still better that the rust ones

Fish Shell 4.2 enhances history-based autosuggestions, defaults to UTF-8 encoding, clears transient prompts correctly, and more. linuxiac.com/fish-shell-4-2-…

Dear parents Buy these as a new year gifts for your children if they are in the age group 13-15. Later in their lives, they would be immensely grateful to you if they really cared to do this task throughout their school years. So, motivate them to do this wonderful collection.

NASA and Lockheed Martin’s X-59 "quiet" supersonic plane flew for the first time in October. It’s a major step towards reintroducing commercial supersonic flight in the United States. livescience.com/technology/e…

Hemp is the only plant that can feed you, house you, clothe you and heal you.

Forget Kafka and Just Use Postgres (until it breaks). You may think I'm rage-baiting but I actually mean it. Here's why orgs jump to Kafka prematurely:👇

fun fact: the reason ur internal body temperature spikes when infected is because viruses are using ur body to train LLMs. > we’re simply a walking data center.

I have never taken a look at another man’s GitHub profile. What kind of sickos do you have to be to proudly show off your own GitHub profile on X? This is something you do in the privacy of your bedroom with your wife.

Your program writes to a file. `write()` succeeds. `close()` returns 0. So your data is safely on disk, right? 🤨 Not so fast. This is one of the most common and dangerous traps in Linux I/O. A thread on silent data loss and the `close()` syscall (#3 on x86_64). 🧵👇

🚀 @TimescaleDB 2.23 is out! 14 feature improvements + 16 bug fixes, including: 🔹 Full PostgreSQL 18 support 🔹 UUIDv7 compression now default (~2× faster, 30% smaller) 🔹 Hypertables can be set to UNLOGGED 🔹 Continuous aggregates now support set-returning functions Rolling out to Cloud in the coming weeks. OSS users can grab it now from GitHub or our pre-built binaries.

Obesity Discovery Stuns Scientists, Challenges 60-Year-Old Beliefs | scitechdaily.com/obesity-dis…

#Hyprland 0.52, a tiling #Wayland compositor, lands with improved rendering, per-device rotation support, and bug fixes. linuxiac.com/hyprland-0-52-a…

autumn colours in Germany 🇩🇪

The Jetson One personal aircraft was recently demonstrated in a four-vehicle aerial race. The aircraft is designed for a single person, takes off and hovers like a helicopter, and can go up to 1,500 feet off the ground. livescience.com/technology/e…

Scientists with the Norwegian Orca Survey and Orca Channel have documented, for the first time and in astounding detail, the birth of an orca and the newborn's first hour. livescience.com/animals/orca…

If you using nazi software... you are doing at least 1 thing right!

The SUMO Japanese team quits en masse, accusing #Mozilla’s AI system of erasing years of community translation work. linuxiac.com/ai-controversy-…

Linux app sandboxing & distribution framework @FlatpakApps 1.17 lets users install directly from OCI images, forward directories, preinstall OS apps, and brings new sandbox options, better CLI output, cancellation support for curl, and much more. alternativeto.net/news/2025/…

End of Japanese community at Mozilla

It's amazing to see the entitlement leaking out of consumers of open source code, and how it manifests. If something FOSS is important to you, but it falls short, helping fix it might be a good start.