Another morning, another moderately (but pleasantly) surprising move in the Linux development storyline. In the big 2026, Linux is definitively fixing its support for the GD-ROM driver, which is used by Sega Dreamcast. Sega what? For context, Sega Dreamcast is a gaming
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Plenty of CPU architectures have come and gone over the last few decades. The x86 family alone has seen a long line of chips rise to prominence and fade away as newer generations took over. The i486 is one such chip, and
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KDE Plasma’s two classic themes, Oxygen and Air, are making a comeback. A group of KDE contributors is actively restoring both ahead of the Plasma 6.7 release, which is scheduled for June 16, 2026. Both themes trace their roots back to the
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You can totally read CSV files in the terminal. After all, it’s a text file. You can use cat and then parse it with the column command. Usual way: Displaying csv file in tabular format with cat and column commands That works.
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A patch has been submitted to the Linux kernel mailing list proposing a new HID driver that would passively monitor USB keyboard-like devices and flag the ones that look like they’re up to no good. The driver is called hid-omg-detect, and it
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It’s no secret that Firefox has been steadily losing ground over the past decade or so. Despite efforts to revitalize this once beloved titan of the internet, the market share just hasn’t returned, and Mozilla’s recent choices haven’t been helping the cause.
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In 2019, I watched a fellow writer almost lose her life’s work. We were working in an advertising agency. Like most writers who end up in advertising, we were both secretly working on our novels. One afternoon, after lunch, I noticed her
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If you are a regular reader of ours, then you know that Proton is one of the privacy-focused services we usually vouch for. I have been using their various services personally for quite a while now, and I can confidently say that
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The open source office space has turned unusually dramatic this week, with multiple conflicts unfolding at the same time. First, there is a new entrant called Euro-Office. While it is being presented as a European alternative, it is essentially a fork of
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TDF’s Membership Committee has removed all Collabora staff and partners from membership in one move, covering over 30 developers. This includes, per Collabora’s own count, seven of LibreOffice’s all-time top ten core committers who are still active. To make things more complicated,
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