Milestone achieved! For Debian Code Search, I no longer need to use cgo to link in the AVX2-optimized TurboPFor C library that powers our index since 2019: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-09-29-dcs-positional-turbopfor-index/

Instead, thanks to Go 1.27’s SIMD support, I can use AVX2 (and AVX512) natively from Go :)

Turns out that upstream C TurboPFor does not use AVX512 yet, so my Go implementation is now *faster* than C (for our use-case) 😲

So, as of today, Debian Code Search is running with CGO_ENABLED=0 (and GOEXPERIMENT=simd GOAMD64=v3) 🎉

A blog post with more details is in the works, if you’re curious. Let me know if you run into any bugs.

#golang #debian #simd

Just asked ONE question about NVIDIA drivers about r/Debian and everyone in the comments is losing their mind.

Reddit (much like AI bots) really goes insane when it comes to answering questions to which there is not one clear answer.

#debian #linux #reddit #nvidia

Debian discussion to ban LLM, https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002.

Undeniable arguments, with sources!

#debian #llm

> It is our belief that widespread LLM usage comes from the "move fast, and break things" attitude that, while common in many parts of this industry, is contrary to what makes Debian Debian, and is inappropriate for Debian contributors. (1/3)

About LLM, AI companies, the environment, the climate crisis.

In the context of the huge discussion about AI in #Debian, I wrote that email:

https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5742777.MHq7AAxBmi@turnagra

Debian discussion to ban LLM, https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002.

Undeniable arguments, with sources!

#debian #llm

> It is our belief that widespread LLM usage comes from the "move fast, and break things" attitude that, while common in many parts of this industry, is contrary to what makes Debian Debian, and is inappropriate for Debian contributors. (1/3)

Yet Another Fine Kernel Upgrade

#linux #debian

This week's Linux and FOSS news

LINUX NEWS

COSMIC 1.3 Desktop Environment Released with Frosted Glass Effect:
https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-3-desktop-environment-released-with-frosted-glass-effect

GNOME Wants to Let You Test Experimental Features Without Breaking Anything:
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17380180/gnome-test-center-announcement

GNOME OS Safe Mode Improving The System Reliability:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-Safe-Mode

Ubuntu 26.04 fixes trash dialog bug that defaulted to cancel:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-trash-dialog-cancel-button-fix

Ubuntu 26.04 fixes Papers bug that sent PDF links to wrong page:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-papers-pdf-viewer-bug-fixes

SteamOS 3.8.15 brings a performance fix and SteamOS 3.8.23 Beta is out too:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steamos-3-8-15-brings-a-performance-fix-and-steamos-3-8-23-beta-is-out-too/

KDE neon 20260716 delivers Plasma 6.7.3 and KDE Gear 26.04.3 on Ubuntu 24.04:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/kde-neon-20260716-released-plasma-673-and-kde-gear-26043-on-ubuntu-2404-lts/

Collabora announce a preview of Holo Core, an AArch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/collabora-announce-a-preview-of-holo-core-an-aarch64-port-of-arch-linux-for-steam-frame/

Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 Disk Imaging Tool Adds Reverse-Connection Network Cloning:
https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-3-3-disk-imaging-tool-adds-reverse-connection-network-cloning

Gearlever 4.6.0 Lands with JSON Output for AppImage Automation:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/gearlever-460-released-with-json-cli-output-for-linux-appimage-automation/

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #PopOS #KDE #OpenMandriva #Phosh #TUXEDO #Shelly #Deepin #postmarketOS #FosseryTech

Est-ce que quelqu'un.e saurait me dire comment installer #reaper sur mon #laptop sous #linux avec une #debian 13 ?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/116912728532882975

Thanks, but I like using my selfhosted searxng instance :)

#selfhost #searxng #freesoftware #opensource #selfhosted #debian

AodeRelay boosted

War and Peas 🧿 » 🌐 2026-07-13
@warandpeas@mastodon.social

We said it before. We say it again: @ecosia is so cool and just by using it you can make a positive impact on nature and climate. In contrast to other search engines that work towards the apocalypse...

https://www.ecosia.org/

This week's Linux and FOSS news

LINUX NEWS

Linux Mint 23 to offer full Wayland support (but X11 is staying):
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/linux-mint-wayland-fully-supported

Debian 12.15 Released as Bookworm's Final Point Update:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/debian-gnu-linux-1215-released-final-bookworm-update-signals-lts-transition/

Debian 13.6 “Trixie” Released with 124 Bug Fixes and 120 Security Updates:
https://9to5linux.com/debian-13-6-trixie-released-with-124-bug-fixes-and-120-security-updates

Ubuntu 25.10 loses security updates on 9 July, 2026:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-2510-eol-july-9-2026

Ubuntu 26.10 retires dbus-daemon after 22 year run as default:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-10-dbus-broker

Ubuntu Reverts to GNU cp After Rust Version Briefly Breaks Live Image Builds:
https://debugpointnews.com/ubuntu-reverts-rust-cp-after-live-image-build-failure/

Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Frosted-Glass-Arrives

TUXEDO Computers Plans to Rebase TUXEDO OS on Debian Testing:
https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-computers-plans-to-rebase-tuxedo-os-on-debian-testing

OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Disrupted

Hannah Montana Linux has been revived with a modernized stack, but still a lot of pink!:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/hannah-montana-linux-has-been-revived-with-a-modernized-stack-but-still-a-lot-of-pink-/

Deepin 25.2 upgrades Treeland Wayland compositor, adds image content search & improves DDE:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/deepin-25-2-upgrades-treeland-wayland-compositor-adds-image-content-search-and-improves-dde/

Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os

postmarketOS introduces KDE Plasma 6.7, better USB gadget handling, and Waydroid updates:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/postmarketos-introduces-kde-plasma-6-7-better-usb-gadget-handling-and-waydroid-updates/

Phosh 0.56 adds CPU load-meter plugin, application hiding, and tablet lock screen rotation:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/phosh-0-56-adds-cpu-load-meter-plugin-application-hiding-and-tablet-lock-screen-rotation/

KDE Plasma 6.6.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes and Various Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-6-released-with-numerous-bug-fixes-and-various-improvements

KDE Frameworks 6.28 Released with Support for New KRunner Conversion Units:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-28-released-with-support-for-new-krunner-conversion-units

Bazaar 0.9.1 drops with "similar apps" discovery and accessibility tweaks:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/bazaar-091-release-similar-apps-discovery-and-accessibility-improvements/

Shelly 2.4.1.2 lands with key fixes, solidifying its spot as an Arch-native package manager alternative:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/shelly-2412-lands-key-fixes-for-libalpm-package-manager/

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #PopOS #KDE #OpenMandriva #Phosh #TUXEDO #Shelly #Deepin #postmarketOS #FosseryTech

Tuxedo Computers are putting Ubuntu Linux in the bin to use Debian for Tuxedo OS https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/tuxedo-computers-are-putting-ubuntu-linux-in-the-bin-to-use-debian-for-tuxedo-os/

#Ubuntu #Linux #TuxedoOS #Debian #OpenSource

It's been a while I refreshed my pinned #introduction toot, and I figured today will be a fitting day to write a new one.

Hi! Despite the avatar, I'm not a furry

1

, I'm a boring cishet white dude. Despite my privileged status, I might be considered a "terrorist"

2

in some weird jurisdictions, and some companies

3

will consider me a "malicious actor", because I built myself a crawler defense system that serves them an infinite maze of garbage. To them, I say: fuck you. I'm a Vengeful Mouse.

I also have the privilege of being able to admire the human body in all shapes and forms, even such "grotesque" things as a female presenting nipple (like this one: , not to be confused with the , an entirely different and totally not grotesque thing). I wish this was the norm, rather than a privilege.

I'm a serial drive-by contributor, I have my fingerprints all over the internet. I have code in #QMK, #Kaleidoscope, and #Chrysalis, but I contributed to #Forgejo, #niri, and a whole lot of other things too. I find great joy in playing with new things, and submitting patches or other contributions. I used to be a #Debian developer, I've put #Hy in production, and lately I've been building #NixOS configurations not only as a literate #OrgMode document, with with #OrgRoam. I am extremely normal and neurotypical.

Apart from these very normal things, I use #NixOS to boot into #Emacs, which is the real operating system I use, like a very sane, completely neurotypical person would. I also tend to live-toot (very verbosely) all kinds of shenanigans I'm up to, because I always forget I have a blog.

While I do wrangle code for a living in a variety of languages (in whatever language necessary, I'm a generalist! But if I can choose, I turn to #Rust, although #Lisp languages are also very dear to me), if it were up to me, I'd much prefer wrangling other kinds of words

4

than programming language symbols. Sadly, we're not living in a world that makes possible, so I had no choice but become a #luddite and so can you.

But I'm not all about tech

5

! I'm also Dad to wonderful Twins, and Husband to my Wife, who not only puts up with my crazy, but gently

6

fans the flames too. I may occassionally toot about #parenting, too.

I may or may not have an unhealthy addiction to footnotes

7

.

1. Nope, I'm not in denial stage, I do not work in infosec. ↩︎

2. I'm anti-fascist. ↩︎

3. Like Anthropic. ↩︎

4. Short stories like this toot, or The Tragedy of Byr (which might need an explanation to really understand what's going on). ↩︎

5. I wish I could leave tech, really. ↩︎

6. Where "gently" is either an eyeroll and more wood thrown onto the campfire, or straight up lighting up the neighbourhood, figuratively speaking. ↩︎

7. ...if you haven't noticed yet... ↩︎

Abbaye is a Static Site Generator (#SSG) for your #software releases, for those of us who can't or won't use a full-featured software forge.

Big release!

Some refactoring to make the code easier to maintain, some small bugfixes (mainly introduced by the new features :p).

But the star features of this release are:

• Artifact categories and naming: artifacts are now categorized and named consistently, making it easier to understand what each artifact is for, if you choose to do so. It is done via the new [[builder]] category, name and comment keys in the configuration file.
• Add multi-format support. It's still in the early stages but it's functional and supports HTML or Gemtext (for all my #smolweb folks out there).
• Add support for non-interactive terminals, as in the case of a CI/CD pipeline. You'll still see progress via some log messages and not be stuck on a black screen without any information! (note: this requires the use of abbaye --verbose)

Here's Abbaye's 0.8.0 page, as built with Abbaye itself: https://vit.am/~ololduck/abbaye/0.8.0/

#Rust #SmallWeb #Rustlang #StaticSiteGenerator

Alt...

view of abbaye's revamped sidebar where you can see that downloadable items now have names, categories and descriptions