Haiku Activity & Contract Report, June 2025
This report covers hrev58898 through hrev58945. Applications humdinger made some modifications to Mail to avoid showing empty, missing, or duplicate contact information or email addresses. waddlesplash fixed the build of the “DebugAnalyzer” (a grap...
Running Local LLMs with Ollama on openSUSE Tumbleweed
Running large language models (LLMs) on your local machine has become increasingly popular, offering privacy, offline access, and customization. Ollama is a fantastic tool that simplifies the process of downloading, setting up, and running LLMs locally...
Wine-Staging 10.2 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug
It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.2 is out at 292 p...
Wine-Staging 10.12 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug
It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.12 is out at 292 ...
NVIDIA Publishes RTXNTC 0.7 Beta For Neural Texture Compression
NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping t...
Calibre 8.6.0 Delivers Dramatic Database Speed Boost
A sizeable database performance boost is available in the latest release of open source ebook manager, view and converter Calibre, plus plenty of bug fixes. You're reading Calibre 8.6.0 Delivers Dramatic Database Speed Boost, a blog post from OMG! Ubun...
Calibre 8.6.0 Delivers a Dramatic Database Speed Boost
A sizeable database performance boost is available in the latest release of open source ebook manager, view and converter Calibre, plus plenty of bug fixes. You're reading Calibre 8.6.0 Delivers a Dramatic Database Speed Boost, a blog post from OMG! Ub...
Visual Studio Code bolsters Copilot Chat, MCP support
The latest update to Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s mostly-open-source code editor, brings several new capabilities to GitHub Copilot Chat and puts the finishing touches on support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Alongside the VS Code update,...
Study: using “AI” slows developers down significantly
It’s become almost impossible to avoid the “AI” evangelists spreading the gospel of how “AI” tools are helping them work faster and get more stuff done in less time, but do any of those claims have any basis in reality? Should we really be fi...
The EU would be better off without American tech companies
James Heppell, representing Open Web Advocacy, published an article detailing his experience attending DMA compliance workshop in Brussels, in which members of the public can ask questions of companies who have products designated as gatekeepers under ...
TypeScript 5.9 supports deferred module evaluation
TypeScript 5.9, an update to Microsoft’s JavaScript superset with syntax for types, has arrived in beta, bringing support for the ECMAScript 2005’s deferred module evaluation. Announced July 8, TypeScript 5.9 also offers capabilities such as a pre...
Customise and Move Notifications on GNOME with this Extension
You can customise GNOME Shell notifications, including position on screen, RegEx filtering, and custom colours using the Notification Configurator extension. You're reading Customise and Move Notifications on GNOME with this Extension, a blog post from...
Want to Customise GNOME Shell Notifications? Try This Extension
You can customise GNOME Shell notifications, including position on screen, RegEx filtering, and custom colours using the Notification Configurator extension. You're reading Want to Customise GNOME Shell Notifications? Try This Extension, a blog post fr...
