A hobbyist developer detailed a personal project to implement the classic 3-2-1 backup strategy—three copies of data, on two different media, with one copy offsite—entirely using free, self-managed tools. The effort was sparked by frustration with paying for cloud storage like Google One just to access files they already own, and involved syncing a Minisforum mini-PC, a Lenovo laptop, external hard drives, and mobile devices.
smarmelling.com
· 2026-08-31
The Debian Project has decided against banning AI-generated contributions to its Linux distribution, instead requiring that all submissions meet existing standards for quality, correctness, maintainability, and legal compliance regardless of the tools used. Contributors must review, test, and modify AI-assisted output before submission, though disclosing AI involvement remains optional rather than mandatory.
theverge.com
· 2026-08-31
California's Assembly Bill 1856 has passed both chambers of the state legislature and now heads to Engrossing and Enrolling before reaching Governor Gavin Newsom's desk. The bill retains an amendment carving out open-source operating systems from its age-verification mandates, an exemption first added back in May. Covered operating systems will need to collect birth date or age information during account setup and share a coarse age-range signal with app stores and developers via API.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-31
Libertix is a new Windows application that installs Linux directly without requiring a bootable USB drive or manual partitioning. It supports Windows 10 and 11 and sets up a dual-boot configuration so users can keep Windows while adding Linux, choosing between them at startup. The project is currently running a €3,000 crowdfunding campaign to fund a full-time contributor for summer 2026.
ekimia.fr
· 2026-08-31
A technical post explains intrusive linked lists, a linked-list variant where the 'next' pointer is embedded directly inside the data structure being linked rather than stored in a separate wrapper node. It walks through how to construct such a list in C, including how to recover the address of a containing object by subtracting the offset of its embedded list member.
data-structures-in-practice.com
· 2026-08-31
A technical note explains how to move large files directly between two computers by connecting them with a standard Ethernet patch cable, manually assigning IPv6 addresses to each machine's interface, and piping data through tools like socat and dd. The author reports this setup can reach roughly 900 Mbits per second on ordinary hardware, translating to about 6.7 GB per minute, far outpacing USB drives or cloud uploads for nearby machines.
maurycyz.com
· 2026-08-31
Multikernel Technologies has published the first public version of its multikernel Linux tree, mklinux v7.0-mk2, which lets one physical machine run multiple independent Linux kernels simultaneously, each with dedicated CPU and memory allocations. A host kernel manages hardware assignment via device tree overlays and boots new kernel instances directly onto hardware using kexec, bypassing any hypervisor layer. The initial release supports only x86_64 systems, though the company says the architecture-specific code is built to allow future ports.
linux.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-31
The Linux Foundation's IT infrastructure director revealed that AI crawlers hunting for clean, LLM-free training data are hammering the organization's kernel.org git servers, consuming more CPU power than all legitimate human and tool access combined. Because cgit can generate near-infinite valid URLs for commits, diffs, and patches across hundreds of forks, scrapers are redundantly fetching duplicate data at massive scale.
linux.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-30
A developer released sm750hdmifb, an experimental Linux DRM driver specifically for the SE-DP750A-HDMI PCIe card built around the Silicon Motion SM750G10-AC GPU and SiI9024ACNU HDMI transmitter. It enables true 2048-wide output or a scaled 2560x1080 ultrawide desktop with more efficient colour conversion and update handling than the older sm750fb kernel driver it replaces.
github.com
· 2026-08-30
Researchers found that Omarchy's default configuration added users to the Linux docker group, which lets any process communicate with the root-owned Docker daemon without needing sudo or a password prompt. This effectively gave every application running in a user's desktop session the ability to mount host files and execute commands as root. The issue was reported through responsible disclosure and fixed in Omarchy version 4.0.1.
0xcc.io
· 2026-08-30
A developer has resumed work on DNet, a self-built network stack originally created while studying computer networking, after leaving it dormant for four years. The project handles TAP device creation, Ethernet frame parsing, ARP, ICMPv4, and UDP, and now includes a basic DNS server used as the authoritative resolver for the author's DN42 domain 42420167.xyz.
blog.lyc8503.net
· 2026-08-30
Greg Kroah-Hartman previewed data for his Kernel Recipes 2026 talk in Paris showing that AI and LLM tools scanning the Linux kernel codebase have driven a sharp rise in reported vulnerabilities. Releases that once averaged around 500 fixed CVEs are now approaching 2,000, with Linux 7.3 potentially crossing that mark.
linux.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-29
GoKawiil