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• SCALE 22x
• Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust — Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers dammit, we've been maintaining and strengthening Linux for longer than anyone ever thought was going to be possible. We've turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel creating something that no one else has ever been able to accomplish. Adding another language really shouldn't be a problem, we've handled much worse things in the past and we shouldn't give up now on wanting to ensure that our project succeeds for the next 20+ years. We've got to keep pushing forward when confronted with new good ideas, and embrace the people offering to join us in actually doing the work to help make sure that we all succeed together.
• Kees Cook on Rust in the kernel — In other words, I don't see any reason to focus on replacing existing code -- doing so would actually carry a lot of risk. But writing new stuff in Rust is very effective. Old code is more stable and has fewer bugs already, and yet, we're still going to continue the work of hardening C, because we still need to shake those bugs out. But new code can be written in Rust, and not have any of these classes of bugs at all from day one.
• Linus Re: Rust kernel policy — You are not forced to take any Rust code, or care about any Rust code in the DMA code. You can ignore it. But "ignore the Rust side" automatically also means that you don't have any say on the Rust side.
• Texas Linux Fest is back again in 2025!
• Pick: treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader — Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already purchased.
• Amazon removes your right to download Kindle books
• Amazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads to your PC soon
• How to Download Kindle Books to Your Computer Before Amazon Kills the Feature
• Simplest Way to Remove DRM from Books – No Kindle Serial Number Needed!
• Pick: nping — 🏎 Nping mean NB Ping, A Ping Tool in Rust with Real-Time Data and Visualizations

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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• River - Buy Bitcoin. Easy & Secure.: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin.

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• Planet Nix
• Flox — Your dev environment, everywhere
• The Launch 🚀 09: The Eagle has Landed
• The Rules of the FreeBSD Challenge
• libluksde — Library and tools to access LUKS Disk Encryption encrypted volumes
• linuxulator-steam-utils — Linux Steam on FreeBSD
• bhyve/Windows - FreeBSD Wiki
• Chapter 12. Linux Binary Compatibility
• doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor
• doas mastery
• Chapter 33. Firewalls
• ardour « audio - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
• jellyfin « multimedia - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
• Hank wrote in about his testing with a Pi4
• FreeBSD pi4 tweak — I got lucky - that was posted two days before I gave this a go. I installed on a 4GB Pi 4B.
• Hank's BSD Notes — IMO should get a point just for figuring out how to configure NTP and time zone. Sheesh!
• Mizutamari — User-friendly Wine front-end primarily for FreeBSD
• Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
• Games - GhostBSD Wiki
• What’s Coming for Future Releases of GhostBSD? — We're making some important changes to how GhostBSD is built and released to provide a better, more stable experience for our users.
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Gene's Portable Screen
• NetBSD Root on ZFS
• Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers.
• Pick: HedgeDoc — HedgeDoc lets you create real-time collaborative markdown notes.
• Pick: Add Water — A utility app to easily install the Firefox GNOME Theme and automatically update it in the background. This theme keeps Firefox fashionable within the GNOME design ecosystem, and provides many helpful features to customize the interface to make browsing even more pleasant

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• Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
• ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world
• Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem
• Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac
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• Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
• Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year
• r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward?
• r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”?
• Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.
• unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈