Security Advisory (CVE-2025-26519) for musl libc:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2025/02/13/1

All users running applications which use iconv with untrusted input (see link for details of what usage is affected) should patch ASAP.

Alpine Linux needs your help, a significant sponsorship will end soon.

This post explains what is affected and how you can help:

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Seeking-Support-After-Equinix-Metal-Sunsets.html

#AlpineLinux

TIL

"The globally unique identifier (GUID) for the BIOS boot partition in the GPT scheme is 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-65656445464916 (which, when written to a GPT in the required little endian fields, forms the ASCII string “Hah!IdontNeedEFI”)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition#Overview

Introducing Trans Europe Planner: Planning long, cross-country train trips can be super frustrating. Perhaps there is an easier way?

Prototype running live at https://trans-europe-planner.eu/ (works on mobile but best viewed on desktop)

See demo video below:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll get a large language model to write me a regular expression."

Now they have a huge electricity bill and an entire regular language full of problems.