@debian

This is a hot fix release for regressions introduced by security fixes shipped in CUPS 2.4.15, so do make sure to update.

What happened with 2.4.15 was:

- The CUPS daemon does not start when there are unknown directives or syntax errors in the cupsd.conf file

- The GTK print dialog calls a function in libcups which gets stuck in an infinite loop

These issues are fixed in 2.4.16.

#OpenPrinting

Apple products, all modern cars, all smart phones, many top selling games (Fortnite, Roblox, PubG, GTA, etc), e-readers, trains, Facebook, in Windows, YouTube, Google Photos, Music instruments, camera, motorbikes, Chrome OS, medical devices, modern TVs, smart light bulbs, Spotify, drones, tablets, most printers, Netflix, IP-cameras, Instagram, Roku, robot dogs, kitchen appliances, servers, refrigerators, game consoles, portable game consoles, smart watches, smart speakers, sound bars, busses, ..

Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this code should run till the end of the demonstration to that big customer.

Vibe coding : You are perfectly right. The code doesn’t run. Try this one. You are right, it deleted your hard disk, I’m sorry.

#FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE has landed!

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/

I’m proud of so many things in this release, but one most of all :-

The collaboration and contributions for hundreds of people from so many countries and continents around the world.

We may not agree about pineapple on pizza, but we’re all part of building a terrific community-lead freely-licensed open source OS, used in everything from massive storage appliances and internet-scale routers, down to gaming consoles, and embedded systems.

Thank-you everybody!

I sometimes see people describing resistance to LLM assisted coding as gatekeeping and I get that, software engineering culture is absolutely rife with gatekeeping, I quite literally dedicated dedicated my career to developer education because I want more people to have access to these opportunities.

But here's the thing, in order to fully participate in the world of software you will still need to learn to code, giving people the impression that isn't the case is not empowering.

Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!

This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud , @Mastodon and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member or volunteering for a youth association, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.

Interested people may sign it using one of the two following links.

The petition in german language: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main

The petition in english language: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in-germany

News article (German): https://www.heise.de/news/Petition-Open-Source-Arbeit-soll-als-Ehrenamt-gelten-11094436.html

News article (English): https://www.heise.de/en/news/Petition-Open-source-work-should-count-as-volunteer-activity-11095357.html

The petition is organized by @webvision.

If you're not a resident of Germany, go ahead and use this thread to organize similar initiatives in your country of residence.

#deutschland #foss #floss #volunteer #ehrenamt #freiwilligkeit #openSource #freeSoftware

A very informative flow chart.