Ubuntu leftovers

Picking a Distro That Is Too Advanced Instead of Starting Simple

Mehiška univerza poizkusila s spletnimi sprejemnimi izpiti, rezultat katastrofa

• Matej Huš :: 4. avg 2026 ob 19:41
• Ostale najave

Slo-Tech - Letos je največja mehiška univerza UNAM sprejemne izpite prvikrat organizirala prek spleta, na njih pa je sodelovalo več kot 160.000 mladih. Da ne bi goljufali, so morali na računalnike namestiti poseben brskalnik LockDown Browser podjetja Respondus, ki jim je onemogočil zapuščanje okna z izpitom, in programsko opremo za nadzor prek vgrajene spletne kamere. Univerza je uporabljala umetno inteligenco, ki je sproti preverjala, ali je na kamerah zaznati goljufanje, hkrati pa je potek izpita nadzorovalo več kot sto ljudi. Rezultat je bil kljub temu katastrofalen. Več na Slo-Techu.

Evropska vesoljska agencija razvija svojo raketo za večkratno uporabo

• Matej Huš :: 4. avg 2026 ob 19:41
• Znanost in tehnologija

Slo-Tech - V vesoljskem centru Esrange blizu švedske Kirune je Evropska vesoljska agencija s podjetjem ArianeGroup na tleh uspešno preizkusila prvostopenjsko raketo Themis, ki se lahko uporabi večkrat. Gre za prototip evropske rakete, ki jo poganjata utekočinjeni kisik in metan, je 23. julija uspešno prestala preizkus, kar so javnosti sporočili z enotedensko zamudo. Več na Slo-Techu.

Na lingvistični olimpijadi letos brez medalj

• Matej Huš :: 4. avg 2026 ob 19:41
• Znanost in tehnologija

Slo-Tech - V Bukarešti se je končala 23. mednarodna lingvistična olimpijada, ki je potekala od 26. julija do 2. avgusta letos. Na tekmovanju so Slovenijo zastopali tudi štirje dijaki, ki pa so bili malce prekratki za medalje. Med okoli 250 nastopajočimi iz več kot 40 držav je Ela Biasizzo (Gimnazija Vič) osvojila pohvalo. Nastopili so še Lucija Kutin, Rok Lavrič (oba Gimnazija Bežigrad) in Ivan Tušek (Gimnazija Škofja Loka). Več na Slo-Techu.

new release this week

The Fedora Council is considering a conflict-of-interest (COI) policy for its decision-making bodies, such as the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), special-interest groups (SIGs), and any other groups or individuals that report to the council and are responsible for decisions that impact the Fedora project. The current draft does not, however, apply to the council itself. The public discussion for the COI policy began on July 23 and seems to be nearing completion, with the council set to discuss the topic again during its meeting on August 13.

StepSecurity is reporting the emergence of a new worm affecting npm packages. The design of the worm is nothing new, but the rapidity with which it is exploiting captured npm packager credentials is noteworthy.

TL;DR: A self-propagating worm, which we are calling ChainDrop, is spreading rapidly through the npm ecosystem. So far 435 packages and more than 1,550 compromised versions have been flagged, starting with keyv@6.0.0. If you are using any of the packages listed below, assume your environment is compromised. We are still investigating the full scope; check back on this post for updates.

some interesting data this month

The recent discussion on "spawn templates" raised questions about whether it was time to provide an alternative to the classic Unix fork()/exec() pattern for process creation. One idea that was raised there was to shift the template pattern into an interface that could be used to efficiently assemble new processes from bare cloth, without duplicating the parent process. Preferably, that interface would be able to implement posix_spawn(). Li Chen, the author of the spawn-template work, has now responded with a patch series (written with significant LLM assistance) showing what a process-builder API for Linux might look like.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (frr, ldns, mingw-glib2, and perl-Archive-Tar), Debian (ruby2.7), Fedora (borgbackup, nebula, python-nh3, rust-ammonia, and seamonkey), Mageia (librabbitmq, libvncserver, packages, perl, perl-GD, perl-Unicode-LineBreak, squid, and unbound), Oracle (compat-libtiff3, frr, gstreamer1-plugins-good, javapackages-tools:201801, libreswan, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, p11-kit, perl-Archive-Tar, perl-DBI, php, pki-deps:10.6, and python-tornado), and SUSE (aws-iam-authenticator, bind, containerd, gawk, google-cloud-sap-agent, ignition, ImageMagick, java-11-openjdk, libpng16, libssh, mcphost, nginx, openssh, openssl-1_1, perl-DBI, perl-HTTP-Date, perl-Net-DNS, python-urwid, python3-dulwich, python312, python313, python3, python313-pydantic, python313-sentry-sdk, rrdtool, s390-tools, samba, spice-vdagent, vim, and xen).

Slovakia isn't a large or powerful economy, but we habitually keep abreast of this data from there

Linux usage has been growing since May and has now managed to cross over into the double-digit levels of market share

Development picks

food becomes more scarce (in nature)

Debian 'Family'

Here’s everything new in Android 17 QPR2 Beta 2 [Gallery]

Alpine is a Linux distro that takes minimalism to the extreme

This is free and open source software

Some years ago we learned we had some avid readers in Kazakhstan