CERN переводит более 2200 систем управления ускорителями с RHEL-семейства на Debian 13

30 августа на MiniDebConf Winterthur 2026 инженеры CERN Федерико Вага и Никос Ципинакис представили доклад «Controlling CERN’s Accelerators with Debian», посвящённый переводу компьютеров системы управления ускорительным комплексом с дистрибутивов семейства Red Hat на Debian. Согласно опубликованным CERN материалам, до конца 2026 года Debian 13 должен быть установлен более чем на 2200 промышленных компьютерах и встраиваемых системах. 1 сентября это отдельно подтвердила Debian Publicity Team.

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A note for my international readers: this post is in german, because the book is — eight short stories of the fantastic, out now as paperback and ebook (amazon.de, but the ebook travels). A translation is not planned for the time being; the state of things post has a summary in english. Ich habe fr…

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Hyperuplink: Discuss like it's 1998

Between the screeching handshake of a 2400-baud modem, the steady hum of a computer in Turbo mode, and the pale flicker of a CRT glowing at three in the morning, the internet seemed to have had something that, over the past two decades or so, it has completely lost: A soul. Communities made up of actual humans gathered around bulletin boards that loaded in a single request, where regular hardware could bring an entire world to your screen without borrowing half your CPU just to show you a list of topics. If you happened to have lived through that brief and peculiar moment in history, you probably...

The software I could never justify building — and why LLMs changed that

I recently made the mistake of asking GitHub and GitLab what I had worked on during the previous twelve months. The answer was ridiculous: sixty GitHub repositories with my commits, forty-two GitLab project IDs with activity, and enough overlap, mirrors, experiments, libraries and product work to ma…

Simsalabim — giving the iOS Simulator hardware powers

The iOS Simulator is a wonderfully fast place to build an app — right up to the moment the app needs something that belongs to the physical world. Bluetooth discovery returns nothing, there’s no camera, Core NFC is unavailable, and a freshly created simulator has no contacts, appointments, remi…

The Cables that Connect the World

At the northeastern edge of La Línea de la Concepción, on a scrubby Mediterranean beach called El Burgo–Torrenueva, there is an old battlement-tower, La Torre Nueva, and not much else. It was part of the system of coastal watchtowers during the 16th century that would defend the area against the incursion of the Barbary corsairs. The coordinates are 36°12′36″N, 5°19′27″W. Walk the tideline and you would never know that buried two meters beneath the sand, a fiber-optic cable comes out of the sea here and turns into the internet. It’s the start of a line that runs across the Strait of Gibraltar to Ceuta, on the African coast,...

Two questions macOS should answer — lsaudio and lsusd

Some tools begin with a roadmap. Others — like these two — begin with a question you ask yourself often enough that irritation wins. At my desk, two questions kept coming back: What is making that sound? What exactly is connected over USB? macOS knows both answers. CoreAudio knows every process th…

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Flipper BUSY Bar

Yes, it is in fact real, I’m holding it in my hands, and after what feels like years of Flipper teasing everyone with this ominous device in various online posts, I can finally confirm that it is real.

The BUSY Bar is a 250 gram desk device by Flipper Devices, the company behind the Flipper Zero and the still very much in-development Flipper One. It’s basically a little display that shows various things on a 72x16 RGB LED matrix, and as of writing this its main selling point is that it can run a Pomodoro-style focus timer, and that it has a full-blown HTTP API that’s available over...