Выпуск uutils 0.10, варианта GNU Coreutils на языке Rust

Опубликован выпуск проекта uutils coreutils 0.10.0 (Rust Coreutils), развивающего аналог пакета GNU Coreutils, написанный на языке Rust. В состав coreutils входит более ста утилит, включая sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln и ls. Целью проекта является создание кроссплатформенной альтернативной реализации Coreutils, среди прочего способной работать на платформах Windows, Redox и Fuchsia.

Проект Rust утвердил правила в отношении использования AI-инструментов

Разработчики языка программирования Rust утвердили правила применения AI-ассистентов в проекте. За отдельными исключениями, правила запрещают передачу кода, сгенерированного через AI, но разрешают использование AI для анализа, изучения, рецензирования и проверки кода. Правила распространяются только на основной репозиторий rust-lang/rust, и отдельно утверждаются командами разработчиков субмодулей, подветок и зависимостей из каталога crates.io.

Выпуск дистрибутива Tribblix 41, построенного на технологиях OpenSolaris и Illumos

Опубликован выпуск дистрибутива Tribblix 41, основанного на наработках проекта Illumos, продолжающего развитие ядра, сетевого стека, файловых систем, драйверов, библиотек и базового набора системных утилит OpenSolaris. Проект пытается сохранить классический ретро-стиль Solaris при использовании современных версий программ. Из Illumos заимствуются ядро и инструментарий командной строки, а всё остальное пересобирается с использованием собственной сборочной системы. Для распространения программ используются пакеты SVR4. В качестве графических окружений предлагаются Xfce, MATE и Enlightenment. Готовые сборки формируются для систем x86_64.

The TEMU-fication of Software, Digital Goods & Services

Disclaimer: This is an opinion piece and most of it is speculation about a future that has not arrived (yet?), based on a few data points that have. As usual, summary at the end.

A few years ago I would have laughed at anyone telling me that there is a serious market for ten-dollar drills, two-dollar dresses, and one-dollar pairs of shoes shipped from a warehouse on the other side of the planet. Today, however, that market exists and it has a name, and it is even publicly traded (sort of, through holdings). TEMU, Shein and a few others have built frankly mind-boggling businesses around the idea that...

Recreating a Titanic Spark-Gap Transmitter with Python, High Voltage, and ESP32

Let’s Bring Back Some Wireless History

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2026-07-27

This friday (31 july) there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless servers.

It's estimated this will take about 1 hour.

The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime.

Update: the update was performed on saturday (1 august). Everything should work again.

2026-07-27

slock 1.7 released: download

This contains an important security and reliability fix: https://git.suckless.org/slock/commit/55d985a354048e14f408dd731faaf1acbdc277f4.html

A GTK4 ssh-askpass in Zig

I run hardened Gentoo on my laptop, and most of the time I never touch ssh-askpass because I’m using -sk keys for most of the systems. There is one class of situation where I do need it, though, which is when a program wants an SSH key passphrase for a regular ED25519 key, but has no terminal to read it from. The usual case is go get, or the go toolchain in general, fetching a private module over SSH during a build that runs without a TTY. OpenSSH can’t prompt on a pipe, so it runs whatever SSH_ASKPASS points at and puts the passphrase prompt in a...

I Regret Migrating to Codeberg

My primary reason for leaving GitHub was not about a single feature or a single outage, but about the “enshittification” of the platform under Microsoft’s ownership. The web interface got rewritten into a sluggish pile of JavaScript that either broke things which used to just work, or made them so horribly slow that using them became a PITA. Beyond the technical decay GitHub had turned into de facto “public infrastructure” in much the same way that WhatsApp has, hosting the source code of a very large share of the world’s software and, through that, giving Microsoft a degree of leverage and surveillance over everyone’s projects, and by extension everyone’s...

AI in Linux

The role of AI tools (LLMs, mainly) in Linux is under discussion, or it was, until Linus Torvalds “put his foot down” in support of the use of AI in Linux kernel development.

I can identify two major ways in which AI is used for Linux kernel development: authoring code and reviewing code. There are, at the time of writing, just over 1,200 kernel commits with an “Assisted-by” tag, from September 2025 to the present, most of which indicate patches which were written or assisted by LLM tools.

The second important use of AI for Linux comes with a new code review...