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Surf’s up. North. Here is the auroral oval, right now:
And here is the K Index, also via NOAA:
Remember that the aurora’s curtains of light stand up to 800 miles above their base, about 100…
Look Up!
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Firefox 145 released
Firefox 145 has been released. Notable changes in this release include note-taking features for PDFs viewed in Firefox, enhanced privacy protections, and the ability to access and manage passwords in the sidebar. This release also drops support for 32-bit Linux systems.
[$] Protecting privacy with Tails
Tails is an unusual Linux distribution developed by the Tor Project; it is designed to help users work around internet censorship and avoid surveillance. It is a "portable" operating system that is meant to be run from a USB stick or ISO image and to leave no trace on…
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, expat, kernel, osbuild-composer, qt6-qtsvg, runc, valkey, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (incus), Fedora (cef and dotnet8.0), Mageia (strongswan), Red Hat (fence-agents and python-requests), SUSE (chromium, colord, erlang26, java-1_8_0-openjdk, libsoup, python-django, thunderbird, tiff, and warewulf4), and Ubuntu (intel-microcode and rust-sudo-rs).
Hose cleaning
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I was closing in on 2000 unread emails, so I sorted my inbox by From instead of Date, looked through the pile for actual correspondence and other items of importance, opened those, marked the rest of them read, and set the view to Date again, starting with the most recent.…
Public-inbox 2.0.0 released
Version 2.0.0 of public-inbox, the mail archiving system behind
lore.kernel.org and LWN's email archive, has been released. "
This release includes several new features and fixes; mostly around improved integration between inboxes and coderepos for solver. Portability and reliability is also improved, especially in the internal process management of lei.
[$] Magic kernel functions for BPF
When programs written in BPF (the kernel's hot-loadable virtual-machine bytecode) call kernel functions (kfuncs), it may be useful for those functions to have additional information about the context in which those BPF programs are executing. Rather than requiring it to supply that information, it would be convenient to let the…
Pytest 9.0.0 released
Version
9.0.0 of pytest has been released. Notable changes in this release
include the addition of subtests,
native support for TOML configuration files, and a new strict
mode. See the changelog
for a complete list of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (galera and mariadb, kernel, kernel-rt, mingw-libtiff, redis:7, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, bpfman, chromium, dolphin-emu, dotnet9.0, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, kea, libnbd, luksmeta, python-cloudpickle, python-pydantic, python-pydantic-core, python-uv-build, ruby, ruff, rust-get-size-derive2, rust-get-size2, rust-regex, rust-regex-automata, rust-reqsign, rust-reqsign-aws-v4, rust-reqsign-command-execute-tokio, rust-reqsign-core, rust-reqsign-file-read-tokio, rust-reqsign-http-send-reqwest, singularity-ce, uv, xen, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc5
The 6.18-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. "
In other words: it all looks just the way I like it at this point: small and boring."