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@janneke@todon.nl
2026-02-02 07:01:36

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…

A slide on OS support (cont'd)

* Translator records in /dev and /servers
* Used to be a Hurd-specific ext2 extensions
* Now using xattrs by default
* Can now cross-install completely from Linux

* FS JBD2 journaling support (Milos Nikic)
* In progress

* Console xkb keyboard layout (Etienne Brateau)
A slide on Current state
* Rather stable
* Have not reinstalled boxes for a decade
  * Debian buildds keep building packages
* ~75% of Debian archive builds out of tree
* XFCE, gnome, KDE, ...
* Support merged upstream
* gcc, glibc, llvm, rust, ...
* Debian distribution
* Guix/Hurd released!
Slide on Dissemination

* News coverage
* Quarter of the Hurd (QotH) (Joshua Branson) 
* Guix/hurd (Manolis Ragkousis, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen, Yelninei) 
  * https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/
* Alpine (Sergey Bugaev) | z | |
 Slide: So, what do we have?

* x86_64 SMP
* SATA/USB disk/cd, all in userland
* netwokr driver & TCP/IP all in userland
* kernel only manages tasks, memory, IPC
* go, rust, ocaml, ghc, some java...
* Debian (~75% packages)
* Guix
* som Arch, some Alpine
* An the usual Hurd stuff: user-controlled translators, fine grain access control, sub-hurds.
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl
2025-12-26 12:15:02

‘All brakes are off’: #Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires theguardian.com/world/2025/dec

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-12-14 09:08:56

I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.

@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2026-01-19 11:43:40

I have finally fixed two long-standing mistakes in my book about Principal Component Analysis.
peterbloem.nl/publications/unr
To celebrate, I'm now selling the paperback at cost, which is about 17E. The PDF is (still) free. I've also added a crop…

On Monday, Jasmine Crockett announced her bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in next year’s election,
a move that took place just hours after Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) dropped out of the race to run in a newly drawn House district.
The congresswoman,
a frequent critic of Donald Trump,
accompanied the announcement with a 45-second clipwhere she stares in silence and eventually cracks a smile as audio of the president’s insults toward her plays throughout.

@krone@frawas.de
2025-12-09 21:18:19

Unter einer Bedingung - Nach Trump-Kritik: Selenskyj „bereit“ für Neuwahl #News #Nachrichten