You already know that Canonical has been selectively replacing Ubuntu’s C-based system components with Rust-written equivalents that don’t compromise in terms of functionality, most of the time. Now it looks like the distro’s OpenPGP implementation is next, with Sequoia PGP coming preinstalled
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A few months back, I reviewed the TerraMaster D1 SSD Plus and liked it for what it offered. A sturdy box that gives a second life to an NVMe SSD lying around (rarity these days). Now I have the ORICO X50 on
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If some Reddit posts are to be believed, Digital Ocean is ending its Open Source Credits program quietly: DigitalOcean has decided to sunset the Open Source Credits Program. As part of this change, we are no longer accepting new credit applications or
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The VPN industry runs on a promise. Pick almost any provider and the pitch is the same: “we don’t keep logs.” You hand over your entire internet connection and, in return, you get a pinky-promise that nobody is writing anything down. For
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Canonical is moving Ubuntu’s kernel update cycle from four weeks to two, with the expected result being a kernel release landing every week due to cycle overlap. They did this because AI-assisted vulnerability hunting is causing CVEs to land faster than the
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yt-dlp has over 195,000 stars on GitHub, supports thousands of platforms, and is actively maintained by a global developer community. Unfortunately, the IFPI would like to see it on the EU’s piracy watchlist. Just so you know, the International Federation of the
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Since 2010, F-Droid has been the go-to place for downloading free and open source apps for Android. Its client app is the one people interact with the most, and it has received many upgrades over the years. But now it’s time for
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My homelab started small, and so did the annoyance. To open Jellyfin, I typed 192.168.0.x:8097. For Home Assistant, it was another IP and :8123. For Karakeep, Ollama and the rest, even more IP and port combinations to either remember or bookmark. The
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Welcome to Local AI Weekly #4. “Local AI” keeps meaning different things these days. Sometimes the model runs on your computer. Sometimes only the app does, while the model and your chat still run elsewhere. There are lots of such “local AI”
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Announced via a two-part series of blogs, Microsoft has moved WSL containers (WSLC) out of public preview and into general availability. Let’s take a look at what it offers. The new release comes with wslc.exe, a dedicated command-line tool for Linux container
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