Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

A few months ago I threw this question out into the void - “what if you could access the fediverse through your Usenet reader??” and got almost no response. Still, the idea had lodged in my brain and wouldn’t go away so this weekend I caved in and built the thing. Hat tip to the author of the excellent nntpserver package that did all the hard stuff.

I look forward to seeing someone’s screenshots of fediverse posts on a Commodore 64, some day.

This will be released as a part of PieFed 1.7, coming soon.

#FOSSGIS2026 Programm-APP für Android Smartphone und Tablet @tbsprs im Playstore und F-Droid verfügbar: https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2026/programm/APPs.php#FahrplanAPP

Erstelle Deine Favoriten und Helferschichten zur #FOSSGIS2026 in einer App.

#FOSSGIS #OpenStreetMap #OSGeo

So, I rented a FLIR thermal imaging camera for the weekend, for the serious purpose of checking the windows and overall insulation of our house.

But you can also take cat pictures with this thing.

#caturday

"Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards."
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/19/germanys-sovereign-digital-stack-mandates-odf/

"The Document Foundation (#TDF), the non-profit entity behind #LibreOffice, welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (#ODF) as a mandated standard format in Germany’s Deutschland-Stack, the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations."

Florian Effenberger (@floeff), executive director of TDF: "You cannot claim digital sovereignty while allowing your documents to be locked in proprietary formats controlled by a single vendor."

#Germany #Formats #OpenSource #OpenStandards #Standards

The discovery of the longest pattern ever for DDR5 Rowhammer flips! 😱

Join us for Kaveh Razavi’s talk “Rowhammer bit flips a decade later”:

📅 April 1st, 2026 | 11:00
📍 CCG Seminar room, CCGEG002

Abstract:
The first Rowhammer exploit was published a little more than a decade ago on a DDR3-based system. Since then, we have had two generations of DRAM technology with proprietary mitigations. In this talk, I present our journey in understanding the security guarantees of these mitigations in DDR4 and DDR5 devices through significant platform building efforts, painstaking reverse engineering, and creative system-level techniques. The results are not encouraging; DRAM is as insecure as a decade ago while the cost of independent security analysis is growing beyond what academia can do. I finish with a brief discussion of possible paths forward.

Details 👇
https://www.isec.tugraz.at/event/rowhammer-bit-flips-a-decade-later/

Today we released GIMP 3.2 with major new features, including vector layers, link layers (smart objects), DDS BC7 export, better PSD import including PSB for large images, MyPaint 2.0 brushes, and much more!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/

#GIMP #imageEditor #GPL #openSource #libreGraphics #GIMP3 #GIMP3_2 #GEGL #news #release