@keepandroidopen I should point out that on #Android 16, both #Google and #Samsung contacts apps FAILED to import legit #vcf contacts files; they may be trying to force you to use cloud. The workaround is to use #Fossify and that is what works for me. https://brave.com/blog/keep-android-open/

@grahamperrin The critical imports are done, but I'll file this away for next time, good find, cheers. Not having secure boot is a pain, and it was luck and flaw finding that workaround! The bridge setup is far more painful and needs documenting before I restart that laptop next.

@grahamperrin It's the cut-off for osinfo-db updates in Ubuntu 24.04 as shipped.

@freya

Baseline secure boot support for installer and releases · Laptop Project Board

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#FreeBSD #secure #boot

Cc @bms48

@ali_geyik WAAAYYYYY faster, especially on very large PDFs or scan heavy.

#Desktop #Linux Kryptonite detected: None of the main Linux #PDF readers support the #MuPDF rendering engine. In 2026. C'mon. Get real. #SumatraPDF would be the answer, but the author declines to port it as it's too inherently tied to #Windows itself. KDE never incorporated the #Okular backend for #MuPDF and it's been forked on GitHub nearly 12 times. I tried #Sioyek but I found the UI was too minimalist. #EVince is still stuck using #Poppler. https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/

Here's an interesting story I published yesterday, in case you missed it: Participation Required a Microsoft License — Until Citizens Pushed Back - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2026/03/participation-required-a-microsoft-license-until-citizens-pushed-back/

exfatprogs 1.3.2 Brings Improvements To mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat

For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux, tagged today was exfatprogs 1.3.2 as the newest update to these open-source user-space programs for going along with the Linux kernel's exFAT file-system driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/exfatprogs-1.3.2

@fj @yannlecun

For alt text:

LeCun doesn't mince his words about why he ultimately decided to leave Meta after more than a decade. Staying became politically difficult, he tells me. And while Zuckerberg likes LeCun's world model research, the crowd who were hired for the company's new superintelligence push are "completely LLM-pilled".

"You don't tell a researcher what to do. You certainly don't tell a researcher like me what to do"

This clearly alienated LeCun. "I'm sure there's a lot of people at Meta, including perhaps Alex, who would like me to not tell the world that LLMs basically are a dead end when it comes to superintelligence," he says. "But I'm not gonna change my mind because some dude thinks I'm wrong. I'm not wrong. My integrity as a scientist cannot allow me to do this."

Sir Tony Hoare has died
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316880
#hackernews #tech

I'll always appreciate how @pluralistic introduced #enshittification to the modern lexicon

https://makertube.net/w/gUAxkcZ7ghpK7KkQnnQBRF

Ah poo. The train is stuffed up here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8l2wx0027o

@basernst @nextcloud @pluralistic RSSGuard fan here. Brave would be OK but they shovel it into new tab, and I prefer those to be totally blank. Edge gave me a very, very bad experience. Memory leakage like crazy and baked-in ad trackers!

Something I really like is reading articles through my RSS feed reader (I use News from @nextcloud ). #RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is still just a brilliant old bit of tech that lets you find and read what you want, without obnoxious algorithms or questionable web design getting in the way.

Some time ago, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic gave some great tips how to use RSS: https://doctorow.medium.com/you-should-be-using-an-rss-reader-76aed31151f9

Bread baked!

#Ottawa #Baking #Bread #Bread_Baking

@ngate Yeah but I just tried to buy an N100 box twice last week and got cancelled by the sellers. There's no DDR5 or DDR4 anywhere now. I bought a Haswell era DDR3 desktop just because it was the only way I could get some DRAM.

GenAI risk management: limit #GitHub exposure and switch to #sourcehut where @drewdevault has committed to protecting developers. #Microsoft allegedly trained GitHub #Copilot on #copyleft material code, when we all know #RAG #LLMs cannot cite like humans. Potentially massive IP violation. My PhD is #ccbysa and if the RAG LLMs can't abide by the terms, then the people who are using them are in violation. And yes, I will enforce terms. There's pending case law for this. Lots and lots of it!

🚨BREAKING: #Bureaucracy pleads with itself to follow its own rules! 📜 #LibreOffice asks the European Commission to actually do what it says it does. Spoiler alert: They agreed! 🎉 Now we wait for pigs to fly. 🐷✈️
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #EuropeanCommission #Compliance #Rules #PigsCanFly #HackerNews #ngated

Meanwhile, #Microsoft and others are betting the farm on #AF_XDP and #eBPF for #QUIC server-side #acceleration, its current kryptonite.