tesseract, why3, and zenon), Mageia (srt and tor), Oracle
[$] Python's two modules for random numbers
Python's random
and secrets
modules both include utilities for obtaining random values, but only one of them is suitable for generating passwords and security tokens.
For much of Python's history, random was used for passwords and tokens anyway, despite documentation that called it unsuitable for cryptography. In 2015, Python's core…
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Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend.
Maybe
[$] Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package
Chromium, the open-source upstream project for Google's Chrome web browser, is the browser of choice for many Linux users. It has also gained a reputation as being difficult for Linux distributions to package and build: Chromium has a complex build system, the project bundles many of its dependencies,…
OpenSSH 10.6 released
Version 10.6 of OpenSSH
has been released. The announcement notes that the OpenSSH team has been
receiving a large number of AI-assisted security bug reports. "
We very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes". As a…
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gd, gimp, kernel, kernel-rt, libpcap, librabbitmq, mariadb-connector-c, osbuild-composer, ruby:2.5, and sudo), Debian (libmodule-cpants-analyse-perl, libpng1.6, libreoffice, roundcube, ruby-oauth2, and sabnzbdplus), Fedora (0install, alt-ergo, apron, brltty, chromium, coccinelle, cri-o1.36, emacs-common-tuareg, flocq, frama-c, freetennis, gappalib-coq, guestfs-tools, haxe, hevea, hivex, kernel, lem, libguestfs, libnbd, nbdkit, not-ocamlfind, ocaml,…
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That’s what it says at MoonPhase.today
Specifically, 26%.
I’ll consider them unreal if they’re not at IIW.
The UOR Foundation has plans to… Well, I can’t copy and paste the text, so…