Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable
For years I treated HDMI-CEC like a house spirit: sometimes helpful, mostly temperamental, never fully understood. My living-room stack is straightforward: Samsung TV on ARC (NOT eARC – story for another day), Denon AVR-X1700H hidden in a closet, Apple TV plus a bunch of consoles connected to the receiver, and a Raspberry Pi 4 already […]
A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock
QuestDB is the open-source time-series database for demanding workloads—from trading floors to mission control. It delivers ultra-low latency, high ingestion throughput, and a multi-tier storage engine. Native support for Parquet and SQL keeps your data portable, AI-ready—no vendor lock-in. I’ve been a Linux user since the late 90s, starting with Slackware on an underpowered AMD […]
Upcoming Changes to Let’s Encrypt Certificates
Let’s Encrypt is introducing several updates to the certificates we issue, including new root certificates, the deprecation of TLS client authentication, and shortening certificate lifetimes. To help roll out changes gradually, we’re making use of ACME profiles to allow users to have control over when some of these changes take place. For most users, no […]
“Super secure” MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone’s phone number
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D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop
D-Bus was introduced by GNOME folks about 20 years ago. For software made only 20 years ago, as opposed to 40 like X, it’s surprisingly almost equally as bad. As a service, D-Bus is incredibly handy and useful, and overall, I believe the idea should absolutely be used by more apps. However, the implementation… oh […]
Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
The future is (still) now The premier UX of the 21st century just got a little better: With chafa, you can now view very, very reasonable approximations of pictures and animations in the comfort of your favorite terminal emulator. The power of ANSI X3.64 compels you! Example You can get fair results by using only […]
US Tech Force
The US Tech Force is recruiting an elite corps of engineers to build the next generation of government technology. Backed by the White House, Tech Force will tackle the most complex and large-scale civic and defense challenges of our era – from administering critical financial infrastructure at the Treasury Department to advancing cutting-edge programs at […]
Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
5 hours ago ShareSave Kelly Ng, Koey Leeand Danny Vincent,Hong Kong ShareSave Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner and media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of colluding with foreign forces under the city’s controversial national security law (NSL). The 78-year-old UK citizen, who has been in jail since December 2020, pleaded not guilty. He faces […]
$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
By Richard Crowley | December 15, 2025 Today we’re making PlanetScale Metal for Postgres available in smaller sizes and at much lower price points, all the way down to the new M-10 for as little as $50 per month. We’ve lowered the floor from 16GiB of RAM with four sizes all the way to 1GiB […]
Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson’s. They blame a deadly pesticide
Paul Friday remembers when his hand started flopping in the cold weather – the first sign nerve cells in his brain were dying. He was eventually diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a brain disease that gets worse over time. His limbs got stiffer. He struggled to walk. He couldn’t keep living on his family farm. Shortly afterward, […]