Artist @[email protected]

Ashtray Gospel © 2026 by Buckminster Burkeswood (mr.prol1f1c) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

The X.Org Foundation has announced that this year's X.Org Developers Conference will be taking place in Toronto, Canada and hosted by Arm.

XDC2026 is scheduled to run from 28 to 30 September in Toronto at the Daniels Spectrum cultural hub in Toronto. Arm has stepped up to organize this year's conference.

Fish, a popular user-friendly command-line shell, has announced version 4.4, a new release that builds on the 4.0 series.

One notable change is the deprecation of the default fossil prompt, which is now disabled. Interactive behavior has also been refined in several areas.

The bind builtin now lists mappings from all modes when --mode is not specified, making keybinding inspection more predictable. Fish no longer displays line-wise autosuggestions that do not begin with a command, reducing visual noise during input.

In time for next month's GNOME 50 release are some improvements merged today for the Mutter compositor code adding HiDPI and monitor mode emulation support to the screen-casting API and DevKit.

GNOME 50 is coming in quite heavy on the new features. The latest code to land in Mutter is a merge request that had been in the works by Jonas Ådahl the past three months for HiDPI and monitor mode emulaiton to benefit GNOME's virtual monitor and remote desktop capabilities.

The folks over at LNH Team have created quite possibly the best Flash Cart for the Nintendo DS (and DSi). It’s called the DS Pico, a Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) based flash cart that incorporates a USB port (USB-C or USB-Micro) which is something we haven't seen before but has some major Homebrew implications! Additionally it further homebrew possibilities with its GPIO that can lead to integration or Infrared, Gyro sensor or even something like GPS. All in all this is one of the most exciting updates in the DS community!

Is there a massive planet, 10 times the mass of Earth, hiding at the edge of our solar system? This is Planet Nine, the solar system’s greatest cold case, predicted by our models but never seen…. until now. Is the hunt finally nearing its end? In this video, we break down the evidence that might have finally located the "missing" planet.

https://archive.ph/nmQMb

Microsoft in Windows 11 22H2 introduced a new ACPI Device Specific Method (DSM) "Turn On Display" notification that the Linux 7.0 kernel will be adding support for in dealing with some otherwise problematic laptop behavior.

Queued up into the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle is support in the s2idle driver for invoking the Microsoft Turn On Display DSM. Microsoft's documentation describes the Turn On Display / Function 9 notification as being used to signal during resume time from modern standby when the intent is to turn on the system's display.

If you have been warming up to the idea of owning physical media or preserving your existing collection before it fades away, then PicoIDE should interest you.

The work of Polpotronics, this is an open source IDE/ATAPI emulator meant to replace aging tech like CD-ROM drives and hard disks. If you don't know what those are, you probably weren't around back then. ☠️

The job of the PicoIDE is quite simple; it can take in disk images (e.g., ISO, .bin/.cue, .vhd) from microSD cards and present them to your vintage computer as real IDE hard drives or ATAPI CD-ROM drives.

https://picoide.com/

TL;DR: The new Lead CM introduces themselves and wants to hear from you about what we can do to help make the RuneScape community better.

As you read through this, please ask yourself: “what do I want the RuneScape Community to be like?”

Hi everyone, I'm the new Lead Community Manager: Mod Anvil. I joined Jagex in December and have spent my first few weeks observing, listening and generally supporting the teams. I briefly popped up a couple weeks ago, but it's high time I got properly stuck in, so here I am. Hello! :wave:

Early, experimental code for implementing 1GB PUD-level THPs in the Linux kernel are showing positive benchmark results but other upstream stakeholders were surprised by this patch series appearing and it looking like it could be a while until if/when the patches are mainlined for helping to reduce transaction lookaside buffer (TLB) pressure without resorting to Hugetlbfs.

Usama Arif posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series on 1GB Page Upper Directory (PUD) Transparent Huge Pages (THP) support.

OQB @[email protected]