We’re suffering from a “quiet catastrophe.” What if the fix is something we used to do all the time?

This page discusses the history of webrings. What they were, what happened to them, which ones stil exist and if they are still useful.

Running your own blog helps you keep an online journal of your life and thoughts that doesn't depend on unreliable tech platforms like Facebook or Twitter. But this process is still needlessly complicated and certainly not user-friendly for regular people.

Also: Instagram launches a new messaging system for creators, and Minecraft gets some new branded casual footwear.

Last week, Oskar Stenberg asked on Unix & Linux if it were possible to configure connectivity between two networks, both using the same address range, without involving network namespaces. That is, given this high level view of the network…
…can…

This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another.  It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses.The quality of the code I was reading was amazing!  My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers…

London’s mayor has announced an emergency program to provide free meals for all children attending state primary schools in the capital, adding to a string of fresh evidence that Brits are struggling to afford necessities.

The vandals have come for Roald Dahl. His books for children are to be cleansed of their ‘offensive’ content. Sensitivity readers – what we used to call censors – have been employed to pore over his works and expurgate any word or passage that might hurt…

A debate rages over changes to references to characters' appearance and weight in the author's works.

Linux is now ready to run on modern Macs.

How modern songwriting evolved into a game of aggressive credit—even for the people who didn’t technically do the composing.

Features

Introduce Quadlet, a new systemd-generator that easily writes and maintains systemd services using Podman.
The podman kube play command now supports hostPID in the pod.spec (#17157).
The ...

A researcher's quest to understand a mysterious mass extinction leads to cud-chewing culprits.