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Mourning Didier Spaier

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Par : jzb

We have received the sad news that Didier Spaier, maintainer of the blind-friendly Slackware-based Slint distribution, has recently passed away. Philippe Delavalade, who posted the announcement to the Slint mailing list, said:

Early 2015, I asked on the slackware list if brltty could be added in the installer; Didier answered promptly that he could do it on slint. Afterwards, he worked hard so that slint became as accessible as possible for visually impaired people.

You all know that all these years, he tried and succeeded to answer as quickly as possible to our issues and questions.

He will be irreplaceable.

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OSI pauses 2026 board election cycle

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Par : jzb

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced that it will not be holding the 2026 spring board election. Instead, it will be creating a working group to "review and improve OSI's board member selection process" and provide recommendations by September 2026:

The public election process was designed to gather community priorities and improve board member selection, while final appointments remained with the board.

Over time, that nuance has become a source of understandable confusion for community members. Many reasonably expected elections to function as elections normally do, and in fact, the board has generally adopted the electorate's recommendations. When a process feels unclear, trust suffers. When trust suffers, engagement becomes harder. This is especially problematic for an organization whose mission depends on legitimacy and credibility. [...]

OSI tried its experiment for the right reasons, but a variety of factors resulted in "elections" that are performatively democratic while being gameable and representative of only a small group, and we've learned from the results. Now we are making space to align our director selection process with our bylaws, to rebuild trust, and to develop better, more durable and truly representative participation in which the global stakeholder community can be heard.

LWN covered the previous OSI election in March 2025.

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[$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS

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Par : jake
Phones running Linux are ubiquitous these days and it has been that way since Android started working toward dominance in the smartphone market. Unfortunately, Android has slowly increased its freedom-unfriendliness and has become something of a privacy nightmare. In a talk entitled "We need an open-source phone OS" at Open Source Summit Japan 2025, Luca Weiss described the smartphone landscape and gave an overview of postmarketOS as an alternative Linux operating system for mobile handsets.
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« Discombobulator » : Trump vante une arme secrète utilisée par les États-Unis lors de la capture de Maduro

Donald Trump affirme avoir utilisé une arme secrète lors du raid du 3 janvier à Caracas contre Nicolas Maduro, évoquant une neutralisation d’équipements vénézuéliens et l’échec de tirs de missiles. Des récits d’effets physiques et le parallèle avec le « syndrome de La Havane » relancent les spéculations sur une technologie à énergie dirigée.

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PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler

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Par : corbet
PC Gamer has run an amusing review of the scx_horoscope scheduler for Linux, which uses astrology to optimize scheduling decisions.

The scheduler is full of bizarre features, like its ability to perform real planetary calculations based on accurate geocentric planetary positions, lunar phase scheduling (the full moon gives a 1.4x boost to tasking, apparently) and "zodiac-based task classification".

That latter feature is easily one of my favourite bits. Specific planetary bodies "rule" over specific system tasks, so the Sun is in charge of critical system processes, the Moon (tied to emotions, of course) rules over interactive tasks, and Jupiter is assigned to memory-heavy applications, among others.

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[$] Who should vote in Fedora elections?

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Par : jzb

Creating fair governance models for open-source projects is not easy; defining criteria for participants to receive membership and voting rights is a particularly thorny problem for projects that have elections for representative bodies. The Fedora Council, the project's top-level governance body, is wrestling with that conundrum now. This was triggered by a Fedora special-interest group (SIG) granting temporary membership to at least one person for the sole purpose of allowing them to vote in the most recent Fedora Engineering Steering Council (FESCo) election. That opened a large can of worms about what it means to be a contributor and how contributors can be identified for voting purposes.

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Les créateurs de Stranger Things lancent une nouvelle série cauchemardesque sur Netflix

Alors que Stranger Things vient de s'achever, le 1er janvier 2026, laissant les fans avec un trou béant dans le cœur, la suite est déjà en train de s'écrire. Les frères Duffer viennent ainsi de produire une toute nouvelle série d'horreur, qui s'annonce génialement cauchemardesque : Something Very Bad is Going to Happen.

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Security updates for Wednesday

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Par : jzb
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Debian (openssl), Fedora (assimp, chromium, curl, freerdp, gimp, and harfbuzz), Mageia (glibc, haproxy, iperf, and python-pyasn1), Red Hat (image-builder, openssl, and osbuild-composer), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (avahi, cups, gio-branding-upstream, google-osconfig-agent, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel-firmware, libmatio-devel, libopenjp2-7, nodejs22, php8, python-python-multipart, python311-urllib3_1, qemu, and xen), and Ubuntu (ffmpeg, jaraco.context, openssl, and openssl, openssl1.0).
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J’ai remplacé Adobe par Apple Creator Studio pendant 15 jours : voici mon bilan

Pour 12,99 euros par mois (ou 2,99 euros pour les étudiants), l'Apple Creator Studio réunit toutes les applications professionnelles d'Apple, autrefois vendues à l'unité, dans un seul abonnement. Cette proposition rivale de l'Adobe Creative Cloud, référence absolue du secteur, regroupe notamment Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro et Pixelmator Pro. Elle améliore aussi la suite bureautique d'Apple : Pages, Numbers et Keynote gagnent une banque d'images et des fonctionnalités IA.

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1923 sur TF1 : dans quel ordre regarder Yellowstone et ses séries dérivées ?

La série Yellowstone, qui a renouvelé le genre du western dès 2018, a développé son empire grâce à de nombreuses productions dérivées autour de la famille Dutton, dont 1923, actuellement diffusée sur TF1. Si vous êtes un peu perdus face à tous ces spin-offs, pas de panique : voici le guide ultime pour vous aider à vous y retrouver.

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