I've run a personal mailserver from one of the "Don't use these ASN/Companies because there are already too many tor nodes" VPS hosts for 14 years (and going). They've had excellent service, I never had a problem with my neighbors on the shared hardware, and my mail deliverability rate has been on par with other services. Just one data point for you.
Flock AI cameras run off small solar panels. Having run my own computer systems off small solar panels I know that even a minor shadow or a bit of bird poop on the panel can decrease the output enough the computer eventually cannot run and shuts down. I bet Flock cameras have the same response to a bit of bird poop like substance or shadow.
This article isn't about the installation of regular apps. The "sideloading" it's referring to is the option to use the "adb sideload <OTA file>" command when booted into recovery mode to install OS updates. The functionality being removed is being able to install a proper OEM-signed OS update from a local file.
I canceled all services and deleted my account with OpenAI right after the announcement. They can get money from the current US regime but I will not contribute to their violations of the constitution.
I have just canceled all services and deleted my account with OpenAI. They can get money from the current US regime but I will not contribute to their violations of the constitution.
Sure, those are highly desireable specs for a tuning range and a decent instantaneous bandwidth of 1GHz (and I assume 12 or 16 bit, it is not labeled). But at $50k it's not really something that anyone but a corporation or an institution would buy.
Unfortunately even the SDRs that human persons buy have gone up wildly in price over the last decade. In 2013 it cost $8 shipped for a 2.56 MHz instantaneous bandwidth 20 MHz - 1.7 GHz 8 bit rtlsdr SDR reciver. In 2026 it's now $30-$40. A ~4x price increase.
Things like the 20 MHz instantaneous bandwidth 10 MHz - 7 GHz tuning range 8 bit HackRF One were at one point down to $100 for the clones. But now are back above $200 and new ones are selling for $400 ($100 more than the kickstarter in 2013!).
It's a bad time for SDR and electronics in general.
Meandwhile the Canonical employee who's responsible for some aspects of apt has decided to insert rust code. Because of this, and just this, Debian dropped 4 entire architectures. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/10/msg00285.html
>I plan to introduce hard Rust dependencies and Rust code into APT, no earlier than May 2026. This extends at first to the Rust compiler and standard library, and the Sequoia ecosystem. ... If you maintain a port without a working Rust toolchain, please ensure it has one within the next 6 months, or sunset the port. It's important for the project as whole to be able to move forward and rely on modern tools and technologies and not be held back by trying to shoehorn modern software on retro computing devices.
If you think Canonical isn't going to lead Debian around by the nose on this you haven't been paying attention.
```
Rust is already a hard requirement on all Debian release
architectures and ports except for alpha, hppa, m68k, and
sh4 (which do not provide sqv).
```
It seems to me that the APT change was just a nail in the coffin of these older architectures, which would have eventually been sunset anyway, due to sqv not being available. If you really want to run some kind of Linux on these very old machines, godspeed, but you can't expect them to be maintained by a project with it's fingers in so many pies forever.
Look at how the proposal for making netplan the default network manager in Debian went. Not good, from Canonical's perspective.
Making /tmp behave the way systemd guys want also went not according to plan. The behavior is modified somewhat because of the discussion.
Rust's influence doesn't come from Canonical per se, but from its promise to eradicate memory related bugs. The initial hype was off the charts, but it's coming down, and the shortcomings are becoming obvious.
Canonical is trying to affect Debian, that's true, but it's not always a given.
The fact that Canonical has always been happy to ship software that they know fully well shouldn't be shipped doesn't fill me with hope that it will even work decently without causing massive issues to everyone (remember when they started to use pulseaudio? In the end it was such a mess that the solution was to abandon it).
It was rough for a while, but my debian machine still runs pulseaudio and it works pretty well. I agree that ubuntu doesn't do enough testing before releasing stuff, but I am grateful that so many people are willing to grind themselves against the bugs before they hit more conservative distributions
It's true. The megacorporations are actively blocking communication between human persons because it increases their profit and the rules don't apply to them. But this doesn't mean you need to roll over and just take it. The benefits of hosting your own email far outweigh the problems of delivery to some megacorps.
>self-hosting email is an anachronism of a simpler internet. The good old days. They are long over.
This is only true if you are being paid to run a for-profit business or institution. For human people acting in their own interest the fight for free communication is far from over.
> The operators admitted on Discord they accidentally disrupted I2P while attempting to use the network as backup command-and-control infrastructure ...
This is crazy to me. Discord is letting literal criminals use it's corporate services in full view to commit crimes?
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