Lots of recent picolibc news:

* Oliver Stannard at ARM got testing running on the FVP emulator for more rigorous AARCH64 validation.

* Eduard Tanase fixed a bunch of documentation issues.

* Joel Holdsworth added OpenRisc support.

* Jiaxun Yang fixed my janky tools situation by creating picolibc-ci-tools which auto-builds all of the extra bits we need for CI. They also add LoongArch and LatticeMico32 support. The latter uncovered GCC bugs which I had fun fixing.

Thanks to all of you!

📣 All Systems Go! 2025 will take place Sept 30th-Oct 1st. We are excited to move back to the venue we held the event at for the first 3 years, Alte-Münze in the heart of Berlin along the river Spree.
The 🗣️ CFP opens and 🎟️ ticket sales start in mid-March.
🎗️ If your organization wants to sponsor, please reach out.

Dumb legal question: if people generally do not read terms of service type documents, how are they valid as a legal vehicle?

A bit of a retrospective on #Incus in 2024 and what to look forward to in 2025!
https://stgraber.org/2025/01/04/incus-in-2024-and-beyond/

util-linux has merged support for statmount() and listmount() to list mounts:
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/3092#event-15865684400

This should be a nice performance improvement.

See https://brauner.io/2024/12/16/list-all-mounts.html for some details on listmount() and statmount().

#linux #kernel

Peeking at the recent CCC video list:

https://media.ccc.de/b/congress/2024

"BlinkenCity" - uh oh.

@petrillic Yikes, that seems to be very simple. Video: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-the-rp2350

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/113805844834383637

Here's a brief blog on my amateur radio publications last year: https://w7txt.net/2024/12/29/publications-in-2024/

- Investigating the Extended Frequency Range of the WA1MBA Millimeter Wave Quadrupler.

- Open Source Arduino Controller for Surplus Flatpack2 PSU.

#hamradio
#amateurradio
#microwave
#eme
#moonbounce
#electronics

I've written a post that shows how to list all mounts in all mount namespaces (all mounts on the system) using new apis we added to the #vfs last year.

https://brauner.io/2024/12/16/list-all-mounts.html

#kernel #linux #vfs

Here's a blog story with the links to all those #systemd257 stories on Mastodon:

https://0pointer.net/blog/announcing-systemd-v257.html

Enjoy! And stay tuned for #systemd258!

I'm also on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jamesmorris.bsky.social

Seems to be growing for #amateurradio & related lately. Currently I'm randomly posting across X, here, and bsky.

What is the secret to getting tigervnc-server working under Fedora 40?

pathological enshittification achieved

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113539381334735295

1️⃣9️⃣ Here's the 19th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd. #systemd257

A relatively basic feature of systemd's service management is the ability to automatically restart a service in case it terminates unexpectedly, configurable via the Restart= setting.

In v254 we added the RestartMode= setting that allows to fine tune the mechanism to use for restarting the service, i.e. it adds a logic to optionally avoid marking the service as failed between…

@spacetelescope definitely worth clicking through: the image holds a second discovery that’s easier to overlook. Examine the white elliptical galaxy at left. A faint red arc appears in the inset at 10 o’clock. This is a very distant galaxy whose light is bent by the gravity of the elliptical foreground galaxy – and its appearance is duplicated. The stretched red arc is warped where it reappears – as a dot – at 4 o’clock. These images of the lensed galaxy are so faint and so red that they went unrecognized in Hubble data, but are unmistakable in Webb’s near-infrared image.

RE: https://astrodon.social/@spacetelescope/113568009758709150

I've been seeing slow downloads from #Fedora mirrors yesterday & today, pretty sure my Internet connection is ok. Anyone else seeing this?

@yabellini -3 social credits

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@yabellini/111727900478196827

@Rhodium103 neat!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Rhodium103/111466681100733079

8️⃣ Here's the 8th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd.

A longer time ago systemd introduced JSON based user records as an extension of classic UNIX `struct passwd`. These records can be provided via Varlink IPC or via drop-in files. The much richer set of account settings is documented here:

https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/

@gigabecquerel it's beautiful

RE: https://chaos.social/@gigabecquerel/113406997203322492