Articles from Others
A computer science student describes how her university's inconsistent AI policies, AI-generated coursework briefs, and overloaded tutors are degrading the quality of her degree experience.
Ubuntu 26.04's Rust-based sudo implementation is reportedly not compatible with standard sudo, potentially affecting scripts and tooling that rely on traditional sudo behavior.
Google's decision to remove XSLT from Chromium-based browsers takes effect around November 17, 2026, prompting developer backlash over broken web compatibility promises and warning banners injected into affected sites.
Raphael Kabo shares a personal reflection on building social software in the AI-assisted coding era, recounts running the ad-free community platform Sweet, and lists a series of speculative ideas for safer, more communal social networks.
Discussion of Canonical's response times to CVE vulnerability disclosures, highlighting concerns about patching speed for Ubuntu and related packages.
openSUSE Leap 16.1 is the first minor release in the Leap 16 series, and it integrates the immutable server distribution Leap Micro into Leap itself via a new Immutable Mode.
git-loom 1.0 weaves multiple feature branches into a single integration branch, letting developers commit, amend, split and reorder across branches without switching, inspired by jujutsu and GitButler.
PlanetScale explains how its Neki database performs a planned primary-to-replica switchover with minimal disruption, covering preflight validation, convergence/promotion, WAL position tracking, and client recovery.
Firefox 的 2026 年第三季度安全与隐私通讯，涵盖更快的发布周期、TLS 配置透明度警告、Mozilla Root Store Policy v3.1、mailto 链接防骚扰以及扩展本地文件访问权限限制等安全与隐私改进。
A blog post arguing that strict small-PR 'annealing' policies hinder rapid change, and that AI-driven coding produces big, interconnected changes which sometimes can't be cleanly decomposed into small reviewable steps.
A Lobsters discussion comparing Nix implementations — Determinate Nix, Lix, Guix, and alternatives like snix/tvix — covering ecosystem trade-offs, upstreaming concerns, and which variant suits different users.
Tomas Petricek's essay traces how software becomes opaque through well-intentioned engineering and managerial decisions, from OS/360 and information hiding to the closing of the Web and the limits of open source, and argues for imagining a more open nature of software. The work-in-progress paper is under submission to an academic journal on history and philosophy of computing.
A blog post recounting how a bug in the 50-year-old kill(1) utility (shipped via procps in Ubuntu 14/16/18/22/24 LTS) caused an Endcrawl outage by killing all processes on the machine instead of just a target process group, tracing a decade-long series of such bugs and offering recommendations.
An introductory article describing Bε-trees as write-optimized key-value data structures, comparing their asymptotic and real-world performance against B-trees and LSM-trees for on-disk storage in databases and file systems.
The author demonstrates how a barely audible propeller plane’s Doppler curve in a video’s background audio can be combined with ADS-B flight data, CPA time delays, silence filtering, and other layers of screening to narrow millions of candidate points down to an exact location, showcasing the powerful potential of audio signals for geolocation.
A developer rant arguing that tools like vercel-labs' skills installer and Docker Gordon ship unconfigurable hardcoded timeouts that break users in slower-network environments, and that every timeout should be safe, documented, and overridable.
The author used an ESP32-S3 and a PN532 to read and decode the NFC microchip inside a Philips Sonicare toothbrush head, verified the pressure multiplier mechanism, rewrote the brush head data using community GitHub tools, and even used an old brush head to unlock a computer.
A blogger reverse engineers a 2014 Renault Latitude's TomTom Carminat LIVE head unit to restore the missing clock-settings menu, discovering the menu definition is only loaded from a navigation SD card. The writeup covers extracting the ext3 root filesystem from firmware updates and patching the Linux-based device.
Tor Browser 16.0 is released for Desktop and Android, based on Firefox ESR 153, featuring a redesigned Settings experience, a new generic window titles option to prevent snooping, and an audit of over 270 Firefox changes affecting privacy and security.
A developer built a virtual art museum website using Three.js to showcase his wife's award-winning artworks, featuring interactive halls, customizable weather/time settings, and 3D-scanned sculptures.