Feb 18, 2026 from It's FOSS KDE Plasma 6.6 Turns Spectacle Into an OCR Tool and Ships a New Setup Wizard The release also includes a new color blindness filter, an on-screen keyboard, and better high refresh rate display handling.
Feb 18, 2026 from It's FOSS Think You're Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out It is open source, vendor-neutral, and free to self-host.
Feb 18, 2026 from Saeed Esmaili Taming Claude Code: Taking Back Control I started using Claude Code in July last year. I was a Cursor user looking for something better, and I was skeptical at first. Claude Code is a terminal-based tool, and I was used to IDEs. With Cur...
Feb 18, 2026 from kmcd.dev Visualizing the Internet (2026) Mapping global Internet infrastructure and routing dominance over time
Feb 18, 2026 from It's FOSS 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch The AsteroidOS 2.0 release aims to provide a stable, beautiful base for people who want an open smartwatch today, and an interesting project for developers who want to experiment, learn and contrib...
Feb 18, 2026 from Julia Evans Notes on clarifying man pages Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page. I’ve spent a lot of time writing cheat sheets for tools (t...
Feb 17, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual CSS, grau, grey und gray Ist es in CSS „grey“ oder „gray“? Und wie ist es mit hellgrau und dunkelgrau?
Feb 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 17 February 2026 Abandon Sheep Edition Top Story After all the fuss, OpenClaw, fomerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot until Anthropic made rumbling noises, isn't all that. (Tech Crunch) What it does achieve is making i...
Feb 17, 2026 from It's FOSS Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again? Debian's official tagline is "Universal Operating System". It's more than just a tagline: it's a deeper concept that underpins the very nature of Debian as a project.
Feb 17, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software Happy Anniversary: Revisiting the AGPL and CLAs The first post I made on this blog was on this date in 2003. Rather than engaging in my usual anniversary navel-gazing, I wanted to respond to a post I saw recently on Mastodon. Disclaimer: I curre...
Feb 17, 2026 from It's FOSS Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Microsoft Copilot-Infested GitHub Wondering about the replacement? Gentoo is betting on Codeberg.
Feb 17, 2026 from It's FOSS Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming matrixOS brings OSTree atomic upgrades to Gentoo with a simple motto: "emerge once, deploy everywhere."
Feb 17, 2026 from It's FOSS Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in Linux Terminal Who said weather reports have to be boring and I am not even talking about the Maxican Weather
Feb 17, 2026 from seize the dev Will Software Engineering Survive? Investigating recent claims amidst the rise of LLMs.
Feb 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 16 February 2026 Fixed Clicks Edition Top Story The word of the day is ClickFix, the favourite tool of lazy hackers everywhere. (Microsoft) They don't need to hack you if they can convince you to hack yourself, usu...
Feb 16, 2026 from It's FOSS Reverse Engineering Linux Distro REMnux Marks 15 Years With Major v8 Release Featuring AI Agent Support Malware analysis Linux distro gets Ubuntu 24.04 base, a new installer, and many new tools.
Feb 16, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Wishing Everyone a Happy Year of the Horse! - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #123 At this once-in-60-years auspicious moment, I wish all my readers: good health (CPU at full power), a soaring career (performance optimised), smooth sailing in everything (bug-free runtime), and im...
Feb 16, 2026 from It's FOSS Murena Teams Up With German Manufacturer to Offer a €698 de-Googled Android Tablet Featuring 12GB of RAM and a 10,000 mAh battery, this collaboration with Volla brings some decent specs to the privacy-first mobile market.
Feb 16, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Language models imply world models In a recent article about John Haugeland's rejection of micro-worlds I claimed: as a “Large Language Model”, Claude necessarily includes a model of the world in general Nobody has objected to this ...
